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The Report That Shook Britain’s Race Lobby


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2021 Apr 12, 4:28pm   321 views  7 comments

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f you’re an American who worries that your country’s influence is waning, you may not be heartened to learn that it isn’t. After last year’s killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, angry demonstrators in Britain, emulating Black Lives Matter protests in the U.S., took to city streets. Some committed acts of vandalism. In the port city of Bristol, a statue of a local 17th-century philanthropist was toppled because he also traded in slaves. In London’s Parliament Square, the words “Was a Racist” were daubed on the plinth of Winston Churchill’s statue.

In July the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson responded by impaneling the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. “We decided to step away from the heat and all that vitriol,” says its chairman, Tony Sewell, “and just take a cold look at the data on racism.” In doing so, “we examined ideas that weren’t to be questioned,” namely “the race industry’s articles of faith.” In its March 31 report, the commission concluded that while Britain isn’t yet “a post-racial society,” neither is it any longer a place where “the system” is “deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities.

As a result, Mr. Sewell, who is black—only one of the 10 other commissioners is white—has come under blistering attack. It ranges from the achingly predictable (a profusion of “Uncle Tom” accusations on Twitter ) to the grotesque. A Cambridge professor of postcolonial studies likened Mr. Sewell to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. A Labour member of Parliament suggested that he belonged in the Ku Klux Klan. Add in put-downs like “house Negro,” “token” and “race traitor,” and you have a picture of the liberal rage ignited by the commission’s refusal to endorse the belief that Britain is irremediably racist.


https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-report-that-shook-britains-race-lobby-11617995095

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1   Eric Holder   2021 Apr 12, 4:31pm  

Black Caribbean children perform worse in British schools than those of any other group. “For years,” Mr. Sewell says, “it has been said that this is explained in terms of teachers’ racism.” Yet black African students—“same age, same demographic, same classroom”—had academic achievement rates higher than those of whites. In fact, he says, all ethnic groups other than Caribbean blacks perform better than white British students, with the exception of Pakistanis, who are on par with whites.
2   Eric Holder   2021 Apr 13, 9:29am  

HunterTits says
Now being the actual descendent of a slave (American and Caribbean blacks), that seems to still stick for some reason.


Obvious reasons, really.
3   Ceffer   2021 Apr 13, 1:43pm  

What Britain needs now to virtue signal it's fake Kommie Kompassion is a few million Mexican illegals. We can send them over right away.
4   Bd6r   2021 Apr 13, 2:01pm  

Ceffer says
What Britain needs now to virtue signal it's fake Kommie Kompassion is a few million Mexican illegals. We can send them over right away.

They can go to Spain easily, but for some reason they don't.
5   Ceffer   2021 Apr 13, 2:58pm  

This shows you can't trust blacks for anything, including spreading hatred of whites.
6   Eric Holder   2021 Apr 13, 3:17pm  

Rb6d says
Ceffer says
What Britain needs now to virtue signal it's fake Kommie Kompassion is a few million Mexican illegals. We can send them over right away.

They can go to Spain easily, but for some reason they don't.


Walking through our porous border is much easier and cheaper than flying to Spain and trying to go through immigration control at the airport.
7   Bd6r   2021 Apr 13, 4:53pm  

Eric Holder says
Walking through our porous border is much easier and cheaper than flying to Spain and trying to go through immigration control at the airport.

I think former Spanish colony citizens have very easy time getting Spanish citizenship.

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