They don’t know any better and have been to the same schools and colleges and lived in the same societies and cultures as the rest of us.

This book was definitely hard to read at times, but I’m glad it was recommended to me and I’m glad I read it. A shocking book for me to read as a 65yr old white woman, who has lived half a life in England and half in Australia. What the doubters did not consider was his dignity and personal pride, his intense desire to succeed regardless of limitations. I have nothing but respect for Mikey Holding for what he’s done in his career - this book is up there with any of his exquisite bowling spells or his effortlessly authoritative commentary style.He was one of the few commentators who didn't kowtow to the Indian cricket board (the only other commentator I know who was similarly fearless was Ian Chappell – I love him too), and I always get goosebumps thinking about that. Holding argues himself, that the minute we being to become self-congratulatory or complacent around racism, is when it becomes an even more threatening problem. Drawing from experiences of real life HEROS is a great way to show what is truly going on in the world.

Holding recounts historical stories and contemporary actions which will be well known to any reader with a decent academic knowledge around institutionalised racism. I’ve never really understood “Black history month” and it is only now that I realise just how much is being ignored. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as being 'alert to injustice in society, especially racism'. Michael Holding explains how racism affects different places and people, what terms like white-privilege, white-washing, Black Lives Matter mean and the politics behind the movement.To paraphrase that other great man, Martin Luther King, he said black people deserve not to be judged on the colour of their skin but the content of their character. For white readers, this book makes a compelling case that the response "ALL Lives Matter" misses the point. This is a remote/hybrid position to be based in Chad, with deployment to Darfur, Sudan, subject to security clearance. It seems that half of the world is demanding that other people kneel, and they're trying to intimidate those who don't. He can work on a shoe string budget, with limited players and under difficult circumstances - he can even rock a Jesus beard like you wouldn’t believe.