Emma Thompson's Adopted Son Suffered Racism in Exeter

[WifeLuver]

Emma Thompson & Her Adopted Son Tindyebwa Agaba

British actress Emma Thompson claimed that her Rwanda-born adopted son, Tindyebwa Agaba, suffered racist abuse during his studies at the University of Exeter in the south of England. Thompson said that he suffered a "rough" time with "unpleasant experiences" because he is black.

The actress was hosting a lecture at the university's Streatham Campus entitled All Africans Now: Artistry and Activism to promote racial equality. Thompson and her actor husband Greg Wise adopted Tindy, a former child soldier, in 2003 after he fled the genocide in Rwanda. He was 16.

University spokesman Stuart Franklin said: "Racism is a sad reality of British life. We would be naive to think racism did not affect some of the 18,000 people who work and study on campuses".

Tindyebwa Agaba, Emma Thompson & Family After Graduation Ceremony

 

[WifeLuver]

Not only do black students face racism in the UK, so do black teachers.

Institutional racism keeps black teachers out of top posts

6 Nov 2009

Only a handful of black and ethnic minority teachers are made headteachers each year because of an "endemic culture of institutional racism" in England's schools, a study claimed today.

Researchers at Manchester University and analysts at Education Data Surveys quizzed 556 state school teachers from ethnic minorities for their report. They asked the teachers what had helped or prevented them from being promoted and whether they had faced discrimination.

Ethnic minorities make up 10.1% of the population of England but only 1% or fewer of the headteachers in primary and secondary schools, according to data gathered by the teaching unions.

Only 2.6% of teachers are Asian, while 1.7% are black and 0.8% are of mixed race, data from the Department for Children, Schools and Families from last year shows.

Some 44% of the teachers quizzed said they had suffered discrimination because of their ethnicity and 70% said it was harder for teachers from ethnic minorities to become headteachers than it was for white teachers.

The study, The leadership aspirations and careers of black and minority ethnic teachers, which was commissioned by a training college for aspiring headteachers - the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services - and teaching union Nasuwt, concludes that the findings are "indicative of an endemic culture of institutional racism".

Chris Keates, general secretary of the Nasuwt, said: "This report reveals the true extent of the problem of racism and discrimination that, regrettably, is still all too pervasive in our schools."

Source: The Guardian

 

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Black Caribbean children held back by institutional racism in UK schools

5 September 2008

Black Caribbean pupils are being subjected to institutional racism in English schools which can dramatically undermine their chances of academic success, according to a new study.

Researchers have uncovered evidence that teachers are routinely under-estimating the abilities of some black pupils, suggesting that assumptions about behavioural problems are overshadowing their academic talents.

The findings, based on a survey which tracked 15,000 pupils through their education, add weight to the theory that low achievement among some black students is made worse because teachers don't expect them to succeed.

Black education groups welcomed the evidence, calling for urgent measures to be taken to stamp out any covert racism in schools.

Dr Steve Strand from Warwick University, the author of the study, concludes that "institutional racism" and low expectations by teachers explain the missing black Caribbean students from top-tier exams.

Source: The Guardian

 

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Why so serious?

 

[WifeLuver]

IS BRITAIN FOR BLACKS? Most Jamaicans say racism too high

THE FIRST major poll among Jamaicans in Britain has found that they believe there is a staggering level of racism in their adopted homeland.

The survey, commissioned by The Sunday Gleaner and conducted by Bill Johnson from March 17 to 27, found that a great majority of Jamaicans in Great Britain believed the dark spectre of racism had intensified in recent years.

A whopping 96 per cent of the sample, when asked whether they believed racism existed in Britain, responded with a resounding yes.

The poll, which has a sample of 400 Jamaicans - born in Jamaica or in Britain of Jamaican parentage - was conducted in several black communities across England. It has a margin of error of plus or minus five per cent.

Of the Jamaican-born respondents, 95 per cent said they believed racism existed in England, while 96 per cent of the English-born respondents said they believed there was widespread racism.

Read more: Jamaica Gleaner News

 

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