Deloitte UK staff raise alarm over talk by ‘anti-white’ academic
Deloitte UK staff have expressed concern after the company invited an academic who described Winston Churchill as a white supremacist to give a talk about identity to employees.
Kehinde Andrews, whose latest book is titled The Psychosis of Whiteness, is set to give a talk to Deloitte UK staff on October 31 about “identity and authenticity and black excellence” as a part of a series of lectures the consultancy firm has been hosting for black history month.
Professor Kehinde Andrews of the Birmingham City University.
The professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University described Winston Churchill as the “perfect embodiment of white supremacy” and the British Empire as “far worse than the Nazis” at an event in Cambridge in 2021.
In the same year, discussing Queen Elizabeth II, he said on Good Morning Britain: “The Queen is probably the No. 1 symbol of white supremacy in the entire world.”
A Deloitte source told The Telegraph: “My colleagues and I find Deloitte’s association with Andrews, a prolific anti-white race activist, highly concerning and uncomfortable.”
Professor Andrews’ latest book takes aim at “whiteness”, which he described as “a set of ideas produced by the racist political and economic system”.
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of the campaign group Don’t Divide Us, said that “[Professor] Andrews’ obsession with ‘whiteness’ is a classic example of toxic identity politics”.
“This is frankly obscene to anyone who remembers when black people were treated unequally in Britain in the past,” Dr Sehgal Cuthbert said.
Deloitte and Professor Andrews were approached for comment.
The Telegraph London
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