Josephine Kwhali’s reflections on this video, together with the talk by professor Shirley Anne Tate, which we watched recently on the concept of unconscious bias really opened up my mind.

As part of my job I did the unconscious bias training and passed the test and of course, exactly as the two talks pointed out, I felt I had done my part, I scored high, I could not possibly be racist and not even unconsciously! How arrogant and naïve of me to think so.

I now could not agree more that there is no such a thing as unconscious bias, not the least after so much work has been done to make us aware of bias. Indeed if we are still unconscious we are in trouble as Josephine Kwhali points out.

How disappointing though to see that a university that prides itself for being so ahead, so politically right on, is not ahead here. Why are they still offering training in unconscious bias instead of actually making us work harder in defeating racism in the first place? Why this box ticking exercise, why such hypocrisy?