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Opinion: Who is really responsible for the lack of BAME Councillors and MPs?

By Duwayne Brooks | Tue 3rd August 2010 - 11:15 am

There is a popular saying out there, expressed in many ways but always conveying the same message: ‘Black people don’t read’.

Before we criticise any individual political party in London, in my humble opinion we need to persuade black voters to adopt a different approach to elections. They should first find out who are the candidates; then vote for those they believe have a better understanding of their own issues

At the last election, too many black voters displayed total ignorance about the people whose names were on the ballot paper. They just went out and voted on purely national issues …

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