The leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom (United Kingdom), Kemi Badenoch, has opened on personal attacks that suffered from British racists to become the first black woman to direct the party, describing the scale of abuse as “hysterical.”
Badenoch, who had previously praised Great Britain as the best place in the world for blacks, told The Sunday Times that he did not expect the level of hostility since his choice.
According to her, the attacks she receives from other parliamentarians is minimal compared to the abuse that threw it through the racists in the social networks that attack her due to her race and ethnicity.
She said: “There is a certain picture of people who clearly cannot deal with the fact that I won this and I am doing it. The level of personal attacks of anonymous people, is hysterical. Not even only of parliamentarians. I don’t really think that many parliamentarians. I think it’s two or three people of 120. That is nothing. Could I have done this? ‘
Badenoch said that the racists in social believed that he could not have achieved the current state for himself, “there are many ethno-nationalism that crawled, many things about my race and my ethnicity and the tropes around,” well, I could not have done all this by itself. “
Tribune online He informs that Badenoch, who was born in Wimbledon, but grew in Nigeria before returning to the United Kingdom at age 16, had previously said that he is not really Nigerian by national identity and only chooses to identify with his Yoruba tribe.
“I always try to think about all possible explanations before going to race and racism. I think that is a healthy way of directing a society. I remember that when I stood up a few years ago and I said that Britain is not a racist country, ethnic minorities do it very well here, they are the children of the white working class who are actually fighting in many metrics, and that I piloted me for that.
“My opinion is that there are people who will say anything, they will throw any type of mud and wait for him to stay,” he told The Sunday Times.
Badenoch, who is also a member of Parliament (MP) for North West Essex, now faces a defining period as the party leader, countered the speculations of a challenge and possible replacement by his secretary of justice in the shadow, Robert Jenrick.
“I think it’s an illusion. There will always be people who are lost, our candidate did not win, and so on, and sour grapes … When I hear those things, I can say that these people are not focused on the country at all. Many of those people who have those conversations think that this is a game. But the life of this country is not a game,” Badenoch added.
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