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Countering the ‘Sewage report’
We must reject revisionist academic Tony Sewell's pro-establishment whitewash by continuing to present the facts about institutional racism in Britain, writes MARC WADSWORTH
Tony Sewell
ANSELM ELDERGILL asks whether artificial intelligence may decide legal cases in the future, in place of human judges, and how AI could reshape the legal landscape
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MARC WADSWORTH reports from the meeting to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre 65 years ago
TONY SEWELL used to have a reactionary, barely literate weekly column in the Voice, Britain’s black newspaper, which was birthed by the iconic Brixton uprising of the youth against police oppression 40 years ago. The uprising came three months after the New Cross Fire that claimed 14 young black lives and the unprecedented Black People’s Day of Action.
Sewell’s views chime with conservative elements in the black community. That’s why the equally backward Trevor Phillips also used to have a column in the paper, before I was brought in to edit and revamp it.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to have at first tried to get Phillips then settled on Sewell to chair his discredited racial disparities in the UK commission, the government’s response to the justice demands of the magnificent Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
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