One thing is for sure. Had a politician tweeted about the supposed failings of 'black people' they wouldn't half be in hot water.
More than that, though, Abbott's tweet shows, in my humble opinion, how small minded and foolish she is. To be banging on about, as she says she was, the failings of colonialism and how the colonial powers divided and ruled... How relevant is that to the situation we face in the UK today? Not very, I suggest.
Sure, colonialism wasn't a good thing. Then again, what has followed it in countries such as Uganda, Rwanda, DRC, Central African Republic, Angola, etc, etc hasn't been exactly brilliant.
It probably doesn't matter too much if it's the colonial askaris who come looking for you with their shiny bayonets or your erstwhile neighbours hunting you down with their machetes.
And as for the slave trade, anyone who thinks that was purely a white on black crime should read a history book or two. Or just google the words 'Ashanti Empire' and see what they find.
At a time when it would be helpful if we were all in something together - ie rescuing the UK from its plight – it is unhelpful for Ms Abbott to be blathering on with the language of black and white.
To see her backed by the increasingly odd Darcus Howe on Newsnight was just plain depressing. His language seemed to be of a different era - trying to convince an ever-more colour-blind country that we should really be at each others' throats.
It seemed to me to be bizarre and regressive. Like Ms Abbott in a way.
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