{"id":1135214,"date":"2021-12-20T19:19:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T00:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135214"},"modified":"2021-12-20T19:19:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T00:19:57","slug":"jesse-jackson-compares-uk-to-taliban-over-white-male-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jesse-jackson-compares-uk-to-taliban-over-white-male-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson Compares UK to Taliban over \u2018White Male Supremacy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjesse-jackson-compares-uk-to-taliban-over-white-male-supremacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1354526354-1-e1640002597556-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rev. Jesse Jackson has compared the UK to the Taliban over the presence of \u2018white male supremacy\u2019 within the country.<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing activist Reverend Jesse Jackson has compared the UK to the Taliban over elements of \u201cwhite male supremacy\u201d within the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jackson had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/07\/jesse-jackson-rejects-race-report-calls-britain-mother-of-racism\/\">referred<\/a> to Britain as the \u201cmother of racism\u201d after a government report found that the country was not \u201cdeliberately rigged against ethnic minorities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen and people of colour are still facing the shadow of white male supremacy both here and in the US,\u201d Jackson, who was visiting the United Kingdom,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/19\/jesse-jackson-calls-for-affirmative-action-to-tackle-white-male-supremacy-in-uk\">told<\/a>&nbsp;<em>The Guardian&nbsp;<\/em>on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe complain about the Taliban but we do it ourselves in a nicer, gentler way,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jackson also criticised the lack of so-called \u201caffirmative action\u201d within the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere must be some form of affirmative action after years of negative action,\u201d the civil rights leader said.<\/p>\n<p>The measures, which aim to increase the number of people from minority backgrounds in various parts of society, are often not possible in the UK, falling foul of British anti-discrimination law.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/09\/uk-broadcasters-dump-bame-acronym-for-not-being-woke-enough\/\">diversity quotas<\/a> have been used by public institutions such as the state-owned BBC to increase the number of people employed from minority backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson also heaped praise on the controversial Black Lives Matter movement, saying that it was \u201cconsciousness-raising\u201d, and that it was \u201ca new name for an old process\u201d, following in the footsteps of the black power movement in the US.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.5172413793103\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Black Lives Matter Statue Toppling an &#8216;Act of Love&#8217;, Court Told <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QUd1SuRFZu\">https:\/\/t.co\/QUd1SuRFZu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1472260370580475904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time Jackson has criticised the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>After a report by Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/07\/jesse-jackson-rejects-race-report-calls-britain-mother-of-racism\/\">concluded<\/a> that Britain was in fact&nbsp;not \u201cdeliberately rigged against ethnic minorities\u201d, Jackson contested the findings, saying that Britain was the \u201cmother of racism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve travelled across Britain and clearly there\u2019s a pattern of racism,\u201d Jackson said, going on to emphasise that Britain played a major role in enslaving Africans.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the fact that Britain was one of the first major powers to abolish the practice in 1807, going so far as to put the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmrn.org.uk\/news-events\/nmrn-blog\/key-role-african-seamen-royal-navy%E2%80%99s-anti-slavery-campaign\">Royal Navy to work freeing slaves<\/a>&nbsp;and chasing slavers from both domestic and international ships.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson however claimed that because of Britain\u2019s influence in the historical slave trade, the nation \u201cowns racism and people know it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. 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