Everyone involved in this report, from Munira Mirza (head of policy unit), to Tony Sewell, to Boris Johnson himself, has been critical of concept of institutional racism and argued racism is culture of "victimhood". And guess what it concludes...
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-565855…
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-565855…
Needless to say, just did a @BBCr4today debate with someone (headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh) who has also accused BLm of encouraging a culture of "victimhood". This is a calculated and concerted effort by Britain's right wing to argue that racism is not a problem.
Her argument that "decolonising" curriculums is about deleting great white men is disingenuous. You can teach the cannon and also incorporate brown people and colonial history. It's a failure of education that I didn't study single brown author until final term of uni #EmpireLand
The ultimate problem for rightwingers is this: if you teach empire in balanced way, decolonise curriculums, kids will learn that we have a history, through empire, of brutal white supremacy. And then you have you accept
racism is a problem and actually do something about it.
racism is a problem and actually do something about it.
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