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A Convening Platform for UK-based, Black, Asian Lawyers and Activists Working Together for Justice And Opposing Racism. Email: bamelawyersforjustice@gmail.com
Nov 21, 2022 7 tweets 7 min read
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/AWWXUbtTjSRiBu… @TheVoiceNews @StaffordScott_ @chantellelunt @mikewhoatv @melissasigodo @OnTopFM @StationFMRadio @lightningfmuk @richardsudan @out_of_lives @BarristerAbi @NBPAUK @MOPACLdn @RichieBrave @bignarstie @SaferLondon1 @TrowsdaleGary @LeroyLogan999 @Janet_Hills @OWC2022 Put on blast.
Jul 20, 2022 18 tweets 14 min read
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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Jun 11, 2022 18 tweets 8 min read
Not one African Caribbean individual or community organisation has been consulted or involved in the recruitment process for the New Met Commissioner. This is in a city where 2m people are of African descent. bit.ly/3ablzeM @ukhomeoffice @CollegeofPolice @TheVoiceNews This is a fundamental error when considering the profound crisis in relations between the @metpoliceuk and London's African, Asian and Caribbean communities. A group of predominantly white men will be responsible for assessing the two candidates' understanding of institutional...
May 24, 2022 16 tweets 7 min read
Dear @PoliceChiefs you cant solve a national problem you don't believe exists. Could be more performative cosmetic anti-racism, not radical root and branch reform. The key question where's the budget? @BarristerAbi @andygeorgeni @VikramDodd theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m… " We accept that policing still contains racism, discrimination and bias. We are ashamed of those truths, we apologise for them and we are determined to change them.” Then how do you repair the collateral damage done to Black communities by decades of criminalisation?
Sep 19, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
White socialists can share the same racist views as the elite. Brexit made that plain. Lexiteers are happy to collude with xenophobia under cover of improving the plight of working class. The degree of class collaboration with the ruling elite is staggering. #socialistssunday Some white socialist are blinded by white privilege, others adhere to a Stalinist ideological analysis that subjugates racism as a simply a by product of capitalism. Others see any black self organisation as a reactionary bourgeois threat to working class unity.
May 22, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read
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. Anti fascism is the easiest form of anti racism to deal with given its binary nature. Tacking systemic racism is much more complex and demands you look at institutions, individuals and yourself in a critical light. This is sometimes reflexively seen as weakening the working class