Diane Abbott suspended as Labour MP after racism letter

The 'Letter'

Racism is black and white

Tomiwa Owolade claims that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people all suffer from “racism” (“Racism in Britain is not a black and white issue. It’s far more complicated”, Comment). They undoubtedly experience prejudice. This is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they are interchangeable.

It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice. But they are not all their lives subject to racism. In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships.

Diane Abbott

She has been lucky. The Stamford Hill frummas think they are still in the Warsaw ghetto and don't vote. But clearly she has run foul of Sir Keir and his clunking fist

I think Diane Abbott is a very stupid person who has benefited massively from being Black. She got a scholarship to Cambridge which is strange considering how stupid she is - and she's had a long career in politics which I seriously doubt is based on merit.

Nevertheless I don't see anything particularly objectionable about what she said. We know perfectly well that the Blacks think that they're the victims of racism and nobody else is - and that whites can't be victims of racism. Like DD says she made a mistake mentioning the Jews. Very stupid. Any mention of Jews or muslims stirs up a hornets' nest.

I have read three posts on this now. One telling me what she said was disastrous, one leading me to the British Bullshit Corporation with no explanation to warrant it, and then your post. I'm trying to reverse engineer it into the original wrong speak, but hit a brick wall.