Some right-wingers and ignorant fools might say "the UK is not a racist country" but check out these official statistics.
* Black people are about 18 times more likely to be searched than their white counterparts.
* Black people are about 18 times more likely to be searched than their white counterparts.
* BME children make up over half of the child population in prison (28% are black). This is an increase of 15% over the past decade.
* By the end of secondary school, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils are almost three years behind their white counterparts, and black Caribbean students are 11 months behind their white British counterparts.
* BME people with learning disabilities die younger than their white counterparts; there is a shocking 26-year difference between white and BME people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Yes, I've said 26-year!!
* In 2019, 90% of Australian nationals were released before spending 28 days in detention compared with 60% of Nigerian nationals and 40% of Jamaican nationals.
From stop and search to inequalities in maternal health; lower levels of home ownership to constraints on pay and professional opportunities, the UK got a lot of racism issues.
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