British institutions need to stop being driven by so-called “white guilt,” the author of a government report on race and ethnicity said.
Tony Sewell, chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, warned against seeing “everything through the race lens alone,” saying institutions need to consider the “complexities” of racial disparities.
The remarks came days before the 75th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush’s arrival in England, carrying onboard the first of Caribbean migrants who were later called the “Windrush generation.”
Owing to the British Nationality Act 1948, which gave Britain’s colonial subjects the same citizenship status as those who lived in Britain, many people moved to the UK from the Caribbeans during the next two decades without needing any documents….