Commission on Race & Ethnic disparities (Sewell) report

[MrSki]

Sorry if there is already a thread about this but I can not believe what I am hearing in the media.
Institutional racism does not exist! Having a fucking laugh.
Same day as kids at the Pimlico Academy refuse to attend lessons because of a new dress code that bans afros.

Not read the full report but is available here

The bit on slavery is jaw dropping. Read the last sentence.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Chunk of stuff here.

 

[MrSki]

 

[MrSki]

Chunk of stuff here.

Thanks. I knew there must be comment somewhere. Too big a story to get missed but was not sure where it was being discussed.
Still it has its own thread now which is good because I can't see it being a one day wonder.

They should have published it tomorrow so that everyone would think it was an April fool.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Thanks. I knew there must be comment somewhere. Too big a story to get missed but was not sure where it was being discussed.
Still it has its own thread now which is good because I can't see it being a one day wonder.

They should have published it tomorrow so that everyone would think it was an April fool.

Yeah was surprised it didn't get mentioned early on in the day.

Its a biggie.

 

[two sheds]

Don't know how they kept a straight face when publishing it.

 

[eatmorecheese]

These right wing culture war cunts are laughing at us. They don't give a shit. This is designed to bolster their deplorable base and provoke responses they can label, alongside their facilitators in the press, as unreasonable and extreme.

I hate them so, so much.

 

[Border Reiver]

Sorry if there is already a thread about this but I can not believe what I am hearing in the media.
Institutional racism does not exist! Having a fucking laugh.
Same day as kids at the Pimlico Academy refuse to attend lessons because of a new dress code that bans afros.

Not read the full report but is available here

The bit on slavery is jaw dropping. Read the last sentence.

[/QUOTE]
The Commonwealth" is a diversion.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

The summaries on the news have mostly been how "disparities are more about class than about race". Are there not any useful charts showing class vs race distribution in the UK?

 

[The39thStep]

Whilst I'm tempted to dismiss the report out of hand because I am aware of the background of some of the contributors, I'm going to read it first. However, if the conclusion is that
"disparities are more about class than about race" then I'm not too hopeful about the Tories tackling the issue of class disparity.

 

[ska invita]

Whilst I'm tempted to dismiss the report out of hand because I am aware of the background of some of the contributors, I'm going to read it first.

why?

 

[teqniq]

Slavery ‘Not Just About Profit And Suffering’, Government-Backed Race Report Claims

Controversial review says British schools should teach a “new story” about “the Caribbean experience”.

'Caribbean Experience' WTF

 

[DaveCinzano]

Sorry if there is already a thread about this but I can not believe what I am hearing in the media.
Institutional racism does not exist! Having a fucking laugh.
Same day as kids at the Pimlico Academy refuse to attend lessons because of a new dress code that bans afros.

Not read the full report but is available here

The bit on slavery is jaw dropping. Read the last sentence.

Has it even been subbed? I mean, it's clearly not been through the batshit scrubbers, but shouldn't it be “re-modelled African/Briton” to be even halfway towards making sense?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Meanwhile journalists are not impressed with the way the government was hyping the report

 

[DaveCinzano]

“I think we've nailed diversity, and I think we've fixed racism... I really do think we've strapped racism to a rocket today and blasted it into the sun, I really do”

 

[The39thStep]

why?

Why did Marx read John Stuart Mill? If you want to critique something read it .

 

[ska invita]

Why did Marx read John Stuart Mill? If you want to critique something read it .

fair enough
ive heard their shit before though

 

[A380]

Only got to page 40 so far; but as a white middle class reformist I want to go and set fire to something.

 

[The39thStep]

fair enough
ive heard their shit before though

There must be more meat in it than 'the Caribean experience '. I'll let you know.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Why did Marx read John Stuart Mill?

Forgot to cancel the Editor's Choice from his book club that month

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Whilst I'm tempted to dismiss the report out of hand because I am aware of the background of some of the contributors, I'm going to read it first. However, if the conclusion is that
"disparities are more about class than about race" then I'm not too hopeful about the Tories tackling the issue of class disparity.

The sort of pricks who wrote this report don’t care about class injustice, they literally only ever bring it up to deny racism. When it comes to addressing the inequities of class power they switch to the ‘pull yourself Up by your bootstraps’ line or, at best, promote limited ‘mobility’ ideas like scholarships, subsidised apprenticeships etc

 

[two sheds]

Impressed though with the report deciding that because black and asian people live in more deprived circumstances there's no discrimination against them. Where does your head have to be to think that?

 

[The39thStep]

The sort of pricks who wrote this report don’t care about class injustice, they literally only ever bring it up to deny racism. When it comes to addressing the inequities of class power they switch to the ‘pull yourself Up by your bootstraps’ line or, at best, promote limited ‘mobility’ ideas like scholarships, subsidised apprenticeships etc

Thanks Jeff

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Thanks Jeff

 

[MrSki]

 

[DaveCinzano]

Same day as kids at the Pimlico Academy refuse to attend lessons because of a new dress code that bans afros.

Their statement seems more grounded and coherent than this nonsense

 

[ska invita]

those might as well be Starmers responses - he did mumble something about Cameron, but tacit agreement on the rest

 

[tim]

Slavery ‘Not Just About Profit And Suffering’, Government-Backed Race Report Claims


'Caribbean Experience' WTF

Those so-called "plantations" were actually pioneer all-inclusive resorts.

 

[Badgers]

But what about that Jew hater Corbyn?

 

[Badgers]

Boris Johnson’s most senior Black aide has quit

Samuel Kasumu is the No. 10 point man for outreach with minority communities and voices, including on vaccines.

www.politico.eu

“I fear for what may become of the party in the future by choosing to pursue a politics steeped in division,” Kasumu wrote in his letter to the PM.