© Reuters / Toby MelvilleDemonstrators argue during a Black Lives Matter protest by the Winston Churchill statue in Westminster, London, June 9, 2020
As the UK celebrates Black History Month, a website promoting the event has deleted content featuring claims that white people are "genetically defective mutants", which had appeared beside taxpayer-funded ads.
The Black History Month website is not run by the British government, but is one of the most prominent outlets promoting the month, and has featured content by prominent British politicians, all of whom pledge their support for the event and pledge to "fight for racial justice", as Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey wrote in an
article published on the site on Friday.
It has also featured far more provocative and racist content. A 2016
article on the site examined the work of American psychiatrist Frances Cress Welsing, who theorized that white people were originally
"genetically defective mutants" who were driven from Africa by the black natives.
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