Submitted on Wednesday 17th June 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 29th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Review the term Bame. It does not accurately represent Black people's needs.
As all ethnicities are different it means that needs will also be.
When other groups outside of the Black community are included in the same narrative, or considered for employment or for influential positions , it gives an inaccurate representation of Black people that are actually in the quota.
We need this to be reviewed so that Black people have fair and equal opportunity to represent the real needs of the community. Unfortunately this is not the case currently, as the term Bame seems quite superficial.
This will help to bolster confidence and an appreciation within the Black community that our concerns are being heard and taken seriously, and that there is indeed a concerted and progressive effort being made to identify and eradicate systemic racial discrimination at all levels.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government is not responsible for determining how ethnic minorities are referred to.
The Government's guidance on writing about ethnicity already states that it does not use BAME or BME for a number of reasons: www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/style-guide/writing-about-ethnicity
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