The pernicious doctrine of ‘white privilege’ holds back children of all colours
by Calvin Robinson, Mailonline:
White privilege . . . what an obscene phrase that is.
It is also fundamentally racist in my view, encouraging the bigotry and hatred it pretends to oppose.
If you don’t believe me, look at the immense damage it is doing in British schools.
This week, Professor Matthew Goodwin, a politics lecturer at the University of Kent, told the Commons Education Select Committee that the concept of ‘white privilege’ — societal attitudes that benefit white people over non-white people — is brutally unfair to white working-class boys.
It is nonsensical, he said, to teach white children — many from disadvantaged families — to apologise for their skin colour.
I couldn’t put it better myself. For the uncomfortable reality is that, every day, the futures of thousands of white working-class children are being sacrificed on the altar of diversity and political correctness.
As a governor and former teacher at a secondary state school in North London, I know unequivocally that racism is not built into Britain’s education system — unless it is shoe-horned in via misguided ideas such as ‘white privilege’.
Fortunately, my school has refused to bow to such divisive dogma. But many institutions put up little resistance and feel they cannot ignore it.
Often this manifests itself in their support for events such as October’s Black History Month, or the Black Lives Matter protests that have spread from the U.S. to Britain.
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