Baroness Warsi : a hypocritical and lost politician who claims to represent all UK ethnic minorities.
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Let's start with a simple question: To what extent Baroness Warsi represents the UK ethnic minorities ?
As far as we know, this woman is from Pakistan. In the UK , ethnic minorities are from many countries in Africa, Asia, South America and Europe. We don't even believe that she represent all Pakistanis minority settled in the UK.
She resigned over Gaza-Israel conflict. Now, she is trying to show that she is the champion of UK ethnic minorities' rights. Here are some issues that she should have been campaigning for since she started politics.
UK Ethnic minorities face tough discrimination and apartheid in all sectors including the voluntary sector, banking sector, private and the public sectors. Despite the improvement in national employment figures, UK ethnic minorities are facing discrimination in accessing to employment.
No company or government services want to employ them . This is what that woman should be speaking about . Before David Cameron took power, the UK ethnic minorities were relying on the voluntary sector. At the moment, more than 90% of community organisations led by UK minorities have closed down. The remaining cannot get funding because the funders are white resulting in most grants being are awarded only to white-led organisations.
The existing umbrella organisations that are supposed to help UK ethnic minorities are run by the white, even when 100 % of the service users of these umbrella organisations are ethnic minorities. These umbrella organisations. It well known that if these umbrella organisations are run by ethnic minorities themselves, they will close down as the result of lack of funding. In order to keep them running the only option is to be run by the white class. The white people who run these networks will only use ethnic minorities to keep their jobs and have access to funding. The involvement of ethnic minorities in these organisations is by participation in meetings, surveys and conferences.
In the UK some restaurants do not accept black people. Black people cannot start a business in the UK. They cannot get a bank loan. They face problems in renting a house and accessing to social housing. The white landlord will not accept them. Few black people complain about discrimination because they know that their complaints will be dealt with by the white and therefore no action will be taken to resolve these complaints. If these complaints are investigated, the outcome will be in favour of the services they are complaining about.
That's UK realities that Baroness Warsi should be talking about ! Her new campaign as de facto representative of UK ethnic minorities is misleading and not credible. She is just looking for another job.
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New research and funding: young black men want to be judged on merit not stereotypes
Research published today by the Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG) reveals the views of 200 young black men about their experiences of finding work in the Capital.
Young black men have a higher unemployment rate than any other group of young people and the research shows that they have mixed but mainly poor experiences of support from Jobcentre Plus and Work Programme providers. They also feel isolated from their peers and unsupported in their efforts to 'do the right thing'
The research was commissioned by Trust for London and is being launching on the same day as our new grants programme aimed at helping young black men into work.
The research shows that young black men in London believe that racism and negative stereotyping are the main reasons for their high unemployment rate. They also believe that black male business role models in their communities are important and access to social and professional networks would improve their employment opportunities.
'Society needs to change. People need to stop thinking that all black men are gang members (Young black male, discussion group participant, Haringey)
The report's action plan contains 21 suggestions in four key areas:
1. Establishing a common goal. The goal should be to increase employment rates for young black men so that there is no disparity between young black men and all other young men
2. Improving support for young black male job seekers. This requires localised and personalised support delivered by advisers who understand the barriers and who care about getting young black men into work.
3. Creating more pathways into employment for young black men. We need to create more networks and pathways through which young black men can meet employers, gain work experience, develop career aspirations, secure employment and set up their own business.
4. Challenging the negative stereotypes which society attaches to young black men. We need to help employers to recognise these stereotypes for what they are and to avoid making recruitment decisions which are influenced by these.
Jeremy Crook OBE, Director of BTEG, said:
'It is unacceptable that third generation young black men hold similar views to previous generations about their experiences in the job market. The young men that participated in the study want to work and are applying for jobs but they feel that employers are unduly influenced by the negative stereotypes that surround young black men and shape employers perceptions. We need to create more positive portrayals of young black men in the media and amongst employers'
'It is important that we now focus on working with employers and find ways to ensure that their recruitment results are not being influenced by the negative stereotypes of young black men as criminals or in gangs. We encourage London companies to look at their workforces and make sure that the odds are not stacked against young black men trying to secure employment. This may mean tackling unconscious bias in their recruitment processes '
Bharat Mehta, CEO of Trust for London, said:
'The gap between unemployment rates for young black men and young white men is a long standing and persistent issue but in recent years the gap has grown. This is despite improved educational outcomes, with even black university graduates twice as likely to be unemployed as their white counterparts.'
'Whilst some good work is being done, much more needs to happen – the fact that young black men have higher unemployment rates than all other groups of young people is something that needs to change. That is why Trust for London has launched a new grants programme aimed at helping young black men into work. We hope that the Trust's resources will be a catalyst for enabling more young black men into employment.'
For more information on the research please contact Jeremy Crook on 07766114877.
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