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Default Re: Racism rife in Commons, says MP

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Originally Posted by Marulus View Post
'In the beginning, some of it was sheer ignorance. I remember being shocked when a Labour MP asked me once whether we celebrated Christmas in Jamaica,' said Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington.
He was probably thinking about Rastafarians, so it was hardly ignorance. A simple answer would have been, 'yes, we're mostly Christians'. Instead she was shocked and then harboured the grievance for years. No wonder there are only two of them in Westminster.
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