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Mar 16 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
In the last 24 hours, 3 horrendous cases of institutional racism have come to light 🧵
A young Black schoolgirl, #ChildQ, was taken out of an exam to be strip searched - without any adult supervision from her guardians - on suspicion of possessing cannabis, which she did not.

She was then sent back into her exam, traumatised and shaken. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
A report from prestigious @RoySocChem today shows that racism is 'pervasive' in chemical sciences.

Robert Mokaya, the ONLY Black professor in 575 chemistry professors across the UK, has been rejected for research funding for 15 years. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
And @pcs_union have voted to withdraw from an investigation into institutional racism in the Cabinet Office, the heart of executive power in Whitehall, for 'showing no real desire to tackle discrimination.'
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
It could not be more obvious that Britain has problem with institutional and systemic racism. We do not need any more apologies or investigations without action.

We need policy and a practice upheaval which will support ethnic minority people at all stages of their lives.
Instead, we are facing an onslaught of draconian legislation in the #BordersBill, #PolicingBill, #ElectionsBill and #HumanRightsAct 'overhaul'.

Combined, these pose the most significant and sustained threat to Black and ethnic minority people’s civil rights in recent memory.

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Dec 7, 2021
As the #BordersBill is scrutinised in parliament today, here's what you need to know about its potential impact on ethnic minority Britons 🧵👇
Between 2006 and 2014, powers to strip citizenship were used 27 times. In 2017 alone, its use rose dramatically to 104 times

Last month, a new clause was snuck into the #BordersBill, which would grant the power to deprive a person’s citizenship without them even being told
This new clause is an indefensible proposal which adds further weight to already discriminatory citizenship stripping laws

It reinforces the idea that ministerial discretion can decide whether or not you belong in the UK
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Oct 22, 2020
1. On Monday we published new research with @IPPR on ethnic disparities in Covid which found that 58,000 additional people would have died if white communities faced the same level of risk as Black communities

Here's a quick thread on how and why we made that calculation
2. In the House of Commons today Minister for Equalities @KemiBadenoch said that she does “not recognise those figures. Its methodology was not transparent, and our statisticians in the Cabinet Office could not understand where it got the numbers from”

We reject this conclusion
3.Our methodology is widely accepted in the academic community. To get to this statistic we applied the black population’s age and sex specific death rates from Covid-19 to the white population

The full methodology is explained in an addendum to the blog runnymedetrust.org/blog/ethnic-in…
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Oct 22, 2020
The new government report released today on #Covid19UK and #ethnicity does little to to *actually* help vulnerable BME communities and stem race still being a social determinant of health. In our report with @IPPR we found that:
- Underlying health conditions NOT important /1
- 58,000 extra deaths if white population faced same risk factors as black population i.e occupational and socio-economic
- Main factors unequal social conditions (i.e occupation and housing), unequal access to healthcare, and structural/ institutional racism that underpins them
The new government measures including the new Community Champions scheme to improve public health messaging, does not plug the gap in local authority funding faced by BME communities in this country and the tiny amount of money allocated to it is no where near enough /3
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Oct 21, 2020
Books create belonging. They help us see each other, and understand one another. That's why every young person should have the chance to study books reflecting the racial diversity of UK society. This is how we want to contribute to that vision. #LitInColour (1/4)
We’re excited to join forces with @PenguinUKBooks to commission major new research, as well as the Black Writers’ Guild, @TeachFirst, @LiteracyTrust and partner schools. Change happens when we work together. We add our voices to a movement built over years, by many. (2/4)
Over the next few years our #LitinColour programme will support brilliant teachers making change on the ground to develop an inclusive #EnglishLit #curriculum and increase student access to books by writers of colour. penguin.co.uk/litincolour (3/4)
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Oct 19, 2020
🚨 A NEW report by the Runnymede Trust and @IPPR has shone a light on the disproportionate deaths for certain #BME communities relating to #COVID19 🚨 Following on will be a thread with some of the findings ⚠️ /1
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- Once again Covid-19 is running along racial lines.Despite the inequalities exposed earlier this year, there has been little effort to stop Covid-19 hitting minority ethnic communities hardest as we enter the second wave. /2
- Without urgent action, the effects of pandemic are set to be felt unequally again. Already the latest national infection rates are over four times higher in Pakistani communities than white communities. /3
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Oct 19, 2020
Conversations about the 'left-behind white working class' have made a return to the political scene in recent weeks. Below is a thread about Runnymede's recent work in this area and how pitting 'race' and class against one another serves nobody well /1
It is worth noting that this is not a race row and pitting children from different ethnic backgrounds against each other is highly damaging with regards to social cohesion, it ignores the large achievement gap among White British children from different socio-economic backgrounds
The current conception of the working class in the public debate is often based on a mixture of misinformation and mythology, fails to recognise working-class voices and agency, increases division across racial lines, and is divorced from the lived realities /2
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