SMW: 
It is the fact that the most under privileged group in society today is the white male.

Except for, maybe, asylum seekers, those 500+ subpostmasters unsafely convicted of fraud in the PO Horizon affair, paraplegic and quadriplegic people trying to navigate public transport in cities, epileptics and those with other physical constraints trying to hold down a job in conditions not designed for their needs, and so on. Really, the list is quite long.

If we do have to go into BLM matters, and I think we do, a quote from the government may be apt

there were 6 stop and searches for every 1,000 White people, compared with 54 for every 1,000 Black people

from

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/policing/stop-and-search/latest

The government uses 18 ethnic categories, and there is a bar chart on rates of stop and search. The rate for blacks is nine times that for whites. Whatever the reasons for that, it does mean that the experience of black people with police in cities is rather different from that of whites. This is underscored by the experience of the astonishingly talented George the Poet, a Cambridge literature graduate and award-winning podcaster who turned down an MBE in 2019, who has said quite clearly that the experience of being who he is did/does not mesh with the prevailing cultural mores:

 “That top-down approach to education, the idea that smart, cultured, well-off people are going to share with you how to be like them, does not work. I can say that because that was almost imposed upon me, and I struggled with it for a long time.

“It did not make as much sense as sticking with what I started with. I was in a school that was very different from the environment I grew up in and the messaging I received was that the way guys like me talked, and what we valued, was just not going to cut it.

He is to give the Longford Lecture on prison reform tonight. Maybe we could ask him how many of his childhood buddies are Chartered Engineers; why, and why not? No matter what your views on privilege, the answer might well be very informative.

SMW: 
It is the fact that the most under privileged group in society today is the white male.

Except for, maybe, asylum seekers, those 500+ subpostmasters unsafely convicted of fraud in the PO Horizon affair, paraplegic and quadriplegic people trying to navigate public transport in cities, epileptics and those with other physical constraints trying to hold down a job in conditions not designed for their needs, and so on. Really, the list is quite long.

If we do have to go into BLM matters, and I think we do, a quote from the government may be apt

there were 6 stop and searches for every 1,000 White people, compared with 54 for every 1,000 Black people

from

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/policing/stop-and-search/latest

The government uses 18 ethnic categories, and there is a bar chart on rates of stop and search. The rate for blacks is nine times that for whites. Whatever the reasons for that, it does mean that the experience of black people with police in cities is rather different from that of whites. This is underscored by the experience of the astonishingly talented George the Poet, a Cambridge literature graduate and award-winning podcaster who turned down an MBE in 2019, who has said quite clearly that the experience of being who he is did/does not mesh with the prevailing cultural mores:

 “That top-down approach to education, the idea that smart, cultured, well-off people are going to share with you how to be like them, does not work. I can say that because that was almost imposed upon me, and I struggled with it for a long time.

“It did not make as much sense as sticking with what I started with. I was in a school that was very different from the environment I grew up in and the messaging I received was that the way guys like me talked, and what we valued, was just not going to cut it.

He is to give the Longford Lecture on prison reform tonight. Maybe we could ask him how many of his childhood buddies are Chartered Engineers; why, and why not? No matter what your views on privilege, the answer might well be very informative.