Parents should “examine their own internal biases” on race if their toddler only has white friends, according to the BBC’s early-years guidance. The Telegraph has the story.
The BBC’s Tiny Happy People website, a bank of resources for parents, includes a section on talking about race and religion with young children, written by the author and activist Uju Asika.
The site says that “for white mums or dads, it might be time to examine your own internal biases”.
It explains: “Did your family express negative thoughts about foreigners and immigrants? What is your social circle like today? Does your child have Black or Brown friends over for playdates? Could you be doing more?”
Educators described the resource as “inappropriate” and “clearly not impartial”.
The guide was drawn up in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and written by Ms. Asika, author of the book How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World which gives advice on microaggressions.
Ms. Asika wrote last year on a blog about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey that “the Royal family is racist” and “sitting on a legacy of global subjugation, pillaging and slave trading wealth”. …
Parents are urged to introduce children to racism by being kind, using inclusive language, being as direct as possible and being role models by “educating yourself” through books and TV shows.
It is also suggested that parents “could talk about how being white might give you certain advantages – for instance you are more likely to see people who look like you on TV”.
“However, white people can choose to use their advantages to help make people a fairer world for all,” the guide says.
The guide was criticised for singling out white people. Dr. Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert, a former teacher and education expert at the campaign group Don’t Divide Us, said: “It’s clearly not impartial, it’s putting an intolerable burden on schools and on teachers. It is inappropriate and can very easily have unintended negative consequences.”
She advocated a “colour-blind” approach to racism by viewing everyone as fundamentally equal, “rather than trying to create a false plurality from the top through division and micro-management which kills curiosity and creates fear of asking the questions”.
Worth reading in full – and check out Toby’s latest Spectator column where he has something to say about so-called ‘white privilege’ and the BBC’s quotas targets for recruiting by race.
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I’ve always been under the (obviously false) impression that the BBC’s job is to report what’s happened in the world – to inform us – and to entertain us. How much clearer does it have to be that it’s trying to “educate” us, to “teach” us what to think, how to behave? Yet still people watch it, I’m told.
Some kids live in predominantly white areas so have white friends and vice versa.
I have 5 grandchildren under 11 and we don’t push any colour agenda. If you make a big thing about it you’re likely to turn them into racists. Despite living in a white area they have a few coloured (or whatever the hell your “allowed” to say) friends and seem oblivious of it – as they should be.
The girl (white and blonde) chose a “brown” doll last week and no one commented – which is how it should be.
When I was a child back in the 50s we had none of these problems. We lived peacefully in our own land among our own people. Nobody asked me if I wanted this to change, it was in no manifesto that our country should change beyond all recognition demographically, giving us the extensive problems we have today. What folly it was. Was life better in the 50s? Absolutely it was.
As with most things BBC they should be told to stick it where the sun don’t shine. To think we’re paying for this sh1te beggars belief.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…I guess I should also look at my biases since I don’t seem to have any friends other than white or slightly brown ones and certainly no black ones in my immediate circle. At the very least, I should be forced to learn about my white history of oppression in a re-education camp and then go out and actively seek some black friends of my own. Hang out in cafes with a foolish grin and make small talk with anyone of another colour other than my own entitled one and get phone numbers and make picnic dates etc etc. What a load of (insert profanity here) nonsense. The BBC are totally out of order here and have no business getting involved in family life. If I met a black person and we got on like a house on fire, laughed at similar jokes, took the micky out of each other and generally had a good time then yes that person would be a friend of mine. I don’t have a problem befriending anyone of any hue, religion, creed, nationality (including Russian), weight, shape or gender. They can be what they like BUT first we have… Read more »
Excellent summary.
This is what I’m experiencing, parents of colour not allowing their children to mix with the white children but instead choosing to mix with each other, excluding the white children..
Why is it that this stuff is produced by only non-white people.
When did the majority start living by the rules of the minority?
Yes I know, I am now a racist. Or have always been.
The BBC needs complete reform.
What a load of patronising garbage.
The lack of self-awareness of the dimwitted liberal oiks who write this tripe is quite stunning.
So glad I stopped paying the TV tax last year. I recommend everyone who’s unhappy with the BBC do the same. Removing their funding is the only way to show dissatisfaction, they won’t listen to anything else.
High time that referring to race or colour in any context was stopped completely. What has external appearance to do with anything? Absolutely primitive. Nobody is “white” and nobody is “black”. We are all shades of brown even varying with the seasons. So just stop it all now and get out of the primeval soup.
Which black American actor was it who said that the way to stop ‘racism’ is to stop talking about it?
Look on the bright side. At least, with the Beeb, you don’t have to endure those
banal, politically-correct TV ads which depict the UK as multicultural paradise full of happy, ethnically-mixed families.
Maybe one day this will be reality. But until then can we cut the fantasy propaganda, which I suspect is as counterproductive to selling products as it is to promoting integration.
Sorry, but as a progressive parent, I’m far too busy right now – trying to ensure my lot have oodles of trans, non-binary, and gender-fluid pals while questioning their own sexual identity – to worry about other stuff.
