Last year, Suella Braverman was sacked as a cabinet minister by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (file photo)
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Former UK home secretary Suella Braverman has slammed a report to a parliamentary group warning of a “racist colonial legacy”, saying it was wrong to make “white people feel guilty”.
Suella Braverman was born in the UK to a Goan father and a Tamil mother. She wrote in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday defending perceptions of racism in rural Britain.
It comes after a coalition of voluntary organizations, Wildlife & Countryside Links, submitted a report to the House of Commons all-party parliamentary group on race and communities.
“Just because there are more white people than non-white people somewhere does not mean it is racist,” the 43-year-old politician wrote in the newspaper.
“Britain is a majority white country, so of course there are many areas where there is little or sometimes no participation from ethnic minorities. I don’t think there is a problem. Ethnic minorities tend to live in urban areas. Is that right?” “Wembu Leigh is my hometown and is now a majority non-white area, so because there are fewer white people living there, does that make Wembley racist? Of course not,” she said.
To illustrate her point, she also posted a photo of herself on a camping vacation with an Indian-American family in the 1980s, saying that in 30 years of such vacations, they had never experienced hostility.
The Link report that prompted her defense of rural Britain said: “Cultural barriers reflect how, in the UK, white British cultural values have been integrated into the design and management of green spaces, as well as into society’s expectations of how people should behave. .” Interact with them.
“The racist colonial legacy of viewing nature as ‘white space’ creates further barriers that suggest people of color are not legitimate users of green space.” Suela Braverman counters that claiming racism exists in rural areas is left-wing One of the most “ridiculous examples” of identity politics.
“This is a symptom of a deeper problem in our society: the constant urge to see everything through the lens of race or gender, to argue that one is the victim, and to point the finger at the oppressor… We need to stop making white people feel guilty for being white And feel guilty.’ ,” she noted.
Suella Braverman, now a Commons backbencher, has been outspoken on issues of race and immigration since she was sacked as a cabinet minister by Chancellor Rishi Sunak last year .
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