I don't thing that black people are hindered when it comes to education or getting jobs.
You may think it, but the statistics disagree:
www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/30/ethnic-minority-graduates-earn-less-struggle-to-build-careers
Ethnic minority graduates in Britain are much less likely to be employed than their white peers six months after graduation – and many can expect to earn less for years afterwards.
This dramatic divergence in life chances is revealed in a major study – the first comparison of how university choices, parental background and social class can affect students’ chances of finding jobs and fulfilling their earnings potential.
The study, by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, finds that British ethnic minority graduates are between 5% and 15% less likely to be employed than their white British peers six months after graduation. There are also marked disparities in wages between many ethnic minority women and black Caribbean men who do manage to find jobs after graduation and their white counterparts.
It is a gulf that persists long after graduation, according to the study. It found that, three-and-a-half years after they left university, the difference between earnings for ethnic minorities, especially women, and their white peers increases, suggesting they may be finding it harder to climb the career ladder.
The study examined data from the Destination of Leavers of Higher Education survey, conducted by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, and found that ethnic minority graduates were less likely to be employed than white British graduates from similar socioeconomic backgrounds who grew up with similar opportunities and had similar qualifications.
The findings raise troubling questions because most ethnic minority groups in Britain are highly educated on average and are more likely to attend university than white Britons. However, they struggle to build careers. It is a concern recognised by Karen Blackett, the chair of media agency MediaCom, who graduated from Portsmouth University and in 2014 became the first woman to top the Powerlist 100 of most influential black Britons. “Stats show that one in four kids at primary schools are from a black and minority ethnic population, yet only one in eight go into employment,” she told the Daily Telegraph in 2014. “Something has to be done. That’s not right.”
The study’s authors, Wouter Zwysen and Simonetta Longhi, say the inability of ethnic minority graduates to find jobs after graduation will have serious consequences for their earnings potential later in life.
According to their research, students who are unemployed following graduation can expect to earn between 20% and 25% less later in life than those who find jobs after leaving university.