The UK health research charity Wellcome has a culture of institutional racism while a prominent London medical school supported and benefited from the British Empire’s subjugation of people of colour, according to separate reports.
Wellcome’s director, Jeremy Farrar, apologised for the findings in an online statement. “We know that Wellcome has great power,” he said. “We have done too little to use this power to counter racial inequity in research.” , two years after making commitments to equality in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement after George Floyd’s murder in 2020.
The Wellcome report, published on Wednesday, found that the two main initiatives of its antiracism programme “have so far failed to have a positive impact.” Half of the employees identifying as Black or people of colour who spoke to researchers felt that decisions on promotions and performance were not made fairly. A quarter said they had experienced discrimination or unfair treatment.
Not only in the health sector, Britain is the centre and exporter of not only racism but white superiority that has created enough 'us-and-them' havoc,globally. One can't help but notice the strenght of the pound against global currencies and its not difficult to grasp why.
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