London, September 26 (RHC)-- Allegations of racism rock the British Labour Party once again, brought to the fore by none other than Britain's first female Black MP and a lifelong anti-racism campaigner, Diane Abbott.

In April, Diane Abbott wrote a letter to the Observer newspaper suggesting that Jewish, Irish, and, traveler people, were not subjected to racism all their lives, and that although white people with points of difference suffer prejudice, they have not suffered the same racism as Black people.

Her comments were deemed racist and anti-semitic. The backlash was immediate. She apologized, but was suspended pending an investigation.  

Yet in an open letter published on X this week, she has accused Labour leader, Keir Starmer, of trying to oust her from Parliament by ensuring she cannot stand for the Labor party.  As a Black woman and someone on the left of the Labour Party, I have, unfortunately, been forced to reach the conclusion that I will NOT get a fair hearing from this Labour leadership.

Allegations of Racism have hit Buckingham Palace with a key aide quitting over remarks made to a Black charity campaigner.  Last year, an Al Jazeera documentary exposed apparent anti-Black discrimination and a hierarchy of racism in the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.

For example, earlier this year right wing Labour MP, Neil Coyle, who had racially abused a journalist and had a sexual harassment complaint upheld against him, was reinstated after a paltry five day suspension.

Abbot was shadow interior minister under former Labour Party Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who was blocked as a Labour MP over an anti semitism row in 2020.