In summer 2020 I felt motivated to extend an invitation to fellow colleagues in my overwhelmingly White organisation to engage in conversations and explorations around race, becoming anti-racist and working towards racial justice. I had wanted to catalyse a conversation like this in Dudley CVS for a number of years, but until this point I hadn’t sensed that the timing was right.
However from early 2020 and then in the wake of the surge in the Black Lives Matter movement globally after the murder of George Floyd by police officers, I was finding myself in ongoing conversations with a couple of colleagues which made me realise that perhaps there was now fertile ground to open up an exploration into our white supremacy. I checked it out with our Chief Officer, who was fully supportive, and desired the opportunity to be presented as an organisational one.