Richard Bilkszto Was Publicly Shamed for Being White
Richard Bilkszto Was Publicly Shamed for Being White And his suicide offers a case study in the effects of sanctioned hatred JANICE FIAMENGO I’ll say it again. White Lives Don’t Matter. As white lives . – Dr. Priyamvada Gopal , Professor of English, Churchill College, Cambridge University. Richard Bilkszto was a Toronto school principal who never recovered from his colleagues’ betrayal after a diversity trainer called him out in 2021 for his “whiteness.” Bilkszto had been working as the contract principal at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute , an adult and alternative high school, when he attended diversity training sessions conducted by the KOJO Institute. There, he was subject to repeated racial taunting by the Institute’s founder, Kike Ojo-Thompson . Since his suicide just over a month ago, voices have been raised to praise Bilkszto for standing up against diversity ideology and to express shock that administrators failed to support him . Both lines of discussion sidestep