Degree courses focused on the “undertakings of white people” have made universities racist, according to a review by a Russell Group university that has pledged to make reparations in response. The Telegraph has the story.
The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent undertook a joint review of their connections to the slave trade, and set out how these have created a legacy of “racism” at the institutions.
They pledged to make slavery reparations as a result of their review, which found that the universities’ “racially unbalanced curriculum” ignores the “equally significant efforts of people of African descent”. The report does not state in which specific subjects this parity of achievement has been ignored.
Its authors, a group of Nottingham academics, concluded that “these are issues that require urgent and sustained attention”.
Under the pledge made following the review, the universities are set to devise a plan for reparative justice to atone for links to slavery and mitigate “enduring detrimental legacies”.
No definitive plans have yet been made to address the issues raised in the report.
The report was overseen by a steering group that included six people appointed by the two universities who “identify as black”. Authors credited their “biological proximity to the historical atrocity of slavery” with raising awareness of “ongoing emotional pain” throughout the project.
The report into the connections between Nottingham universities and the slave trade stated that key benefactors, the 6th and 7th Dukes of Portland, benefited from slavery despite both having been born after abolition.
Descendants of family members who may have directly owned slaves benefited from the social and “cultural capital” that came with wealth initially generated through forced labour, according to the report.
Such cultural capital, the report states, may include the aristocratic cultural conventions of “reading classical European literature” and “travelling to historic landmarks”. …
In August, the Telegraph revealed that the University of Nottingham had removed the term “Anglo-Saxon” from university module titles as part of efforts to refute “nationalist narratives”.
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She is mentally ill. Didn’t we used to have places to put these poor people so they couldn’t do harm to themselves or others.?
Mens rea. She knows what she’s doing.
She’s therefore evil, not mad.
She’s mentally evil as she’s seeking to mutilate healthy children to turn them into cripples who’ll need medication and medical procedures for the remainder of their miserable lives.
This is simply evil. All the (many) children I know struggling with this are at root struggling with mental health issues created by our toxic society that tells them that there are no absolutes, they can only find themselves by staring inwards and an online world that displays rampant narcissism and materialism. The only truth I know belongs to the One who said He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. These poor children need their souls healing, not their bodies mutilated chemically or otherwise.
Is this the sick b!tch who took her son abroad to have his frank and beans removed?
VOMIT
Who is going to pay for this?
She needs to be sued for damages by a group action of her victims.
financial checks on her bank accounts investments are necessary she is no doubt being funded by those with vested interests