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When Black Athletes Speak, Britain Panics. Veteran activist Lee Jasper's latest @Substack article goes real deep. open.substack.com/pub/leejas…
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🧵A @reformparty_uk Cllr has resigned after calling his neighbour, a Black British family the N-word, threatening to unleash the EDL on them, saying there’d be in “Black body bags.” This isn’t one man’s disgrace. It is a glimpse into the ugly soul of Reform UK.
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English Black citizen Ms Agyemang from an African migrant family epitomises all that's best about multicultural Britain.
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1/ Britain didn’t abolish slavery out of compassion—it was about profits & power. For centuries, enslaved Africans fought back, forcing Britain to spend millions on military garrisons just to suppress rebellion. The system collapsed under the weight of its own violence. 🧵
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So @metpoliceuk set up Boombox music shop using black undercover officers to lure in young Black people with freebies and inducements, then casually asked them to get drugs for their influential music mates. 35 convicted. Straight up entrapment #Boombox apple.news/AWWXUbtTjSRiBut3h…
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We have it on good authority that the black English players told Gareth they wouldn't attend the PM's shindig at no 10. The words 'Boris is cancelled' were used aggressively. #Euro2020Final #BlackLivesMatter
I’m told that plans to have the England team to Downing Street for a reception this week have been shelved, with attention turning instead to the PM’s levelling up speech in a few days.
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All for allyship, but when the Met rehearsed this abuse of power at Notting Hill Carnival, we couldn't hear a peep out of Republicans and environmentalists. The state practises its abuses first on 'unpopular minorities' and then, when perfected, imposes them on everybody.
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This is Mohamud Mohammed Hassan arrested by @SWPCardiff died after his release, it’s clear he suffered a horrendous beating. The family will be launching a justice campaign in due course. This shit is relentless. #Cardiff #BlackLivesMatter #Justice4Mohamud
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A🧵on #RaceRiot Sunday. As a Black
community we always knew that when the white working class figured out they were lied to over Brexit their impotence would result in them blaming Muslims. Blacks, asylum seekers anyone but the ruling class and the bankers. So said, so done.
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A little bird at the @ukhomeoffice tells us @pritipatel has asked Civil Service to scope a policy paper on the restoration of the death penalty in the #NewYear2021 and the #Tories have the majority to do just that. #DeathPenality
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Labour’s descent into Trump cosplay is complete.
“Build, Baby, Build” isn’t policy, it’s a slogan scavenged from the rubble of right-wing Americana.
In trying to out-Farage Farage, they’ve abandoned politics for pantomime.
This isn’t leadership. It’s cultural surrender.
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It's St Georges's Day and this is England. This coward of a man targets Muslim women and spits his disgusting racism with all the venom of a genuine British fascist. Let's make him famous. Who is he? #StGeorgesDay 🏴
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We circulated a detailed dossier on @TRobinsonNewEra to diplomatic and civil-society partners across BRICS and Global South’s, London Embassies.
The response shows the case for denying international travel to convicted racist agitators is now understood and gaining traction.
🚨🚨 Tommy Robinson has been arrested and deported on arrival in Columbia and Panama after he arrived for a holiday following his fusnraising efforts at the "Unite the Kingdom" rally.
This is literally countries refusing entry to a violent criminal. He should be all for this.
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15-year-old Rolan Adams was slaughtered by a gang of racists in Thamesmede, South London, in 1991. The BNP called a national 'white heroes march' to celebrate Rolan's racist killers. Stephen Lawrence attended the counter-demo. We may have forgotten Rolan, but Stephen never did.
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Dear @Baddiel your failure to offer an apology to Rastaman and African descent footballer Jason Lee speaks volumes. Do the decent thing and apologies. Otherwise you risk being labelled a hypocrite. You cant pick and choose your racisms. It’s all or nothing.
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We remember Victoria Climbie on her birthday today. She would’ve been 33. The joy in her face radiates to this day.
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🧵Missing for 4 days. Rumours circulating that Jovan has been told to stand down by Starmer after this interview. A black man under 30 (an endangered species in politics) challenges Farages racism and says he is standing for every Black person in the UK. politicshome.com/news/articl…
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Breaking news: The white guy #BrynMale saved from a beating by #BlackLivesMatter demo rescue hero #PatrickHutchinson is a retired @metpoliceuk detective. He was attacked after hurling racist abuse at black people.
