A deputy of the British Labour Party denounced black experience racism “often” in the House of Commons and gave as an example a time when a colleague mistook a cleaner.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Dawn Butler, deputy since 2005 and one of the black few parliamentary British Parliament, reported the incident, which occurred when got into one of lifts specially reserved for parliamentarians in the House of Commons (lower house).
“This elevator is not for the cleaners,” he snapped one of his colleagues who was in the elevator, he explained Butler, who did not specify his name or political color.
The MP for Brent Central (London), 46 and daughter of Jamaican parents, described on other occasions incidents of racism in British politics.
Thus, in an article for the organization of defense of the rights of women Fawcett Society explained how a member of the government questioned for years the right to be on the terrace is reserved parliamentarians within the building of the Houses of Parliament.
When she told him she was deputy effect, the political unknown replied, “They admit to anyone these days.”
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