Kemi Badenoch’s victory as the new leader of the Conservative Party was marred by hateful comments from those on the extreme right and left. Yes, shockingly the right were as unhappy as the left about a black woman becoming the leader of Britain’s oldest political party. One particular person on the left who stood out was Dawn Butler.
Butler, who is the Labour MP for Brent East, took home the most outrageous and gross award on social media, when she shared (before deleting) a tweet saying Kemi Badenoch represents a “white supremacy in blackface”. I can’t tell you how disgusting and dangerous it was for Butler to share this tweet (which the original author, the British-Nigerian writer Nels Abbey, says was satire), especially when she knows the violence black female MPs face.
