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Tomiwa Owolade on What We Get Wrong About Race

The Good Fight

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Why Diane Abbott Was Wrong About Racism in Britain

Diane Abbott, a far left labor politician who was one of the closest allies of Jeremy Corbyn famously took a bicycling holiday in East Germany. She wrote a letter that utterly denied the possibility of genuine racism against Jews or against travel to people and against other groups. And now she's been removed from her position as leader of a Labor Party. The reason why she was wrong about this is that anti-seamites themselves see Jewish people as an inferior race," he says.

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