Race Relations

Question 1

Evidence Race Relations had improved

Answer 1

• In 2002, the first black cabinet minister was appointed, Paul Boateng, who became Chief Secretary of the Treasury
• Mosques and temples became familiar and uncontroversial buildings and centers of communities in towns and cities around the country
• Schools, local government and businesses launched initiatives to celebrate ethnic and cultural diversity of different communities

Question 2

Evidence race relations had worsened

Answer 2

• 2001 the BBC chairmen said BBC was ‘hideously white’.
• The MacPherson report, making public allegations about the METs ‘institutional racism’