Diane Abbot has been outed as a racist, it seems.
Shadow Health Minister Diane Abbott is at the centre of a Twitter row over claims she made racist comments.
There’s an old saying about living by the sword. Abbott has been all too willing to play the racism card during her long and disreputable career. As a casual observer, it has often struck me that those who play the racist card are the very thing they claim to be railing against (Joseph Harker of the Guardian springs unbidden to mind here). They protest too much. One of the most egregious claims made by these people is the one that only white people can be racist. This is, itself, a racist comment (and entirely untrue), but the irony stick doesn’t seem to make any impression on their somewhat dense skulls, protected as they are by armour plated self-righteousness.
Anyway, what did Abbott say?
Responding to criticism of the term “black community leaders” she wrote: ”White people love playing ‘divide & rule’ We should not play their game”.
And black people don’t of course. Frankly, it isn’t particularly outrageous and it isn’t something I’d get worked up about – being a racist white honkey and all that (I must be, I’m white). However, given that it comes from a professional race-monger, there’s a whole new context at play. The divide and rule is a game that the race industry has been playing now for decades – it’s what was used very effectively to invent the institutional racism canard in the wake of the MacPherson Report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence – and if they do not actually find any racism, they amend the definition so that they do find some. The cry of racism is never far from the lips of the professionally aggrieved.
Ordinarily, I would be critical of Nadhim Zahawi for blowing this out of all proportion. However, I think in this case, I can probably make an exception. It couldn’t have happened to a better, more deserving victim.
That woman openly admitted that she sent her son to a private school so he wouldn’t end up in a gang. I wonder… what DO you call a black racist who is prejudiced against black people too ? 🙄
A coconut.
Yeahh I thought that might apply, at first…but then “coconuts” are apparently people who are not white but want to be white and/or act white.
She doesn’t… so there is clearly a gap in the market yet another kind of “-ism” or “-ist”.
I call them a typical have-my-cake-and-eat-it politician!
In the eighties I lived in the Ladbroke Grove area of West London, and had among my friends, acquaintances and contacts people of both hues. The only racism I ever encountered emanated from the black guys I knew (not all, I hasten to add). Interestingly, it was only apparent among the second generation. I knew many older (mostly from the Caribbean) immigrants, and never noticed any “us and them” attitude. But a lot of the younger guys had a real chip on their shoulder.
I have decided to accept the “Recent Single Origin Hypothesis” (RSOH)- or “Recent African Origin” (RAO) – and will henceforth claim common ethnicity with all humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans
Nice to see her go down [in a manner of speaking] and squirm to get out of it.
I deplore her outdated colonial-era stereotyping of white people. She’s just trying to put us all together in one big pot.