Hackney blog Blood and Property quotes Diane Abbott writing in The Independent. The context is the release of the Blair Peach report:
[A] strength of the anti-racist movement of that era was that it was genuinely multi-racial. Black, white and Asian went to Southall to resist the fascists. Since then we have seen a regrettable fragmentation. First Asian people resisted being called black. Now Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus all insist on a separate identities. A distinct cultural identity is one thing. But the struggle against racism has been immeasurably weakened by the political fragmentation we have seen in past decades.
Citing local evidence, the Top London Blogger asks, "Could Diane's vote base be suffering from the same problem?" It's an interesting debate. Now read on.
