Equalities Minister says children should not be forced to take the knee at school and warns teaching black children that they are being oppressed by their white peers ‘gives young people a grievance before they have even experienced it’
- Kemi Badenoch said the idea of teaching race ideology is ‘absolutely terrifying’
- She warned that teaching black children they are being oppressed by white peers gives them grievance ‘before they have even experienced it’
- Ms Badenoch branded critical race theory ‘morally wrong’ and said traditional values should not be ‘thrown away’
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’.
Children should not be forced to take the knee at school, the equalities minister said yesterday.
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.
She also spoke of the absurdity of Home Office officials supporting an organisation that called for the defunding of the police.
- More English people than Muslims complain about discrimination in some parts of Scotland, it has been claimed. Claire Feaver, a Tory councillor in Moray, wants action against anti-English prejudice, saying: ‘I think we also need to recognise along with Islamophobia, Anglophobia.’