{"links":{"self":"https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/595012.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":595012,"parliament":{"period":"2019-2024","government":"Conservative","dissolution_at":"2024-05-30T00:01:00.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Remove the Label......BAME from describing Blacks and Asians","background":"I would like to advocate for the abolishment of the word BAME and replacing it with Diversity and Ethnicity Backgrounds. It's a label I feel most blacks suffer discrimination from people under the same Label and removing it is justified.","additional_details":"Racism is a choice and so is labelling people because of skin tones. It's high time society accepts that even with our different skin tones we Matter to each other. #All Lives Matter \r\n\r\nI have seen Racism, Discrimination and Stigma being applied to either a Black person to Black, Asian to Black, Asian to Asian or Black to Asian yet we identify as BAME. This defeats the whole purpose and would like this abolished immediately.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":6,"created_at":"2021-08-16T08:27:13.579Z","updated_at":"2021-08-23T07:44:02.248Z","rejected_at":"2021-08-23T07:44:00.768Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2021-08-17T11:03:15.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_on":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"irrelevant","details":"Petitions must call for a specific action that the UK Government or House of Commons is responsible for.\r\n\r\nThe Government is not responsible for the language people use to refer to ethnic minority groups. This is a matter for individuals and individual organisations.\r\n\r\nWe could accept a petition calling on the Government to stop using the term \"BAME\", if that's something you would like to happen."},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}