*Legislation is the essential precondition for an effective policy to -combat the problems experienced Dy mne coloureo minong srouos and promote equality of opportunify and treatment. It is a necessary pre-condition for dealing with explicit discriminatory actions or accumulated disadvantages.' (White Paper on Racial Discrimination, September 1975)
Such is the thinking behind the establishment's approach to race relations in Britain - the view that parliamentary legislation is the key to racial harmony. A whole battery of legislation has been enacted in an attempt to prove this.
The first was the 1965 Race lators into having yet another po - due to come time in March or April.
Under the new Act the definition or un autu discriminaton includes discrimination "in effect". It will also be unlawful for a club of more than discriminate on the basis of race colour, nationality and citizenship aITnoUHn seems it is now perfectly all right to discriminate aerunsto acks ina club or less uman 25 members.
But the change which has attracted most publicity is that which makes it an offence to incite racial hatred publicly. It will no longer be necessary now to prove 'intent' in order to obtain a although any such prosecution will still need the Attorney General.
InC so is this legislaton going to succeed where the rest has failed; inceea can anv eusasor eradcate racism? Any serious look at SLaLULC the roors ano nature or me oborcs sion of blacks in Britain could only answer such questions in the negative.
The first reason is that the law does not address itself to the main problems controntng blacks. roi instance, it does not relate to such maters as police harassment, or the worthless devaluing process inal black kiu: experience in the educational system of this country.
PREJUDICE Instead the basis of race relations legislation is the conception of such that the oppression or minorities is simply the product of DCE racial prejudice, and that therefore JUNTS members to conviction, approval of the DEUTaHEY ane account the social and economic roots of racism; it cannot explain, and therefore cannot 'cure, wny blacks suffer more unemployment, why they live in the worst housing conditions, why they are the chief targets for police brutality, why Taclal they receive the worst education. parlamentar)
SWIDX STRIKE COMMITTE
Strikers at the Grunwick film processing laboratory and supporters picketed this shop in Wembley as part of their campaign to ask chemists and customers to refuse to handle film with the trade name 'Grunwick' or of its subsidiaries 'Cooper and Pearson', 'Bonuspool' and "Trucolour'.The first stage of the campaign was a day of action all over London last Saturday supported by London trades councils and SE Region of the TUC.
But this view fails to take into produce racism niuWBC legislators Close many because class DOI sued supports June group?
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commited GRUNWICK STRIKE COMMITTEE icies. speeches bears responsibility for the social and economic conditions which SUCITC blacks themselves begin to stand up and organise themselves, then the parliamentarians and legislators will set up a whole series of judicial mechanisms to absorb such struggles. This is the real intention of the 1976
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