{"id":223896,"date":"2020-12-28T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223896"},"modified":"2020-12-31T06:55:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T06:55:35","slug":"bbc-diversity-exec-white-privilege-is-fact-white-people-will-never-be-discriminated-against-for-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223896","title":{"rendered":"BBC Diversity Exec: \u2018White Privilege\u2019 Is Fact, White People \u2018Will Never Be Discriminated Against\u2019 for Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jack Montgomery \u2013 Breibart.com Dec 26, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>BBC diversity chief June Sarpong has insisted that \u201cwhite privilege\u201d is a fact and white people \u201cwill never be discriminated against\u201d for their race.<\/p>\n<p>Sarpong, the London-born daughter of\u00a0Ghanaian migrants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/12\/25\/june-sarpong-white-privilege-unfairness-baked-system\/\">told<\/a> the <em>Telegraph<\/em> that\u00a0\u201cThere is unfairness baked into our system\u201d in an interview on her role as the publicly-funded broadcaster\u2019s\u00a0director of creative diversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t for a single second say that all white people are privileged. Of course not. But there are benefits even if you come from a low income and you\u2019re white. You\u2019re never judged on your race,\u201d she claimed, adding:\u00a0\u201cYou may be discriminated against because of class, you may be discriminated against because of your age, you may be discriminated against because of gender, size, etc, but you will never be discriminated against because of your race and that in itself feeds into the concept of white privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is arguably not the case at the BBC, however, which frequently advertises so-called training opportunities and \u201cinternships\u201d \u2014 which often pay more than a full-time job on the minimum wage \u2014 which white people and sometimes white men in particular are banned from applying for.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BBC still advertising positions which exclude white people&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BBtGbixkL9\">https:\/\/t.co\/BBtGbixkL9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/954387884005523456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sarpong, who is being paid\u00a0\u00a375,000 to work three days a week directing a \u00a3100 million fund to produce more \u201cdiverse and inclusive content\u201d at the BBC \u2014 where minorities are already overrepresented and the white working class significantly underrepresented \u2014 went on to double down on her belief in the highly contentious idea of \u201cwhite privilege\u201d, suggesting that many white people merely need to have their eyes opened to it and they will become keen to atone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing about modern privilege is that if you\u2019re the beneficiary, often you\u2019re unaware that you\u2019re the beneficiary, and that\u2019s the whole point, isn\u2019t it? Because the default is white and everything that isn\u2019t is other,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think, actually, the minute many white people understand that, they stand up and say, \u2018My God, I never knew. I want to be part of the solution.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarpong has even released a book titled<em> The Power of Privilege<\/em> which lectures readers on the subject of <em>How White People Can Challenge Racism<\/em>, which the <em>Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0helpfully promoted in its interview article.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TV doc on murder of white schoolboy by racist Pakistanis airs day after &quot;all whites benefit from racism&quot; rant on BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p93ZCNfPz2\">https:\/\/t.co\/p93ZCNfPz2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/906819978845974530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The installation of Sarpong, a committed leftist who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2015\/10\/12\/eu-campaign-hires-june-sarpong-conspiracy-investigator-believes-america-controlling-weather\/\">launched<\/a> the anti-Brexit Britain Stronger in Europe (BSE) campaign and signalled agreement with Boris Johnson\u2019s sister that MPs should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2017\/10\/15\/hell-will-people-four-five-sky-news-panellists-oppose-brexit\/\">overturn<\/a> the people\u2019s vote to Leave the European Union on a Sky News panel in 2017, is a curious choice for the BBC, already mired in accusations of increasingly blatant left-wing bias, especially given her belief in \u201cwhite privilege\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Being funded by a compulsory licence fee, which all people who watch live television must pay \u2014 even if none of it is BBC programming \u2014 or else face fines backed by the threat of imprisonment, the BBC is supposed to be neutral on political and social issues, with its staff required to keep their personal views to themselves, at least in theory<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: BBC Pushes \u2018White Privilege\u2019 Through Bitesize School Education Service <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5iYmMtJhnX\">https:\/\/t.co\/5iYmMtJhnX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1291057378268413953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/12\/26\/bbc-diversity-exec-white-privilege-fact-white-people-will-never-discriminated-against\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course this entirely ignores \u201cpositive discrimination\u201d, which provided June Sarpong with her three-days a week, \u00a375,000 a year position in the first place <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":223898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223913,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223896\/revisions\/223913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}