Calvin Robinson

2022-05-26 09:43:41 Young, gifted and not black enough for the C of E - Harry Miller.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/young-gifted-and-not-black-enough-for-the-c-of-e/ Open / Comment

2022-05-25 15:34:59

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2022-05-25 15:14:47 Police officers will be given mandatory black history lessons and told to embrace being 'woke'.

Call me old fashioned, but why can't we just empower our police offers to prevent crime? Open / Comment

2022-05-25 11:29:58 Thank you for the post, especially the books.

I’m having a day off from media work today, I’ll use the opportunity to catch up on all the emails, messages and letters you’ve sent.

Your support has been incredible. Open / Comment

2022-05-24 21:49:53 Allison Pearson is without doubt one of the best writers at the Telegraph:

With one of the spectacular own goals which are becoming something of a habit, the Church of England has blocked the appointment of a gifted young curate who ticks every box favoured by the right-on bishops. Every box, that is, except one. “I’m the wrong kind of black,” Calvin Robinson told me. “I refuse to say I’m oppressed. The minute I say I’m not a victim, I’m no longer black in their eyes. I lose my skin colour, I lose my culture, I lose all of it because I’ve got the wrong politics.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/05/24/institutionally-racist-church-england-has-fallen-victim-institutional/ Open / Comment

2022-05-24 20:24:15 For our American friends:

https://m.theepochtimes.com/black-trainee-vicar-blocked-from-serving-church-of-england-after-saying-britain-is-not-institutionally-racist_4484065.html Open / Comment

2022-05-24 14:01:33 Douglas Murray has written about the Established Church extensively in his latest book, The War on the West.

Today, he expands on his analysis of where it all went wrong, with the CofE’s party political affiliation.

“So determined is the C of E about this new gospel that a church hierarchy of white people is even willing to bar a young black man from joining the clergy because he will not agree with their insistence that their own church is racist. It is a farce, certainly, but a tragedy, too — for a church that has need of talent, and an era that has need of institutions that are not principally intent on blowing themselves up.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/belief-in-its-own-sin-is-subverting-the-church-njvtlkwmw Open / Comment

2022-05-23 22:03:22 https://www.change.org/p/white-members-of-the-church-of-england-s-leadership-must-resign-over-institutional-racism Open / Comment

2022-05-23 12:45:06 "By rejecting Robinson's application to be a priest all the Church of England is doing is accelerating its own downfall" - Mark Dolan

To be denied is hard... but I feel liberated Open / Comment

2022-05-23 07:16:39 𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 /əˈpɒstəsi/
(noun):
the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief or principle.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/you-dont-know-what-racism-is-trainee-priest-calvin-robinson-told-9snv9br6x Open / Comment