British society is not rigged against ethnic minorities and very few racial disparities are caused by racism, an independent review has found. The review was published on Wednesday by the independent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which was set up by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in July 2020 to examine inequality in the UK in the wake of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests over the death of George Floyd. “Put simply we no longer see a Britain where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities,” said Dr. Tony Sewell, a veteran education consultant who chairs the Commission, in the report’s foreword. “The impediments and disparities do exist, they are varied, and ironically very few of them are directly to do with racism.” Instead, “the evidence shows that geography, family influence, socio-economic background, culture, and religion have more significant impact on life chances than the existence of racism,” he …