britex - equality has been acheieved????????????? that is the most crazily inaccurate thing i have read in ages.
people from afro carribean families in london in 2008 (yes, thats now) are more likely to suffer infant mortality, their children are more likely to have learning difficulties, their children are more likely to be excluded from school, their children are the least likely to go to university, their children are the most likely to live in overcrowded conditions, the most likely to have parents in low skilled jobs, and are more likely to be arrested and charged with criminal offences than their white counterparts encountered by police in identical circumstances, they are less likely to get jobs than their equally well qualified white counterparts, often receive less pay for the same work as their white counterparts.
Not to mention the continued existence of vile racist parties such as the BNP, who actually recived over 4% of the vote at the last mayoral election- they have an explicity white supremacist policy.
And Boris Johnson - mayoral tory candidate for london, again in 2008, using racist language as standard, for example:
?It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies?
He goes on, with reference to Tony Blair?s then imminent visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo: ?No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
And there is more....
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/aug/04/london.localgovernment
Boris is currently the front runner in london, despite these despicable racist views. London, with our rich multiculture.
That your idea of equality having been achieved?
It is vital, that this issue is talked about and talked about and talked about. Until racism and racists go away and never come back.