Rev. Jesse Jackson: 'UK Is like the Taliban' Because of 'White Male Supremacy'
'We complain about the Taliban but we do it ourselves in a nicer, gentler way'
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Rev. Jesse Jackson has compared the United Kingdom to the terrorist group The Taliban over alleged "white male supremacy" within the country.
Jackson once called the UK the “mother of racism” after a government report found it was not “deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities."
Jackson told the Guardian:
“Women and people of colour are still facing the shadow of white male supremacy both here and in the US."
“We complain about the Taliban but we do it ourselves in a nicer, gentler way,” he added.
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He also blasted the lack of so-called “affirmative action” within the UK.
“There must be some form of affirmative action after years of negative action,” the civil rights leader said.
Measures to increase the number of minorities in parts of society are often not possible in the UK, falling foul of British anti-discrimination law.
But diversity quotas have been used by public institutions like the BCC to increase employment from minority backgrounds.
Jackson also praised calling the Black Lives Matter movement calling it “consciousness-raising,” and that it was “a new name for an old process."
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Following a report from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government concluding the UK was in fact not “deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities," Jackson responded by calling Britain the “mother of racism."
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“I’ve traveled across Britain and clearly there’s a pattern of racism,” Jackson said, going on to emphasize that Britain played a major role in enslaving Africans.
As Breitbart reported:
This is despite the fact that Britain was one of the first major powers to abolish the practice in 1807, going so far as to put the Royal Navy to work, freeing slaves and chasing slavers from both domestic and international ships.
Jackson however claimed that because of Britain’s influence in the historical slave trade, the nation “owns racism and people know it.”
