How can people be taken in by this crap?

[superfeathers]

Nope, I have never heard anything as overtly racist from an MP as claiming that black people are so downtrodden that if someone is successful, benefitted from a good upbringing or has a good job etc, then they cannot be black. It's awful. There is no hint of 'banter' there. Rightly suspended and she has rightly apologised directly to Kwasi Kwarteng.

Quite a statement
You wouldn’t put calling Muslim women bank robbers and letterboxes on a par?

I had a watermelon smile to myself reading that