Attitudes

Michelle Daly: Racist Views

Michelle was born in 1972 in Newham, London. She attended a local special school from age five until sixteen and then went on to a local mainstream college.

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Here Michelle recalls racist attitudes among the staff of her school.

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You have to recognise that the school was in Newham, East London, and many of the staff they employed at that time didn't give a damn whether they expressed their views on anything, and there was mainly staff who were quite racist and quite discriminatory in the school and were open about it the way they did it.

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