Should Dianne Abbott Resign?
The Vixen
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Diane Abbott has been accused of racism after posting on twitter that white people love playing "divide and rule".
In a controversial message to a freelance journalist on the social networking site Twitter, Abbott wrote: "White people love playing 'divide and rule' we should not play their game."
She referred to the tactics being as old as colonialism.
I can't paste the story so you'll have to google it but it is being discussed on radio five live now. If you Google Abbott Divide and Rule you'll find loads of references to it.
I am not sure about resigning but she should certainly apologise. If any white MP categorised all black people in a negative light on twitter they'd be gone, she's took to ground for the moment has been invited to R5L but has not taken them up on the offer.
In a controversial message to a freelance journalist on the social networking site Twitter, Abbott wrote: "White people love playing 'divide and rule' we should not play their game."
She referred to the tactics being as old as colonialism.
I can't paste the story so you'll have to google it but it is being discussed on radio five live now. If you Google Abbott Divide and Rule you'll find loads of references to it.
I am not sure about resigning but she should certainly apologise. If any white MP categorised all black people in a negative light on twitter they'd be gone, she's took to ground for the moment has been invited to R5L but has not taken them up on the offer.
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Her concepts are just as backwards and unhelpful as the very things she's railing against.
Her 'we' and 'their' remarks say it all.
Yes and thrice yes!
Not all black people think white people are out to get them or repress them and not all black people are innocent either. Racism goes both ways.
She's a ****.
It's her comment that white people like to divide and rule.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8994068/Diane-Abbott-White-people-love-playing-divide-and-rule.html
She is a racist and her comments create a divide.
Well said to yourself.
http://twitter.com/#!/hackneyabbott
Tweet taken out of context. Refers to nature of 19th century European colonialism. Bit much to get into 140 characters.
That is her take on it most calling in from every race were it total disagreement with her. A few were supportive.
Her offending tweet was clearly written in the present tense. Fail excuse.
I think dianne abbot should have resigned years ago. She's a disgrace to her race, her party and her position. If it were possible, she'd drag the words 'MP' even further down into the gutter than they are. Just my opinion, of course.
Strangely enough, though, I don't think this latest indiscretion is particularly important. As usual, publicity has taken what would have been seen by a handful of people, supporters of hers anyway, and forgotten about by tomorrow, and distributed it to a much wider audience.
Don't try to get it into 140 characters then.
Not that I believe her.
I agree. Especially as it was part of a conversation that went like this
I want to see what thegenuinelizardman tweets about Diane Abbott
not that her weight is relevant
shes a bit stupid tweeting something like that
The problem right there. The current approach to the problems aren't working, but Diane Abbot would rather sweep it under the carpet and carry on pretending everything is absolutely fine, because admitting otherwise would be akin to letting the whites win. It's all a game to her and the community leaders. They're stuck in the 1970s.