Musk accuses Humza Yousaf of racism.

 

Humza Yousaf

Scotland's former First Minister, Humza Yousaf, of the Scottish National Party (SNP), has said that he's Scottish to his very roots. Nevertheless, following the recent riots, he also said that he and his family don't feel safe living in Britain because of racism and that they may have to move elsewhere.

He was recently accused of racism by Elon Musk, when he said that most of the senior public positions in Scotland in the judicial, legal, health and policing system, are "filled almost exclusively by people who are white."

By focusing on race and skin colour, Humza Yousaf, omits an important fact about the significance that social-class plays in British society. The vast majority of Scottish white people are not going to get these senior public positions either, because they are not part of a white social elite, that is based on social class, money, education, and family connections.

We know that only around 7% of the British population attend public schools, but we also know that those who do, are disproportionately represented in some of the top jobs in British society, including the law, journalism and the First Division civil service. How many editors of the Guardian newspaper went to comprehensive schools?

Even under an SNP government, Scotland is hardly an egalitarian society, but neither is the rest of Britain. Currently, some 432 private landowners own 50% of the private land in rural Scotland and many of these are not Scottish.