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In terms of Financial equality, not well at all
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/jun/20/financial-inequality-the-ethnicity-gap-in-pay-wealth-and-propertyConclusions of both is BAME groups earn less, have less savings, receive less pension income and have lower home ownership
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@aggi economic success for whom?? most of us have had 10 years of austerity.. or are you referring to 1980s yuppies or that industrial age 1870s when social mobility was first created, again not sure how many black people benefitted.
In the context of BLM and UK Legislation, I want to ask how much progress have we made, not is terms of wealth but equality?
The Equality Act 2010 01 October 2010 - 251 pages (David Cameron, George Osborne)
[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/pdfs/ukpga_20100015_en.pdf]
Primary purpose of consolidating, updating and supplementing the numerous prior Acts and Regulations, that formed the basis of anti-discrimination law in Great Britain, updating;
- the Race Relations Act 1976;
Race Disparity Audit - March 2018 /58 pages (Theresa May)
[https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/686071/Revised_RDA_report_March_2018.pdf]
The MacPherson Report - July 2009 /389 pages and 16 years after the murder of Stephen Lawrence - Tony Blair / Gordon Brown
[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmhaff/427/427.pdf]
Today in Britain, we witness ongoing racist rhetoric that feeds the flames of intolerance, hatred and violence . And I am not convinced its a minority across the country, if anything its a silent majority, particularly outside London.