Discrimination is still a potent mix of race and class
Linda Bellos OBE, Director of Diversity Solutions Consultancy Ltd is featured in yesterdays Guardians letter page on the subject comments made by minister John Denham. Linda wrote:
‘What new debate on race, John Denham (Report, 15 January)? Those of us working for equality for all have long argued that it is impossible to consider race without class, or gender and disability for that matter. To view “race” only in terms of skin colour, as many officials seem to do, is to misunderstand the law. Section 3 of the Race Relations Act 1976 defines racial grounds as colour, race, nationality or ethnic or national origin. Race is not defined. It is taken as a given, as though a group of people has common biological characteristics which distinguishes them from another group, and which is different from their colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin….’
To read the full letter on the Guardians website, please click here
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