Kemi Badenoch has blasted the National Trust for using the term “Global Majority” to describe non-white people, labelling it as anti-white and divisive. The Telegraph has more.
The trust is among several British institutions now using the phrase “Global Majority”, which Ms. Badenoch, who is Minister for Women and Equalities and a member of the Cabinet, warned has “political implications”.
The phrase is a collective term for non-white people, who make up about 85% of the world’s population and is sometimes used instead of “ethnic minority” or “Bame” – terms that some people believe to be outdated.
Ms. Badenoch’s comments come after the National Trust faced a backlash following an announcement that it would be “training 100 new walk leaders from global majority communities” and that “people from the global majority are widely under-represented in the outdoors”.
Ms. Badenoch said: “Many organisations adopt phrases like ‘global majority’ innocently without understanding the political implications. Often they feel compelled to use them by following guidance from bodies who claim to be anti-racist but are actually just anti-white. …
“At the end of the day, the National Trust is a national organisation, not a global one. They should apply the principle of equality under the law and focus on delivering for everybody, regardless of their background or whether they are a minority or majority.”
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