That’s the title of a pamphlet from Liberal Democrat Equality Spokesperson Lynne Featherstone and published by the Runnymede Trust.
It starts:
Over half of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black African children in the UK are growing up in poverty. Infant mortality is more than twice as high among Pakistani and Caribbean groups than white British children. Almost every ethnic minority group earns less than white British workers in the same profession.
These are some of the problems that underline the need for a real, long-term solution to alleviate the vast inequalities faced by Britain’s minority ethnic groups.
The problems that face ethnic minority groups today are substantial, but what do the Liberal Democrats propose can be done to address them?
The answers include the name-blank employment policy pioneered by Lynne (to avoid subconscious bias at early stages in the recruitment process) and are laid out in the pamphlet, which you can read in full here:
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One Comment
I continue to be concerned here that the issue of race is being used to overshadow the issue of class. I am being told here that as a white man the fact that a white man from a completely different background to myself does well in life should make me feel good. I might constantly be faced with discrimination because I speak with a working class accent, didn’t go to a posh school, don’t know the clothes and manners that upper and upper middle class people have, but that maters nothing at all. The fact that these upper and upper middle class people have the same colour skin as me means all I suffer in terms of diminished life chances is to be written off as nothing to worry about, and I am to be condemned as a “racist” if I say “Hey, what about me?”.
Plus, once again we are urged always to look on the good side of Islam. But it’s fine if my religion is constantly rubbished and misrepresented as it was just this week by David Laws in Liberal Democrat News.