Tbf
@Sara125 is not saying the entire country is racist. Read back through the thread or look up systemic and institutionalised racism. It doesn't mean Britain is full of gun toting racist nuts, it doesn't mean we have signs that say no blacks no Irish anymore and it doesn't mean that Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins are in anyway representative of the British people.
It means very simply that if you are a person of colour there are far more hurdles and obstacles in the system. It means there is a glass ceiling that white people don't have to struggle with in the same way and it is in every walk of life. There's a trend of under representation in just about every public body in the UK.
For example, just look at football managers and coaches, Raheem Sterling pointed out yesterday ex players getting jobs, Lampard goes to Derby then Chelsea and Gerrard straight to Rangers versus Sol Campbell at Macclesfield and then Southend and Ashley Cole on the coaching staff for the U15s at Chelsea - why? they all played for England, all understand the game, they've all done the same coaching badges. Why was Chris Hughton the only black manager in the prem? I dont know the stats but I'd make a rough guess that about a third of players are black. Where's the representation, why don't black people get the jobs? Systemic racism is why. And it is the same in almost any industry you care to look at.
The trouble is people do not like to see their country painted like this and find it difficult to accept because they do not think they are racist themselves and look back at the 70s and 80s and see how far we've come as a nation, I understand that. And that's true we have, overt and open racism has definitely dropped since then, but systemic and institutionalised are still a massive problem. That's been a huge part of these protests and we need to recognise it in the system and in ourselves and overcome it.