‘Institutional racism’: 20 years since Stephen Lawrence inquiry
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Sir William Macpherson’s phrase has fallen out of favour but has Britain really changed?
By Robert Booth, Social affairs correspondent.
Twenty years after Sir William Macpherson was picked to lead the public inquiry into Stephen Lawrence’s murder and the allegedly corrupt police investigation that followed, Grenfell Tower went up in flames.
In his final report, published in February 1999, Macpherson would go on to label the police response to the teenager’s killing “institutionally racist”, a term that captured so well the unwitting prejudice and plain racial stereotyping afflicting parts of British society. The phrase became a lodestar for anti-racism and equality reforms launched in an effort to move the country on from sporadic race riots, racist violence and everyday prejudice of the “no blacks, no dogs, no Irish” variety. There were murmurs Britain was becoming a post-racial society.
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