These people are dangerous, they should all be locked up and throw the key down the drain!!!
Why are the lads at the bbc allowing this woman to write anything?
The BBC is ‘racist’ – anti-White racist!
So if they can’t groom your kids into genital mutilation they want to enrol them in a street gang?
Teachers will have your kids coming home with government approved facial tattoos ready for the school to prison pipeline.
It’s Homeschooltime.
I’m looking forward to the 2021 census results being released.
Between 2001 and 2011 the “White British” population declined overall, but increased in my constituency, Corby, because of “white flight”: lots of people wiv Essex accents.
I’m sure the 2021 census will show that both processes have continued.
My village was 99% white at the 2011 census, with the non-whites mainly being the mixed-race children of white mothers and black fathers who had buggered off.
I think the 2021 census will show us being 98% white.
I have seen absolutely no evidence of the non-white children being excluded.
Totally EVIL tripe from the parasite classes.
What about black children who only have black friends?
Tory government with 80 seat majority and its total failure to tackle cultural Marxism sees this state owned media behemoth engaged in endless terrorism against the population that pays for it. What a vile state of affairs.
Same in every western country. We are ruled by the private fetishes of an elite of which forced mixing of cultures is just one.
”Elite”?
The irony is that these clumsy, cringeworthy, race-obsessed tactics and sermons are more likely to cause racial division. I can’t be the only one who is sick of being lectured? The football fans who booed the kneeling idiots felt the same way. The sense of being constantly hectored and harassed for the sin of having white skin in a northern European country. It is deeply judgemental. And it also generates a visceral hatred of the disgusting imbeciles who peddle this annoying tripe. To hell with them and their ideas.
You are being eradicated. This is just the opening salvo. It will get much worse.
The intention is to cause racial division. A bit of argy bargy keeps an awful lot of so-called multi cultural issues in jobs. Here in Oldham the council love to tell us how strained race relations are, but they’re not.
Racial harmony will cost some people their jobs, much better to stoke up tensions. It’s like big pharma, the last thing they need is healthy people. No money in it.
Spot on….’divide and rule’ underpins policies across the board…probably the raison d’etre for ALL policies.
Pure bigotry and racism, dished up by the HQ of Division, Hypocrisy, Self Righteousness, Greed and Profligacy.
HMG needs to put the kibosh on this foetid sewer as soon as it can.
Why would they do that?
It’s coming back to me, as a child if someone started telling how to behave my first thought would be, if only I could put into words what I would actually like to say to this arse and get away with it! A little like the government speaking double dutch through a proxy such as the BBC.
This is weird advice as in many parts of the world the tensions are between people of the same colour who look pretty much the same. Northern Ireland would be an example near to home and in Eastern Ukraine the tension is between the ethnic Ukraine and the ethnic Russian but most of us could not tell them apart. In parts of the UK there is still tension going back to the English civil war (seriously, yes there is), if you are from a Cavalier town do your children know any children from a Roundhead community? Much of Africa is riven with tribal tensions, you and I might struggle to tell the difference but they surely know and some of these tensions are very bitter.
The advice given seems to imply that if you cannot see the difference then there is no difference when in fact the differences between people who look the same are some of the most bitter and fierce of them all.
No multicultural society has ever survived never mind flourished. They know that. This is to create a cowed population trained to not speak their minds for fear of censure.
Covid lockdowns would not have happened in 1950s Britain. Mass immigration has many benefits for our rulers.
The indigenous Brits are being ethnically cleansed by the Tories and Labour.
We are only being colonized. The ethnic cleansing will come later, when we are a minority.
Here down in the South West, that applies to most rural babies. But then, the BBC turned its back on rural people decades ago. We’re horrid, monocultural and tend to vote Tory. Tho’ Johnson’s doing his best to bugger that up.
Next there will be FB messages going out to parents from nurseries and After school clubs:
The George Floyd Nursery for Underprivileged Children of No Colour have a request-
Can we borrow a couple of blacks or browns?
Owing to a massive reproductive failure in the People of All Colours demographic during the disruptions caused by Lockdown 2020 -2022, the George Floyd nursery is appealing to those parents of colour with toddlers to please come forward and register with our nursery.
Preferential rates are available.
Please note, this may seem offensive but the intent is to hi-light the craven and insulting wokery of corrupt organisations such as the BBC which seeks only to rip asunder the communities of this land.
I have only read a couple of sentences but this is PMSL funny.
Your grandchildren may not find it quite so funny.
As a counterbalance to the BBC’s argument, I would invite them, or anyone else for that matter to watch a broadcast from India, China, Japan, the Middle East, or Africa, and count how many people you see that aren’t from that demographic on their screens.
They would automatically be derided as being non inclusive and racist.
Racism is an official part of the Chinese school curriculum. They are flattering towards Europeans, but blunt about Africans and Indians. Their travel advice is equally blunt. They even warn their citizens about travelling to London because of the ethnic mix there, especially women.
The world does not share our rosy view of racial and cultural mixing. They understand how precious homogeneity really is.
Don’t forget children, the most important thing in life is the colour of your skin, not the content of your character.