A foreword to the report by chairman Tony Sewell, an education consultant and ex-charity boss, said: "We no longer see a Britain where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities."
While the "impediments and disparities do exist", it continued, they were "varied and ironically very few of them are directly to do with racism".
The report added that evidence had found that factors such as geography, family influence, socio-economic background, culture and religion had "more significant impact on life chances than the existence of racism".
"That said, we take the reality of racism seriously and we do not deny that it is a real force in the UK."
The report also said there is an "increasingly strident form of anti-racism thinking that seeks to explain all minority disadvantage through the prism of white discrimination" which it said diverted attention from "the other reasons for minority success and failure".
The above is, I understand an actual extract from the report. FWIW I am not saying there is no institutional racism in the UK, I am not saying I agree with the report (I have not read it) I am, however, concerned that concluding that all minority disadvantage has it's roots in institutional racism is potentially harmful so I am trying to take a balanced view. As I said in my previous post, Sewell is a controversial figure who is not afraid to go against grain.
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