Church of England is blasted for trying to hire £36,000 a year ‘anti-racism’ officer to ‘deconstruct whiteness’
by Cameron Roy, Daily Mail:
The role is part of an 11-person ‘racial justice unit’ being set up in the Midlands.
The Church of England has been blasted for hiring an ‘anti-racism’ officer to ‘deconstruct whiteness’ – with critics accusing it of ‘drinking the critical race Kool Aid’.
The £36,000-a-year and 35-hours a week role is part of a new 11-person ‘racial justice unit’ being set up by the Diocese of Birmingham to work across the West Midlands.
The job advertisement, published on Tuesday, described the role as ensuring that ‘structures, practices and behaviours’ throughout the church allow UK minority ethnic people to ‘flourish’.
Funding to hire the 11-person team comes from the church’s Racial Justice Unit and includes a director, programme manager, theologian, communications catalyst and six development workers.
The team has three years of funding to ‘fan into flame a movement of change’ to transform the church and will involve ‘reimagining parish and community activities’, according to the job listing.
They will be accountable to the Regional Racial Justice Board made up of people from each of the dioceses the church says are ‘committed to effecting change in these areas’.
But critics of the new racial justice unit – which will work across the dioceses of Birmingham, Coventry, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield and Worcester – accused the church of wasting money.
The Rev Leonard Payne said he thought the advert was a ‘joke, a Photoshop job’ when he first saw it and that the church should spend the cash on currently overstretched parishes instead.
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