Fuckin' hell, that's grim. Still, if they want to "teach" racist bollocks that's up to them. I can't see them lasting very long, unless Soros or the BBC steps in.
"Britain’s first “black university”, which includes a course on “burning s*** down”, does not have permission to use an official university title, it has emerged.
The Free Black University was created by Mel Owusu, a PhD researcher at Cambridge, amid the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and is now starting to take on students.
Owusu has said it is needed because British universities are “built on colonisation – the money, buildings, architecture – everything is colonial”.
Having crowdfunded £150,000, the organisation is this autumn running its first course, titled the Radical Imagination Labs, which is fully funded for 16 students.
The course only accepted applications from “people racialised as Black or mixed-Black”, with students challenged at a "revolutionary level" because "we are living in the imagination of a few White European men".
'Burn S*** Down'
In the 10-week course overview, week two is titled “Burn S*** Down”, which focuses on “building abolitionist futures” and going “beyond the realm of mind and into the parts of self that the ‘Eurocentric masculinist knowledge validation process’...would not accept as truth”.
Week three explores how "colonialism produced the concept of time itself", while week four "will hold a grief ritual for the process of leaving what we have known in terms of the rationalist and evidence-based knowledge system behind”.
Students will produce a journal at the end of the course in December. There is no assessment because "we do not believe the process of external validation is supportive for the process of exploration we will be setting upon”.
It has been publicly supported by the University and College Union, the UK's biggest academics union, and the National Union of Students.
No official university title
However, the universities watchdog has revealed it has not been given permission to use an official university title.
Susan Lapworth, chief executive of the Office for Students, told The Telegraph: “This organisation is not registered with the Office for Students and so has not demonstrated that it meets our stringent requirements for registration, for example in relation to course quality.
“Organisations are not permitted to use the legally protected term ‘university’ in their name without permission and we have not been asked for permission in this case.”
The regulator said it does not oversee the Free Black University, which trades under The Free Black Universe Ltd, and the word “university” is a sensitive word under the Companies Act 2006.
Inaya Folarin Iman, head of the Equiano Project, a cultural debate organisation, said: "This isn’t a university, it is an indoctrination camp which seeks to delegitimise the foundational ideas of Western civilisation and promote a narrative of cultural self-loathing.
'Racialism and segregation is being promoted'
“Far from supporting black students, it harms them by forwarding an anti-educational, anti-science, grievance-based politics. Racialism and segregation is being promoted in the name of anti-racism.”
The Free Black University vows to "produce knowledge that cuts through the epistemic veil that sits across a world built upon the foundations of white supremacy (also known as Enlightenment thought)", and "end the standpoint from which colonialism makes sense".
It has suggested it may eventually apply for degree-awarding powers, as well as build a physical hub with teaching rooms in a diverse London neighbourhood.
Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert, from the race campaign group Don’t Divide Us, said Enlightenment thought has “the very values from which the trade union movement emerged in its fight to extend principles and practices of equality and freedom”.
The Free Black University did not respond to requests for comment."
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/29/britains-first-black-university-does-not-have-permission-use/
