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The United Kingdom is home to a notable Caribbean diasporic population (though as of the 2021 United Kingdom census 81.7% of the population is white). Sadly, it is no stranger to the ills and evils of anti-Black racism in its politics. We’ve covered the Windrush scandal here in “Caribbean Matters” multiple times in the past, but the latest scandal over racism in the U.K. revolves around comments made by a top donor to the Conservative Party (the Tories): white software CEO and multimillionaire...
Bill Maher makes a super compelling case that pandering to racial groups is a sure way to lose elections because all these identities in America are now blurred beyond recognition. The 'Real Time' host lasered in on Democrats who try to sell…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that “Democrats should move on from identity politics” and one reason is that “The more you obsess over identity, the more you ignore the bread-and-butter issues that win and
This goes far beyond a Tory donor’s racist comments about Diane Abbott, and Labour’s opportunistic response“The very serious function of racism is distraction,” Toni Morrison argued in a lecture in Portland, Oregon, in 1975. “It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact...
Bill Maher closed his show on Friday night scorching Democrats for "pandering" to minority groups for votes, telling them the time of relying on "identity politics" to win elections is over.
With renowned cartoonist, Robb Armstrong, we learn how the first Black comic strip character entered the ‘Peanuts’ universe, while New York Times #1 bestselling author, Tiffany Jewell, sheds light on how children learn about race at school, even when it’s not on the lesson plan.
Vaughan Gething’s election as the next leader of Wales marks a milestone: For the first time, none of the U.K.’s four main governments is led by a white man.
The horrific sexist and racist comments about MP Diane Abbott from a major Tory donor should show everyone that politics is not a safe or welcoming place for Black women. Everyone rushed to discuss what implications this might have for women’s safety. Everyone, that is, except for Diane Abbott herself, who was not given permission to speak during PMQs, and was forced to stand and listen while others discussed her abuse. And Westminster isn’t the only place where women are made to feel unwelcome...
“Sports betting issues are on the rise across the country with prop bets continuing to threaten the integrity of competition,” NCAA president Charlie Baker said in a new statement.
by Tiny Gray Garcia aka povertyskola “OWWW, OWWWWWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.” Bobby, a houseless neuro-divergent relative, had been screaming in two-second intervals from the bed he was forced to lie on in the nursing home for the last several hours. Picked up on a 5150 hold in Alameda, he was supposedly being “treated” rather […]
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