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There are those who lies and say we are all the same!

The miss-education and lies the albino fools feed us does not match their words to our reality.

There is no statutory place for black history under the current Key Stage 3 history curriculum in England and children are picking up very quickly on the hierarchical ways historical narratives are taught and the implicit messages they send about who belongs, who can be authentically British and whose histories are worthy of careful reflection and respect. Whatever your personal thoughts are on the purpose and usefulness of demarcated black history units once a year, teachers would not conceive that on 1 November, they are returning to white (often English) history. It’s “just history”.

However, it is that unmarked subconscious minds and taken-for-granted assumption that historical narratives are not ideological, filled with blind spots or laden with racial markers that keeps privileging those who are from dominant groups. In addition, simply focusing on random celebrities or token figures ignores the purpose of the substantive content.

Moreover, having children laying under a table imagining what life was like aboard a slave ship trivializes the horrific realities endured by millions of Africans. It could never be comparable to that experience, and neither should it be as it is a form of symbolic violence and a type of false empathy.