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This has been playing on my mind over the last couple of days, the beebs recently put on a documentary about the likelihood of the United Kingdom having a black person as a Prime Minister.

It was an interesting documentary, it really was, but it was also very leading. Everything was to do with the colour of a persons skin.

*I can't remember all of the exact figures used, but the ones given are close enough to give you an impression of the issue and points made*

It looked at the odds of a black person getting into Oxbridge, bearing in mind these are possibly the two greatest universities in the world. The odds weren't great.

The point that stood out to me was that 7% off the population is black (all though no age range data was used). These Universities have 12% Black students. They commented on the fact that it was more likely for a white person with three A's was more likely to get in than a Black person with three A's. At face value this is a tragic fact. They believe that most admission staff went for people of there own race. Also a startling fact.

The thing that annoyed me was that one, the percentage of Black people in these Universities is higher than the percentage of black people in the UK. Surely that is something to be applauded? Equally no comment was put on the area people grew up in. The only comment around economic variables was that 80% of the students were from 6 'elite' collages. The odds of people getting in from these collages was around 28%. The odds of someone from outside was around 4%. This sounds quite daming I know, but when you consider that the people who go to these collages have most of there education aimed at getting them into Oxbridge.

So, my question is,

As we race towards the 8 billion mark of the human population and with many natural resources being used up at a greater speed than ever, should we have to come to terms with the fact that our population is getting too large? I'm not talking about specific countries as I understand that many Western countries have low population growth rates but why do you think it is seen as immoral to discuss limiting the number of children people could have? Do you want to control the population growth of the world or should we be free to have as many offspring as we desire? Let me know in the comments what you think the best solution to overpopulation is