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Literally, the last Black man under 30 in @TheLabourParty_ has left the party. A waste of young black talent. A bright career was sacrificed because Starmer wanted Farage to demolish the Tories and, in doing so, threw Jovan, the wider Black community, under the bus.
Community note
This is an unverified claim, and likely untrue. Jovan’s personal X account continues to have “Always @UKLabour” in its bio.
nitter.app/jovanforclacto
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Today we defend @Nadine_Writes Black journalists can bag all kinds of awards and then be dragged through the mud while too many of her white journo colleagues remain totally silent. #PrinceWilliam
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Seventeen years ago Anthony stood at a bus stop with his white girlfriend. He was attacked being hit over the head by a racist with an axe. All because a violent racist didn’t think he should be with a white woman. We remember him.
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Solidarity with all strikers in the UK. We support the principle of a fair days pay for a fair days work. Workers struggling to feed their families depending on food banks and charity. Is 2023 the year for a general strike?
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He lied then. He's lying now. He's a pathological liar. #BorisAffair #BorisTheLiar #JenniferArcuri bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-4…
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For anyone who knows the young man who sparked out the racist #BillySteel on London Underground, we’re here to support, help, represent and assist you.
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The routine racism of the #DailyFail as #KKKate displays her deep racial trauma and indulgent privilege. This results in her having a visceral reaction to the presence of Black people in the private circle of the Royal family. Looks like this headline has badly backfired.
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Dear @Keir_Starmer were curious. Given your much-trumpeted commitment to race equality can you tell us precisely how many African Caribbean people have been selected to stand in safe Labour seats in the next #GeneralElection? @TheVoiceNews @UKLabour @OpBlackVote @BlackEquityOrg
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2/ The biggest blow? Haiti’s Revolution (1791–1804). Enslaved Africans rose up, defeated the French, and ended slavery themselves. The price of sugar crashed, making plantation slavery economically unsustainable. Britain saw the writing on the wall. #HaitianRevolution
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3/ But Haiti wasn’t the only rebellion. In 1831, Jamaica exploded in revolt. Led by Sam Sharpe, enslaved people staged the largest uprising in British Caribbean history—burning plantations, refusing to work, and demanding wages. The empire was shaken to its core.
#ReparationsNow
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British media hooked on racial tropes can’t cope with Caramel blackness in the Royal mess they call a family.
Imagine for one moment if she was blue black nubian woman from Sudan? Let’s hope there’s a throw back gene coming.
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The @EHRC has become a political tool of the Tories. The evidence drops investigation into Tory #Islamophobia whilst continuing to investigate the Labour Party for #AntiSemitism Pure hypocrisisy. theguardian.com/society/2020…
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A thread on the English #RaceRiots. In assessing the aftermath and wrecked lives and smouldering Mosques left behind after the worst English race riots since Nottingham in 1958, it's time to speak some unpalatable and maybe unpopular truths.
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5/ British MPs didn’t wake up one day and decide slavery was immoral. They saw the reality—rebellions were spreading, Haiti’s revolution had tanked sugar prices, and maintaining slavery was no longer profitable. The empire cut its losses and pretended it was abolitionist.
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6/ So in 1833, Britain abolished slavery—not out of morality, but necessity. And who got compensated? The slave owners, not the enslaved. £20M (£17B today) was handed to plantation owners, while freed Black people were left in poverty & racial oppression.
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7/ After abolition, racism didn’t end—it evolved: the Colour Bar, segregation, economic exclusion, and police brutality. Britain’s racial oppression didn’t stop in 1833—it simply adapted. Race riots erupted in 1919, 1958, and even in 2025. This isn’t history—it’s the present.
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What a total embarrassment for Britain’s divided left - pathetic, juvenile and self obsessed. This why the right triumphs. Meanwhile - our communities are being gaslit, demonised by press and politicians, attacked on our streets and harassed by the police.
