Spend energy on a redesign emblems: get rid of them. Say no to Mrs Queen like Benjamin Zephaniah did, say no to brands and logos that exploit and poison and murder black and brown workers. Social work isn’t the world it’s not even part of the communities we live in. Engage in politics not rhetoric if you want to better the racists. Better still allow yourselves to wash your dirty laundry in public without fear of being branded a dupe. We know how far racist thought and beliefs and behaviours seep in our own circles, don’t we? I want comrades not virteous certainty. ]]>
Comical is what comical is. Who’s laughing though?
]]>Jonathan, perhaps you can observe less and galvanise into action yourself without waiting for others to on your behalf?
]]>You know fine well that Wayne could not provide information about that individual or the organisation because on this platform 1, that would be a breach and 2, sharing information could interfere with any investigation. If you didn’t know this, you need to think before you accuse him.
Even if it was one angry Black , Asian or other ethnic minority employee or fifty it’s wrong to refuse PPE due to someone skin colour this is life or death situation we are all in calling them disgruntled is disgraceful. Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people have already been disadvantaged in this health pandemic, due to systemic racism. Those social workers of Black, Asian and other ethnic minority staff are putting their lives on the frontline everyday just like their white colleagues/ and white allies, so excuse me if they wish to complain about about been disadvantaged/discriminated against they are entitled to. Especially when it comes to them loosing their lives.
If you don’t wish to believe what they have reported is true, that’s your concern. If you don’t believe racism exist or worse, that’s is also your concern.
For you to racially gaslight the lived experiences of this person or people in the workplace it’s despicable.
People will always look for information to confirm their narratives, that racism and racial inequalities do not exist in organisations/agencies in the U.K, to justify keeping the status quo of racism and discrimination covertly ongoing in the workplace. Even when the evidence is right in front of them.
Like the two white police officers who took a selfie, with the bodies of two Black sisters , one of them a Social Worker. This was totally unacceptable and unforgivable, these officers had the audacity. They felt they were untouchable. They just did not believe anything would come of it because that what usually happens “white privilege”. The media and the police has got this on very low-key.
They got caught out because they passed images around to a number of colleagues on WhatsApp! In fact that’s a personal data protection breach the family can refer them to the ICO for a data breach. What they did was a criminal offence and regulatory breach, racial remarks were also made. A number of police officers implicated, 13, I believe, did not report the wrongdoings, clearly many of those officers lacked integrity.
The police did not listen to the concerns of the family when the sisters did not return home that night, the family had to do there own searches and found the sisters themselves. They alerted the police. Which is very sad, again the police not taking Black families seriously. Sound familiar!!!
In the local authority that I work white Managers also support wrongdoings, and have fabricated children’s case files and more. Even when reported to senior managers they do nothing about it, until it blows up and grievance etc take place. Even they try to gas light the situation by minimising the actions of the wrongdoingers.
You may get the odd senior manager who does not conform to wrongdoings but a lot of them are like sheep. Theses managers also lie about Black, Asian and other ethnic minority Social Workers in order to get them out of their jobs and profession by referring them for fitness to practice and block their progression. That’s fact. Again reinforcing the status quo of racism and inequalities/ structural racism. These behaviour are regulatory breaches, structural /institutional racism is regulatory breach of the standards of social work England.
AI , what I you trying to imply in relation to someone first language not been English you state “I wonder if other factors are at play other than skin colour.”
Just because someone first language isn’t English does not mean they should be subject to fitness to practice that would be direct racial discrimination. Provide the evidence and the data. vilifying someone for not having English as their first language is disgraceful, it should be considered a attribute to speak another language as the U.K. is considered racially diverse.
]]>Apologies Jonathan. Maybe it’s due to English being my 3rd language. I promise to do better.
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