Diversity schemes for young people - mixed race child.

This is a very tired trope.

Slave trade has nothing to do with today's employment opportunities. It's a tired and weaponised theory.

Any paragraph that starts with "go educate yourself" is usually a predictor of an unhelpful theory that follows.

To try and inject some lived experience here. We use the 10,000 black interns scheme at my workplace. It isn't a job, it is a six week internship and there is no job at the end. The purpose is to open up possibilities and opportunities to people from groups who are under respresented in certain sectors and role or woild not be aware of.certain careers. There are many many more barriers than overt racial discrinination to people of colour choosing and progressing in certain careers and roles. We generally see this scheme as very successful in increasing the diversity in applicants for jobs (nb we do not operate any positive discrimination schemes for jobs)

We also take part in intern schemes for students from low income backgrounds and those with disabilities for similar reasons.

To the OP your son would would qualify and there is no reason why he shouldn't apply.

It never had to be stated, it was a given. Educate yourself. Read up about the Civil Rights Movement, the development and maintenance of the British Empire, the slave trade, the South African apartheid, the treatment of the indigenous people of North America. Basically, the entrenched belief that white people (mostly men) are superior. This filtered (and still does) into jobs and employment.

This is why there has been a movement for more diversity and inclusion in the last 10-15 years. This is now scoffed at as disadvantaging white people.

Totally agree.

It's a real shame that such schemes are needed though as it isn't still the case in 2025 and ability isn't unfortunately the sole criteria.

You can though. If a board is entirely made up of privately educated white men (as they used to be when I started out). When it comes to recruitment people play it safe and hire people that look and sound like them. Hence centuries of posh white men in charge.
As a society we have moved on a realised working class, non white, and even female people can do as good a job and improve performance of companies because they have different perspectives.
But despite knowing this people.co tinued to hire people that look and sound like them consciously or unconsciously hence the need for these schemes.
It was only 10 years ago that there were more men called John than women as CEOs of the top companies in the UK.

I am not white and I find your comments ignorant.

You’re saying categorically racism doesn’t exist? 🙄 Just because racism isn’t overt doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen! Lots of places like universities for example will review applications ‘blind’ so they don’t know your sex, race etc because it removes the element of unconscious bias.

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Yes! I always remember seeing a news story. 2 males together committing g the same crime. One described as a youth the other a boy. Guess which one was black and which one was white.. the bias was shocking to see so obviously.

White looking people can suffer racism too.

One of my friends who is black said the one thing she never expected was to give birth to a white child. OP Greek / Spanish looking too.

My friend's daughter had quite a tough time at school and whenever my friend went in to the school they assumed she was the stepmother.

OP

If he fits the criteria then he should apply.

This kind of thing is a huge problem now in certain sectors in my country, for example academia.

There are far too many candidates for positions, and having certain heritage or other characteristics gives you a leg up for positions - in fact some are only open to certain groups of people.

Unsurprisingly, there are sudden;y all kinds of people getting in touch with some element of their heritage. I knew one person who (sucessfully!) claimed membership to a certain group through a step grandparent in a homosexual relationship.

There will likely be all kinds of people who looked very mixed OP, if there is an advantage to be had everyone will try and use it.

Personally I would not feel comfortable bumping other people out of a spot because they don't tick the right race box.

Have you lived in other countries apart from the UK? The UK has laws in place (that are upheld) that will not allow someone to be discriminated against based on their (non white) ethnicity. And rightly so. Go to other countries. You'll find we're the fairest far and wide

I don’t need anyone to support me lmao I don’t rely on mumsnet ‘likes’ to validate me unlike you clearly 😂

Unfortunately your mad according to some 🥴

Yeh. Your "we" who are they ? So far nobody else has come on to support your (nasty, judgemental, wrong ) point.

You do realise there are people with diagnosed personality disorders that read this thread don't you ? Or do they not matter ?

Nah, thought not. (Not enough virtue signal points)

I think I don’t care what you think

Because "diversity" makes the whites feel good. But I'm "mad" so don't listen to me 🙄

I agree .

Apparently I'm "mad" /"have a personality disorder"

Good point

Allegedly I'm mad for implying we're all equal (good, bad, indifferent) UK law also supports this