White Privlige and Ignoring the Problem

[Ben Davis]

Number one you have given no references at all for these 'facts', You have just asserted them.

Okay, here's some for a starter but I'm at work so I'll have to pull the rest later:

Unemployment stats
Deaths in custody
Exam results
Salary
Stop and search

Number two most of those are not about treatment but about achievement.

Potential for achievement can be constrained by institutionalised discrimination (glass ceiling). In fact, achievement levels are used as a primary indicator when tracking root causes of such discrimination.

If people have a culture that mitigates against work and towards crime then, again , its about how they treat the system not about how the system treats them.

For instance Pakistani origined policemen have 6 times the number of actions taken against them than the average. YOU would count that as discrimination but the reality is that the families of such policeman expect them to behave like policemen back in Pakistan and demand they act corruptly as they would 'back at home'.

I wouldn't necessarily consider this specific circumstance to be discrimination but I would be extremely surprised if all such actions resulted from cultural differences; all UK PC's go through the same training and accreditation before being allowed on the streets. However, you're right that such factors need to be included in the root cause analysis.

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Just put of interest is the Dominance of people of African ancestry in British athletics evidence of racial discrimination against white people in atheletics?

Not necessarily, it's likely evidence of certain roles being impressed on people of different ethnicity: if the vast majority of your positive role-models are athletes and there are sociological barriers to your entry to other careers, your propensity to become an athlete increases.