The Church of England is hiring a “deconstructing whiteness” officer as part of a new “racial justice unit” to combat racial injustice. The Telegraph has more.
The £36,000-a-year role is part of a new 11-person “racial justice unit” being set up by the Diocese of Birmingham to work across the West Midlands.
The job advertisement comes just a week after the General Synod, the Church’s legislative body, approved a motion that told all parishes to draw up “race action plans”.
The Rt. Rev. Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Bishop of Dover, told Synod on February 25th that Anglicans needed to “further embed racial justice” and should not be afraid of being called “woke”.
But critics of the new racial justice unit – which will work across the dioceses of Birmingham, Coventry, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield and Worcester – accused the Church of “drinking the critical race Kool Aid” and indulging in “student politics”.
“The irony of many of these projects is they are importing American perspectives and overlaying them on a country that is incredibly tolerant,” the Rev. Daniel French, Vicar of Salcombe, Cornwall, and co-host of the Irreverend podcast, told the Telegraph.
“No less than 80% of the worldwide Anglican Communion is black, and their black theology is very conservative. But you never see the Church paying any attention to that.” …
The job, whose advertisement does not itself define “deconstructing whiteness”, is one of 11 being funded by the Church of England’s national “racial justice unit”.
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Yet another import from the United States…..
‘Deconstructing Whiteness Working Group
…..a group of faculty and staff who work to address racism by taking a hard look at how we have been socialized into whiteness and white supremacy, and how we perpetuate these through personal behaviors and organizational systems. We hope to transform the way we show up in our work and personal lives to decrease and eliminate the burden on our peers who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color; deeply and authentically connect with others, ourselves, and humanity; and foster long-term commitment to anti-racist thought and action.
In twice monthly meetings, we work to nurture a brave space for us to identify how we are shaped by whiteness and be accountable for our ideas and behaviors. We create, support, and amplify campus efforts that increase racial literacy, and take responsibility for our actions that perpetuate oppression. And, importantly, we follow the lead of UO Black, Indigenous, and People of Color led initiatives and recommendations to promote anti-racist actions.’
https://inclusion.uoregon.edu/deconstructing-whiteness-working-group
Judging by that load of old nonsense, a ‘brave space’ requires ‘brave’ pills and they have all taken far too many…….
Short version: We’re all stoned.
“we work to nurture a brave space for us to identify how we are shaped by whiteness”
please feel free to return to any space you wish that was not shaped by whiteness!
I’ll help pay your fair, Nigeria, mali, etc.. anyone?
My definition of deconstructing whiteness would Get paid for trolling¹.
¹ A traditional USENET term referring to making intentionally annoying statements in public in order to be intentionally annoying.
This news also brought to light the new term the Protestant Church of England have begun to use for 93% of humanity. Instead of BAME and other jargon, the CofE is now calling them the “Global Majority Heritage”, at last acknowledging that the endless “Ethnic Minorities” complaining about choosing to live in the West are actually in the Global Majority.
As I said elsewhere, the Message of the West should be:
“Dear Third World, we owe you NOTHING.
Stop whining and get over it.”
I would add “and F. Off.”
Ditto!
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution the world was supported by about 140 inventions and 9 known elements. By 1930 all 92 elements were known with new ones being created while the 140 inventions were now ‘complimented’ by 10,000 new inventions and technologies which included powered cars, ships, lorries, tractors, airplanes and rockets, lighting, steel framed building, mega bridges, mega tunnels, etc. etc. and not forgetting modern medicine (which strangely was forgotten 4 years ago). All can benefit from their use. None of these advances were created as a consequence of slavery or colonialism, otherwise previous slave owning colonial empires should have done all this centuries ago, such as the Assyrians, or Romans, or Mongols, or Chinese.
You speak the simple truth. As someone said about a Norman Rockwell painting showing the major inventions of the West, that were given to the rest of humanity,
“The world is a better place, because of the white man”.
