“The Windrush generation were blatantly estranged from their cultural & social contexts, explicitly judged & found wanting against white western cultural norms.” 🧵 yorkshirebylines.co.uk/institutionall…
“Now, children of black Caribbean heritage are more subtly segregated through exclusions within ‘zero tolerance’ schools. And they are presented with a curriculum that divorces them from their cultural heritage, lambasts them for their ‘cultural’ exuberance,”
“grooms them into believing that their music and culture is subpar, and treats all children as robots to be subjected to monocultural rote-learning designed to boost ‘performance’ on narrow assessment tasks.”
“If we do not tackle these issues head on, we will embed & perpetuate an education system that is rooted within concepts of white supremacy, colonialism and segregation. But such strategies are no longer in plain sight as they were in the mid-20th century.”
“Modern strategies increasingly obfuscate this endeavour behind carefully erected veils, such as the one created by the Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities, actively seeking to obscure and deny the deliberateness of systemic racism.”
“Over a generation, this risks creating a dearth of critical thinking within the population as a whole, resulting in growing societal division, which will in turn negatively affect the mental health & sociability of young people”
“across the range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds in England’s diverse population.
What has really changed since the days of the Windrush generation?
Consistent, systematic gaslighting and brainwashing is still in full force in our education system.”
What has really changed since the days of the Windrush generation?
Consistent, systematic gaslighting and brainwashing is still in full force in our education system.”
“How different life could be for all of England’s children, if our culture had developed the social and emotional maturity to take on board lessons learned from Britain’s colonial history,”
“the part that it played in the construction of systemic racism, and the part that it could now play in dismantling it.” How different indeed. Excellent writing 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 The journalism we need. @YorksBylines
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