I grew up in the Tory heartlands. These horrible remarks are all too familiar
Racism is a key feature of British conservatism. Sunak has largely pandered to that, not challenged it. It's absurd to treat his rise to power as a win for people of colour
Racism is a key feature of British conservatism. Sunak has largely pandered to that, not challenged it. It's absurd to treat his rise to power as a win for people of colour
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1583836182781517830
One day we will have a prime minister from an ethnic minority who has spent their life fighting to dismantle the structural racism at the core of British society. That would be something to celebrate. Today, a person like that wouldn't be accepted as a Tory MP, let alone PM
Indeed, right now a person like that struggles even to be allowed to represent the Labour Party.
British politics today is in an absolutely gruesome place with regard to racism. It would be worse still if the rise of Sunak were used to gloss over this
British politics today is in an absolutely gruesome place with regard to racism. It would be worse still if the rise of Sunak were used to gloss over this
https://twitter.com/mowords/status/1581265838253830145?s=20&t=d02mgUzf17L_hCWDOAdrpQ
This - to take but one example from the doe-eyed courtier class today - is a wilfully ignorant downplaying of the realities of structural racism in this country. It actively undermines the educational work that is central to anti-racism. A grim spectacle
https://mobile.twitter.com/Peston/status/1584331687344820224
Four years on from the Windrush scandal, and there is "not a great deal" between Labour and the Tories on immigration policy. That should be today's big story with regard to racial injustice in this country. Not the career success of Rishi Sunak
https://twitter.com/theousherwood/status/1584461469126905859
How are we meaningfully engaging with this as a "historic moment" if we exclude context and reduce it to a facile soundbite? It certainly is a historic moment. But in what precise way?
Fwiw I say this as a person of Indian & Hindu heritage myself
Fwiw I say this as a person of Indian & Hindu heritage myself
https://twitter.com/SangitaMyska/status/1584500591685869568
The sharpest paragraph in a very thoughtful article. The salient point about Sunak and others is less that they are people of colour who have risen to power, and more that they have done so while reflecting the values of an institutionally racist party
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
..and this gets us to what is truly historic about this moment. The fact that it signifies an *evolution* of structural racism in this country, more than a reduction of it
https://twitter.com/PaperWhispers/status/1584613053420929024
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