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4/ Jamaica’s 1831 rebellion was a hammer blow to slavery. The plantation economy was already declining, but now Britain faced the terrifying reality: it could no longer control its enslaved workforce without endless military repression. Slavery was becoming too costly.
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No fanfare, no pomp or ceremony. No flowers. No military parade. A simple pine coffin for a humble man. His funeral reflects his authentic life, morally exceptional, honest yet direct. He was in service of his country and humanity his entire life. Farewell Desmond Tutu ✊🏾 🙏🏾
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8/ The empire didn’t just enslave millions—it exported white supremacy. British racial theories inspired fascism, Apartheid, and America’s Jim Crow. The Third Reich even studied British colonial policies for its own racial laws. Empire’s poison still lingers.
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As a direct descendant of her slave owning family, she claims a right to be forgotten. It’s white privilege personified. Black people bear her family name. She enjoys the money but not the scandal of the great crime in human history. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66648763
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9/ This same white nationalist delusion drove Brexit. The fantasy of “making Britain great again” was built on imperial nostalgia. Instead, Britain is now economically sinking, while racism & far-right nationalism are on the rise. Empire was never greatness—just theft.
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Not enough staff because you voted a Gov that refused #NHS pay rises, didn’t invest in Nurses training and stopped foreign migration into the UK of key medical staff. #Covid19UK #ThirdWave #NightingaleHospitals #HostileEnviroment #austerity
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Looks like Labour left this young brother out to dry, unable to support his direct challenge that calls out Farage as a racist because, low-key, they sip from the same poison cup when it comes to immigration. We are genuinely concerned for his welfare in this snake pit election.
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Let’s be real. In the eyes of Black communities, the two of you do not add up to authentic leadership. You reach for your Blackness when it suits the moment, a convenient costume for political point scoring. It’s transparent. It’s tired. And people are done with it.
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She had her Oyster card in her hand the whole time. This is a fundamental blow to the credibility of @metpoliceuk statements. Londons Black communities are rapidly losing patience with Sir Mark Rowley. Things can’t go on as they are. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ma…
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Dear @mariellaf1 thank you for being the adult in the room. Your response shut down the vapid, bile-inflected, hate politics of the Powellite Brexit Bodecia from hell. 🙏🏾✊🏾👏🏾
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Diane has suffered the highest level of racism, bile and death threats of any MP in morden history. Support from her Labour colleagues was weak, particularly from white women. Starmer was nowhere to be seen. Diane isn't white and in Starmers Labour Party, that's all right.
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They selected him, and then when the Farage machine turned up and his stance was resolutely and authentically anti-racist, they abandoned him. We challenge anyone to find a Black-elected male under 30 in any political party. They are like Hen's teeth. #RealNinjaChallenge
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The gut churning racism of this Arsenal fan should make him a pariah for life. Twitter do your thing. Out this cretin. Insta @jellywesr10_2 Shout out to Black Kings UK on Insta.
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Supported by a supine press the right wing have sought to demonize Islam and launched full-scale ideological war on the woke. Unfortunately over the last 14 years Labour concessions to this racist agenda have had the effect of legitimising racist sentiment. Brexit was the killer.
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Boris refused to sack him but the sack of shit #Sabisky couldn't take the heat and quit. What does that say about the PM? Every black person in the country should now be fully awake to the fact that Boris thinks were all genetically thick. He laughs at us, not with us.
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The number of Black Tories defending Lady SH and going in on Ngozi is disappointing. We never quite sure what it is they’re trying to conserve?
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Robert Bloom lasted 117 days in office. Neighbours recorded hours-long racist rants. He told them Africans “sold yourselves into slavery,” that Britain “civilised you,” and repeated the N-word after they played Bob Marley. This wasn’t politics. It was violent racial intimidation.
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Jovan faced the kind of horrendous racism last seen in the 1950s on the campaign trail. We suspect he may not have received the support he was expecting from @TheLabourParty_. Inundated with racism-hostile media and a Labour Party whose anti-racism is cosmetic, he is in shock.
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The problem for some sections of the left is their unrecognised paternalistic white privilege, class reductionism and anti fascist fetishisation at the expense of confronting systemic racism, is it condescendingly assumes that when it comes to fighting racism, they know best.
