If you want a glimpse of how toxic the UK’s race debate has become, take a look at the treatment of Tony Sewell.
Sewell has devoted much of his working life to improving the lives of ethnic-minority Brits. The charity he chairs, Generating Genius, has been helping some of the most deprived young people get into high-paying Stem fields for more than 15 years.
Here is a man who truly walks the walk, amid a race-relations industry that is full of solution-free, identitarian jabber.
The cowardice here is breath-taking
And yet, he has been thoroughly demonised. As chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, he produced the now infamous 2021 race report, which dared to argue that, while racism is still an issue in Britain that must be confronted, our society is not ‘institutionally racist’.
For his trouble, Sewell has been called a ‘token black man’, likened to a Klansman and – to complete the set – is now being shamed by his old university.
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