Recently, four white teenagers threw stones at Asian passengers in the front rows from the rear seats of the upper deck of bus 207. When one victim protested, the teenagers mocked. But they went down the stairs when they realized that all the other passengers were angry too. In another incident, as soon as a dark-skinned man sat next to a middle-aged white woman, the woman left her seat on the District Line tube in London. Things like this don't happen every day – few things do – but I see them happen with uncertain regularity. Let's face it: we are all closet racists. However, some of us try to be more nuanced and not wear sin on our sleeves. Others are not so subtle, out of ignorance or simple malice. British society is no different. Most English people are polite and respectful towards minorities. Many of them understand their country's compulsion – declining white birth rates and an aging population – to welcome immigrants to grow the economy, and have learned to appreciate the diversity of faces, clothes, festivals and cuisines. But a small, misinformed and prejudiced minority holds immigrants, old and new, responsible for their misfortunes. They may have heard bad things about aliens. Their employers could have fired them to hire minorities and save money. They see migrants taking away their jobs, but they don't realize that their government has allowed such foreigners to enter. A handful of them might even hate minorities simply out of ill will. As a result, every year, thousands of people belonging to minorities suffer insults, abuse and violence. Official statistics select a few. For example, 41,318 hate crimes related to race and religion were reported in 2010 and 37,623 (86% of 43,748) in 2011/12. Since the death of Stephen Lawrence killed in 1993, says the Institute or... middle of paper... of Pakistani and African origins, whose unemployment rate exceeds 50 percent even when many people have two jobs – which they could be a perennial source of instability. There are strong arguments for racial equality not only in the law but beyond. For the faithful, all human beings are children of the same god. For evolutionists, all of humanity evolved in Africa, spread throughout the world and acquired different colors and characteristics to adapt to the local climate. In any case, discrimination and injustice against our brothers and sisters with slightly different appearances and beliefs is morally and politically wrong. Do we want to prevent a clash of civilizations in Britain? So let's enforce the law better, promote education, retrain people, create jobs, calibrate immigration controls and introduce quota systems for minorities. There is no shortcut.