This post has been in draft form since 21st June 2020. While I didn’t finish the thought I’m going to publish it almost a year later…
Since I started this doctorate I’ve been wondering what its purpose really is. I don’t want to do something that is pointless. It’s all well and good you being interested in your topic and yes, it will add new knowledge but does it have a use?
Covid-19 and George Floyd have brought it into focus.
People are talking about – not necessarily having the right conversations, mind you – the over representation of People of Colour (PoC) in the mortality statistics. Many saw the murder of George Floyd. What the two events have in common is that one highlights racial and structural injustice and the other just shows it up like it is – warts and all.
CV19 has been like a distress flare shining a light onto deep inequalities and injustice. While many of us have been living it for ever and a day, many white people now seem alert to it
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