Jon Snow – why are his comments a problem?

Ending Channel 4 news on the day that leave supporters gathered outside Parliament (Friday 29th April) he said “It’s been an extraordinary day…a day which has seen … I have never seen so many white people in one place, it’s an extraordinary story”. He was dismayed I think. Leave the man alone. A thankfully honest view inadvertently helping us to see where we are headed if we are not careful. The right is trying to assert itself so we need this kind of witnessing in the media, just like we need witnessing about all kinds of oppression, from the personal and national right through to worldwide political attacks on our human rights to retain what has been achieved and push for more.

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