Are you surprised when black schoolkids do very badly? How do we expect to get the next generation of business leaders and professional people.

We have to address the poor educational performance if we can do this the rest will fall into place. I don't believe FTSE companies are being racist but the pool of black talent is limited, we need to broaden and deepen that pool.

Because people always under-estimated him, IMO due to his African roots. I had a huge blow-up with the CEO and forced her to realise what was happening.

They keep doing the same with one of our Care Home managers because she has a strong African accent. She is incredibly clever.

Edited by Mapletree (09 Jun 2021 4.58pm)

I thought my point was quite clear.

It's no good complaining that black people are discriminated against for the top job if they don't have the qualifications in the first place.

This all starts with education, Mapletree says that the numbers of blacks going to Uni has increased ergo in 20 years time there should be a big talent pool.

Exactly my point.

It is a fair point, but women have more often than not outperformed men academically, and that isn’t reflected in the make up of leadership positions in business.