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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Racial injustice is "baked into our curriculum", a teacher who complained about a history textbook has said. Hannah Wilkinson, who mentors A-level pupils in Durham, objected to a question about Native Americans, which asked if their "treatment" had been "exaggerated". She stated it was "problematic" because the "starting premise" was an...
The following is a typical cowardly right-wing response to racism and bigotry. Ignore it or defend it. GB Spews are notorious for self-promotion but are being abandoned or ignored by sponsors and the public at large. They offer nothing but ill-informed bigotry from ill-informed bigots. Thankfully, the majority despises...
Why should you report Hate Crime? By reporting hate crime when it happens to you, this may help prevent it happening to someone else. It also helps to understand the extent and impact of discrimination or prejudice. You can report it as a victim, a witness or on behalf of someone else. Hate crime...
This racially profiled image is prominently displayed on the Weymouth and Portland Police Facebook page. The unacceptable message to the public is clear - young black men are responsible for so-called county lines drug-trafficking. If this image was deliberately posted by our local police, it goes a long way towards...
Racism is a pervasive and malignant trait. It is selfish and extremely damaging to others across all ethnic groups. It is also very damaging to the perpetrators, who live a life of ignorance and low empathy. Low empathy levels have been shown to detrimentally impact the immune system and...
TV historian David Olusoga has thanked former England footballer and schoolmate "tough kid" Paul Gascoigne for stepping in to help when he was subjected to racist abuse as a child. Born in his father's home country of Nigeria, Olusoga moved to his mother's home of Gateshead, in Tyne and Wear, when he...
The far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, fascist-right and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. Many of these parties stem from either the legacy of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, or the political views held by either John...
Ten By Six analyses why there is an increased prevalence of race hate especially in issues of law and order in Dorset. Should we be surprised that people are being openly racist? The answer is complicated but given how society has attempted to confront it and then decades of progress is...
Racist sexist
I need to declare something.  I am racist and I am sexist! That will come as quite a shock to those who know me.  I am known in both my professional and personal life to be strongly anti-racist, anti-sexist and against all forms of oppression, so why do I declare myself to...
On a very hot July day Stand Up to Racism Dorset, Tolpuddle Festival and other pro justice groups united behind the call for the Drax family to give the Drax estate in Barbados back to the Barbadian people. From across the country and across the county hundreds of people...