Football isnt diverse enough according to stormzy


British citizens from ethnic minority backgrounds have to send, on average, 60% more job applications to get a positive response from employers compared to their white counterparts, according to researchers at Nuffield College's Centre for Social Investigation (CSI).

They sent around 3,200 fake job applications for both manual and non-manual jobs - including chefs, shop assistants, accountants and software engineers - in response to adverts on a popular recruitment site between November 2016 and December 2017.

All of the fictitious candidates were British citizens, or had moved to the UK by the age of six, and had identical CVs, covering letters and years of experience.

The only thing that they changed was the applicant's name, which they based on their ethnic background.

While 24% of white British applicants received a call back from UK employers, only 15% of ethnic minority applicants did.
Compared to White British applicants, people of:
  • Pakistani heritage had to make 70% more applications
  • Nigerian and South Asian heritage 80% more applications
  • Middle Eastern and north African heritage 90% more applications

But yeah employers only want the best talent.
Tbf this isnt just an ethic minority problem. My wife is Eastern European and felt her surname held her back. She was very happy when she married me and could change her name to an English surname.
 
5% of UK black/mixed race.
Black people disproportionately good at football, but the same as everyone else when it comes to working behind the scenes?
When idiots like Stormzy , Lammy et al go on about diversity they are not referring to the Asian or Chinese community that makes up a larger percentage in the U.K.
They are purely referring to their own black community that makes up around 5%.
They need to look in the mirror to see who the real racists are.
Fair play to Stormzy for setting up scholarships for deprived black only students.
Imagine the uproar if a local business had done the same but said it was available to only deprived white students .
 
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When idiots like Stormzy , Lammy et al go on about diversity they are not referring to the Asian or Chinese community that makes up a larger percentage in the U.K.
They are purely referring to their own black community that makes up around 5%.
They need to look in the mirror to see who the real racists are.
Fair play to Stormzy for setting up scholarships for deprived black only students.
Imagine the uproar if a local business had done the same but said it was available to only deprived white students .
Don't think Stormzy's scholarship was for the deprived. Just gave them to rich black kids didn't he?
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When idiots like Stormzy , Lammy et al go on about diversity they are not referring to the Asian or Chinese community that makes up a larger percentage in the U.K.
They are purely referring to their own black community that makes up around 5%.
They need to look in the mirror to see who the real racists are.
Fair play to Stormzy for setting up scholarships for deprived black only students.
Imagine the uproar if a local business had done the same but said it was available to only deprived white students .
In the case of Lammy, it also not relevant when it comes from people in his own party
 
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Isn't that not why he's launching the scheme in the first place? If no black people were interested in non-playing roles in football, then this won't get off the ground.

I really don't see the issue here. Celebrity notices that there's not many black people working in non-playing roles in football (which, whichever caveat you put on it, is true), so uses his fame to launch a scheme to give opportunities to people who wouldn't otherwise have them. Hardly a crime. It's not perfect, but to me this one bloke trying to help, and if it gets a few talented people through the door who wouldn't have been able to previously, then surely it's been worth it?

As I said before, it's quite bizarre that Sunderland fans given the complete lack of talent and competence we've had in non-playing roles for literally decades wouldn't welcome more talented people into the recruitment pool.
I have no issues with the scheme. I have issues with the concept that white people are the reason why there's few black managers.
f***ing hell man!
You don't think black people are more than fairly represented on TV or in music and sport?
We'll have to agree to disagree.
 
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what he means is football isn’t black enough and he would rather there be more black people than white people involved. He can’t mean anything else surely cause football is already extremely diverse?
 
what he means is football isn’t black enough and he would rather there be more black people than white people involved. He can’t mean anything else surely cause football is already extremely diverse?
This is it, if he was truly worried about diversity then he would also be concerned about the lack of British Asian and out gay footballers
 
So what’s the solution then? Unless you have a proportional number quota, one group will most likely be disadvantaged. I don’t see how this applies to an industry with a 43% non-white representation at elite level either. One black manager in the PL is 5%, which is over representation of the 3% population. 0 is obviously under. Can’t have 0.6 of a manager. What’s the solution so that everyone is fairly represented
Hire a mixed race manager
 
if a company has 100 people of differing colours apply for 1 job and they go through all the C.V.s then the job should go to the one with the best qualifications, irrelevant of colour.

Totally agree.

But the question is, why isn't that happening. Once the why is understood then a solution to the problem can be found.
 
I'm sorry but this is absolutely ridiculous, football has to be the most diverse sport in the world and to introduce an initiative where you have to hire a certain % of people based on their skin colour is very dangerous.
You hear this argument a lot but we go year on year with ethnic minorities being massively underrepresented in senior managerial positions and people constantly saying we just have to 'recruit the best person for the job'. It seems to me that a persons skin colour is still a barrier to them achieving these roles and we aren't recruiting the best person for the job because of this. What do we do about it?
 
You hear this argument a lot but we go year on year with ethnic minorities being massively underrepresented in senior managerial positions and people constantly saying we just have to 'recruit the best person for the job'. It seems to me that a persons skin colour is still a barrier to them achieving these roles and we aren't recruiting the best person for the job because of this. What do we do about it?
Hire properly from the bottom up and promote people on abilty/attitude etc.

My company are hiring specifically based on gender now for all middle management roles. And it isn't working
 
There's loads of black acts in music (again a disproportionately high number).
He's just trying to be trendy/play the victim card again.
Strange that he keeps selecting industries which have a huge proportion of black people in them.
It’s more the fact he moans about lack of black representation then moans when there is some diversity, that it’s tokenism. Not sure what would make him happy.
 
😀 Lots of unconscious bias being displayed on this thread (and quite a bit of the conscious sort too), probably best he just shut the fuck up to make things easier.
 

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