Europe News Desk!! Senior Conservative peer Suella Braverman has been accused of racist rhetoric after the Home Secretary said British-Pakistani men were of particular concern in relation to child sex abuse cases. The Guardian reported- Saida Warsi, the first Asian to chair the Tory party, said conservatives can’t use the pigment in their skin as a defense mechanism to say they’re not racist, brown people can be racist too Are. Warsi said Braverman’s comment has stopped and asked Rishi Sunak to send a really strong message that this kind of rhetoric..stopped. I think a really strong message should go out to the Prime Minister that this kind of rhetoric, whether it’s on small boats, whether it’s over the weekend, that’s not evidence-based, not subtle, in any way Are not explanatory, it has to stop.
He said: I don’t think any of my colleagues can use the pigment in their skin as some sort of defense mechanism to say they are not racist. You know brown people can be racist too. Asked if she was calling the Home Secretary racist, she said: I am calling his rhetoric racist. I am. Alby Amancona, the Tory campaigner who co-founded the race relations group Conservatives Against Racism for Equality, said on Twitter: I do not understand how it is possible for Suella Braverman to expose herself to such racial insensitivity almost weekly. found in the center of I have said it before, something is not right there. Warsi’s comments follow letters sent to Sunak, including the British Pakistan Foundation calling on Braverman’s rhetoric to act, accusing the Home Secretary of trying to portray all British-Pakistani men in a divisive and dangerous manner Was accused.
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