Race-relations courses heat up
NZPA-AP London Blacks and whites are being segregated on courses in Britain designed to improve race relations because of serious disagreements during discussions, the “Daily Mail” reports. The courses, run for council staff, police, and student bodies, were multi-racial when first launched. However, the Guyanaborn Miss Joy McCalman, co-ordinator of the Londonbased Racism Awareness Programme Unit, said, “There were too many arguments because everybody saw problems only from their own viewpoint. We simply had to split them up.”
Miss McCalman said that some of the arguments had been serious. The decision to divide the students into racial groups was said by Great London Council Conservatives to be "ludicrous” and “a form of apartheid.” Miss McCalman said that the courses, held in London, Newcastle, Coventry, and Manchester, were not designed to create racial harmony but to give people an awareness of their own prejudice. “Touch wood, it has not happened yet that people have come to blows,” she said.
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