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I saw a show about policing from a police point of view. It was meant to be fly-on-the-wall and sympathetic to them but it showed the police to have entrenched assumptiions about people from other ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. I finally understood the difference between what I experience as institutional racism in national and educational institutions and police institutional racism. Middle class racism - the kind I mostly encounter - is a very different thing from police insituional racism - their's is violent and brutalising. And I actaully shouldn't compare or maybe I shouldn't even use the phrase for the places where I work.... I don't know. There needs to be a term for middle-class racism - the kind which denies people jobs or career progression or the right to their own history or voice....

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