Born Lucky
3 June 2020
I was born lucky. I’m white.Male.British.Straight.I have a stable, loving family.I have neither physical nor mental disability.In global terms, my income is top 1%. I did absolutely nothing to earn those privileges. Through blind luck, I have not faced a day – not even a single moment – of discrimination in my entire life. In his 1963 ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’, Martin Luther King wrote:“Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute
