An adviser to Welsh Labour’s drive to “decolonise” Wales has been slammed after claiming racism is when “white people hold negative views” of other ethnicities.
“Re:Collections”, an anti-racist project run by the Association of Independent Museums, has been awarded grant funding by the Labour-run Welsh Government.
The woke push to make Wales “anti-racist” has already lined up hero Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s childhood home as a target for “modernisation and reinterpretation”.
But now, it has emerged that Re:Collections has provided a “resource” which sets out its definition of racism – written by Maya Sharma, a strategic adviser for the programme.
Maya Sharma has written a “resource” which sets out Re:Collections’s definition of racism
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Sharma’s racism guide claims that only white people can be racist – it alleges that racism “is the belief that white people and their ways of thinking, culture, political systems and histories are superior to that of other ‘races’.”
She also says that racism as a whole is based on a power imbalance, where “white people, institutes and nations hold far larger amounts of power”.
In her museum resource, Sharma also sets out how there are two types of racism: Interpersonal, and institutional.
The former, she argues, is “where white people hold negative, stereotypical or discriminatory beliefs about people from other ethnicities”.
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The latter, however, is where an institution holds policies and practices which “work better for white people”.
She also decries so-called “microaggressions” – which are acts or interactions which may appear innocuous or well-meaning, “but embody racism in seemingly subtle ways”.
Her examples include “repeatedly mispronouncing someone’s name despite correction, or telling a person of colour wearing non-western clothes they look ‘exotic'”.
But campaign group the Free Speech Union has laid into the adviser, accusing her of being “part of a wider project to remodel the country along lines advocated by the BLM movement”.
“Labour’s anti-racist Wales action plan has become a distraction from the people’s priorities,” Andrew RT Davies said
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The FSU, led by Toby Young, followed senior Welsh Tories in hitting out at the project.
Andrew RT Davies MS, the leader of the Welsh Conservatives, said: “As NHS waiting lists hit seven consecutive record-breaking months, this utter nonsense of meddling with our history continues to be Labour’s focus.
“Labour’s anti-racist Wales action plan has become a distraction from the people’s priorities.”
GB News has approached the Welsh Government and the Association of Independent Museums for comment.
