Immigration and asylum is big politically at present. As a black person in the UK, I get very nervous whenever a government starts beating drums and mentioning emotive things like immigration and asylum. Some things have to get worse before they get better. Class and race have never been entirely divorced. Increasingly black people are migrating up the social class, which gives us different kinds of challenges, but there are still racial tensions which we cannot ignore racial attacks are going on.
Black kids are still much more likely to be in prison than their white counterparts.
The church plays a role on different levels. It's been good to see denominations like the Church of England and the Methodists doing their own research about race and seeing what they can do to address it. I think the church still has to face the task of being salt and light to society in this area of race. I feel God has given me such tremendous gifts of people's friendship. I spend half my time wondering how I've reached where I've arrived at.