Government funds black ‘role models’
By News Team
In yet another astonishing example of how Labour goes out of its way to use taxpayers’ money to cater for minority groups at the expense of the indigenous majority, the government has announced that it is to promote 20 “black national role models” aimed at persuading black youths that they can succeed in Britain, and do not have to be obsessed by a culture built predominantly round rap stars and sports icons.
Hazel Blears, the communities secretary, announced that she has asked four prominent black people to draw up the names of the role models. The quartet will then appoint 20 national role models who will be drawn from business and the professions.
Blears said: “There will always be the rap stars and the bling, but I think you can cut through it.” She believed figures from business and the professions could counter the celebrity and glamour culture of rappers and sports stars.
She said that the idea had come from blacks. Research shows that in the absence of positive role models in the home, children seek their models from the street, the media or fantasy. Blears will also announce plans to try to involve more absent black fathers in their children’s schooling.She said the black community had itself recognised that the disproportionate absence of fathers in the home had been a contributory factor in their relative failure at school.
Her proposals are a response to the five recommendations from the Reach group, which called for a concerted effort – particularly from the black community – to trigger a shift in the aspirations of this group of young men.
She said the role models would visit youth clubs, offenders’ institutions and schools, as well as appear on TV to show that young black people can succeed.
The Reach group made clear that too often the role models for young black boys and young men are celebrities and rappers, who can glamourise crime, gangs and guns, and that role models are too often narrowly focused with not enough aspiration for the professions such as law and medicine.
The finalists in the “Miss Black Britain” competition. Would a “Miss White Britain” competition even be allowed by the authorities, or would it be closed down because it would be “racist?”
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Photo: Hazel said “bling.”