White people, either consciously or unknowingly, have a privileged position in some parts of the world where the norm is white. It is so influential that black people are led to believe in its erroneous concepts. The normative mirror is held up, and black people see themselves redefined as worse, as lower, as inferior . It is not surprising that so many black young people in our country develop resentment against their parents who produced them as rejects in a white society. It is possible also that the high incidence of schizophrenia among black people in Britain may be the result of mimetic desires which are doomed never to be fulfilled because black can never be white.
Black unemployment is double that of white unemployment, and among women it is three times as much.
Nearly half of black youths between the ages of l6 and 24 have been unable to find employment. Men in full-time employment from all ethnic minorities earned on average 11 per cent less than the white population. There is a disproportionate exclusion of black children from school. Black people sustain the National Health Service as Nurses, Auxiliaries, Doctors and in many other capacities, but black staff are under-represented in Senior Grades. Black defendants are l6 per cent more likely to be refused bail and l7 per cent more likely to receive a custodial sentence than white people.