Posted on 04/24/2023 9:41:41 AM PDT by jerod
Diane Abbott has been suspended as a Labour MP pending an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism to the Observer, the party has said.
The politician said "many types of white people with points of difference" can experience prejudice, in a letter published on Sunday.
But they are not subject to racism "all their lives", she said.
She later tweeted to say she was withdrawing her remarks and apologised "for any anguish caused".
Labour said the comments were "deeply offensive and wrong".
Suspending the whip means Ms Abbott will not be allowed to represent Labour in the House of Commons, where she will now sit as an independent MP.
The BBC has approached Ms Abbott for comment.
In the letter, she wrote that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people "undoubtedly experience prejudice", which she said is "similar to racism".
She continued: "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."
She had been responding to a comment piece in the Guardian questioning the view that racism "only affects people of colour".
Ms Abbott's letter prompted a backlash, including from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which described it as "disgraceful" and her apology "entirely unconvincing".
The group had urged Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to remove the whip.
In her apology, the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington said "errors" arose in an initial draft that was sent.
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Many Jews could not live in many US neighborhoods until blacks could too.
Jewish slaves built in Eygpt and Rome.
Jews were limited to living in ghettos.
The ranks are closing the dissenting voices are being silenced a Globalist, Centrist “Great Reset” regime is taking over the Western World.
All 52 cards in her deck are identical.
All 52 cards in her deck are identical.
“In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus.”
The Irish were enslaved. The Jews were led into ovens and burned. The travellers were not even allowed on the bus.
“In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote.
Though their farms were confiscated and finances destroyed. Many were murdered.
“And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships.”
The height of slavery was between 1720 and 1780 to serve the BRITISH North American. Egypt also has a strong history of slavery from the Caucasus. Someone had to build the pyramids.
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Are travellers Roma?
Oh horseshit
“And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships.”
I have always been impressed with your ability to discern
Hey I was in Jax twice last month
Thinking about u
I’m trying to make a comeback here on FR. I’m fed up with Fox news. I dont really care for Tucker but that really pissed me off.
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Her problem was thinking that the UK is the US or South Africa.
For a very long time, the few Blacks in Britain did have an easier time than the Irish.
It’s to deprive Trump of a loud platform
Robert Jr too I’d guess
i saw little Robert on some show or another he sounded good like all the rest, but I wasn’t convinced.
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