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ROGER McKENZIE braves the trolls to ask what the Labour Party and wider labour movement will actually do about the racism revealed in Forde and other reports
PASSING FAD? Now that the BLM moment has receded, will the labour movement make good on its promises to act on racism?

I RECENTLY had the temerity to wonder out loud on social media what the Labour Party intended to do about the racism exposed in the recent publication of the long-awaited Forde report.

Doing this on social media, without putting in place strict protocols about who can see your posts, is always a dicey thing to do of course.

You run the risk of coming up against one of those people who spend their lives searching for an opportunity to insult someone.

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