A UN human rights lawyer who said the word “shallow” was a “racial trope” has been behind a series of controversial comments, including an Apple worker’s accusation of “mansplaining” for telling a woman that She asked to be attended to by a female member of staff: “I will be happy to help you.”
Dominique Day chaired an expert working group on people of African descent that said “systemic” racism in the UK had not been addressed, a conclusion the Government said was based on “superficial analysis”. In response, Miss Day claimed that this was an “improvement” of “lazy” and called it a “familiar racial trope.”
His UN group has previously claimed that racism causes global warming and criticized a major race report by the UK government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities for “normalising white supremacy”.
Miss Day also writes about race and gender issues in a personal capacity, including the discrimination faced by dogs with “black-sounding names” and the ways in which “motherhood” has “indispensably sustained white supremacy.”
Dominique Day chaired an expert working group on people of African descent which said it had failed to address “systemic” racism in the UK.
The American’s comments about an Apple employee ‘mansplaining’ came in a thread about an incident at a store in New York in August 2021.
Journalist Laura Bassett wrote: ‘I’m at the Apple Store SoHo. A gray-haired woman walks in and announces, “I’d like to buy a woman a phone.” A male associate says, “I’ll be happy to help you!” She replies, “No offense.” but I demand a woman. Men are too linear and can’t understand what I need on a phone. ”lmao.’
After a follower asked why the employee had thought the customer might be talking about him, Day claimed he had been acting according to “the patriarchy playbook.”
She wrote: “I think you already know that the belief that white male voices and leadership are always necessary and relevant is in the patriarchy’s playbook, with mansplaining as the primary weapon for those who don’t appreciate it.”
Miss Day attended Harvard University and Stanford Law School and now lives in New York City, where she runs the social justice organization Daylight.
In 2018, he wrote in a blog post about Half about the links between the “maternal” instinct and racism.
The American’s comments about an Apple employee ‘mansplaining’ came in a thread about an incident at a New York store in August 2021
‘Motherhood has indispensably sustained white supremacy in the United States. We must be mindful of covert, even intimate, acts of solidarity that perpetuate institutional racism,” she wrote.
The attorney said mothers were often “overtly and blatantly racist” out of a desire to protect their children, citing the example of a Colorado woman who called the police on two Native American teenagers during her son’s college tour because They looked “creepy.”
Last year, he cited a study in an academic journal that found dogs with black or Hispanic names were adopted more slowly.
Responding to the report, he said: ‘People are just running on racism. Shelter dogs, especially pit bulls, with black-sounding names, are adopted more slowly. “People layer racial fears and white supremacy whenever there is discretion to do so.”
In 2021, a report by Miss Day’s UN task force found that climate change was “linked to economic and political frameworks that have systematically ignored the right to life and other fundamental human rights of people of African descent.”
He added: “Climate change is a byproduct of our continued economic dependence on extraction, exploitation and accumulation through dispossession,” the experts said.
The group’s report on racism in Britain was published after a ten-day visit to the country last week to uncover evidence of “racism, xenophobia and Afrophobia”.
After the visit, he wrote to the government to express his “very extreme concern” at the failure to address “structural, institutional and systemic racism” against black people in Britain.
It is not the first time Miss Day has waded into UK politics, with the lawyer previously accusing cabinet minister Dominic Raab of “brass necking” over a November 2020 tweet about the importance of standing up for women’s rights. Brits living in EU countries.
In response, Number 10 “strongly” rejected most of its conclusions and said the report presented a “superficial analysis” of complex issues.
This angered Miss Day, who claimed that the word “shallow” was an “update” of “vague” (which she claimed was used in a meeting during her trip) and called it a “familiar racial trope.”
But former cabinet minister Shailesh Vara, whose family moved to Britain from Uganda in the 1960s, told MailOnline that Downing Street’s response was “not a trope in any way”.
‘A ten-day tour of England is not an appropriate way to really understand the situation. “Of course it’s a superficial analysis, it’s not a trope in any way,” the Conservative MP said.
‘The UN report does not reflect the UK as it is. The fact that so many people from all over the world want to come and live here sends a powerful message and speaks volumes to refute the UN analysis.’
It is not the first time Miss Day has waded into UK politics, with the lawyer previously accusing cabinet minister Dominic Raab of “brass necking” over a November 2020 tweet about the importance of standing up for women’s rights. Brits living in EU countries.
Additionally, its task force criticized a landmark 2021 study by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities which found there was no evidence of institutional racism in the UK to suggest it contributed to “white supremacy”.
The UN group is in “robust” discussion with Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch, an “anti-woke” conservative “rising star” who was born in Nigeria and is touted as a future Prime Minister.
In its recent report into racial discrimination in the UK, Miss Day’s group called for an immediate and unconditional moratorium on the use of joint enterprise laws by prosecutions and the use of strip searches by police during arrests and searches.
“We have serious concerns about impunity and the failure to address racial disparities in the criminal justice system, deaths in police custody, convictions for ‘joint enterprises’ and the dehumanizing nature of stop and searches,” he said. it’s a statement.
In his preliminary findings, he also stated that austerity measures had exacerbated racism and racial discrimination against black people.
At a press conference in London on Friday, Ms Day said: “I have never before visited a country where there was a culture of fear permeating black communities, in relation to a range of asylum, residency and policing issues.”
“An entire community experiences constant and ongoing violations of human rights as a routine and normalized part of daily life.”
A government spokesman said: ‘We firmly reject the majority of these findings. The report mistakenly views people of African descent as a single, homogeneous group and presents a superficial analysis of complex issues that does not examine all possible causes of disparities, not just race.
‘We are proud that the UK is an open, tolerant and welcoming country, but this hard-earned global reputation is not adequately reflected in this report. We are not complacent and recognize that some people experience racism in Britain, but we are very clear that this has no place in our society and must be eradicated.
‘The UK Government has made great progress in tackling racial and ethnic disparities, most recently with our innovative Inclusive Britain strategy, which focuses on closing outcomes gaps between people from different ethnic backgrounds. Instead of sowing division, we should celebrate the fact that this country strives to give everyone, from every community, in every corner of the UK, the opportunity to prosper and succeed.’