Tag: Black

Forget Black History Month

Oct 22, 2010

—

by

KB

in Education, Emerging Church, Philosophy, Politics

I came across this poster advertising ‘Black History Month‘ at a local school. Black History Month now lasts… 5 days. I don’t think the school have it wrong actually. As a teacher I can see that Black History Month has become a distortion which can actually serve to perpetuate the white Euro-centric view of history.…
Is a Blog a Conversation? | Press Complaints | Racism

Mar 31, 2010

—

by

KB

in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Politics

Interesting storm blown up over the Press Complaints Commission’s censure of a piece written by right-wing blogger Rod Liddle in The Spectator recently. In it he wrote that “overwhelming majority” of London’s violent crime was carried out by young, African-Caribbean men. In his evidence to the PCC he provided statistics that confirmed that certainly a…