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Originally Posted by Paul
You cannot teach all history, there simply isnt the time.
Also, not the point, this was a requests to specifically make "black, asian and minority ethnic history compulsory".
On the face of it, thats a racist demand - imagine if someone wrote saying "white history" should be compulsory.
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No, you can't teach all history, but when we have different subjects taught there is no reason one of them cannot involve the history of one of Britain's minority populations. There would be so much to choose from. Several years ago I was in the Jewish Museum in London and there was this whole history of Jewish life in Britain that I was mostly oblivious to. That's probably the same for lots of communities in Britain.
Why not teach one of them?
I am not saying it should be compulsory but I don't think the idea it gets taught at all is silly.
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Maybe footballers should stick to football.
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I don't see why footballers are any more or less deserving to speak on these issues than most of the other people we have on television pontificating about things.