'Racist' Black MP Faces Calls to Resign

[Derek]

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">Diane Abbott Faces Calls To Resign For 'Racist' Tweet Saying White People Love Playing 'Divide And Rule'</span></span>


Diane Abbott has been accused of racism and faces calls to resign from the Labour frontbench after claiming white people love playing &quot;divide and rule&quot;.

In a controversial message to a freelance journalist on the social networking site Twitter, Abbott wrote:<span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-weight: bold"> &quot;White people love playing 'divide and rule' we should not play their game.&quot;</span></span>

The Hackney MP used a hashtag which spelt &quot;tactics as old as colonialism.&quot;

When asked for a comment in response, Abbott told Huffington Post UK: &quot;I'm going to have to get back to you on that.&quot;

Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi has called for Abbott to quit her front bench job as shadow public health minister, of for her to be sacked by Labour leader Ed Miliband.

Former Tory MP and commentator Paul Goodman has also called for her to quit saying her comments were &quot;racist&quot; and &quot;even the most clear-cut apology won't do.&quot;

Separately Abbott has written for the Huffington Post UK this morning saying that racism is still a problem for young black men.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/05/diane-abbott-claims-white_n_1185441.html?ref=tw

<span style="font-size: 8pt">All she did was tell the truth.</span>

[RichD]

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and IN the US people say stuff like this

&quot;I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.&quot;

and they run for president.

[KleenBaggy]

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I suppose the issue is that she did not use the words SOME or MOST.

Nothing applies to all people and the message gets mitigated when diligence is not practiced when sharing important information.

[Magician]

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Mi nuh no Tweeta, so beg smaddy explain to me how de ting set up.
A nuh fi yuh 'fren' dem de pan Tweeta? Is how all dese ppl catch up inna hot wata counta de ting if a soso 'fren' can see de Tweetings.

[RichD]

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tweets are public..is like standing on the soap box on the corner and shouting

[mangoskin]

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friends is facebook-on twitter u have 'followers'
twitter really is for celebs &amp; dem fans, some have millions of 'followers'

[mangoskin]

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this is the danger of twitter-it encourage ppl to run off their mouth

[Magician]

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Well de whole Tweetiration business jus seem foofool to me.

So if de public official dem know seh everyone can prips fi dem Tweetings, is why dem nuh careful what dem a Tweet?

[Cultcha]

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IMHO, she, and everyone else (even the woman on the infamous tram video) has a right to free speech. If her constituents have an issue with this then they will make it known at the polls come election time.

[mangoskin]

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yeah she has a right to free speech - and to accept the consequences, good or bad of it

[Magician]

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If mi was a politrixta meeda use de Tweeting Machine fi buy votes.
But it seems de ppl dem only use it fi expose some scandal, tense up de racial or annouce seh dem tun lebanese. An dem act surprise when it backfyah!

[Blackstar*]

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What she said is true, but as a politician she should know how to qualify her statements. Better still, don't chat about racism in public and let white people hear/read it.

[blugiant]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What she said is true, but as a politician she should know how to qualify her statements. Better still, don't chat about racism in public and let white people hear/read it. </div></div>

ooman chatt de trooth ann wat mii doan like iss oyinbo usinn racism fe censar a blakk persan by usinn de oyinbo myth aff reverse racism fe silence blakk peeps. blakk peeps inn iingland need fe use diss fe chatt racism inn great britian

itt de similar ting dem homosexuals didd wen dem raciallee stereotype dancehall artists ann now dem usinn dat same argument fe censar awl ministar dat bunn fiyah pon homosexuals inn iingland

[RichD]

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Diane Abbott puts her foot in her mouth…again
BY AL EDWARDS
Friday, January 06, 2012




BLACK-British MP Diane Abbott has stirred up a hornets nest by declaring on social media platform Twitter that “White people love playing divide and rule”.
She has subsequently apologised and said that the remark was taken out of context. Now, a slew of MPs are calling for her immediate resignation and her party boss Ed Miliband has said her comments are “unacceptable”.

