A UK black Member of Parliament who's running for leadership of the Conservative party following Prime Minister Boris Johnson's recent resignation has been accused of “enabling white supremacy,” despite being the only black candidate to have joined the race, so far..Kemi Badenoch MP is the only black candidate to have registered..The attack came from far-left author and political commentator Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu who said Badenoch’s “power-grabbing ambition is rooted in discrediting [and] delegitimizing anti-racism efforts, denying systemic racism, whitewashing [the] British Empire [and] enabling white supremacy against black people.”.Mos-Shogbamimu continued her vitriolic tongue-lashing by saying “Kemi Badenoch is a GIFT for racists and white supremacy — uses her black identity to delegitimize the systemic oppression she claims UK is falsely accused of and now uses black minority identity to run for prime minister. A black racial-gatekeeping executioner of Tory racist policies.”.Mos-Shogbamimu's own website offers readers a profile:."Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu is a British-born and Nigerian political and women’s rights activist, [she] taught intersectional feminism to female refugees and asylum seekers, scrutinizes government policies from a gender and diversity inclusion perspective, and co-organizes women's marches and social campaigns. She is also a New York attorney and solicitor in England and Wales with broad expertise in the financial services industry, writer, public speaker and political commentator featured in mainstream and online media.".It also states she is "the grand-daughter of the late Nigerian monarch of Ogere-Remo, Oba Alfred Obafuwa Babington-Ashaye, Legunsen III, the Ologere of Ogere and the daughter of the late Prince Adebajo Babington-Ashaye.".In a comment unbecoming her professional status as a lawyer, Mos-Shogbamimu said Badenoch “can crawl back into her mother.".It's not Badenoch's first rodeo when it comes to attacks of this kind. Labour MP Dawn Butler called her and others “racial gatekeepers” in the British House of Commons following the release of a government race report last year..Butler described the report in question as “gaslighting on a national scale.".The report, chaired by British-born, Jamaican-heritage educator Dr. Tony Sewell, found institutional racism was not a problem in the UK — quite the contrary, it claimed the UK is a “beacon to the rest of Europe and the world” in terms of race relations..The report drew international criticism, including from the United Nations, as well as from left-wing radicals in Britain. Breitbart London wrote Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson uploaded a picture of Sewell on social media with the message that “house negroes” are “in need of hanging," referring to the lynch mobs tactics of racists in the US in times past..Badenoch told Parliament: “It is wrong to accuse those who argue for a different approach as being ‘racism deniers’ or ‘race traitors.’ It is even more irresponsible — dangerously so — to call ethnic minority people racial slurs like ‘Uncle Toms,’ ‘coconuts,' ‘house slaves or house Negroes’ for daring to think differently.".“Such deplorable tactics are designed to intimidate ethnic minority people from their right to express legitimate views,” she said..“Our country is falsely criticized as oppressive to minorities and immoral, because it enforces its own borders. We cannot maintain a cohesive nation-state with the zero-sum identity politics we see today,” Badenoch wrote in The Times..“Exemplified by coercive control, the imposition of views, the shutting down of debate, the end of due process, identity politics is not about tolerance or individual rights, but the very opposite of our crucial and enduring British values,” she said..From Wimbledon in southwest London, Badenoch grew up in the US, Nigeria, and the UK. After studying at the University of Sussex, she worked her way up through the Tory party and was elected to parliament in 2017.
