‘Your Job in This Work as White People Is to Believe,’ DEI Instructor Tells Principal Who Later Committed Suicide

‘Your Job in This Work as White People Is to Believe,’ DEI Instructor Tells Principal Who Later Committed Suicide
The Toronto District School Board logo is seen on a sign in front of a high school in Toronto, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn
Marnie Cathcart
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The disturbing audio recordings have been released of a number of “diversity, equity, inclusion training” (DEI) sessions that school principal Richard Bilkszto participated in before his July 13 suicide. At one point in one of the recordings, educators are told, “Your job in this work as white people is to believe.”

The zoom audio of Kojo Institute CEO Kike Ojo-Thompson, a self-described “anti-racism and anti-Black racism educator, speaker, and organization change facilitator,” starts with her stating that the racism experienced in Canada “is far worse here” than in the United States.