Commission on Race & Ethnic Disparities

[Vic]

"There is a new story about the Caribbean experience which speaks to the slave period not only being about profit and suffering but how culturally African people transformed themselves into a re-modelled African/Britain."

If there was a sentence that makes me more sympathetic to rolling Colson's statue into the harbour where slave ships plied their trade, that would be it. And I don't even understand what he means. "Apart from all the profit and the suffering, half a million people being enslaved by Bristol traders had its good side."

 

[west didsblue]

Samuel Kasumu, Johnson’s most senior black adviser has just resigned because of this report.

 

[Del_Bosque]

Always makes me laugh when people use "lived experiences" rather than "anecdotally" to make things seem like they carry more weight.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Samuel Kasumu, Johnson’s most senior black adviser has just resigned because of this report.

Number 10 denying his resignation is due to this report at the very same time that Lord Woolly is on the BBC news saying that Kasumu resigned because of this report.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Makes you wonder why we have independent enquiries in this country. We should just do what we're told by those who shout loudest.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Samuel Kasumu, Johnson’s most senior black adviser has just resigned because of this report.

something else Johnson does that falls apart within days - he has a reverse Midas touch - everything he touches turns to shit just some how so far none of it has stuck

Samuel Kasumu: PM's adviser quits amid row over race report

Samuel Kasumu has been unhappy with the government's stance on race for some time, sources say.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[bluethrunthru]

ub-be-fuckin-lieveable

 

[BobKowalski]

I said the report would be forgotten in a week. It will be hard pushed to make it beyond 48 hours. Times piece summing it up nicely. Some good points, shame about the packaging.

"The government had the perfect opportunity to address it in the Sewell report, but opted instead, not only to avoid facing up to the problem, but to undermine the efforts of those fighting to resolve it more sincerely"

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/race-report-has-sensible-points-but-lacks-credibility-cprjwq9gf?

 

[The perfect fumble]

The report says social class has a bigger impact than race on how people’s lives turn out.

 

[bluethrunthru]

The report says social class has a bigger impact than race on how people’s lives turn out.

What - you mean like if you attend Eton you are more likely to be PM or hold high office? If you attend certain universities you are likely to get a senior role in Britains secret services............??? Really?