Kemi Badenoch says UK is best place in the world to be black

BBC reporter Rianna Croxford says she nearly quit over abuse ‘pile-on’ after Kemi Badenoch criticism

inews.co.uk/news/media/bbc-reporter-rianna-croxford-nearly-quit-kemi-badenoch-instigated-online-abuse-1076556

They aren't white though. I wasn't sure what the correct term was these days and didn't want people jumping down my throat about it. Oh well.

Aveline

Whatever you think of the Tories they're leading the way in promoting people of different ethnic backgrounds: Sajid Javed, Rishi Sunak, Alok Sharma, Priti Patel, all-in senior government roles. Obviously hard working and well educated people. Fine by me.

Well they are all from an Indian/Pakistan background so not many different ethnic backgrounds there.

Doodledog

GrannyGravy13

As a white female it is not for me to say if a black females views on racism in the U.K. are right or wrong.

Agreed, and I think that as one black woman Kemi Badenoch is not in any position to speak for every other black woman either.

She didn't claim to be speaking for every other black woman.

how can she possibly know?

She is stating an opinion based on her own experience, just as other people do.

Do people think relative wealth/poverty influence this kind of opinion?

GrannyGravy13

As a white female it is not for me to say if a black females views on racism in the U.K. are right or wrong.

Agreed, and I think that as one black woman Kemi Badenoch is not in any position to speak for every other black woman either.

As a white female it is not for me to say if a black females views on racism in the U.K. are right or wrong.

Statements like this should only be made by people who have lived in every country in the world, and preferably by people who have experienced being rich, poor, male, female, sick, well and every other combination of circumstances that add up to 'being black'.

Otherwise, how can she possibly know?

Whatever you think of the Tories they're leading the way in promoting people of different ethnic backgrounds: Sajid Javed, Rishi Sunak, Alok Sharma, Priti Patel, all-in senior government roles. Obviously hard working and well educated people. Fine by me.

I think, from what I have read, that the UK is the best place to be black ( certainly in Europe.)
There is racism of some kind in all countries, but we are generally a very fair society, where a person can get on in life no matter the skin colour.We have plenty of race laws in place and people have changed their thinking a lot over the last 40 years or so.

She may have spoken about poverty in Nigeria but it wasn't her poverty.

As has been said, lack of utilities was due to general problems of supply in Nigeria.

Kemi’s father is a GP and her mother a professor of physiology. She spent a chunk of her childhood in the US where her mother held a university teaching post. Lagos in particular, due to the oil money has a large and wealthy middle class. Lagos is also one of the fastest growing cities in the world in recent decades and the city infrastructure has not fully kept pace: there are planned electricity outages to this day which cause my friends living there much annoyance.

Sorry, didn't close quote.

It's from guardian.ng

She is the daughter of two wealthy, educated Nigerians

So is this a different Kemi Badenoch?

"In 2015, Badenoch was declared to fill the vacancy left behind by Victoria Borwick in the House of Commons. Badenoch went on to retain her seat in the Assembly in the 2016 election and was elected into the UK parliament. While at the parliament, she often spoke about her experiences of poverty in Nigeria and living without electricity or functioning water supply. She also narrated how she had to do her homework using candles

That's her opinion - who knows it might be true, I'm not Black so can't say.

But what's with her dig at the Left and denial of Tory racist behaviour?

Not for the first time is she stirring it.

Badenoch has been peddling this line for ages.

She is the daughter of two wealthy, educated Nigerians. She has no idea what it's like to be black in a "normal" community and looks down on other black people. She has also made Islamophobic comments. Just because she's black, don't think she can't be racist.