If you want evidence of widespread prejudice in the party, you need only look at the tendency of members left to their own devices to pick white men as candidates. The leaked report revealed an even more toxic culture, failure to address antisemitism & we now need decisive action https://twitter.com/hudaelmi_/status/1252967326347116544
Labour pioneered positive action with all-women shortlists - the result of a campaign initiated in the 1980s by CLPD Women. The campaign for black representation was defeated in the ‘80s but last conference we gave the NEC power to designate BAME representation priority seats
And we need to make the new BAME Labour a real self-organised force for change, & to use both education and discipline wherever we have to, to end sexism & racism of all kinds, against people of colour, Moslems, Hindus, Jews & Sikhs, as well as to protect gay & trans rights.
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