Children 'should NOT be forced to take the knee, says UK equalities minister

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Kemi Badenoch said the idea of teaching race ideology is 'absolutely terrifying' and warned that teaching black children that they are being oppressed by their white peers 'gives young people a grievance before they have even experienced it'.

Speaking at the launch of the Government's Inclusive Britain strategy, Mrs Badenoch branded critical race theory 'morally wrong' and insisted that traditional values should not be 'thrown away'.

The strategy includes an updated history curriculum by 2024 which is developed by a 'diverse panel... to support high-quality teaching of our complex past'.

Mrs Badenoch also said civil servants should not show their support for Black Lives Matter at work, for example in their email sign-offs.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ter-says-children-not-forced-knee-school.html
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AT LAST...HONESTY.
 
Primavera said:
So you think Kemi Badenoch and Tony Sewell are what exactly? Are they not black enough?
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I think you misunderstood me. The propaganda about CRT affects not just the white people but also the black people. The propaganda is that effective.
 
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I think you misunderstood me. The propaganda about CRT affects not just the white people but also the black people. The propaganda is that effective.
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Kemi says CRT is totally wrong and I agree with her 100%.

Kemi Badenoch said the idea of teaching race ideology is 'absolutely terrifying' and warned that teaching black children that they are being oppressed by their white peers 'gives young people a grievance before they have even experienced it'.
 
Primavera said:
Kemi says CRT is totally wrong and I agree with her 100%.

Kemi Badenoch said the idea of teaching race ideology is 'absolutely terrifying' and warned that teaching black children that they are being oppressed by their white peers 'gives young people a grievance before they have even experienced it'.
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It shouldn't be taught anywhere as it's just pseudo Marxist bullshit.

Kemi Badenoch: The problem with critical race theory

Even now, months after the event, Labour MPs have not forgiven Kemi Badenoch for saying that Britain is one of the best countries in the world in which to be black. It was during the Black Lives Matter protests and many politicians — including Sir Keir Starmer — were ‘taking the knee’ to show fealty to its cause. Badenoch took a different view, seeing within all this a pernicious ideology that portrays blackness as victimhood and whiteness as oppression. In parliament this week, she went further: this, she said, is ‘critical race theory’ — a new enemy for the Tory party and, as equalities minister, one for her to fight.

We met earlier this month in her old workplace, The Spectator (she was our digital chief), where she reassessed her earlier stance. ‘I’d go further and say this is the best country,’ she says. ‘I’ve lived in the US, I’ve lived in Nigeria, so I feel like I’ve got some context to compare. I look at South Africa and look around Europe and ask: are those places better to be black than the UK? I don’t think so. It doesn’t mean everything is perfect… But if as a politician, especially a black politician, I don’t say this, who will?’

When she spoke in the Commons this week in a six-hour debate on Black History Month, it was quite a moment for the Tories, who, as a party, have tended to shy away from the issue of identity politics. About 30 of them offered support from the normally empty benches as she declared war on critical race theory and BLM. She added that teaching children white privilege as a fact was ‘illegal’.

Many people don’t realise that [critical race theory] is political,’ she tells me. ‘It’s getting into institutions that really should be neutral: schools, NHS trusts, and even sometimes the civil service.’ She is particularly incensed by the boom in sales of texts such as White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (which claims all white people are racist and any denial of this is further evidence of racism) and Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race (whose thesis is that black history has been eradicated for the political purpose of white dominance). ‘Many of these books — and, in fact, some of the authors and proponents of critical race theory — actually want a segregated society.’ The ideas in such texts, she says, are reaching deep into large private companies and our institutions, as part of the movement to train people to be aware of their supposed ‘unconscious bias’.

She’s sceptical about such training, claiming that there’s no evidence that it works: if anyone is biased, she says, ‘You’re not going to change it within an hour’s training course.’ I point out that her own department, HM Treasury, offers this to civil servants. ‘I’ve asked to do the training!’ she replies. ‘I think there’s been enough time to have a look and see whether it’s working or not. And if it’s not, then we should remove it.’

I ask her about a recent story concerning the V&A, whose guidance for employees defines ‘black’ as ‘a term that embraces people who experience structural and institutional racism because of their skin colour’. ‘This is to politicise my skin colour,’ Badenoch says. ‘The logical conclusion of what they’re saying is that people in Africa who are not discriminated against on the basis of their race are not really black. It is associating being black with negativity, oppression and victimhood in an inescapable way. It’s creating a prison for black people.’

Black people who think like her, she says, tend not to be invited onto television. ‘There is a left-wing view of racial politics that’s assumed to be the black view of politics. Being black is not just about being a minority. On a global scale we are not a minority — but the rhetoric in this country is talking about us as if we are almost a separate sub-species.’

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/kemi-badenoch-the-problem-with-critical-race-theory
 
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