Global majority = everyone except white Europeans
Close the borders and start breeding
Oh dear. I consider myself to be a Christian. My faith in the Church of England has however evaporated. I have listened to the archbishop promote the Covid vaccines. He also presided over the closure of the churches during the Covid era. This was despite churches remaining open during 2 world wars and the bubonic plague. And now the Church of England is becoming involved in the racism debate. The only time I hear about racism is via the media in an apparent ‘devide and rule’ agenda. It looks like the Church of England is getting in on the act now. I will continue to pray and promote Christian values. I don’t intend attending a Church of England service though in the foreseeable future
I too was baptised c of e but, none practicing during my adult life.
It is saddening to hear a believer like yourself feels so shunned by your own church,.. but I really think that the power in the church is going to take it down this very dodgy road!, after 2000 years of robust belief, it seems they are going to chuck it all away on a short term fad! Your very disgruntled post is testament to this.
No doubt they harp on about the climate politics as well. But this is the problem with all religions. Babys are baptised and they are stuck with that for life. In effect religions are branding us like cattle.
Please look up James Lindsay and his work on this area … he is an atheist who now respects Christians broadly and explains in great detail the way in which the US churches have been subverted by the neo-marxists.
Love thy neighbour has been successfully leveraged into taking your 7th booster etc.
He’s no intellectual lightweight so it takes quite a commitment of time unfortunately.
The Christian churches are now outlets for Satanism as Archbishop Vigano has been warning. They are actively seeking the destruction of our civilisation and should be universally boycotted. These are sham religious shops and are behaving in just as treasonous a manner as Fishy and his gang of thieves and pirates.
I don’t know which is worse the C of E or the Catholics but no question they are determined to undermine us. Deeply evil organisations.
I was surprised to discover that “Deconstructing Whiteness” actually means destroying the entire concept of Ethnic Europeans as distinct from Ethnic Africans, Ethnic Indian Subcontinentals and Ethnic Orientals, so that everyone on the planet can identify as “white”. Sort of like a grey squirrel declaring that he is a red squirrel, despite all evidence to the contrary.
In genocide, you first destroy the target of your envious, psychopathic, murderous hatred, and then you imitate the destroyed target, and pretend to be them. That’s where this is headed. And that’s why so many of the 93% non-white humanity dye their hair blond or red or brown, because one of the most fundamental genetic characteristics of Ethnic Europeans is that they cannot have true black hair. Think about it: 93% of humanity have true black hair. Ethnic Europeans do not, and cannot.
Inclusiveness?
I am afraid I will have to out myself.
For years I have been a closet white.
Now I am declaring myself white and proud.
It is not a declaration of racism or intelerance, it should not be taken as any sort of criticism of any other colour or creed (I am atheist).
It is simply a statement of how I see myself and how others have seen me for nearly 80 years.
I am an integral whole and deconstruction is impossible whilst I am alive.
👍 I’m feeling that way too, I will not go silently into that goodnight! Ethnicity is international, white ethnic is just as important as any other!
The c of e admits its hanging on by its fingernails, then why does it insist on waving its arms about?
And how exactly do you “deconstruct whiteness”? I don’t follow!
Do you break it down into its original 7 colours?
Here’s the thing: my best mate (yes, I know blah blah) who was best man at my wedding and been an absolute rock in my life – the person I’d trust more then anyone else, including my family – is second generation British-Jamaican. About ten years ago I asked him what he thought of the creeping all-white-people-are-racist agenda that. “It’s bollock” he said “yeah, you get some idiots who have a problem, but most people don’t give a shit”. Fast forward ten years and he now see racism everywhere. He sees people (always white men) “looking at him funny” every half an hour. He now believes that black people are the least racist and white people are the most racist. He says this openly while sat with all his mates who happen to all be white. After 40+ years our relationship has broken down. You tell me all this nonsense improves the lives of minority groups and I’ll point to a thousand stories, like my own, that tell a very different story. This is about a single thing: breaking the relationships that hold society together. They plan to replace your relationships with a relationship with the state
Sorry to hear this, Lemms. Seems your mate has been indoctrinated with all the garbage and believes it. I’ve had friendships with black people and race has not come into the equation once. I couldn’t care less what colour they are just as long as we laugh and joke together, share our stories and just be human together. Of course it is all deliberate: those forces at work telling black people why white people are not to be trusted, making us the bogeymen and the reason for why they can’t get on and be a success. I truly hope you manage to salvage this friendship.
