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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
James Walker

WATCH in full: Humza Yousaf's speech on racial injustice in Scotland

ELON Musk accused Humza Yousaf of being a “blatant racist” on Thursday after watching a viral video of him discussing racial injustice at Holyrood.

The owner of Twitter/X was responding to a video posted by an account called “End Wokeness” alleging that Yousaf “openly despises white people”.

The clip shows a short snippet of a speech about racial injustice Yousaf delivered to Holyrood on June 10 2020, when he was justice minister. At the time, protests were sweeping across the world after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police office. 

But the shortened version shared by Musk has often been used by alt-right figures suggesting it shows the SNP leader arguing that Scotland has too many white people, which he does not. 

The full speech is below, if you want the full context:

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