Children as young as seven are to be told they are not ‘racially innocent’ under plans at a local authority, it was revealed today.
Leaked slides shown to staff tell staff that children learn to attach value to skin colour when they are just five years old — with ‘white at the top of the hierarcy and black at the bottom’.
The Council is led by Phelim McCafferty and a Green minority administration he was previously a spokesperson for the Green Party on LGBT issues
Staff were also told that Christianity had influenced the slave trade, portrayed its heroes as white and that science ‘upholds the status quo’.
And that society is obsessed over the muscle size of black sportspeople, rather than their white rivals.
Former education minister Sir John Hayes has blasted the training as ‘sinister’, and called on the Government to look into the plans.
He warned the Green-controlled authority’s plans looked like ‘indoctrination’ similar to that seen under brutal Communist regimes.
Brighton council is the first in the country to launch an anti-racism plan for schools, and said it was needed because of ‘inequalities’ in society.
It adds that key stages two, three and four pupils — aged 8 to 16 — will ‘need specific racial literacy-focussed lessons’.
One slide shown to teachers during training says: ‘Between the ages of three and five, children learn to attach value to skin colour; white at the top of the hierarchy and black at the bottom.’
A separate one shows a pyramid diagram containing acts that constitute ‘white supremacy’, such as the denial of white privilege, and saying ‘it was just a joke’ when a person of colour becomes offended.
This was because, trainers warned, ‘we leave them [pupils] vulnerable to concluding that white people must just be better’.
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