A student union at the University of Westminster reportedly barred white students from attending Black History Month events, sparking accusations of racial segregation on campus.
According to The Telegraph, the student union announced in an email to students that some events during Black History Month, which is observed in the United Kingdom and Ireland in October, will be “reserved for black students to encourage a safe space for discussions and honest conversations.”
In response, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said: “Now we have apartheid. Well done everyone, racial segregation is back.”
Mixed-race political commentator and Anglican deacon Calvin Robinson said that he was “sorry to see [the Westminster Student Union] implementing racial segregation at [the University of Westminster].
“This is the problem with Critical Race Theory. Well-intentioned activists are trying to create ‘safe spaces’ and inadvertently stoking racial tensions where they may not have existed, to begin with,” Robinson added.
Westminster University has also recently created a ‘Black History Year Create’ programme to help prepare black students to enter the workforce specifically.
A university spokesman explained the idea: “Equality of opportunity does not always mean giving everyone access to the same thing; it means creating a level playing field by offering some programmes to those who are underrepresented or those who have had less access to opportunity.”
The issue of left-wing racial segregation first gained prominence in 2017 at Washington state’s progressive Evergreen State University, when students demanded that professors, administrators, and other students observe a ‘Day of Absence’ during which white people were asked to leave campus.
It is also remembered that white people were barred from speaking at a “Resisting Whiteness” event at the University of Edinburgh in 2019.