I fund out a little about my own prejudices when my daughter had just come out of a long term relationship and we were joking, with my stepdaughter, about finding her a fella.

There was a guy I worked with at the time, about Sharon's age, very bright, extremely personable - and black. We were jokingly suggesting that he would be a suitable son-in-law for me as I got on with him so well. Then my stepdaughter said "Mmmm, brown babies!" All of a sudden I realised that there was something inside me that was slightly repelled by that thought. Took me quite a while to get my head round that one - I didn't think that I had any prejudice so far as race or colour went.......