Open letter slams Birmingham board member on controversial government race report
The race study was lead by a team of board members including Birmingham s own Aftab Chughtai MBE
Updated
Latest news email updates straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later.
Subscribe
When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice.
Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice
Over 400 people in Birmingham have signed an open letter slamming a Birmingham board member involved in the controversial government report on race and ethnic disparities in the UK.
BARAC UK is deeply concerned by the tone and content of the report of the government commission on race and ethnic disparities, published on March 31.
It seeks to reduce the very real and devastating lived experience of racism by racialised groups of people living in Britain.
It also seeks to divide black and ethnic minority communities into “good” and “bad” migrants and suggests that those of us who campaign against racism are stuck in the past or that we are imagining it effectively gaslighting people who experience racism.
To suggest that racism is in the past ignores the impacts of over a decade of austerity with disproportionate impacts on employment and service provision, the Grenfell Tower fire, the Windrush scandal, the treatment of people who are displaced and are refugees, the disproportionate rate of contracting and dying of coronavirus, to name but a few recent and current events, still having an impact now.
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/37079
Class inequality and racism: the travesty of the Sewell report Submitted by AWL on 6 April, 2021 - 5:18
Author: Sacha Ismail
The government-commissioned Sewell report into “race and ethnic disparities” (which can be read at bit.ly/sewellreport) has been widely panned as minimising the reality of racism and racial disadvantage in the UK, and rightly so.
I don’t know to what extent the report reflects the honestly held views of the Sewell commission’s members, and to what extent they were just keen to ingratiate themselves with the Tory hierarchy and get ahead. Though overwhelmingly black or Asian, they are a privileged and conservative bunch even by the standards of such things, including six holders of MBE or CBE “honours”, a corporate executive and former banker, the head of a large academy chain, a department store owner and chamber of commerce worthy, a former police superintendent and a full-ti
Class inequality and racism: the travesty of the Sewell report workersliberty.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from workersliberty.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Home Office has been forced to sign a legal document ensuring that the Windrush UK immigration scandal is not repeated. According to a report published by The Guardian, the agreement commits the government agency to rectifying failures and complying with equality laws while implementing its controversial ‘hostile environment’ policy.
The agreement, signed with the equalities watchdog, will run for two years and requires the Home Office to improve its policies and procedures to ensure that it learns lessons from failures within the department that led to the Windrush scandal.
In November 2020, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published a scathing report that highlighted how the Home Office had broken equalities law when outlining new UK immigration legislation. The EHRC accused the Home Office of ‘repeatedly ignoring’ the impact of its policies, and adopting a lax approach to equality law compliance.