Racist Brighton and Hove Council
Telegraph | News | 'I was refused a job because I'm white'
A history graduate has been rejected for a job in a royal palace because he is white.
Brighton and Hove council told Kieron Keenan he could not apply for the job of trainee museum assistant at The Royal Pavilion because he is not of African, Afro-Caribbean, Asian or Chinese descent.
Mr Keenan, a 23-year-old graduate, said: "It's astonishing. In order to be seen to be less discriminatory towards ethnic groups the council has used a law which is blatantly discriminatory against another ethnic group.
"Apparently it is perfectly legal. I feel very annoyed.
"To get a graduate job in the history field is very hard and I have been automatically barred because of my skin. I am perfectly qualified to do the job.
"I didn't even get the chance to apply because the advert made it clear you could not apply unless you were non-white.
"I couldn't even get as far as filling in the application."
The council applied the Race Relations Act to exclude white people from applying for the £9,000 a year part-time post in order to help fill quotas of ethnic minority employees. ...
Bert Williams, who runs the Brighton and Hove Black History Project, said: "This is an easy way out for the council. It is panicking because it has been accused of being institutionally racist.
"Yes, the council must have a more representative work force but this is not the way it should be doing it because it's another form of discrimination."
I think it is an ex-royal palace actually, it is now a Local Council run attraction sandwiched between a dual carraigeway and some grotty 1970's concrete - If my memory of Brighton is correct. Brighton is such a "right-on" council I'm sure it loves beating itself with the stick of instituional racism - and now they have proved they are racist!
Good to see the Black history spokesman taking a reasonable line.