Slavery was not just about making profit and British schools should instead tell a “new story” about culturally African people, a controversial government-backed report has said. The race and ethnic disparities commission said the UK’s education system should focus on parts of the “Caribbean experience” that show how “culturally African people transformed themselves into a re-modelled African/Britain”. The government has also been criticised for appointing Sewell as chair of the review after he previously claimed evidence of institutional racism was “flimsy”. Shadow women and equalities secretary Marsha de Cordova said: “This report was an opportunity to seriously engage with the reality of inequality and institutional racism in the UK. “To downplay institutional racism in a pandemic where black, Asian and ethnic minority people have died disproportionately and are now twice as likely to be unemployed is an insult.

Source: Huffington Post March 31, 2021 11:22 UTC