Thank you mate. Testing times.
Maybe useless (probably) but I want to write it just in case: These people are preaching race hate because this used to work well in the past and they expect to profit from that. They wouldn’t give the posterior of a small rodent for the actual fate of black people because these only useful to them as exemplary victims on whose behalf they claim to be speaking.
Interesting and cautionary tale.
‘Race action plans’ – WTAF? I can understand a changing demographic over time but this is wokeness on steroids. Another way of describing the ‘Race Action Plan’ is the ‘Get rid of whitey plan’, especially all those old male vicars and replace them with black people or black women or gay black women or even transgender black men/women whatever they are.Anyone as long as they are not male and white. I can see a schism ahead for the dear old C of E if this carries on and maybe that’s the point: to break our church and that’s another foundation stone of our society lying in the ditch. Imagine a Christmas carol service without any of the traditional hymns?
I am an apostate, but someone who was brought up under the CofE, the ’10 commandments’ helped form my moral fabric. I’m not Christian any more but I very much value the principles. My grandpa was a CofE minister. He died before he saw his beloved institution fall apart.
RIP Pamam
(okay, it’s a baby-name, but it’s how I always knew him)
There is a difference between following the Son of God, and the Church of England 🙂
The current AoC was made in the image of David Cameron, so this troublesome episode is to be expected.
They could hire one of those pretend Christians who converted to avoid deportation
I expect a smart pretend Christian could work his way through the ranks to the top spot v easily just based on ethic grounds and take over the ‘pot of gold’ and land.
Whilst Islam takes hold in U.K. communities, people like this go out of their way to ensure the native alternatives are hated by the natives. No coincidences
When you think about it though, Christianity is really the white man’s religion. Black people in Africa had never heard of any of this stuff. Then when they were taken to the US as slaves they ended up with their gospel churches taking religion even more seriously than the white people who filled their heads with that stuff in the first place. They have their “hallelujah” and “praise the lord” churches with their gospel choirs etc etc. ——-You would think that since all of that stuff emanated from white people that blacks would reject it all just as many rejected their “slave names” like Cassius Clay did. —–I use America as the example but the same thing applies to the UK
It emphatically doesn’t apply to the UK as the by far overwhelming majority of black British subjects who became Anglican Christians were never anyone’s slaves. That’s just something the left-leaning liberal porky peddlers from the United Stoners of America absolutely don’t want to be bothered with. To them, all the world is just like America because that’s all they really care about. Weird habits and traditions of irrelvant aboriginal people, like English people in England fighting wars in the name of abolition, just distract from the great historic mission and are thus to be ignored.
Just like someone who once came to bury Caeser and not praise him, they’re not coming to colonize the world, just forcibly subject it to their idea of proper freedom and those darned local people must not get in the way of this.
I am sorry but that was a bit of a ramble. —–This article is about the church and it’s attacks on whiteness. I am pointing out that religions in the western world are something that blacks who all originally came from Africa had never heard of and they have now become very enthusiastic about those religions, often more so than the white people who introduced them to it. ——I find this ironic.
Not many people realise that the great Ethnic African Cassius Clay/MohammedAli spoke out bravely, eloquently and sensibly against miscegenation, in this marvellous 3-minute clip:
Muhammad Ali – Racial Integration (youtube.com)
I am a great Muhammed Ali fan but he also compared white people to a snake pit, where he was meaning not all snakes are poisonous but why jump in the snake pit and risk being bitten.
I do get fed up seeing people refer to critical race theory or wokeness as ‘student politics’ or something similar to apparently try to demean or belittle it.
It’s deadly serious and evil and will cause as much disruption and potentially conflict, violence and everything that follows as other versions of the communist delusions that have wreaked havoc in previous times.
Never underestimate the evil lurking at the core of these ideas.
The mountains of corpses should convince you of that.