#All lives don’t matter until Bangladeshi Lives Matter
Football
Although 34% of footballers in the Premier league are from a BAME background, by the end of the 2018-19 season, only four British footballers of South Asian descent (that includes Pakistani, Indian or Bangladeshi) had played in the Premier League.
Media
“Although there is variation across genres, total on-screen contributions by BAME groups have increased over the last three years from 21.8% to 22.7%. However, during the same period the on-screen contributions by South Asian ethnic groups have fallen from 7.1% to 5.6%.
Poverty
Bangladeshis are poorer than black people, just as likely to be unemployed, earn on average £175 less per week than black people and get paid £3 per hour less than black people. They under achieve at school compared to black people, tend not to have a degree education when compared to black people and suffer higher infant mortality rates than black people.
Poverty and ethnicity in the UK – Joseph Roundtree Foundation 2007.
‘Is Britain Fairer?’ (2015) was the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s five-yearly review of equality and human rights in Britain.
Asian and Mixed race pupils are outperforming White pupils in education, while African, Black and Caribbean children are falling behind
In England and Wales, infant mortality, deaths per 1,000 births
“People of Bangladeshi and Pakistani, Indian, and Mixed ethnicities also had statistically significant raised risk of death involving COVID-19 compared with those of White ethnicity.” ONS
Historical Slavery
The Indian region of Bengal is in modern day Bangladesh. In 1862 there were twice as many slaves in Bengal than in the entire British Caribbean.
“The Company’s territories consisted mainly of the three Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras. And the 8,000,000 slaves lived in those three Presidencies. But in the non-British territories and in the British Protected States slavery was everywhere rife ; and there is every probability that the total number of slaves in India, the Independent and the Protected States included, amounted to 16,000,000 and perhaps more. “ – Page 203 0f SLAVERY IN BRITISH INDIA by D. R. BANAJI. M. A.. LL. B..
“Some 5 million enslaved Africans were taken to the Caribbean, almost half of whom were brought to the British Caribbean (2.3 million). “
Source: British Library, an article by David Lambert is Professor of Caribbean History at the University of Warwick and former Director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies. He is the author of White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity during the Age of Abolition (2005) and Mastering the Niger: James MacQueen’s African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery (2013).
https://www.bl.uk/west-india-regiment/articles/an-introduction-to-the-caribbean-empire-and-slavery#
Sources:
https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league-black-lives-matter-diversity-figures-kick-in-the-teeth-463186
https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league-finally-reveals-the-diversity-of-its-workforce-527995
https://talksport.com/football/269320/proportion-british-bame-players-has-doubled-premier-league-began-talksport-special-report/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/06/28/revealed-fa-efl-do-not-monitor-number-bame-players-elite-male/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50063299
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asians_in_association_football
Poverty and ethnicity in the UK – Joseph Roundtree Foundation 2007.
‘Is Britain Fairer?’ (2015), the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s five-yearly review of equality and human rights in Britain.
Race and Ethnic Diversity: a deep dive into Diamond data October 2020, a report commissioned by TV companies
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/coronavirusrelateddeathsbyethnicgroupenglandandwales/2march2020to10april2020#main-points
Notes:
Poverty and ethnicity in the UK – Joseph Roundtree Foundation 2007.
‘Is Britain Fairer?’ (2015) is the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s five-yearly review of equality and human rights in Britain.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics and National Records of Scotland indicate that there were 54.6 million White people and 8.3 million people from an ethnic minority living in Britain in 2011 (1.3 million people of Mixed race; 1.5 million Indians; 1.7 million Pakistani/ Bangladeshi; 1.9 million African/Black/Caribbean; and 1.9 million people of ‘Other’ race).
Asian and Mixed race pupils are outperforming White pupils in education, while African, Black and Caribbean children are falling behind
In England in 2012/13, more White pupils achieved at least 5 GCSE grades A*-C (60.2%) than Pakistani/Bangladeshi pupils (58.1%) and African/Caribbean/Black pupils (also 58.1%). However, Indian pupils (75.7%), Mixed race pupils (62.5%) and ‘Other’ pupils (64%) performed better than their White counterparts
In Britain, the proportions
of young people who were Not
in Education, Employment or
Training (NEET) did not differ
between White people and those
from ethnic minorities in 2013.
In Britain, 26.8% of White people had a degree-level qualification in 2013. This was lower than for African/Caribbean/ Black (34.7%), Indian (49.5%), Mixed race (36.6%) and ‘Other’ (40.2%) people. No difference was found between White and Pakistani/Bangladeshi people in 2013.
In England and Wales, infant mortality was substantially higher for African/Caribbean (4.4 deaths per 1,000 births), Pakistani/Bangladeshi (6.5) and Indian (4.5) infants, in comparison with White infants (3.4) in 2012. In Scotland, South Asians represented 4.9% of overall foetal and infant deaths in 2012.
In the 2011 Census of England and Wales, 14.1% of Gypsies and Irish Travellers rated their health as bad or very bad. The group with the second poorest self-rated health was White Irish (9.2%),
followed by Black Caribbean (6.7%), White British (5.9%), ‘Other’ ethnicity (5.7%), Bangladeshi (5.6%) and Pakistani (5.5%). In Scotland, a greater proportion of Gypsy/Travellers rated their health as bad or very bad (15%) compared with the average for Scotland.
In England, the percentage of people who were at risk of poor mental health was higher among Pakistani/Bangladeshi and African/Caribbean/Black people (22.9% and 19.9% respectively) than among White people (14.6%) in 2012. There are no data available for Wales.
In Britain, poverty rates were higher for children living in a household headed by someone from an ethnic minority (41.9%) compared with someone from the White group (24.5%) in
2012/13. The poverty rate was particularly high for children living in a household headed by Pakistani/Bangladeshi, Black or ‘Other’ people (between 43.2% and 49.3%) whereas the poverty rate
for children in a family headed by an Indian person was the same as that for the White group.
Slavery
“H. B. E. Frere was right in saying (1883),“ But there can be no doubt that the number of human beings liable to be bought and sold like cattle, and forced to labour without any control over the
fruits of their labour, was far greater in India than was at that time found in all the colonies and dominions of Great Britain and the United States put together.” V, A. Smith, The Oxford History of India, 2ai edition, p. 587.
(page 196 of SLAVERY IN BRITISH INDIA by D. R. BANAJI. M. A.. LL. B..)
Finally, it must be borne in mind that in 1840 British India did not extend from the Karokoram Range to Cape Comorin, and from Persia and Afghanistan to China and Siam. In those
days, Sind, the Punjab, Travancore, Nepal, Burma were outside the pale of British administration. Moreover, Kathiawar, Baroda, Gwalior, Bhopal, Bundelkhand, Rewa, Nagpur, the Nizam’s
Dominions, Mysore, Rajputana, Sirhind, Garhwah, Rampujr and Oudh were British Protected States.
