Tories And Labour Shamed Over Diane Abbott
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The Tories are a racist disgrace - but it's not just them who should be ashamed.
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| 0:00.0 | This really does just sum up the grim depths that this country is plunging to. |
| 0:04.3 | Now Dan Abbott is the first black woman elected to the British Parliament that was back in 1987 |
| 0:09.1 | when I was three. She had to overcome huge obstacles to get there unlike many of her posh white peers, |
| 0:14.0 | who had everything rigged in their favour |
| 0:15.9 | from well, birth really, or conception. |
| 0:19.2 | Now since then, she's been subjected |
| 0:20.7 | to a never-ending campaign of brutal and unrelenting racism. |
| 0:24.4 | From the right-ring media, from the Conservatives, but not just then, as we'll talk about |
| 0:29.1 | as well, from within her own party as well. The way she's been treated is nothing short of a disgrace. Now, |
| 0:35.6 | Frank Hester is the Conservatives' biggest donor. He's given the party 10 million quid, |
| 0:41.8 | and the Guardian has reported that in 2019 he said the |
| 0:44.6 | following and I must emphasize it is just truly revolting in advance. It's like |
| 0:49.7 | trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott on the TV and you're just like I hate |
| 0:54.7 | you just want to hate or black women because she's there and I don't hate all black women at all but I think she should be shot and then he mentioned somebody somebody else he doesn't like and Dan Abbott needs to be shot. |
| 1:06.8 | She's stupid if we can get this other person being a professional we can get a sex. |
| 1:11.4 | It's not as good as her dying. |
| 1:13.0 | It would be much better if she died, she's consuming resources, |
| 1:15.7 | she's eating food that other people could eat, you know. |
| 1:19.1 | But it's just disgusting, I mean, it's just completely disgusting. |
| 1:22.3 | Racist, violent. I mean it's just completely disgusting racist |
| 1:23.2 | violent and indeed an example of misogynoir |
| 1:27.2 | which is the fusing of sexism |
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