In a new BBC documentary Is Uni Racist?, University of Manchester student, Zac Adan has spoken about the “racial profiling” incident he faced at UoM last November.
Zac was on his way back to his room in Fallowfield campus when he was stopped, pinned against a wall, and “racially profiled” by uni security.
Zac says the incident made him feel “the university’s reputation was way more important than the welfare and wellbeing of students”.
The documentary’s presenter, reporter Linda Adey, says she “first started looking into racism at Britain’s unis” after she saw the incident at Manchester last year.
UNIVERSITIES in Britain are institutionally racist and must offer more support to students of colour who do not feel that their complaints are properly addressed, a vice-chancellor has claimed.
“There’s mixed experiences, but many aren’t good,” Professor David Richardson of the University of East Anglia told BBC3 documentary Is Uni Racist?
“There is a lot of evidence that points towards universities perpetuating systemic racism, being institutionally racist, and I have acknowledged that on behalf of the sector.”
The documentary focuses on how complaints of racist abuse have been handled by universities, looking at the stories of four students.
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How big, do you think, does an entity have to become before it lays aside all the rules of common sense, practicality and decency by which the individuals of which it is composed might live and starts behaving like an unfeeling behemoth?
It was a point to ponder as the BBC Three/BBC One documentary Is Uni Racist?, presented by the journalist and Nottingham Trent University graduate Linda Adey, unfolded. It delineated a number of incidents and complaints lodged by students of colour at a number of universities and the authoritiesâ responses to them. None of them exactly covered themselves in glory, with their limited, opaque reactions to allegations of racial harassment.
Leading university vice chancellor says UK universities are institutionally racist
UNIVERSITIES MUST do more to support students of colour, according to Professor David Richardson.
The vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia, who is also on Universities UK’s advisory group on stamping out racial harassment on campuses also said that UK universities are institutionally racist. He added that there was evidence that systemic issues affected student from black and minority ethnic backgrounds disproportionately.
Speaking on
BBC Three’s documentary
Is Uni Racist?, the academic said: “There’s mixed experiences, but many aren’t good. There is a lot of evidence that points towards universities perpetuating systemic racism, being institutionally racist and I have acknowledged that on behalf of the sector.