Main Content
-
DDU Statement on ‘The Black Nursery Manager’
DDU Head of Education Strategy Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert responds to The Telegraph’s story about ‘The Black Nursery.’
-
ANNOUNCEMENT – DDU is Recruiting an Advisory Board
Over the last couple of years Don’t Divide Us (DDU), a grassroots organisation, has been punching above its weight with successes in raising issues in the media and with politicians. To capitalise on this and to move to a more professional footing we are in the process of appointing new members to the team.
-
DDU Responds to Department for Education Guidelines on Political Impartiality in Schools
DDU believe the government can do more to prevent race based indoctrination in schools.
-
NEW – DDU Case Study Exposes Brighton’s Racial Literacy 101 Training
DDU’s full account of the failures of democratic policy making that enabled Brighton and Hove City Council to introduce racially divisive teacher training.
-
Critical Therapy Antidote – Woke Therapy Weakens the Client
Val Thomas from Critical Therapy Antidote outlines the problems with bringing critical social justice ideology into psychological therapies: ‘Presenting CSJ-driven therapy as just an evolutionary shift obviates the usual requirements of any radically different approach which would include both explaining exactly how it works and also providing evidence for its therapeutic efficacy.’
-
Breaking – Brighton and Hove Council Finally Releases Its Racial Literacy 101 Slides for Training Teachers
Brighton and Hove Council Finally Release Its Racial Literacy 101 Slides for Training Teachers
-
Template Letter – CRT in Universities
This fantastic template letter comes from DDU supporter Diana Durham. We urge all our supporters to write to Kemi Badenoch and Nadhim Zahawi!
-
DDU Comment – It’s just not cricket
In the wake of the Rafiq vs Yorkshire County Cricket Club tribunal, DDU reflect on the questions raised by the case.
-
DDU Comment – Two Takes on Art and Culture
Responses to Zadie Smith’s new play show two radically different sets of values and understandings of art
-
Black History Month on DDU
Follow DontDivideUs.com for lesson content for Black History Month
-
For Equality, Against the Race Equality Charter – Don’t Divide Us Responds To Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter
DDU Academics are a group of academics working in the university sector, aligned with the Don’t Divide Us campaign. We believe that the Race Equality Charter is more likely to promote division than the worthy aim of equality on campus. Also, by endorsing particular, contested views, it will limit discussion of a range of important issues relating to race and racism.
-
The Great American Race Game – A Review by DDU Supporter Clare Page
Don’t Divide Us supporter Clare Page reviews Martin Durkin’s controversial documentary The Great American Race Game.
-
The Dangerous Logic of Anti-Racism
Tomiwa Owolade at Unherd considers the dangerous shortcomings of today’s anti-racists’ obsession with structural racism
-
Hollowing of Democracy in the NEU
DDU is delighted that Paul Embery has won his case against the Fire Brigade Union for unfair dismissal because of his pro-Brexit speech
-
Utopian Dreams & Totalitarian Nightmares: the Coerced Morality of Identity Politics
At the root of the identitarian Left’s politics is a form of self-contradictory morality
-
In Defence of Science – Academics in New Zealand Speak Out!
It shouldn’t be controversial for academics to affirm a belief in the universality of science, or that indigenous knowledge is not its epistemological equivalent.
Advanced Search

Critical Therapy Antidote – Woke Therapy Weakens the Client
Read More

Breaking – Brighton and Hove Council Finally Releases Its Racial Literacy 101 Slides for Training Teachers
Read More
VARIABLE
Dear fellow citizens
In the wake of the horrifying and brutal killing of George Floyd, many in the UK expressed heartfelt solidarity; widespread protests showed a genuine commitment to opposing racism. Since then, however, activists, corporations and institutions seem to have seized the opportunity to exploit Floyd’s death to promote an ideological agenda that threatens to undermine British race relations.
The power of this ideology lies in the fear it inspires in those who would otherwise speak out, whatever their ethnicity. But speak out we must. We must oppose and expose the racial division being sown in the name of anti-racism.
The consequences of this toxic, racialised agenda are counter-productive and serious. We are all being divided by tactics and narratives many of us know to be untrue:
- By splitting society into black lives or white lives, racial identity is being used to define who we all are and how we should fight injustice, as opposed to building a united movement to improve life for everyone.
- Those who favour the identity-based politics of grievance and academic critical race theory are redefining racism. The achievements of civil rights movements in the past – that effected positive material impacts on the lives of ethnic minorities and increased equal treatment – are now being denied and undermined by those who claim racism is on the rise.
- Demands that millions of people accept uncritically a prescriptive ‘white privilege’ agenda or be dubbed ignorant, racist or in denial is creating new tensions.
- Under soulless acronyms such as BAME and POC, all ethnic minorities are robbed of individual agency, and assumed to be victims of injustice.
- Free speech is being eroded by a McCarthyite culture of conformity in which to question the new dogma means to risk one’s livelihood and reputation.
- Calls for the wholesale destruction of historical statues, symbols and works of art are fuelling an unhealthy war against the past and stirring up culture wars in the present.
- An obsessive focus on the impact of colonialism threatens to turn history into a morality tale, rather than a complex, three-dimensional understanding of the past.
- The common conflation of the issue of race in the US with the UK (in relation to criminal justice, for example) is unhelpful as it makes it difficult to discuss our specific historical circumstances and the contemporary challenges we face.
We are committed to supporting open-minded, fact-based investigation into the roots of our many social problems but reject simplistic explanations that reduce all injustice to racial factors.
We are dismayed at the moral cowardice of political and cultural institutions that refuse to speak out in defence of tolerant citizens who are being targeted as though their skin colour is synonymous with ‘unconscious’ bigotry.
We oppose the notion of collective guilt, and support the goals of those who have struggled to ensure that individuals are judged by the content of the character and not the colour of their skin.
We reject the proposition that the UK is inherently racist in 2020, with racial prejudice embedded into our educational, cultural and legal institutions. We salute the struggles of earlier generations of civil rights activists and the progress they made in defeating racist discrimination and attitudes.
We want a genuine movement to fight for equality of treatment. Where racism exists, it should be unapologetically challenged. We oppose those ideologues who seek to irrevocably damage our society by hijacking this important cause. We also oppose the opportunistic far right groups who are already exploiting this new climate of fear and disunity.
We will not be divided – by reactionary racists or culture warriors – who refuse to see us as individuals beyond our skin colour.
Signed
Janella Ajeigbe, headteacher
Katharine Birbalsingh, headteacher
Ben Cobley, author, The Tribe
William Clouston, party leader, The Social Democratic Party
Andrew Doyle, writer; comedian
Dr Rakib Ehsan, research fellow, HJS
Simon Evans, comedian
Dr Ashley Frawley, sociologist
Inaya Folarin Iman, writer; free speech activist
Francis Foster, comedian
Claire Fox, director, Academy of Ideas
Tarjinder Gill, teacher; All In Britain
Manick Govinda, independent arts consultant
Ben Habib, businessman; co-founder, Unlocked; former MEP
Courtney Hamilton, writer
Ash Hirani, South East Hindu Association
Ed Husain, author The House of Islam: A Global History
Ike Ijeh, architect; writer
Christina Jordan, former MEP, South West England
Esther K, YouTuber; author, Graduating Into Adulthood
Lesley Katon, campaigner; creative & communications director
Ramsha Khan, student journalist
Vishal Khatri, aviation professional
Konstantin Kisin, comedian
Kulvinder Singh Manik, GP
Patsy Murrell, Project Manager
Mercy Muroki, political commentator; student
Masimba Musodza, writer
Sarah Peace, artist
Bhimji Pindoria, president, South East Hindu Association
Helen Pluckrose, editor-in-chief, Areo
Calvin Robinson, school leader; teacher
Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, educator; writer
Elizabeth Smith, writer
Professor Doug Stokes, director, Centre for Advanced International Studies
Zuby, musician; rapper; podcast host; author