Submitted on Monday 29th June 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 7th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce unbiased history education covering origins of racism and slavery
Currently, the history of slavery is a very sparsely covered subject in schools. Slavery goes back thousands of years but is currently believed to have been invented by white people and that white people are those solely responsible for the transatlantic slave trade.
The current protests demonstrates that young people need to know the truth. I have been amazed to find that young people are very angry at white ancestors thinking that they invented slavery with the transatlantic slave trade, and that they can not accept that african ancestors were just as responsible and even opposed the abolishment as ‘the white man’ made them rich. I also think that the Spanish Inquisition should be covered especially as scholars believe it was the beginnings of racism.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Reform the National Curriculum on the basis of equality and BAME representation: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324690
Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961
Make black history a compulsory part of the national curriculum for all ages: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323654
Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092
Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808
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