They are all lies, and all Tory soundbites to delight a section of its supporter base that is very often in denial about these issues. The mention of white working-class children underperforming in school versus black children set off one of the major alarm bells for me in this report. One of the classic rebuttals whenever we talk about institutional racism and especially white privilege is “what about the white working-class” how are they privileged? When I attended the Black Lives Matter march last summer, I held a sign which read “The UK is not innocent”. The Race commission’s report denying what hundreds of thousands of people have lived and begged to changed ironically perpetuates the same level of silent institutional racism which the report denies is an issue.

Source: Daily Mirror March 31, 2021 21:54 UTC