Another reason not to take the government's race report seriously. Another example of them making stuff up.
"An author and curator named as someone who gave evidence to the Government’s controversial
race report has angrily denied having anything to do with the review after he was included in error."
“They never contacted me or consulted me. And if they knew anything about me, they know I would not have had anything to do with any of the current shenanigans at Number 10,” he said."
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As said before the semantics are coming out, but again, Sewell was the wrong person to figurehead this because he said the same 15 years ago which patently wasn't true.
People have admitted being in meetings and giving their thoughts and seeing cmte members but NOT knowing they were contributing to this particular study. Folks on all sides are cherry picking lines to suit their agendas and ignoring the middle ground cmte members like Aderin-Pocock (is it - science lass) who explained quite clearly the institutions they looked at - Gov, Police, NHS etc - they found no evidence of institutional racism but that doesn't mean there isn't racism within those organisations and it certainly didn't mean there wasn't institutional racism in institutions they didn't look at.
I didn't catch his name but one bloke was very credible criticising the report and what it chose to look at for him, to come to a happy ending and importantly what it didn't look at which he believed would've found different conclusions.
But even he went off about higher death rates in birth for blacks as being proof of institutional racism whilst ignoring every other factor, COVID et al ignoring other factors and he admitted meeting the committee and talking about his experiences of institutional racism in the past but he didn't draw the line between a report looking at the now (not the past) whilst also not offering any current experiences.
The report is spot on about financial issues and their impact in the community (all communities) but it's also massively flawed the more I see because it had an end point at the start and that's not how you independently approach things.
Fully accepting the report is spot on at points, given the main positive focus and headline is shrinking wage gaps, whites are falling behind so stop moaning, not only totally seems to miss the point but it only furthers the angst and division anyway amongst the more extreme.
But it seems none of the big wigs either clocked that, or alternatively, care about that.