Black Lives Matter: Boris Johnson Said, “Much More That We Need to Do’ to Tackle Racism”

The fight against police brutality and equal right among the blacks and whites has made people in different cities around the world to protest in solidarity of “Black lives matter.”

The protests triggered by the death of George Floyd by the police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota has made citizens of different countries, primarily the blacks, to stand against poor treatment of the black people all over the world.

In the United Kingdom, protesters knelt in symbolic solidarity with police brutality and unequal right. The Britain activists claim the UK is not innocent of the poor treatment of the black.

In a recent incident, Belly Muijnga – a Black railway worker- died from coronavirus when spat by a man claiming to have the virus. The event triggered more protesters to fight for equal right among the blacks and whites.

The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced a new commission to regulate inequality among the black and white, he said, “there is much more that we need to do to tackle racism.”

“The United Kingdom should not re-write the past by removing historical symbols, and the UK’s heritage should be left broadly in peace,” the PM said.

Writing in the telegraph, the PM said, “he was setting up a commission to look at inequality as it was “no use just saying that we have made huge progress in tackling racism”.

He wrote: “There is much more that we need to do, and we will. It is time for a cross-governmental commission to look at all aspects of inequality – in employment, in health outcomes, in academic and all other walks of life.”

Shadow Justice secretary David Lammy discussed the different racial inequality works already carried out; The Race Disparity Audit, published by then prime minister, Theresa May in 2017, and his report, The 2017 Lammy Review.

Lammy said, “Black people aren’t playing the victim as Boris indicates, they’re protesting precisely because the time for review is over and the time for action is now.”

Secretary Lammy said the PM’s announcement is not detailed because it was “written on the back of a fag packet yesterday to assuage the Black Lives Matter protest”.

However, the PM condemned the protesters’ action in pulling down of slave trader Edward Colston. He added that their mission was “utterly absurd” and called them “far-right thugs.”

Mr. Johnson added that “he did not mean wasting time, disputing the life and opinions of every historical personality currently immortalized in bronze or stone.”

“Let’s fight racism, but leave our heritage broadly in peace. If we really want to change it, there are democratic means available in this country – thanks, by the way, to Winston Churchill,” he said.