All 28 European commissioners are white and only three of the 751 MEPs are black
It was just another meeting in the European parliament, says Ida Scott*. “There were five people in the room and the speaker turned to me and said, ‘ahh Serena Williams has decided to join us.’” It didn’t matter that the law graduate looks nothing like the grand slam champion. “People laughed, a little bit uncomfortably, but no one said, ‘she looks nothing like Serena Williams and that’s ridiculous.’”
Like most people working in the EU, Scott speaks a few languages and has a policy specialism. Unlike most, she is black. That’s still unusual, even for an organisation that takes pride in the slogan “united in diversity”.
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