The prospects for
ethnic minority politicians are still held back by «dinosaur attitudes» to race among party activists, a thinktank has argued.
But exclusive research published for the first time by Business Insider shows how
ethnic minority politicians such as Abbott receive disproportionate amounts of that abuse.
Not exact matches
Most participants in the
ethnic minority poll could not name spontaneously a single
politician from their own or another
minority background.
The 45 - year - old is the first black or
minority ethnic person to be London Mayor and one of the most senior elected Labour
politicians outside Westminster.
Robert Moses was not a
politician but New York City's master planner who ruthlessly exercised power to demolish and rebuild the City and marginalise
ethnic minorities.
Politicians who do so are likely to be accused of championing those kids who will «succeed regardless» at the expense of the poor, the disabled, or racial or
ethnic minorities.