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Lesson on racism from Thursday 15th Jan. The idea was to get you thinking about what might make people racist.

Key question: What might cause people to be racist?

Things to think about: Do people just wake up one day and decide to be racist? No probably not. People become racist over many years of being around the idea that people with a different colour skin are inferior or are in some way fundamentally different.

Can you make someone not a racist by just telling them they are wrong? Probably not. Imagine the time when people believed the sun rotated around the earth. It was really hard to change the mind of people who had that idea stuck in their heads for so long, even though the evidence was right there. It’s really hard to change somebody’s mind on something! With that in mind, how might you change somebody’s mind about racism?

Powerpoint: Meaning makers

Prince Harry video: Prince Harry

News articles: Muslim victim of ‘racist attack’, CCTV captures racist attack gang, John Lydon denies ‘racist’ attack.