Are white coaches awake to our indifference about ‘blackface minstrelsy’, asks Fenella Trevillion

Have you heard people say, ‘racism was not a thing for me growing up, there were very few black people at our school and none in my neighbourhood’? Then, in almost the same breath say, ‘and yes, I watched The Black and White Minstrel Show on television every Saturday night’. Next, a pause, a taking in of breath – race panic.