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tombydand:

jamescarstairs:

Because tumblr is very American centric and if you didn’t hear, which is probably likely, London just elected their first Muslim Mayor !!!!! and i think more people should be talking about this

except its slightly cooler than this lets on because, our exiting mayor was born rich and went to eaton our existing prime minister was born rich and went to eaton the person running against our new mayor also born rich and went to eaton, our new mayor? son of a busdriver in london, worked hard to get to where he is and is not just the first muslim mayor of london but the first muslim mayer of all major european capitals and probably one of only a handful of muslims to have been elected mayor of any major citie in western countries. and he did so by being calm under racial slurs and slander. 

also when trump said that our new mayor would be an exception to trumps muslim ban our mayors response was essentially “haha, no, its not about me its about my family my friends my culture and your views and ideas play into extremist ideology and i shall have no part in it.” 

just, 

well done fellow londoners, we did a good thing, maybe this mayor will actually care about those of us trying to actually live in this city. 

I had to leave London where this happened for America where Trump is happening. ?