One of the highest profile minority casualties was the Respect party's leader, Salma Yaqoob, who was standing in Birmingham Hall Green and had been described in the Asian press as the most respected Muslim female politician in Britain.
Increasingly, however, high-profile minority players are coming up through the minor leagues, including several South Asian prospects, like Jujhar Khaira, Sahir Gill, Prab Rai and Kevin Sundher.
Yade was one of Sarkozy's high-profile minority ethnic appointments, but proved defiant of the president.
This despite the fact that CNN is one of the few networks with a number of excellent and high-profile minority journalists.
Just 27 of our 650 MPs come from minority backgrounds; only one in 16 top company board members; and there are indefensibly few high-profile minority journalists.
Yaqoob would have been the first hijab-wearing MP, and her defeat by Labour is one of the most high-profile minority failures.
The feeling is that he has a special duty and obligation as an African-American president to stack his administration deck with high-profile minorities or women and if he doesn't do that, he's somehow betrayed affirmative action.
Eggbuckland's principal, Katrina Borowski, said at the time she was unaware of any bullying but admitted his "high profile" had led to a minority of students acting in an "immature way towards him".
As high-profile ethnic minority success stories, they clearly count as experts in this field – but the challenge remains to expose the largely hidden and sinister views that still endure in some parts of the Square Mile.
UKIP has attracted some high-profile ethnic minority supporters, such as Sanya-Jeet Thandi, former UKIP Youth Chair.
The fact is, there are very few high profile role models from LGBT ethnic minorities.
