Date Added: 26-09-2005

Summer camps in the U.K. to bring children of different races together.  Read the excerpt below:

September 23, 2005

The Times

By Alexandra Frean, Social Affairs Correspondent
 
US-STYLE summer camps and sports or cookery courses that encourage children from different races to mix could help to prevent Britain from “sleepwalking� its way to racial segregation, Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, said last night.
Extra funding for schools that attract a racially diverse intake of children and a redrawing of school catchment areas could also help to bring pupils from different races closer, he said.

In a speech that painted a disturbing picture of a racially segregated and “ghettoised� country, Mr Phillips took up the theme of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream� speech, and said that it was “time to wake up�. Almost without noticing it, Britain was becoming more divided by race and religion, Mr Phillips told a meeting of the Manchester Council for Community Relations at the town hall. Some areas were already becoming “black holes into which nobody goes without fear or trepidation and from which no one ever escapes undamaged�.

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