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“My people were brought here chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe. Our unity is born of our common struggle for centuries, not only to rid ourselves of bondage, but to make oppression of any people an impossibility,”MLK #Holocaust
"There are Hitlers loose in America in the World today in both in high and low places, As the tensions and bewilderment of economic problems become more severe, history scapegoats, the Jews, will be joined by new scapegoats, the Blacks." MLK #HolocaustMemorialDay
"The Hitlers will seek to divert people’s minds and turn their frustrations and anger to the helpless ... Whether the Black man and Jew shall live in peace will depend upon ... how effectively they reach the minds of the decent human beings to halt this deadly diversion." #HMD
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I am upset and angry that we have let knife crime reach record levels. There is no silver bullet for this problem but various complex factors must be urgently addressed. Ambivalence and inaction will mean more young lives are needlessly lost.
The demand for drugs - particularly cocaine - has exploded. Prices are at their lowest levels in more than 25 years. There were 432 deaths relating to the use of Class A drugs in 2017, nearly quadruple the number in 2011.
We need to get tougher on the adult gangsters and international organised criminals that exploit and pimp young teenage boys to run drugs. Instead the UK Border Force has been cut by 18% since 2012-13. Cuts to funding to both support and challenge parents also don’t help.
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David Lammy
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No Frank Field, my constituents are not "well provided for." 34% of Haringey residents are in poverty, we've had £280 million cuts from local budgets and 791 knife crime offences last year. Not to mention black youth unemployment is over 2X average.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
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Northern industrial areas were decimated by Thatcher. When she took power unemployment was at 1 million but that quickly tripled to 3 million in the early 80s. The proportion in the country living below the poverty line rose from 13% to 43%.
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David Lammy
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The #immigrationbill being debated today is not fit for purpose. I will vote against it because it undermines the #citizensrights of 3.6m EU citizens in the UK, threatening to put many under the hostile environment and making them at risk of detention and deportation.
It will force our NHS and other vital services into an even deeper staffing crisis. There are already 41,000 nursing vacancies in England. The salary threshold still under consideration would exclude many skilled medical staff, including nurses, paramedics and midwives.
It continues the inhumane practice of indefinite detention. We remain the only European country which does not set a time limit for detained migrants. This sullies our international reputation and undermines complaints we make about human rights abuses abroad.
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Sara Gibbs
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People keep asking me to explain antisemitism. I can’t explain the history of thousands of years of prejudice. I can outline some of the common tropes. I also don’t have time to explain why each thing is antisemitic, so think of these as things to study further independently 1/
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