F2F Class Notes (Luca)

A report on racism has been criticised. The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities was set up in the UK last year after the death of George Floyd. The commission said racism remains a “real force,” but said the UK is no longer “deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities“. It said people use racism as a “catch-all explanation” for not getting ahead. It added things like geography, culture and religion have a bigger impact on success in life.

Critics of the report called it “a truly historic denial of the scale of race inequality“. A UK politician was deeply critical of the report. He accused the government of “gaslighting” the British public. He tweeted: “For my own mental well-being I am not doing media interviews on the race commission today. Like so many in Britain’s Black community, I’m tired of the endless debate about whether structural racism exists with little desire to actually address it.”

Vocabulary

racism 种族歧视

criticise verb 评批 critic noun (person) critical adjective. 

Ethnic minority 民族

disparity 差别，差距

Deliberate 蓄意

Deny  (denial)

structural (structure)
e.g The structure of society is organized to favor white people.

equality (equal)

Write one sentence for each new word you learnt today.

Link to News articles in english
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2104/210404-racism-4.html