Do vulnerable children have ‘white privilege’?
by Paddy Hannam, spiked:
Children’s charity Barnardo’s has produced an absurd guide to systemic racism.
The ever-growing woke blob has absorbed another institution. This time it is the children’s charity Barnardo’s.
Barnardo’s, founded in 1866, is the largest kids’ charity in the UK. Now it appears to have branched out into racial politics, releasing a new document entitled, White Privilege – A Guide for Parents. The guide helpfully explains what white privilege is, how it manifests itself, how parents should approach racial issues and how they should raise their children to be aware of them.
The first thing that strikes you is that throughout the document, the ‘b’ in the word ‘Black’ is capitalised, and the ‘w’ in the word ‘white’ is not, in line with the new wokespeak.
Particularly tone-deaf is a section titled, ‘What does everyday white privilege look like?’. It begins: ‘Hypothetically, you wake up in the morning, in a house that you are more likely to own, where you’re more likely to have enough space for everyone you live with.’ I’m not sure this is an environment most of the families Barnardo’s deals with would recognise, but let’s read on. ‘You start getting ready for a day of work (because you’re less likely to be unemployed than people from ethnic-minority backgrounds), where you’ll be paid on average 23.1 per cent more than Black workers with the same qualifications.’ Again, it’s not as if job prospects for the poorest families are brilliant, regardless of their skin tone.
But it gets weirder: ‘If you work in a FTSE 350 company, it’s also likely that you won’t have any ethnic-minority representation on your board at all.’ Is this really what Barnardo’s thinks vulnerable kids and their parents are concerned about? Unjust as the situation may be, it hardly has much relevance to the day-to-day lives of society’s worst-off.
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