The student union of University of Westminster – known as “Wokeminster University” to some of its more cynical members – has announced that white students won’t be welcome at some events being held to celebrate Black History Month. The Telegraph’s Education Correspondent, Louise Clarence-Smith, has more.
A student union has been accused of “racial segregation” after banning white students from Black History Month events.
The University of Westminster’s student union has told students that some events will be “reserved for black students to encourage a safe space for discussions and honest conversations”. In an email to students it did not specify which events would be restricted in the programme of talks, film screenings and dance nights.
Dr. Neil Thin, a social anthropology lecturer at Edinburgh University, said it was “tragic” to see a U.K. university “copying the racial segregationism that we have previously seen in South African and USA education systems”.
He added: “It is bitterly ironic to see the rhetoric of ‘safe spaces’ abused to justify racial segregation. Nothing is more likely to make social spaces unsafe than this kind of wilful sowing of interethnic suspicion and division.”
Sir John Hayes, a Conservative MP, said he was concerned about “how sinister it is that such ideas can be propagated in a free and open society”. He called for an investigation into any potential discrimination.
Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union said: “At some point, you’d think it would be clear to these zealots that you’re not going to reduce racial discrimination by discriminating against people on the basis of their race, but they’re so blinded by ideological groupthink they cannot see this glaring contradiction.”
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I see this as good news – another own goal by the race hustlers who are so drunk on their own success that they have forgotten the need to be just a tiny bit subtle
Darn it, I’m so disappointed, I was so looking forward to it as well.
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This sort of horror is everywhere, particularly within big, American corporations.
Yes I have observed this
I would love to understand how this happened. Many reasons no doubt, varying from one place to the next, and often reasons kept secret or simply subconscious
A whole month where we don’t have to learn about Mary Seacole (no, she wasn’t a black Florence Nightingale..), and Black historical figures like Anthony Joshua and Lenny Henry..? How can we advance the lot of our darker skinned brethren.?
Well, pre-Windrush, there were fewer than 10,000 black people in the UK, mostly merchant sailors who arrived, took a shine to the place and stayed. There is no long history to be found and celebrated. While we in Europe had our Empires and were up to some ghastly stuff, guess what.? In Africa there were some Empires up to equally ghastly stuff, like the Benin and the Mali, and the Kush and the Kongo. Why do they never feature in BHM.?
I notice that a couple of the Film Channels on TV have devoted themselves to ‘performances showcasing black actors’. Do we need this? I haven’t so far seen the listing for Sidney Poitier in ‘Look who’s coming to Dinner’, or Blackboard Jungle, but then Black History appears to start sometime in the mid 1980’s.
I’m not black but if I were I tend to think I’d feel like Morgan Freeman who finds the whole thing incredibly patronising and reductive
I can’t see this ending well
Isn’t it odd that all Black ‘history’ took place in White societies?
Why would emotionally and intellectually healthy white people want to attend black history events?
Would love to know the reason for the two downvotes – perhaps the downvoters could answer your question or explain why they don’t like it
I certainly would not be interested in going to such an event even if it were not run by race hustlers as I think attempts to compartmentalise history are daft
Down votes. Mental illness and reason are mutually exclusive.
History? That’s so “triggering”…
Virtue signalling?
I doubt it is legal. Someone should challenge it.
What’s “Black History Month” – some racist thing?
What do Wokeminster do then – get out their measuring instruments? And what about people who identify as “black”? Or would that be “cultural appropriation”?
As far as I can tell (from a very cursory glance) it’s about celebrating the fact that there is no such thing as black history in the UK. Or rather, it’s something like In former times, rich people had lots of house servants. And some of them were black. It’s mostly a collection of the names of every maid and bootblack whose skin happened to be of the to be divine and only colour the skins of Real People[tm] may have.
Taxpayers’ money should be withdrawn from institutions indulging racial discrimination or any activities counter to our society’s values and mores. Hitting them where it hurts is the only way to change behaviour; if they want to continue down this route, let them raise 100% of their funding in order to do so.
A month? With what history will they fill it?
What is described here is illegal. Where are the police supporting the law? Are we going to have blacks only shops, theatres and cinemas etc.? Are we becoming a minority controlled South Africa of the 50’s in reverse? Where are the students at this university protesting against this abomination?
Black History Month?
Over in what 10 minutes?
Thanks for attending.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole idea of history was condemned as racist (by which I mean racist towards non-white people, by white people, which is the only form popularly recognised now). I think someone suggested mathematics was racist a while back, someone in America maybe. They are not getting the results they want, so they are moving towards just shifting the paradigm, as the paradigm is horribly white.
I would hope that all sensible black people would boycott the events.
I wonder if the Dutchess of Sussex is black enough to get in to all the events?
Good question!
Also would Kwasi Kwarteng qualify?