I look forward to a day when race is no longer an issue. For that to be the case it needs to stop being an issue in people’s minds first. I mean that both positively and negatively. In the good case there would be no call for so called affirmative action. I look forward to the day when there is virtually nothing you can take from a person’s ethnicity that’s in any way an indicator of the kind of person they are.

I doubt whether such a state of affairs can be enforced whether through legislation, by political correctness or some other kind of social imperative. Attempting to coerce enlightened values can often just succeed in having people make the appropriate surface gestures while the deeper prejudicial impulses still fester. Victorian and Christian morality were supremely guilty of this. The real change has to evolve from the hearts and minds of people in a more fully realised way such that the problem simply atrophies. It would disappear completely and not be an issue any more. I look forward to that day but alas will never see it.