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Between 2005 & 2010—catalysed by the finding, in the Independent Inquiry into the Death of David Bennett https://irr.org.uk/article/rocky-bennett-killed-by-institutional-racism/, that ‘Rocky’ Bennett ‘was treated as if he was “a lesser being”’—we had the policy-making project Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care (DRE) https://twitter.com/Samara_Linton/status/1349302779098128384
In 2007 *during DRE* the
@DHSCgovuk's own Equality & Human Rights Group https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Managingyourorganisation/Equalityandhumanrights/DH_077319 hosted
@DrJoyDeGruy for public engagement in Westminster & executive policy-making in Whitehall on ‘The legacy of slavery and the health of black communities’ https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Managingyourorganisation/Equalityandhumanrights/Raceequality/DH_080401?PageOperation=email
@DHSCgovuk's own Equality & Human Rights Group https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Managingyourorganisation/Equalityandhumanrights/DH_077319 hosted
@DrJoyDeGruy for public engagement in Westminster & executive policy-making in Whitehall on ‘The legacy of slavery and the health of black communities’ https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Managingyourorganisation/Equalityandhumanrights/Raceequality/DH_080401?PageOperation=email
But neither the DRE’s ‘Race Equality Action Plan: A Five Year Review’ in 2010 https://www.hsconsultancy.org.uk/system/resources/1/race-equality-action-plan-a-five-year-review.pdf?1302161027 nor the @David_Cameron— @nick_clegg Coalition’s ‘No Health Without Mental Health’ in 2011 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213761/dh_124058.pdf mentioned the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership @LBS_at_UCL 
In fact between 2010 & 2015 under 5 years of @Conservatives we backtracked to what @ppvernon—author of ‘What 12 Years a Slave tells us about 21st century black mental health’ https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2014/feb/05/12-years-slave-black-mental-health lamented as ‘a “colour blind” approach to race & health’ https://www.mentalhealthtoday.co.uk/which-political-party-can-deliver-on-race-equality-and-mental-health-after-the-general-election
Announced in Oct 2017 by @theresa_may & published in Dec 2018 ‘Modernising the Mental Health Act‘ https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/modernising-the-mental-health-act-final-report-from-the-independent-review mentioned DRE only once in 300 pages & failed to engage with the decolonial discussions held at a community-led conference in Mar 2017 https://distressandthediaspora.wordpress.com/videos/
Until @GOVUK admits what Prof Aggrey Burke’s been arguing since 1981 https://www.runnymedetrust.org/histories/race-equality/84/mental-health-and-black-people.html that RACISM as a LEGACY of SLAVERY & EMPIRE is the CAUSE, @MattHancock’s latest reinvention of the whitewashing wheel will not stop @DHSCgovuk killing more people like David Rocky Bennett
