UK – Diane Abbott, Jamaican Roots, Suspended as Labor MP in Parliament

In the UK’s parliament, Diane Abbott of Jamaican descent has been placed on administrative leave while an investigation is being done in reference to a letter she sent for the Observer newspaper stating white people, like Jews, do not experience racism.

The MP for Hackney North is now required to serve in the Commons as an independent Member of Parliament due to the judgment.

According to BBC News, the lawmaker said in the letter that was recently released that while “many types of white people with points of difference” might encounter discrimination, they do not always do so “all their lives.”

According to the BBC, Labor criticized the remarks as “deeply offensive and wrong.” It also included a later tweet from Abbott in which she apologized for any agony caused and announced that she was retracting her statements.

Irish, Jewish, and Travelers were not compelled to seat in the rear of the bus in pre-civil rights America, according to a statement made by the former shadow home secretary. She noted, “In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships.”

The Board of Deputies of British Jews, which called Abbott’s letter “disgraceful” and her apologies “entirely unconvincing,” reacted negatively to it, according to the BBC.