Steve WilliamsJul 19

“If the answer to Britain’s first Black female MP parsing the lived experience of racism is to suspend her and confect another political controversy, then the message is that you may not ever say anything difficult at all”

Another day, another reason to be ashamed of Starmer.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/18/diane-abbott-britain-race-conversations-minorities

The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become

We should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – way, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

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