By Kehinde Andrews
One of the key aims OBU is to build a mass membership base in the community and so we expect and accept a broad range of views in the organisation. However, in the spirit of Year X, we have decided we need to ‘make it plain’ and be vocal about the politics that underlie the organisation. Unity, cannot mean compromising your politics to keep everyone happy. It means attempting to rally the community to a progressive politics of liberation, which is going to put some people off. Our first topic for the monthly series of posts is a key issue because in May a general election will take place and there is a campaign to gain support for the Tory party in the Black community. We need to be clear about the relationship between the Tories and Black progressive politics: the two can never mix.
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