I've read and re-read your letter and that from Diane Abbott but still feel that such a "clumsy" and "stupid" letter should not have resulted in her expulsion from the Labour party when she has such an amazing track record in fighting all the wrong kind of "isms" in her political career.
I still can't get my head round Abbott, Livingstone and Corbyn being anti-Semitic. But, I suppose, that is because I am one. I am definitely one as I understand the point that Abbott was making in playing up how her ancestors suffered 300 years of racist slavery by my ancestors. That is truly shocking and I apologise and want reparations of some kind from our government/King Charles no 3. It is comparable to the holocaust but, by degree, one is worse in the league table of horrors of man's inhumanity to man than the other.
On Monday evening, Iain Dale of LBC was thinking out loud that because Diane Abbott is now an anti-Semite he should, perhaps, no longer have her on his programme as an invited guest.
SOME QUOTES:
"Home Office statistics published last year also show Jews are five times more likely to suffer hate crimes than any other religious group."
"Well, her comments were clumsy, but that is not the reason for her banishment. They were looking for any excuse to get rid of her. It could just as well have been for wearing odd earrings, saying good morning to Caroline Lucas, or stepping on her cat's tail. Why not an open debate about racism to clarify things instead?" (friend, Bob Whitehead)
"Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America."
I remain incensed that even lovely Clun farmers despatch wonderful moles so cruelly, without even animal euthanasia. What is the matter with us humans?
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