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Dawn Butler: ‘It is shocking, the disrespect for Black women in the Commons’

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August 18, 2023

Dawn Butler: ‘It is shocking, the disrespect for Black women in the Commons’

Source: The Guardian


The Labour MP Dawn Butler remembers the first time she was called a liar. She was eight years old and had just returned from a family holiday to Jamaica. She was telling her class that she saw a cockroach that could fly when the teacher stopped her and said she was lying. Butler was told to leave the classroom. She ran out of the school and went straight home.

Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 14 August 2023.

Author
Aamna Mohdin

The Labour MP Dawn Butler remembers the first time she was called a liar. She was eight years old and had just returned from a family holiday to Jamaica. She was telling her class that she saw a cockroach that could fly when the teacher stopped her and said she was lying. Butler was told to leave the classroom. She ran out of the school and went straight home.

Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 14 August 2023.

Author
Aamna Mohdin

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