Living in mainly ‘white areas’
“I run a playgroup in the country so it’s not a problem for us.
We haven’t any of 'them' here”.
Playgroup Leader in a rural area
In Britain today very few areas can be genuinely described as ‘white’. Most
areas have some black people living and working in them, and even in a county such as Cornwall one per cent of the population is black
or from a minority ethnic community.
There is considerable evidence that black people in rural areas suffer from racism as much as in urban areas, but the impact is often different. Many teachers and even carers will deny that name-calling happens,
and black children living in these places often suffer in silence.
The reason that many white people say there is
no issue of racism in white areas may be because there are no or few black people living there. The racist attitudes are lying
dormant and stay there until black people come to live there.
*The above text was taken from “Action for Racial Equality
in the Early Years” by Jane Lane (1999)
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