You said “something like the most intelligent members from each group represent each group - rather than having black mental health policy being determined by a white closet fascist”…

“Each group” doesn’t mean anything — they’re all human beings and to try and alleviate discrimination based on race by highlighting people’s race is illogical.

Changing “filing” for “life” is a trick — you could change any number of sentences by replacing one verb with another and they’d be horrendous.

This is an interesting issue as there are meant to be significant numbers of individuals who perform at levels that are superior to their peers whilst still not ‘making the grade’ in regards to attaining employment that compares to their level of education and their level of intelligence (let’s say, that these individuals manage to outperform their peers on IQ tests that were made by individuals who were predominantly of the same ethnicity as the peers of said individuals).

This would be, scientific proof of certain forms of racism (though I don’t have the statistics at hand - but even using the common tool of media manipulation such as the Guardian yields the observation that employment levels of individuals that are of a particular skill/intelligence level is still dependent upon racial/ethnic background). Everyone knows that the Guardians stance is pro-Israel and anti-Islam (poor scapegoats, it almost makes you wish that we had someone *decent* to hate - like the Soviets or the Chinese, rather that a bunch of pyjama wearing fundamentalists, but I digress….).

The point I’m trying to make in this rant is this - how high should the UK set its anti-racist standards? Are the British enlightened because they don’t shove their ethnic minorities into Gulags, or is it because they are meant to treat them equally?

Let’s dissect the above a little closer :
“Do all black people have a particular take on *filing* that we cannot possibly do without?”
Let’s logically extend it to something like :
“Do all black people have a particular take on *life* that we cannot possibly do without?”
Wow - look at that, that’s just one verb away from genocide.

See my point now?

The best situation is to have a firm policy understood by all that allows some form of meritocratic based representation (say, something like the most intelligent members from each group represent each group - rather than having black mental health policy being determined by a white closet fascist). Then it would not be necessary to have blogs like this as their would be universally accepted, universally respected, unquestioned rights for each group as humans (ie: like ‘human rights’ - except an idiot like Cameron wouldn’t be allowed to modify them, akin, I suppose to genetically modifying 6 billion people so as to re-define what humans, and hence their rights, actually are).

Hope that the above hints at a sane solution. Though if you don’t like a black guy, there’s no reason you can’t lynch him (most CCTV cameras can’t receive black - they’re too busy with all the other colours).

If anything, the British sense of fair play trumps almost any bigotry in this country, or at least, has done. But positive discrimination policies may end up stoking bigotry in the name of fair play.