Or is Trevor Phillips sleepwalking?

Trevor Phillips chair of the Commission for Racial Equality said in statement in the guardian this week that 'We still have the chance to prevent the failure of integration in Britain not by grandiose statements about our rich diversity nor endless statistics about ethnic intermarriage' he states these don't 'provide serious answers to these real-life dilemmas.'

Mr Phillips also said 'We could, for example, start by facing the reality for most children of dual heritage, supposedly proof of successful integration. Yet the majority of children of African-Caribbean/white heritage are growing up in single-parent households, a fact that casts a brutal shadow over this multi-culti idyll. He went on to say, 'Public policy can't put parents back together. But it might help those children's self-esteem if, for example, we could find a way of addressing the million or so Britons in this group that does not make them sound (and feel) like unwanted remnants at some genetic jumble sale.'

Intermix.org.uk Founder Sharron Hall says:
I'm not happy with Trevor using single parent households as an example of why we should address the needs of mixed-race Britons that only enforces the stereotypical image some have of people with a mixed racial heritage. '

'I do agree that society needs to find a way address the marginalisation of mixed-race families and individuals. I wonder if his statement is an indication that the CRE are taking steps in that direction. It would seem appropriate but is highly unlikely.'

'Trevor seems to be waking up, when I last saw him, which was at a conference on the mixed-race catagory in the Census at the Institute of Education he was so moved by the proceedings he fell asleep on stage.'

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