Could it happen here? Stephen Glover writes a very good piece in the Mail this morning asking where are the black Britons who could one day be our Obama?
Stephen writes that
one has to concede that the possibility of there being a black Prime Minister in this country in the foreseeable future is almost nil.
There are no budding political Lewis Hamiltons in the House of Commons. Among 645 MPs, only 15 are non-white, and it is not intended as any rudeness to say that none of them seems very likely to become Prime Minister or a party leader, or even to occupy one of the great offices of State.
It is an interesting point and the question is asked why in a country with racial divide it can happen but in a country of racial integration it cannot?
Perhaps part of the reason has to do with immigration. God knows, blacks in America have had a hard enough time of it, but at least as a social group they have lived in their country for a long time.
The ethnic minorities in this country are almost all descended from immigrants, some of them very recent, and it inevitably takes such communities some time to adjust to new social conditions.
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