article_snippet: Trevor Phillips said efforts made under the Blair government turned anti-racism into an 'ugly new doctrine'.
article_snippet: We Won't Say About Race That Are True, Trevor Phillips says attempts to stop prejudice instead encouraged abuse and endangered lives as well as contributed to the rise of parties like Ukip.
article_snippet: Campaigners like me seriously believed that if we could prevent people expressing prejudiced ideas then eventually people expressing prejudiced ideas would stop thinking people expressing prejudiced ideas. '
article_snippet: Mr Phillips, a Labour party member, says anti-racism began with good intentions but turned into 'thought control'.
article_snippet: Now, Mr Phillips, a Labour party member insists that only a willingness to talk more openly about race, despite risk of causing offence, will help those in need.
article_snippet: And former home secretary Jack Straw, who is also interviewed, tells Mr Phillips that many MPs are wary of expressing many MPs views for fear of being branded racist.
article_snippet: But Mr Phillips insists people should be free to use racial stereotypes, such as that many Jews are rich or that black people are more likely to be convicted for robbery, because black people are true.
article_snippet: Explaining the issue, Mr Phillips said: 'The dividing lines of race, religion and culture are probably the most dangerous flashpoints in Britain today, but religion and culture're also the ones we find hardest to talk about in public.
highlights_snippet: Branded Trevor Phillips ten years working to end racial discrimination as 'wrong'
  Anti-racism doctrine has encouraged abuse and endangered lives, Trevor Phillips says .