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Racism
Recommendation 51:
The Ministry of Education must fund the implementation of after-school and vacation programmes that centre Black histories, experiences and realities. These programs must be developed in conjunction with educators of African Descent and Black-focused community organizations. To this end, Black-focused community organizations undertaking after-school and vacation programmes for students must be supported with funding and resources for capacity building.
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Recommendation 49:
The Ministry of Education must fund and support anti-Black racism education and training programs in schools for all students, educators and other staff across BC. These programs must be designed by persons with lived experiences and aim to re-socialize non-People of African Descent while providing People of African Descent with resources to navigate concerns with expected and real incidents of anti-Black racism.
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Recommendation 43:
The Ministry of Education must ensure that the eventual K-12 Education Anti-Racism Action Plan recognizes the peculiarity of anti-Black racism and its implications. It is critical that the Ministry of Education pursues an implementation strategy that supports collaboration with Black-focused organizations and educators of African Descent to promote the action plan within the Black community. The associated oversight and implementation committees must include students, educators and community leaders of African Descent.
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Recommendation 42:
The Ministry of Education must develop, in conjunction with educators and psychologists of African Descent, the necessary competencies and toolkits for contextually interpreting the evaluations and assessments of educators and principals of African Descent by students and reviewers, respectively. This is critical as a de-contextualized review system could reflect anti-Black racism and discrimination that in turn affects the professional and career chances of educators of African Descent.
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Recommendation 41:
The Ministry of Education must boost access to advocacy services for students/families of African Descent. Such dedicated advocacy services must be backed by strategic policy that emphasizes implementation by teams with the necessary cultural humility and lived experience. This can be mandated either under the Representative for Children and Youth Act or under the pending Anti-racism legislation.
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Recommendation 40:
The Ministry of Education must actively design and implement programming to actively inform and engage students/parents on redress mechanisms independent of the education system (e.g. Human Rights Commission). The Anti-racism legislation must consider legislating an independent complaint process for racialized students and their families.
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Recommendation 35:
The Ministry of Citizens’ Services should establish governmental desks or offices that are competently staffed to support People of African Descent businesses and facilitate their relations with the Government.
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Recommendation 74:
The Ministry of Citizens’ Services and Elections BC must ensure that the Race-based Data Legislation provides sufficient room for all public entities to submit periodic reports on their policies, choices and realities as they relate to diversity of leadership. It will particularly be important to ensure that Political parties can collect, use, and share information on minority participation at all levels of their political work.
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Recommendation 26:
The Ministry of Attorney General should provide support to the judicial council and law society for conducting studies to understand, capture, and prioritize concerns and recommendations of judges and lawyers of African descent in terms of these bodies’ capacity in attracting People of African Descent to the profession, and of potential avenues in reforming legal practice and the justice system in BC.
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Recommendation 32:
The Ministry of Attorney General should provide funding for the Law Society and People of African Descent community organizations to run legal clinics and legal aid programs for People of African Descent, predominantly led and designed by law practitioners of African descent. These programs must be accessible from anywhere within the province and run with an anti-Black racism lens and with a clear legal advocacy strategy. The Black Legal Action Centre in Ontario is a good example of a community legal aid program for the People of African Descent community.
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