The DNA database betrays the racism of those behind it

[JonLP24]

Source: Guardian UK

Race equality experts and human rights groups will this week meet for a public seminar regarding the Home Office's consultation on proposals to retain innocent DNA on the criminal database for up to 12 years.

The event offers probably the only opportunity to Britain's ethnic minorities to gain access to the information needed to take part in this government's consultation.

The impact of the Home Office's current policy on the collection and retention of DNA has hit Britiain's black community hardest. The UK's database, containing information on 5.1 million people, is now has the largest in Europe, with numbers of those from African-Caribbean communities, proportionately, far outstripping that of any other group.

Official figures indicate that African-Caribbeans make up less than 2.9% of the national population, but 27% of the entire black population are on the database, compared with just 9% of the Asian community and 6% of the white population.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2009/jul/13/dna-database-black-community

[crikkett]

1. Way to go, UK - show us how it's done

:sarcasm:

[Grinchie]

2. I know, we all patent our own DNA then charge Royalties to these Databases.

[Wednesdays]

4. Dunno, they just as likely copied it from us

It's not as though the Klan would shy away from doing the same thing. And, of course, the grand-daddy of it all was Nazi Germany's eugenics policy.

[crikkett]

5. I don't think so. This is a hangover from British Imperialism

and goes waaay back.

Our Founding Fathers were English before they were American.

[jody]

3. Sotomayor would never approve such practices. n/t