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Labour’s hypocrisy on racism is itself deeply racist
The most maddening aspect of watching the party leadership ignore the Forde report is the frenzied zeal with which the same clique pursued the anti-semitism scandal — all for factional purposes, not justice, writes ROGER McKENZIE

MONTHS after the damning Forde report was published, it takes the author having to appear on an Al Jazeera programme for the Labour Party to bother giving even the half-hearted, pathetic response that it has.
The mealy-mouthed words from the leader and general secretary of the party make no firm commitment to deal with the deep-seated anti-black racism and Islamophobia that infect the party when this is exactly what is required.
The fact is Labour is the epitome of institutional racism — but it is still very happy to rely on the black vote to get it elected in countless seats throughout the country.
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