Nottingham Uni: Ditch this racist!
At a recent NUS training event held at York University, Craig Cox, the newly elected education officer at the University of Nottingham, claims his sign reading "Bring back slavery" was simply a wind up. Cox, a Conservative Party activist, was responding to remarks made by a fellow Tory, who suggested that African-Caribbean students might increase knife and gun crime on campus. Cox was presumably suggesting the re-introduction of the enslavement of black people as a solution to this. The Nottingham University Black and Minority Ethnic Students (BME) Committee is determined to campaign for Cox’s...