TheLodger
Well-known member
Judging a demonstration by it's most violent participants, BUT not judging a police force by the most violent police officers is the language of the oppressor.
Lammy was born on 19 July 1972 in Whittington Hospital in Archway, North London, to Guyanese parents David and Rosalind Lammy.[2][3][4] He and his four siblings were raised solely by his mother, after his father left the family when Lammy was 12 years old. Lammy speaks publicly about the importance of fathers and the need to support them in seeking to be active in the lives of their children.[5] He chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fatherhood and has written on the issue.[6][7][8]
Lammy grew up in Tottenham. Having attended a local primary school, at the age of 10 he was awarded an Inner London Education Authority choral scholarship to sing at Peterborough Cathedral and attend The King's School, Peterborough.[9] He studied at the School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, graduating with a 2:1.[10] Lammy went on to study at Harvard University where he became the first black Briton to attend Harvard Law School; there he studied a Master of Laws degree and graduated in 1997.[10][11] He was called to the bar of England and Wales in 1994 at Lincoln's Inn and practised as a barrister.[12] He practised as an attorney at Howard Rice in California from 1997 to 1998; and with D.J. Freeman 1998–2000.[4] He is currently a visiting lecturer at SOAS.[13][14]