Friday 21 December 2007

The Lunatics Are Taking Over The Asylum

The findings from the Count Me In 2007 census ethnicity data shows that African people in Britain are over three times more likely to be admitted and detained as inpatients in mental health and learning disability services than the UK’s ethnic majority. The report acknowledges that a whole slew of factors are responsible for this - one of them, of course, being racism, which it seems to concentrate an inordinate amount of time on, although it presents no evidence to show that this is a factor at all. Indeed, it can't.

Anti-African racism in the UK health services...hmmm, that must be why we employ so many of them as doctors.

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