The strangeness of Edinburgh’s race review
From our UK edition
The University of Edinburgh’s recently released ‘Race Review’ is an intriguing document. Commissioned after the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, you would think it would look at present problems with racism at the university. Why bother otherwise, if there are no issues to solve now? The report implies that people inherit their moral relationships from their ancestors. This is barbaric Yet the race review, titled ‘Decolonised Transformations: Confronting the University of Edinburgh’s History and Legacies of Enslavement and Colonialism’, does not look at staff or student grievances or complaints, or employment tribunals around matters of race, which would be the surest evidence of a problem.
