• gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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    11 months ago

    In the USA, there are 3 African-American senators out of 100. There have been only 3 African American governors in history.

    There are 9 ethnic minority members of French parliament out of 577, despite making up about 15% of the population.

    Ethnic minorities represent 10% of the UK Parliament, despite being 16% of the population.

    In Israel, there are 10 seats in the Knesset representing Arab/Palestinian parties out of 120.

    Underrepresentation of minorities is a widespread global problem that is not limited to Israel. Pretending that the the rest of the world is some kind of post-racial utopia, while only Israel experiences racial inequality is cynical at best.

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      11 months ago

      Look at state legislators, mayors, etc. Yeah, the US is gerrymandered to shit, and SCOTUS is gutting the civil rights and voting rights acts. But at least at a state level, non-white people have better representation. In my state, Republicans are currently fighting a federal court order to redraw voting districts because they under-represented black populations, but that city has a black mayor, and a majority black city council. Yeah, the US has a problem with racism. But the US doesn’t send in the military to run Atlanta because they don’t want black and Latino people to have a say in the government.