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Originally Posted by jfman
I'd place us ahead of the USA on this, but wouldn't be complacent enough to say we don't have a problem - our history shows we definitely do.
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I agree. However this weekend’s protests were triggered by a current situation in the USA. It would have been useful to allow that to generate some understanding over here, of the situation over there. Instead, the nature of some of the protests over here has ensured no fresh understanding of either British or American race relations issues. I think that’s not entirely surprising seeing as the British protests weren’t triggered by a specific British incident, and so were never going to have the same clear focus as has been more typical of events in the USA.