Abbott, who ran for the leadership of the Labour Party in 2010 has a history of making unpalatable gaffes which tend to have a patina of racial victimisation about them. Earlier this year she claimed that while there are plenty of black players in British football there has never been a black manager in the Premier League. She omitted to point out that both Paul Ince then of Blackburn and Chris Haughton of Newcastle have both served as top league managers. She is reported as saying, “One of the problems black managers have in breaking through may be that, whilst players are selected strictly on merit, managers are often the personal pick of football chairman. And the chairmen of football clubs are usually in their late 60s and are prey to all the old prejudices about black football professionals.”
In 2010, she said, “West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children”. She was challenged on that by the former editor of the Sunday Times, Andrew Neil who said: “So black mums love their kids more than white mums, do they?
“Supposing Michael Portillo said white mums will go to the wall for their children. Why did you say that? Isn’t it a racist remark?”
In 2003, she blasted her Labour Party colleague Harriet Harman for sending her son to a grammar school. It then turned out that she opted to send her very own son to a private school, arguing that she feared her child would fall in with “black gangs” if he went to a State school. She later described her own decision as “indefensible and incoherent”.
She has been reported as saying that staff at her constituency hospital, who were “blonde, blue-eyed Finnish girls”, were not suitable to be nurses because they had “never met a black person before”.
One has to ask oneself, is this becoming a frontbench spokesperson? If that chip got any bigger it would seriously dislocate both shoulders. Instead of championing multi-cultural Britain, Abbott has chosen to use racial victimisation as her personal pulpit. Yes, racism is odious and does exist in Britain, but there are better ways to address it. The chippy approach will win Abbott no friends and will only serve to relegate her to a permanent spot on the backbenches. Commenting on her Twitter faux pas, Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi said: “This is racism. If this was a white member of Parliament saying that all black people want to do bad things to us he would have resigned within the hour or be sacked. For a shadow minister to hold these sort of views is intolerable, it is wrong, she needs to go.”
Of all the pertinent matters that need addressing in Britain Abbott displays a propensity to fixate on race discrimination. She never seems to call the Caribbean community on its shortcomings. She is beginning to become a one-trick pony. One wonders is this is all she has in her political tool bag. She appears to covet the role of standard bearer for the race relations industry and there is a perniciousness about her utterances. Abhijit Pandya, writing in Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, said: “If anyone white was to make broad general statements of this type about blacks their careers, their lives would be ruined and they would, very possibly, need fortified barricades on their front door. This difference of treatment perpetuates differences. If Abbott had any real interest in racial parity, she would be fighting against this sort of unfairness.
“Alas, Abbott has only ever been able to conceive of a world of black and white. Her comment reveals an ambiguously racial mindset. She was applying very negative characteristics to a supposed group of races (white people in her words) implying that they were all anti-black and with a predominant interest in the oppression of other races.
“It is an outrageous statement that a woman who preaches so often about racial harmony should be attempting to inflame racial stereotypes and tensions. However, with a closer look at Abbott’s career, this sort of statement coming from her is not entirely unpredictable.
“Abbott has established herself at the nexus of the profitable, both politically and financially, race relations industry. Her power comes from maintaining the view that ethnic minorities are oppressed and that as many people as possible fall into the black racial category for whom she claims to speak.”


Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/busin...#ixzz1j4xInlEV

[barosa]

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Re Black - British MP Diane Abbott : Is she a British born &quot;black&quot;? - From the article, she appears to be, and is likely from a Caribbean background... that being said, I'm appalled at her lack of sensitivity in discussing &quot;touchy racial matters&quot; in such a manner that causes consternation... If she is &quot;the way&quot; she is, it has to be baffling to many, why would she want to be leader of the Labour Party and possibly PM of the UK? ...

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