Baroness Warsi : a hypocritical and lost politician who claims to represent all UK ethnic minorities
Baroness
Warsi : a hypocritical
and lost politician who claims to represent all UK ethnic
minorities
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Let’s start with a simple question: To
what extent Baroness
Warsi represents the UK ethnic minorities ?
As
far as we know, this woman is from Pakistan. In the UK , ethnic minorities are
from many countries in Africa, Asia, South America and Europe. We
don’t even believe that she represent all Pakistanis minority settled in the UK.
She
resigned over Gaza-Israel conflict. Now, she is trying to show that she is the
champion of UK ethnic minorities’ rights. Here are some issues that she should
have been campaigning for since she started politics.
UK
Ethnic minorities face tough discrimination and apartheid in all sectors
including the voluntary sector, banking sector, private and the
public sectors. Despite the improvement in national employment figures,
UK ethnic minorities are facing discrimination in accessing to employment.
No
company or government services want to employ them . This is what that woman
should be speaking about . Before David Cameron
took power, the UK ethnic minorities were relying on the voluntary sector. At
the moment, more than 90% of community organisations led by UK minorities
have closed down. The remaining cannot get funding because the funders
are white resulting in most grants being are awarded only to white-led
organisations.
The
existing umbrella organisations that are supposed to help UK ethnic
minorities are run by the white, even when 100 % of the service users of these
umbrella organisations are ethnic minorities. These umbrella
organisations. It well known that if these umbrella organisations are run by
ethnic minorities themselves, they will close down as the result of lack of
funding. In order to keep them running the only option is to be run by the
white class. The white people who run these networks will only use ethnic
minorities to keep their jobs and have access to funding. The involvement of
ethnic minorities in these organisations is by participation in meetings,
surveys and conferences.
In
the UK some restaurants do not accept black people. Black people cannot start a
business in the UK. They cannot get a bank loan. They
face problems in renting a house and accessing to
social housing. The white landlord will not
accept them. Few black people complain about discrimination because
they know that their
complaints will be dealt with by the white and therefore no action will be taken
to resolve these complaints. If these complaints are investigated, the outcome
will be in favour of the services they are complaining about.
That’s
UK realities that Baroness Warsi should
be talking about ! Her new
campaign as de facto representative of UK ethnic minorities is misleading and not credible. She is just
looking for another job.
More
at:
New research and
funding: young black men want to be judged on merit not stereotypes
Research published today by the Black Training and
Enterprise Group (BTEG) reveals the views of 200 young black men about their
experiences of finding work in the Capital.
Young black men have a higher unemployment rate than any
other group of young people and the research shows that they have mixed but
mainly poor experiences of support from Jobcentre Plus and Work Programme
providers. They also feel isolated from their peers and unsupported in their
efforts to ‘do the right thing’
The research was commissioned by Trust for London and is
being launching on the same day as our new grants programme aimed at
helping young black men into work.
The research shows that young black men in London believe
that racism and negative stereotyping are the main reasons for their high
unemployment rate. They also believe that black male business role models in
their communities are important and access to social and professional networks
would improve their employment opportunities.
‘Society needs to change. People need to stop thinking
that all black men are gang members (Young black male, discussion group
participant, Haringey)
The report’s action plan contains 21 suggestions in four
key areas:
1. Establishing a common goal. The goal should be to
increase employment rates for young black men so that there is no disparity
between young black men and all other young men
2. Improving support for young black male job seekers.
This requires localised and personalised support delivered by advisers who
understand the barriers and who care about getting young black men into work.
3. Creating more pathways into employment for young black
men. We need to create more networks and pathways through which young black men
can meet employers, gain work experience, develop career aspirations, secure
employment and set up their own business.
4. Challenging the negative stereotypes which society
attaches to young black men. We need to help employers to recognise these
stereotypes for what they are and to avoid making recruitment decisions which
are influenced by these.
Jeremy Crook OBE, Director of BTEG, said:
‘It is unacceptable that third generation young black men
hold similar views to previous generations about their experiences in the job
market. The young men that participated in the study want to work and are
applying for jobs but they feel that employers are unduly influenced by the
negative stereotypes that surround young black men and shape employers
perceptions. We need to create more positive portrayals of young black men in
the media and amongst employers’
‘It is important that we now focus on working with
employers and find ways to ensure that their recruitment results are not being
influenced by the negative stereotypes of young black men as criminals or in
gangs. We encourage London companies to look at their workforces and make sure
that the odds are not stacked against young black men trying to secure
employment. This may mean tackling unconscious bias in their recruitment
processes ‘
Bharat Mehta, CEO of Trust for London, said:
‘The gap between unemployment rates for young black men
and young white men is a long standing and persistent issue but in recent years
the gap has grown. This is despite improved educational outcomes, with even
black university graduates twice as likely to be unemployed as their white counterparts.’
‘Whilst some good work is being done, much more needs to
happen – the fact that young black men have higher unemployment rates than all
other groups of young people is something that needs to change. That is why
Trust for London has launched a new grants programme aimed at helping young
black men into work. We hope that the Trust’s resources will be a catalyst for
enabling more young black men into employment.’
For more information on the research please contact
Jeremy Crook on 07766114877.
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