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The new ‘anti racist policing culture’ of the @metpoliceuk sees armed officers agitating in support of the officer charged the murder of Chris Kaba. Apparently they want the unfettered right to shoot Black people without question. Outrageous @apavoices theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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We note your response and deem it to be wholly inadequate. We would like to formally raise his with the current committee, can you tell us who are the members of the current committee, its executive officers and your current chair?
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We offer our full support to our sister @PriyamvadaGopal who suffered such grievous and libellous attack led by @michealgovemp wife #SarahVine This now almost ubiquitous hard right wing racism is nauseating. A poisinous #racism that comes leeches from the door of @10DowningStreet
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Reform will claim: “One bad candidate.” But this is their DNA. They deliberately loosened vetting rules to let in people previously rejected. They chose quantity over quality. Now communities are paying the price. This is not accident. It’s a strategy of mainstreaming racism.
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So having been attacked by the right and failed by the left we find ourselves under brutal and relentless racist attack. Shout out to all genuine anti-racists on the block defending their communities. Now we need to trade unions to stop fucking around and fund mass anti-racism.
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A 🧵Question: Why do the British labour and @TUCEquality movements almost exclusively fund @SWP or @hopenothate led anti racism?
Answer : These are white led anti racist movements. There is no interest or support on the left for independent Black and Asian led anti racism.
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In making these concessions it provided the political space for the rise of the right. We are today paying the price for politicians seeking to electorally exploit racism. This fundamental failure to confront racism means we are now consumed by it. Centrist Liberals are to blame
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200 jailed racists. Let’s ask a genuine question to the majority white racists in the UK. Does being a racist and hating Islam really make you happy? Is it’s providing a future for your children? Are you economically better off as a result? Billionare sharks feed of your hate.
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It fundamentally reshaped and gave credence to xenophobia and racist sentiment as being the legitimate concerns of the white working class shaped by a constant negative and hostile media agenda. Labour went along with that view on immigration, on policing, on foreign aid.
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The Golliwog doll embodied the infantilization of white supremacy used as a tool to teach racism to white children. Its cultural potency was so strong that in 60s England, slurs like 'Fucking Wogs' were used to racially insult people of colour. echo-news.co.uk/news/2344324…
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All these workplace diversity awards for excellent anti racist practice and yet racism is getting worse? How does that work?
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These tactics are still being used. There are over 10k paid Black active criminal informants in the paid employ of the Met. There are millions spent on setting up undercover youth groups, food shops, Barbers and hairdressers to entrap black youth. Disgusting and unethical
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We need radical Black institutional leadership of the anti-racist movement so as to avoid the critical concessions of the past. We need to decolonise left anti-racism and build back better. We need a gov that tackles endemic poverty that creates racism, enmity and division.
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Prince William's Comments on Population in Africa Reek of Colonialism jezebel.com/prince-williams-…
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Until we respect our own history noone else will. We can’t even celebrate our own history without ‘grant aided BHM’ If white people stopped funding it very lite would happen. We will gain respect when we are feared because of our economic, political and organisational strength.
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…in large part. Britain has now become infected with (ironically enough) European continental-style organised racism and fascism. The left's failure is the reason we are here today. When liberals legitimise racism for election purposes the consequences are always disastrous.
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So having been offered a taste of racism the same people who wanted their country back now want their ‘white country back’. In essence, they believe there are too many Muslims, Blacks and asylum seekers in the UK. It's stop the boats today and forced deportations tomorrow.
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1/ Britains post colonial decline will be brutal. Broke working-class people are the new shock troops of far-right fascists. With Thatcherism and austerity shattering their communities, they rarely blame the elites for their ills - they blame us. 🧵
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The @BBCNews reports that sadly #Jamaica50 flight has gone albeit with the majority being given a temporary reprieve. The fight goes on as the Government appears ideologically determined to defy the law and deliver racist deportation policies, whatever the cost. And it will cost.
