Imagine if the Mayor of London was a Tory and his website featured an image of a black family alongside the words: ‘Doesn’t represent real Londoners.’ Imagine if this right-leaning mayor had weird rules on ‘branding’, one of which was that images of young black families should not be used in mayor-related publicity because these people, with their dark skin, are not reflective of ‘our’ vision of London.
If someone can explain how judging a family on the basis of their whiteness is any better than judging a family on the basis of their blackness, I would be most grateful
There would be uproar, possibly protests, and rightly so. It would be utterly unacceptable, vile actually, to racialise Londoners in this way; to treat black families as so morally lesser than white ones that they should never be shown in official PR bumpf. Being a Londonder has nothing to do with race.
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