BHM seems to have become a time/space in many parts of the UK for 'ethnic'
music/food/dance. History? No!
While I have a huge problem with confining the eg 2000 year history of
Africans (and also of South Asians)in Britain to one month, would even one
month of lectures/displays/films be better than nothing?
What we need, as Alex said, is a change in what is taught in teacher
training colleges as well as compulsory in-service training for all
teachers. It is high time they all learned of the contributions to
'Britishness' by the many immigrant groups (after all, the Brits are all
immigrants!); and also about the contributions to world
culture/advance/development by India, China, Africa for the past few
thousand years!
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