Racism watchdog discovers evidence of racism shocker.
Racism in Wales is under-reported, according to a study by a race watchdog.
Race Council Cymru said many black and minority ethnic people are resigned to accepting racism and change their own behaviour to try to deal with it.
Language barriers, fear of reprisals and a lack of trust in the police were all reasons given for not speaking out, the report found.
Around 4% of Wales’ 3m population is from an ethnic minority background.
Given that racism watchdogs (another unnecessary quango), much like the witch finder pursuivants that preceded them, only thrive where there is racism to root out, it is hardly surprising that they managed to find some – even if, as we have seen recently with the UKIP fostering scandal, it isn’t racism at all. No, opposing the EU, multiculturalism and untrammelled immigration is not racism, much as the righteous like to label it as such.
So, who are all these people suffering racism?
The study interviewed 350 people representing a range of black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.
Ah, right, a statistically insignificant sample… Again…
No mention of the N welsh racism against the “English” though?
Curious that……
We are the same race, so it would be nationalism, not racism.
Also the frequent insistence that applicants for public sector jobs need to be able to speak Welsh could be regarded as discrimination against ethnic minorities who, I would guess, are much less likely to have that skill.
A few years ago, I had a trainee who was an Afro-Caribbean man from Bradford. I recognised his accent (I am from Leeds) and we got chatting. With Pembrokeshire being almost completely white in its ethnic make-up, I asked him if he had experienced any racism since he moved here. In Bradford, all the time, he said. In Pembrokeshire, never. Like Voltaire’s remark about God, I sometimes think people find it necessary to invent what they are looking for.