I try to act as if there is no racism even though I know inside there might be. Because I don't want to have a victim mentality
So what do you do if you know, suspect or even simply feel (without having any evidence whatsoever) that you may have been a victim of racism, even if it's something minor and inconsequential? Ignore it? Challenge it? Just asking.
It is highly probable that I have been a victim of racial abuse and discrimination on numerous occasions during my lifetime. But fortunately never directly to my face, nor something I could prove, nor even something I could say for sure.
During my working career, I have had to manage others, sometimes large teams and departments. On occasions I have even had to make others redundant, or even fire them on the spot. I can guarantee that on many such occasions, my ethnicity, my skin colour, my religious persuasion, heck even my parentage would have been discussed and adversely commented upon behind my back, and not just by those relieved of their jobs.
Having said that, if I see, hear or be informed about another being discriminated against due to their gender, race, religion, colour or any other factor that has no relevance to them performing their job, then I do not take such incidents lightly. I come down hard on those who discriminate.
So whilst I may think about ignoring any discrimination directed against me personally, it would be fundamentally wrong to do so. Because if they can discriminate against me, then they will not hesitate to discriminate against others less fortunate than myself. Hence their discriminatory attitudes must be nipped in the bud and/or ensure measures are taken that prevents them from carrying out further discrimination and abuse against others.
