Diane Abbott's Rascist Remarks

Is Diane Abbott really rascist or is this just symptom of Politically Correct Society that we live in.

She is pretty much saying white people are out to get black people, trying to divide and rule over them. Its racist and generalising, assuming all white people want to rule over blacks and that we all have the same attitudes since colonial days

She's said that all white people like to 'divide and rule' (a fairly negative status is attached to that, wouldn't you say?)

Imagine if David Cameron tweeted that 'black people love to take bribes' or 'asians love to join gangs' or 'hispanics love to steal'. Would you be wondering if that was racist? 

So basically we're offended by her generalisation of white people.
Ok, gotcha.

I still don't think it's racist, though, because it's based on a truth that I wish alot
of (black) people in general would wake up and realise, and then realise that
they have the power to counter it.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16423278
BBC is now reporting on it.

Ms Abbott updated her page on Twitter later to say: "Tweet taken out of context. Refers to nature of 19th Century European colonialism. Bit much to get into 140 characters."
So she thinks that there was nothing wrong with that tweet and claiming white people have colonial attitudes and want to rule over black people is just dandy.

Counter what? This grand conspiracy of white people? I don't see how this is based on truth at all. As a white person I can tell you I don't seek to divide and rule over black people. (she does not even say who or what institution, if she has a problem with an institution or social issue then there are far better ways to deal with it then tweets like this)

What I find offensive about this Twitter exchange (and I have bothered to look at the context surrounding this single tweet) is that the original poster was making a comment about generalisation, "I do wish everyone would stop saying 'the black community' though. Which one?" Notice the context - the current Stephen Lawrence sentencing, not 19th century colonialism. For Abbott to then follow that up with a comment about 'white people' (who exactly?) is not only racist but entirely missing the point of the conversation. Furthermore, the use of present tense and choice of hash tag, #tacticasoldascolonialism, gives away her true intentions. She could easily have tagged the post with something that would give her tweet the context she claims it was meant in (e.g. #19thcenturycolonialism). However, by categorising it as a tactic as old as colonialism she is implying it is something in the present that has been happening since the nineteenth-century and not something that happened over a hundred years ago. The use of the phrase, "We should not play their game" serves to further divide them (the 'white people') from us (everybody else?). This seems ironical given the original accusation.