The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Link: BBC NEWS | Education | Expulsions ‘fuelled by prejudice’.

Three times as many black children as white children are expelled from school. Allegedly, this is because of “institutional racism.”

An Ofsted report in 1999 warned that many schools are “institutionally racist”, citing evidence that Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black Caribbean and traveller children were failing to make adequate progress.

Curiously however, children from Indian and Chinese backgrounds do better than average in British schools. According to official reports,

Indian and Chinese pupils outperform other groups in all assessments.

Surely this would not be the case if the problem were institutional racism? Do racists in the education system distinguish between Chinese and West Indians, between Indians and Pakistanis?

Something is clearly causing “..Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black Caribbean and traveller children…” to perform below average in our schools. I don’t claim to know what it is but, logically, it cannot be racism – “institutional” or otherwise.

Given the strong opprobrium that now rightly attaches to racists in Britain, is it responsible, fair or even decent for Government agencies to label whole sections of our society as institutionally-racist? Do we really employ these people, including the half-witted journalists at the BBC who can’t detect such flimsy logic, to libel us? It’s time the CRE was disbanded and all this nonsense stopped.