‘The social consequences are entirely explosive’: Black people respond as new analysis suggests 40% black youth unemployment rate

'A diverse society needs diverse management to be fair and efficient,' said Sir Geoff Palmer

BLACK YOUTH unemployment now stands at a similar rate as it did during the Brixton uprisings, new analysis from The Guardian suggests.

It is reported that this demographic of young workers face an unemployment rate three times higher than their white peers.

The news comes 40 years after the Brixton uprisings. According to The Guardian, the black youth unemployment rate in the last quarter of 2020 was the same as in the early 1980’s.

They claim that figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), show that over 40% of black people aged 16-24 were unemployed between October and December 2020.

In comparison, just over 12% of white workers in the same age group faced unemployment.

The news follows the publication of the deeply disappointing race report, which was commissioned following Black Lives Matter protests across the UK.

Finding no evidence of institutional racism, the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities also suggested that employment pay gap was not significant for ethnic minority groups under the age of 30.

Speaking to The Voice in response to these assertions, Lee Jasper suggested that they may lead to further Black Lives Matter protests in Britain over the course of the summer.

He called the report “a slap in the face.”

In response to the news, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: “Spiralling black youth unemployment. This is a crisis of institutional racism.

“Boris needs to stop pretending it doesn’t exist. And take action.”

Campaign group Black and Asian Lawyers for Justice said: “British Black youth unemployment is now 40% and that’s government official figures, so in reality the figure is way higher than that.

“The social consequences are entirely explosive. It’s 1981 all over again.”

Sir Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland said: ‘The black youth unemployment level is unacceptable.

‘A diverse society needs diverse management to be fair and efficient. To achieve this, the Institutional racism of the ‘interview’ must be removed not denied.’

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