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Brighton Council Discriminates Against Whites
To
help fill quotas for ethnic minority employees.
Kieron Keenan, a 23-year-old white history graduate has been
banned from applying to work as a trainee museum assistant at the Royal
Pavilion in Brighton because he is not of African, Afro-Caribbean, South
Asian or Chinese descent.
Keenan is very annoyed. He told a reporter from the Daily Telegraph,
'in order to be seen to be less discriminatory towards ethnic groups
the council has used a law which is blatantly discriminatory against
another ethnic group.'
'To get a graduate job in the history field is very hard and I have been
automatically barred because of my skin. I am perfectly qualified to
do the job.'
A spokesman for Brighton and Hove Council said: 'It is lawful to offer
training only for people from a certain racial group or to encourage
people from that racial group to apply.'
Bert Williams, who runs the Brighton and Hove Black History Project, thinks the council should have a rethink: 'Yes, the council must have a more representative work force but this is not the way it should be doing it because it’s another form of discrimination.'
The 2001 census found that of the 247,817 people in the Brighton area, 94% classed themselves as white, two percent as mixed race, two percent as Asian, one percent as black and one percent as Chinese or another ethnic group.
Source:mlive.com
