
Frank Young: Why we need to get rid of the term ‘BAME’
Too often, we have viewed ethnic minorities through lumping everyone who is non-white into this crude category.
Too often, we have viewed ethnic minorities through lumping everyone who is non-white into this crude category.
Historical reality is that there is no colour-bar on human wickedness and suffering, just as there is no colour-bar on human achievement.
For too long the space has played host to ugly and vacuous ‘public art’. This is a much, much better use for it.
He may have been one of the greatest figures to shape the 20th century, but a simplistic deification risks losing the complexity of the man.
Death is not a statistical data point, and the loss of life of a mother, a father, a child, and a key worker can never be filled.
The focus should be on greater prosperity for all – not on producing statistics to highlight ethnic differences.
My modest proposal is this: let’s do a major programme of controlled trials to test these ideas, and see what, if anything, makes a difference.
There is now no overall ‘white privilege’ in health or education or overall ‘BAME disadvantage’. These categories are outdated and unhelpful.
Countries need a balance of self-criticism and self-confidence. People are often called on to act for a greater good. But if Britain is shameful, why bother?
It seems to me there is truth on both sides of this argument. The nuances to which Lammy refers get lost once combat is joined.
Some seem to believes that they have a right to own the support of ethnic minority voters. Which they don’t.
These proposed changes suggest that Ministers’ resolve to address this type of abortion is weakening and, in Northern Ireland, evaporating.
We need to be proactive, and champion those universal values that we all share. And BAME conservatives need to be articulating and leading it.
Having been born in Calcutta, I have seen first hand the economic and human cost of the disaster that is socialism.
There are three main factors at work – genetics, plus cultural and social factors. And it’s not possible at present to disentangle the mix.