Jesse Jackson calls for affirmative action to tackle white male supremacy in UK [theguardian.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 1/4/2210:15 AM

By Vikram Dodd, Photo: David Johnson/Cambridge University/PA, The Guardian, December 19, 2021

Women and ethnic minorities are being held back by white male supremacy and affirmative action is needed in Britain to tackle longstanding injustices, the US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has said.

Jackson, a former presidential candidate and veteran civil rights leader who worked alongside Dr Martin Luther King in the 1960s, on Sunday finishes a tour of the UK to mark his 80th birthday.

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