Thread by @AdamRutherford

'There is a new story about the Caribbean experience which speaks to the slave period not only being about profit and suffering but how culturally African people transformed themselves into a re-modelled African/Britain.'

I keep staring a this sentence in the #RaceReport

It doesn't really make grammatical sense. What new story? The Caribbean experience of what? Being shackled and beaten? How did that speak to how 'culturally African' people transforming themselves?

What does this mean?? What remodelled African/Britain? How do enslaved people transform themselves into a country/continent? This is fucking nonsense.

As for the previous sentence, Hobson Jobson has been around since 1872, and there’s multiple Wikipedia pages which do this job pretty comprehensively. Oh and anti-racism ≠ etymology. But yeh if you know where bungalow comes from then there’s no racism left in the U.K.

Anyway. It's bad. And meaningless. And will have no impact, none of the recommendations will be enacted. It's just red meat for the voter base. I suggest we ignore it, just like the government will. #RaceReport

This detailed, expert and scholarly analysis by @aljhlester is worth a read. The report is none of those things.
bit.ly/2PmwcS6