Just came across this.... Great conversation to be had. Well done the SRA for at least taking the 1st step. Remembering that is all it is. It takes systemic action when these issues regarding racism occurs in practice.

Race and class operate very differently and should not be talked about as if they are the same or suffer from the exact same consequences in their disadvantage. Just like one couldn't equate sex or disability discrimination with race. They can be intersectional but STILL operate independently in their consequence.

As one of the panel members expressed so very, very well, class can be invisible, hidden via education process or go ignored but ethnicity cannot. As every highly successful Black person will tell you of their heinous encounters with racism despite their success and achievements.

When I apply for a job, as a Black Woman, I'll look at the Company page and if I see a whole sea of White faces and maybe 1 Asian person and 'exceptionally' 1 Black person, I know it is not an environment for me because it's recruitment tells me there is clearly racism operating in that environment and they are not doing enough (if anything) to redress any imbalances. A token person of colour one can point to to show 'diversity' is an insidious part of the manipulation of racism and it's games, calculated to keep the status quo intact.