{news} Fw: Galloway: non-racist, non-identity politics--how refreshing

[Justine McCabe]

Fowarded by the USGP International Committee: 

Some concluding comments from an article about Galloway:

http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=7081&grp=66&cat=228 

"Ultimately, however, Galloway unseated a black MP because the majority of the 
black community of Bethnal Green and Bow chose him. That community made its 
decision, not on the basis of race, religion or gender, but instead on the basis 
of politics.

They deemed that a white, left-wing MP with a track record in defending the 
rights of Palestinians, opposing wars on the Muslim community, and fighting for 
social justice in areas of social housing, education, crime, workers' rights and 
so on, was a better representative of their views and interests than a pro-war, 
right-wing black MP pursuing US foreign policy."


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