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Hypocrisy and hysteria over the Sewell report

Hypocrisy and hysteria over the Sewell report

Who can be surprised? It destroys the racial libel of “white privilege”

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Melanie Phillips
Apr 04, 2021
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When Michelle Obama tells schoolgirls to view the pandemic as a blessing, she’s praised for a “really positive” way of looking at things. When Tony Sewell writes in his race commission report that there’s a positive story to be told about black people coming out of slavery, he is denounced for “downplaying the evil” of the slave trade and is compared to…

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