being perceived as being older that we situated in the historical context of slavery and colonialism, where historically black people as a whole have been dehumanised and devalued and that is used as a means to justify the abuse we have experience. we are perceived as being less than, deviant, hyper sexual. black boys, dangerous. we if we go on to talk about the adult vocation of black children, it is important that we don t dissenter it from where it comes from. and colonialism and slavery is just that. i think sometimes the new buzzword can become quite palatable. it is important that we really understand the intersectional experiences of this form of bias and how it impacts on our safeguarding decision making. you
it is unconscious and we don t know were doing these things. sometimes these things are conscious. the experiences of black children are on a continuum and they feature in the lives of black adults as well, that this continued experience of being over policed, there experiences of surveillance, punitive responses, but yet this reduction and innate vulnerability your children have. again, it is not new. when we frame it within this context of so called unconscious bias, it really takes away the reality and lived experiences of that black communities. when we talk about it again, going back to adult vocation, we have to see this as a continued active discrimination impacting black children, but also how black parents and children continue to be seen through a lens of deviance and aggression rather than being afforded the decency to be protected