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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@VikramDoddtheguardian.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