Commentary
We are now several weeks into the new school year, which exposes hundreds of thousands of children to systemic racism. Or at least, that’s according to the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC). As I show in a new report for the Aristotle Foundation, the commission’s new action plan is deeply flawed.
Here are just three of the bold, unsubstantiated claims in the OHRC’s action plan. First, there’s “systemic anti-Black racism and discrimination in Ontario’s publicly funded education system.” Second, anti-black racism in Ontario “has specific historical roots in European colonialism and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.” And, third, the continued marginalization of the black population has “led to systemic anti-Black racism being embedded in power structures which perpetuate advantages for people of European descent, such as curriculum focused exclusively on European history, or setting aside the scientific or literary contributions of those not of European descent.”…