Sunday 17 March 2024

Succesful Black Women In The UK

Being a white woman in a predominantly white country i have no experience of what non-white men and women experience in today's Britain but i did have a conversation with a black colleague this week in the fall-out from the Frank Hester racism row where he said that MP Diane Abbot made him hate all black women and she should be shot.  
What he said was abhorrent, shooting anyone because you disagree with them is disgraceful especially as two MP's has been killed in recent memory, but because he went for the gender and race rather than saying she made him hate all Labour politicians or Lefties shows just what a racist misogynist the highest Conservative donor is and says a lot about the Conservative Party that they are happy to be bankrolled by such a person.
My colleague, to my astonishment, has hired a firm to triage her email, social media posts and correspondence to remove anything offensive because the angry, racist and sexist things she was seeing was not good for her mental health.
For some people in society, a black female face on TV or in politics is amongst the most sinful they could imagine and feel free to let them know that and that is from the left and the right, i know Conservative Party females such as Priti Patel and Kemi Badenoch receive racist vitriol also from my side of the
political fence and that should be roundly condemned, it was actually Badendoch who told Rishi Sunak that Hester's comments were racist and offensive after he bizarrely dithered for 24 hours over whether to condemn then as such.  
If you feel the need to write an angry email or speak badly against someone because they are female or their skin colour is different to yours then we should feel sad for you that your life choices were so disastrous that the only way you feel good about yourself is to try and make someone more intelligent, successful and better than you in every way, feel bad.