"Putin runs a 'mafia state' and is a slave owner. Your invasion is in your own interest. To turn your mafia state into a mafia empire. An empire built on corruption." -- David Lammy, Head of Foreign Affairs for Great Britain addressing the Russian representative at the UN.
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David Lammy (UK) part 2:
“Mr President, I speak not only as a Briton, as a Londoner, and as a foreign secretary".
“But I say to the Russian representative, on his phone as I speak, that I stand here also as a Black man whose ancestors were taken in chains from Africa, at the barrel of a gun to be enslaved, whose ancestors rose up and fought in a great rebellion of the enslaved.
“Imperialism: I know it when I see it. And I will call it out for what it is,” Lammy said.