Thread by @BameFor

The #FordeReport shines a bright light on the @TheLabourParty_ finds an organisation with a toxic and dysfunctional political culture with evidence of factionalism, chaos, racism, sexism and antisemitism. The question is, what is @Keir_Starmer response? fordeinquiry.org/wp-content/upl…

Flourishing racism. The majority Black consensus/perspective is the @TheLabourParty_is institutionally racist. Given the quantity and quality of evidence submitted, this is a pretty weak conclusion.
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@OpBlackVote @LabourBlackWom1 @CLSUK1974 @labourblacksoc1 @socialistsunday We think it's fair to expect? No, actually, as socialists, we think it's a fundamental principle demand that @TheLabourParty_ be a shining example of race equality and opportunity for Black people. This report shows that the party neither values nor respects its Black members.

Here's the damming evidence of the deep cultural dysfunctionality of the party administration that advocates for equality and justice, as a means of masking a horrific internal culture that cultivates a white perspective on racism that prioritised anti-semitism above all else.

Here is the evidence of preformative, cosmetic anti-racism by @TheLabourParty_ administration that at its most senior levels is almost a totally white political regime, and all white spaces, lead to black disgraces.

It's the same theme repeated over and over again. London is the most hyperdiverse city in the world with a population that looks like the future. In stark contrast, Labour's regional team looks like a throwback to the 1950s.

That old 2/3rd human plantation rule has now become a cultural norm. Black communities are not shocked but are deeply embarrassed and angry that such a culture should be allowed to exist, much less flourish in the @TheLabourParty_

Here's how it works for us. Eminently qualified, routinely passed over.

Entrenched 'socialist' white privilege and black disadvantage in the Labour Party.

The slack habits and old legacies of colonialism loom large in the party. First, there's the colonial offence; secondly, the assumption that pubs are socialising spaces for all faiths and ethnicities; thirdly, there's the drinking culture. It feels like a 'hostile environment.'

The @TheLabourParty_ culture of institutional racism, sexism, and Islamophobia needs to be acknowledged just like Labours demands the new Met Commissioner does likewise. First rule of anti-racism is an honest acknowledgement of the issues and a programme of black empowerment.

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The overwhelming brightness of whiteness. Is this what a Brexit Britain Labour Party looks like?

And our very own @MarshadeCordova and @Keir_Starmer most senior black politician at the time, voted with her feet and resigned in protest once she saw the vacuous nature of Labour's paper-thin commitment to deal equality. voice-online.co.uk/news/2021/09/1…

Labour has done no such thing. What say @TaiwoOwatemi now in response to the shocking findings of the #FordeReport ? voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2…

And here, in all its performative, cosmetic anti-racist glory, is the opportunistic and transactional nature of Labour's declared commitment to anti-racism labour.org.uk/press/labour-d…

And just to add insult to injury - this is Baroness Lawrence's report on the effects of Covid -19 and the wider issue of systemic racism making powerful recommendations to @UKLabour none of which have been heard of since. lawrencereview.co.uk

And here is @Keir_Starmer speaking with Doreen Lawrence on racism. His warm words in this interview and the stone-cold realities of culture in Labour are light years apart.