However in 2016, I started feeling different and I started to feel like an outsider. I was worried that I could be ‘kicked’ out of Britain. My husband and kids are British. Working and paying my taxes for 20 over years didn’t seem to matter anymore.
I have experienced racism in the last few years, for the first time after living in the UK for 22 years. I got fed up of the multiple abuses I got while especially while driving in my car. Like it was a perfect opportunity to shout out something nasty to me and then drive away quickly. My young daughters were seeing it all too. I got a dash cam in my car to record these abusers.
People would speed past a zebra crossing as I am standing by it waiting list to data to cross. Over the phone I was asked by a patient to give her an appointment with an ‘English’ Doctor. I have had my car tyres slashed and my car scratched. I have family and friends say to me that they have encountered more racism recently than ever before.
It suddenly became OK to be discriminatory, as it was people’s right to say what they wanted no matter how much it may upset the other. I lodged a police report as I wanted my experiences recorded by them. A police officer called me back and said they too have had higher numbers of hate crime recorded in the last few years.
When the first few deaths in health care workers was reported, (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) origin. I noticed that several of the doctors interviewd in the news channels were of BAME origin. Several of the nurses have been of BAME origin. Several NHS workers and Care home workers are from Europe too.
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