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In an open letter to the ‘disenfranchised’ communities of Britain, in particular the black community, activist and political advisor Lee Jasper has given a dressing down to those who abstain from the democratic process in a TNT exclusive:
“As one of the founders of Operation Black Vote in 1996 I have long been an advocate of urging our disenfranchised black community to vote. The dream of Dr Martin Luther King was that we would wake up to our innate potential and become militant democrats. We have secured what rights we do have, because men and women like Dr King suffered the assassin’s bullet, the silently swinging noose and being beaten, raped or bludgeoned to death, for having the audacity, the sheer temerity to make the claim we are human beings. “That is a blood price, counted in lit-
erally millions of lives across the world and yet here in the heart of British democracy we prefer to vote for X Factor or I’m a Celebrity contestants than honour the precious sacrifice of the dead by voting. I’m reminded of spoilt kids in a sweet shop or the drunken man swimming in alcohol whilst his family goes hungry. Whilst our brothers and sisters face racism in the UK and Europe we hide in our ignorance and shame. “More than 21% of the black community are not registered to vote as opposed to 7% of the white population. Given the price we’ve paid to have that right,
that’s a disgrace. We should celebrate our right to vote and hold carnivals on election days. Over 30 years I’ve heard all the misguided excuses as to why we should vote, and have witnessed the very people who don’t vote suffer the dreadful indignity of enforced poverty and injustice. Our ancestors must look at us through the mists of ancestral time and weep. “Let’s be clear here, there is no such thing as not voting. In refusing to cast your vote you implicitly vote for the vested interests of the status quo. The idiotic portrayal of abstaining from
democratic engagement as a ‘revolutionary, conscious act’ only makes sense if were building revolutionary schools, houses and hospitals, opening revolutionary banks and lending revolutionary money. Anything else is a death sentence to our people. “It burns me that Manchester has virtually no local African-Caribbean councillors and that the arch fascist Nick Griffin MEP lords his racist self over the North West.”
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‘Chosen one’ gets the CHOP
Privately Sir Alex Ferguson must be livid that his chosen successor could well have handed a 19th title to arch -rivals Liverpool