Why is the Runnymede Trust looking at the grievances of white people? The organisation acknowledges that this might be seen as unusual coming from an independent policy research body founded on promoting a successful multi-ethnic Britain. But it also points out that it has become increasingly common to find expressions of the theory that the white working class are losing out to minority groups in areas from housing to education, employment and health. The trust asked a group of writers and researchers to look into what was really happening.
And were their findings consistent? The line emerging from all these papers is that yes, the white working class are discriminated against on a number of fronts, but because of their class, not on account of their race.
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