Labour ‘racism’ would block British Obama, says Trevor Phillips
08 11 08 - 02:33 Barack Obama would never have been elected prime minister in this country because of “institutional racism” in the Labour Party, the head of Britain’s equality watchdog has told The Times.Trevor Phillips says in an interview today that the public would be happy to vote for a black leader, but the political system would prevent an ethnic minority candidate getting to the top.
“If Barack Obama had lived here I would be very surprised if even somebody as brilliant as him would have been able to break through the institutional stranglehold that there is on power within the Labour Party,” said the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. He said that there was an “institutional resistance” to selecting black and Asian candidates. “The parties and unions and think-tanks are all very happy to sign up to the general idea of advancing the cause of minorities but in practice they would like somebody else to do the business. It’s institutional racism.”
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They may be worried that it would drastically increase the BNP vote. Once we have the same proportions of non-whites as they do in the US we will have a non-white leader. That number of blacks all voting for one candidate is enough to win him the election.
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