Race has nothing to do with it because it is just a matter of having received the training. I know many White people who have received and understand how the Equality laws is meant to operate far more than I do. It does not operate in the common sense way most people think, whether Black, White, Asian, Jew etc.
Without telling you who I used to work for, it was a very big 'corporate-type' organisation and for the last few years I was there we would have the corporate videos to watch every year, telling us about health & safety, dealing with minors, equality, the whole bit. So yes, I have an appreciation. But my upbringing also tells me to treat everyone right, I am a do the right thing kind of guy, sometimes boringly so (as many her will attest to). Basic human decency is what I'm talking about, but these days we have to be told officially, and I can fully understand why.
I don't know all the ins and outs about race law, it just seems to me that this stuff would be more of an issue to people who have experienced discrimination, that's normal. And therefore that they would probably know more than myself.
So my appreciation of it is the common sense bit, not so much the legal bit.
This whole discussion is very interesting though, hopefully we're all learning something, I know I am!
