By donu kogbara
Dr Elizabeth Pinneh is a Bayelsan post-doctoral research scientist and academic, based in the UK. She lectures at St George’s University in London and works with the Brilliant Club, teaching and mentoring pupils from under-represented backgrounds in schools.
Super-smart Elizabeth also happens to be my friend Andrew Pinneh’s daughter. Last week on this page, I published an introductory excerpt from her article titled “The Issue Of Race in Britain”. Here are more of her views on this interesting topic.
Crime
The criminal justice system which also covers policing, is a sector in which we can all agree that racism exist, but it is always best to go through the data, for those who don’t know much about it. Let’s start with the most obvious, the over-representation of Black and Minority Ethnic, BME, in UK prisons; 27 per cent of the prison population are represented by BME compared with their 13 per cent representation in the general population.