By Ananova
The British National Party has launched a competition inviting children to design a poster on the theme that “racism cuts both ways”.
It offers a computer game as the prize for the best poster which should show a racist attack.
Teachers have criticised the move saying it is a “nasty” publicity stunt.
The party said that the poster should show a white person being attacked by someone from an ethnic minority.
BNP chairman Mark Collett said: “To enter the competition children have to design a poster illustrating that racism cuts both ways and that in fact whites are the main victim of racist attacks.”
“There are 150,000 racist attacks in Britain and 111,000 are against whites, yet the media cover up those facts so we just want to basically get it over to the general public.”
John Bangs, of the National Union of Teachers, condemned the idea, saying: “I think it is a nasty little publicity stunt from a nasty little group.
“I think that local education authorities will need to give some advice, but let’s not get it out of proportion, this is a small group.”
“There may be some areas where they do attempt to do some leafleting outside school gates and I think we will be exploring advice to head teachers about what they do about that situation, and we will do that with local education authorities.
“There is no room for complacency. Schools need this kind of thing like a hole in the head at the beginning of term.”
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03/09/02 10:46
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