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  When clearing out my Parents belongings after my Mothers death I found the collection of little Black Sambo books I had had as a child. I am neither proud nor ashamed of having read them as a kid - clearly I would not buy them now and they are inappropriate given our raised level of consciousness, but they were of their time and we literally knew no better then. I am firmly anti-racist and I believe I am not racist - but I remember my young days when there was no attention paid to equalities of any sort and my mother and I being terrified when approached for directions by what I now assume to have been a perfectly okay guy but then, because he was very black and had big cut marks on his face ("tribal" as my mother said) we were afraid. We have come a long way in a few short years and should be proud of our achievements. Nothing will ever make the act of racism right, or make it right that people of all cultures and colours have been used as slaves - or indeed that women are trafficked and used in the sex industry, along with all the other inequalities and assaults on our human rights - but we can be proud that we are making efforts to make it right, right now.

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