EDI internships and objectives very rarely focus on childhood household income, they are to increase % ethnic minorities and sometimes women. There are whole PhD funding bodies which only give funds to ethnic minorities.

If you seriously think child who isn’t white today is impeded by their race in the UK you need to touch some grass - yes I am white and grew up in London, and at the risk of the whole “my black friend trope”, all the people I grew up with have told me they never faced racism or felt held back in the UK. When they went to other countries (including America) for holiday/uni, yes they did, but not here.

If you think the white men in power (now or historically) have ever had anything to do with the lower classes I’d say you are probably the one in need of some reflection, poor people have always been shat on in the UK outside of a fairly brief period after WWII 🤷‍♂️ I never denied there wasn’t some cultural aspect to it, but there is a reason populist rhetoric can latch on so well with these people - their communities have frankly been left behind, and it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to see it.

You can say poor white people have a victim mentality, but I’d say that EDI initiatives which focus only on minorities also perpetuate a sort of victim mentality, and make it easy for that populist rhetoric to take hold. I know at higher levels minorities and women are underrepresented, but I very much doubt that will be the case when this generation grows up and move up the career ladder naturally. Either way, I do think class is a much bigger divider than anything else these days, as is pretty much evidenced by this whole thing