Jason Arday is now the stick the right will use to beat back racial equality. Don’t let that happen | Afua Hirsch

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Jason Arday is now the stick the right will use to beat back racial equality. Don’t let that happen | Afua Hirsch

The UK is far from equality in academia or society. You don’t need a Cambridge degree to see that Arday’s story is being used to stop any progress in its tracks In 1987, a college at the University of Cambridge considered offering a prestigious position to a black man in what would be the first appointment of its kind. Not only did the man not have a degree, but he had left school at the age of 13, struggling with dy…