Kemi Badenoch can't speak for every Black person as she has a different reality

04 October 2023 , 13:53

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Kemi Badenoch can't speak for every Black person as she has a different reality

Surprised. That’s one word I have for it, surprised. When I heard MP Kemi Badenoch say, “I tell my children this is the best country in the world to be Black – because it’s a country that sees people, not labels.” I thought she must be joking. Then I realised she is clearly tone deaf to the issues and challenges that the black community face everyday merely because they are black.

Her role as an MP, with a salary that people could only dream of is quite different to the life of a Black mum struggling to make demands to meet living in some of the poorest areas in the UK. Naturally we all want to believe the world is our oyster and that we can achieve anything we put our mind to, disregarding any barriers. Parents are meant to encourage their kids. But I know that us kids prefer honesty and realism. Who does Kemi think she’s fooling? Not Black people that’s for sure. She went further to say that ‘We believe, as Martin Luther King once said, people should be judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin.”’ No one can argue with Martin Luther King.

Serena Richards