David Lammy has always been one of the better British MP's and i don't know what his problem is with Stacey Dooley but he is embarrassingly wrong on attacking her for posing with a black child in Uganda as part of Comic Relief.
The Tottenham MP has blasted the charity for flying white British celebrities to Africa to make films as it shows 'White Saviour complex' and he has a problem with 'white people spotlighting poverty in Africa'.
Dooley responded by tweeting: 'David, is the issue with me being white? (Genuine question) ... because if that’s the case, you could always go over there and try to raise awareness?'
Obviously Lammy's issue is with Dooley being a white person and highlighting poverty in an African nation although what a persons colour has to do with anything when attempting to raise money to help is nonsense and stinks of racism.
If a person is well meaning and using their celebrity to do a brilliant thing to raise awareness of fellow humans struggling in any country of the World then that is to be applauded and David Lammy should not only apologise to Stacey Dooley but keep his racist views to himself and do something himself instead of sniping at those who are.
No comments:
Post a Comment