IAM:= seased io have boce seered as Labour's prospective parliamentary andidate for Hackney OlIC ot the safest seats in the country, so l imagine I will become the first black woman MP. But I was taken aback by the volume of press this has generated. There wasn't such coverage when the other black candidates were selected.
By treating me as some sort ot amazing _oneno menom, the press society's is fact revealing very low expectalions ol black people in general and black ticular. It is important to out that there are lots terribly talented black women around -Is Just unal sociely Is structured that they not noticed.
At the last general election, Hackney North had lurnout, only of the effects of my candidacy will be generate a little more excitement and hence a bigger turnout.
will be moving Hackney because I want 10 get involved on a day-loday basis with the party. It used to be the case that most innercity MPs didn't actually live in their constiThey dived In the suburbs and only came in! THE FUSS by the press at the selection of Labour's first black woman candidate reveals the low expectations that society has about women and black people says DIANE ABBOTT, Hackney's new prospective parliamentary candidate. But such prejudices aren't confined to the bourgeois press, she told CAROL TURNER. The white male left is just as reluctant to accept that women and black people are every bit as socialist as men. Socialist Action Joser.