There has been many threads on here where black women have raised issues about race/their experiences and they have been shouted down and the threads always ends up the same - BLM bashing, racial animosity. As a black woman, support goes both ways.How will things ever change when our voices are so often silenced. Mumsnet really is not a safe space for black women to talk about their experiences.
I agree. How can you expect BAME to raise issues more when they’re constantly silenced, dismissed, or told their experiences are wrong and so and so isn’t racism. I’ve lived in the US and I live in the UK and what I noticed living here very quickly was the covert racism and xenophobia. It’s so polite that few would believe or see it as racist because too many people see racism to be in your face and someone shouting racist slurs. Covert racism is even worse imo than overt racism because it’s easier to dismiss.
I’ve had several instances of dealing with it but if I said how and what was said, it would get easily dismissed. I received it most often from mainly older middle class women or someone who is older than me. I’ve had instances at work, instances shopping, instances during both of my pregnancies from actual medical professionals (it resulting in injury with my oldest which didn’t appear until years later). I told my experience dealing with it during my birth and I was not only dismissed but excuses were made for why the doctors did it even though it was proven by the hospital that they were completely in the wrong, protocols were broken, and a doctor was pushed to resign and was told I was blaming the NHS. Why speak out when you endure one of the most traumatic experiences in your life and people want to dismiss it.