We joke about how 2020 needs to be forgotten. But there are some things we cannot, or do not, want to forget. We can’t forget the video of George Floyd’s murder and we don’t want to forget how people of all religions, races, genders, sexual orientations stood up and said enough is enough and that Black Lives Matter (BLM) in protests across the world.

What is your first memory of racial difference? I ask this question when I run race awareness training course in companies I work with. The diversity of responses always fascinates me. I am amazed at how different people’s experiences of ‘race’ are. It ranges from white people who went to multi-cultural schools. Who, are very racially aware and confident in the language they use and their knowledge of cultural difference. To white people, who didn’t encounter racial difference until they interacted with people from different cultures in university or their first city-based jobs. To black Africans, who also didn’t experience the concept of ‘race’ until they moved to the UK and were othered for the first time, no longer in a black majority.