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Race Riot Advice: This is a Level 2 security warning. Black and Asian people think twice about holidaying in isolated white areas whilst Black. Gen Z is thinking about that countryside music festival. Are you thinking of going camping in the country? Do a risk assessment
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There are only three people out of 30 still left on the #Jamaica50 #DeltaVariant plane. Three people on a chartered plane, imagine the cost to the taxpayer. 30 illegal detentions, court and charter flight costs must run into millions. Tory racism is an expensive habit to maintain
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Home Secretary is defeated by the courts on her ability to strip citizenship without notice now ruled illegal. independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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So what's to be done? British Democracy is at stake and we need a Labour party that isn't trying to play foot with racism. We need a trade union movement that invests in political literacy in the working class and funds Black and Asian anti-racist movements.
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Every by-election triggered by Reform’s toxic selections costs the taxpayer £27,000. That’s £27,000 to clean up after candidates who abuse Black families, threaten neighbours, and disgrace democracy. Reform aren’t just racist. They are financially reckless and morally bankrupt.
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It's New Year's Day, and the global elite is busy fretting, constantly refreshing their phones, waiting for the #EpsteinClientList to drop.
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If Dalian Atkinson was an American pro footballer and had died after being brutally tasered by US police, who were then charged with his murder, the British press would be all over it. Have you noticed the press silence? #dalianatkinson #blacklivesmatter bbc.com/news/uk-england-shro…
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Belly and her colleague were spat at by an irate passenger. She had a respiratory condition. She begged @TLRailUK to be allowed to work in the office. They demanded she work on the concourse. Two weeks later she died. Her death is on them. #BellyMujinga #BlackWorkersMatter 1/2
Read about our member, Victoria station ticket office worker Belly Mujinga, who died from coronavirus after being spat at on the concourse: mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ra…
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One of the UK's leading black journalists asking a Black Government Minister perfectly reasonable questions and this is how you respond? It's disgraceful and a massive overreaction on your part. @Nadine_Writes @HuffPostUK
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A white woman called a 5-year-old Black autistic boy a nigger.
White America handed her nearly $500k and a standing ovation.
This isn’t just racism—it’s a reward system for white supremacy.
Call it what it is: a lynching with likes and bank transfers.
#ShilohHendrix #FundedByHate
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Exclusive Black man 24 dies after being violently arrested by @SWPCardiff The scandal of black deaths and police brutality continues. The system is corrupt when will we ever get justice? #Justice4MohamudHassan #BlackLivesMatter leejasper.blogspot.com/2021/…
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And we need democratic reform. If racism is a cultural-political characteristic of British politics we say it best to have these racists out in the open where we can see them. We need PR to restore confidence in democracy even if that means suffering elected racists.
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The first British person convicted of breaching lockdown is a Black women.. How depressingly predictable. #Covaid19 dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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We challenge @Conservatives, @LibDems, @TheGreenParty to name a young black male election candidate under 30. They’re an endangered species. We searched and found one, @jovanforclacton and he’s been sidelined by @TheLabourParty_ #SpotTheBlackMan
#ProveUsWrong #BlackLeadersMatter
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She stood 37 times as those around her were called to discuss Hester's comments. She was actively ignored by the Speaker. Here we have one of the most egregious examples of how black women's voices are shut down. Her voice was silenced even as they admit their guilt. #DianeAbbot
I don't know whose interests the Speaker thinks he is serving. But it is not the interests of the Commons or democracy.
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Your grandma in the mill wasn’t rich but she also wasn’t banned from jobs, housing or schools because of her skin. That’s what white privilege means: not wealth, but freedom from racism.
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The future looks bleak. More neoliberal lies about the economy. More scapegoating. We could have a resurgent Farage leading a new Tory party facing Labour and running them ragged on race and immigrantion. Its going to become an increasingly hostile country in certain areas.
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Today is the funeral of #ChrisKaba We send our profound love and condolences to his family as they say their final farewell to their beloved son. May the ancestors greet you and carry you home.
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The deep psychological tramua and pain of racism is devastating. He is a unique talent, he deserves better. One things for sure for Black players La Liga is a hostile environment. Such vile racism isn’t worth the money.
Brazil's Vinicius Jr became emotional as he tried to hold back the tears after being asked about the racism he has faced whilst playing for Real Madrid.
The 23-year-old, who moved to the Bernabeu in 2018, has been a victim of racist abuse.
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