A pro-BLM Bishop says the Church needs to “further embed racial justice” and should not be afraid of being called “woke”. This has been enthusiastically welcomed by the Church’s entire leadership in an orgy of racial self-flagellation. The Telegraph has more.
The Church of England has told all of its parishes to draw up “race action plans” after a pro-Black Lives Matter (BLM) bishop urged it to embrace being “woke”.
The General Synod, the Church’s legislative body, passed a motion on Sunday which said it should “encourage parishes and deaneries to develop local action plans to address issues of racial injustice”.
The Rt Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Bishop of Dover, said the Church needed to “further embed racial justice” and should not be afraid of being called “woke”.
“Those who are frightened by the authenticity of this movement want to scare us into thinking that being woke is a sin created by people on the Left,” she said.
Bishop Hudson-Wilkin led prayers at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018 and has been an outspoken supporter of BLM.
She called on the Church to expand the number of bishops, cathedral deans and other senior churchmen who are from ethnic minorities.
The Very Rev Rogers Govender MBE, the Dean of Manchester, told Synod that the Church’s failure to do so before now was a “pernicious sin”.
No members stood up to make speeches opposing the motion as it passed by 364 votes in favour to zero against, with two abstentions.
The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev Stephen Cottrell, spoke animatedly as he said the Church “has not been good enough” on diversity and inclusion, that “racism and discrimination rupture our body” and asked, “May the Lord have mercy upon us”.
The Rt Rev Martin Gorick, the Bishop of Dudley, said every Anglican who becomes a parish representative in his Diocese of Worcester now has to undertake compulsory unconscious bias training.
Bishop Hudson-Wilkin said in response that every other diocese should follow suit.
The training was axed across government and the civil service in December 2020 because there was “no evidence” that it improved equality.
The Rev Rachel Webbley, team rector in Whitstable, Kent, told Synod she was a “recovering racist” and said she was shocked by “just how much white resistance there is to feeling discomfort about racial injustice”.
Daniel Matovu, a lay member of Synod, added that he had been forced to bear a cross throughout his life “because of the colour of my skin”.
“You white folks have no idea, particularly those of you who are white male, heterosexual and not disabled,” he said. “You’ve only been given small sticks to carry, with which to beat the rest of us.”
David Hermitt, another lay member, said the Church needed to become more anti-racist to reverse its falling membership figures because “young people” are “more radical than we are”.
The notion that the Church of England will attract more “young people” to the pews by forcing every parish to draw up “race action plans” is so wrong-headed it’s almost touching.
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Yeah, it’s a nice, logical story and conclusion, but there are so many external factors and unkowns that make such an effort and study pretty useless.
Even without economists dismal track record at forecasting anything correctly for much shorter time periods.
And then, we have the robots replacing most of them anyway, and possibly much fewer of them still around anyway, thanks to the Covid NPIs and PIs and those in response to the many upcoming plandemics and climate change ones.
More ridiculous modelling.
My father left school at 14 to start an apprenticeship. At 21 he started two years National Service. In his forties he obtained a post graduate qualification in Management. There were many of his generation who did similar.
He is less formally educated than me but undoubtedly brighter. His handwriting is beautiful. His mechanical skills were exceptional but now unavailable through loss of sight.
I suggest that the disruption to education would be remedied by concentrating on the three R’s, a proper five day week and stripping out ALL the woke BS. Oh and a strong emphasis on teaching Imperial British history and politics.
A problem created via a model is not a problem as we on here know only too well.
A proper emphasis on crafts and arts (not the modern vacuous kind) would also go a long way. Kids aren’t given enough imaginative play and without that they don’t develop an imagination. Too little is invested in allowing genuine culture. But then I guess culture is “racist” by definition.
But think of all that woke history they won’t be learning. How will they manage? An extra month of dead white male bashing is the least we can do. Haven’t the children suffered enough already?
Au contraire
After the black death the wages of artisans rocketed
When the jab bodies pile up this winter I’ll be charging a £1,000 an hour to put your bin bags out
If you book and pay me now it could be a good hedge against inflation
My prices are not likely to stay that low for long
This is meaningless. Necessity is the mother of invention, not curriculum.
We should be under no illusions
The Pig Dictator is just as dangerous as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and all the other tyrants that have left their imprint on humanity
Good interview with Reiner Fuellmich by James Delingpole:
https://rumble.com/vhg4jb-dr-reiner-fuellmich-in-da-house.html
Apparently there’s going to be significant legal progress “in the next 2 or 3 weeks”. Also good on governmental liability (from about 46 minutes).
I am somewhat confused by the surprise being exhibited by many on this speculation concerning the release of the virus from a China laboratory. This has been postulated since the beginning of this nightmare.
It seems to me that there are 3 and only 3 possible scenarios that explain the mass coordinated hysteria by Western Governments.
The first is a vast global conspiracy orchestrated by the WEF and UN to enslave mankind with all the ‘minor’ players like MPs, SAGE members, lab technicians etc. in each country being convinced that they will be on the gravy train when all is done. Such a conspiracy is so unlikely as to be absurd. Conspiracies of 6 or more rarely succeed, let alone one that would require 10s of thousands to participate.
The second is that Western Governments were informed by their ‘security’ services that this ‘novel’ virus was the result of ‘gain of function’ research in China to create a weaponised cold virus. (The source was probably as reliable as the Iraqi taxi driver who convinced the West of Saddam’s WMDs but such dubious provenance would not have hindered their flight to the basement.)
Governments panicked, assuming that this new virus would be easily transmitted like a cold but as deadly as Ebola. Had that been the case they might have been justified in their fear, however, it was obvious within days that they were not, but being the venal, self-serving pond-life that they are they were not prepared to apologise with a public “mea culpa”, instead they continued to destroy jobs, businesses, economies, futures and lives in an attempt to avoid blame for being gutless and inept. After all, their panic clearly undermined the ego and self image of fat, selfish, narcissists like Johnson and the power narcotic of ‘small-man-syndrome’ suffers like Wancock seeking revenge for having his head shoved down the toilet during every PE lesson.
The self serving, mass advertising campaign (>£350 million in the UK) designed to convince the sheeple that this is not a flu-like illness with a similar fatality rate but that it is as deadly as the weaponised virus of their early nightmares, has persisted for more than a year, directly causing more collateral deaths than the virus itself.
This second scenario is almost as absurd as the first. It would require such heartless, selfish, criminal disregard by politicians for the welfare of their populations that it beggars belief. Surely no one would deliberately destroy millions of lives merely to avoid opprobrium of inept decision making? Other than of course; Blair, Brown & Campbell, who happily killed hundreds of thousands pursuing an illegal war justified by deliberate lies told the Parliament and the people of the UK. But now, surely no one would be so evil?
Then there is the third and last possible scenario that is by far the most reasonable, sensible and probable. It fits all the facts and is now being endorsed by the US Government with their lates pronouncements on the subject.
Aliens have arrived and have sprayed the atmosphere with delirium gas causing global, irrational psychosis …