Labour Candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepaul Has Racist Comments Omit From His Article in The Guardian
Lying comes in many forms, and purposely leaving out information is a sneakier way of doing that.
As Jovan Owusu-Nepaul garnered more attention online, The Guardian decided to write an article explaining who he is. Although, it is framed in a deceiving way. "Owusu-Nepaul attracted attention on social media after he was photographed bumping into the Reform UK leader". This is only half true. The other side to that story is the internet doing what it always does, digging up dirt. They found some pretty interesting tweets from Jovan, including him stating that his favourite drink is "white men's tears".
The Guardian were quick to put out articles on all the racist comments made by Reform candidates. This is an odd thing to leave out when introducing someone. It's your job to report the news. The attention he was receiving was as much, if not more about his racial comments than anything else. Soon, people began to dig up everything suspicious from his previous X account. Checking on the Wayback Machine, this was his previous bio which aligns with his very own LinkedIn information.
Few have argued that he made these comments as a kid, but looking at the year he finished secondary school and began university. He is at minimum 25 right now, another media outlet has said his age is 27. So, in any case, he was 20-22 when making these comments. Perhaps the worst part of it all is the complete avoidance of this issue. Labour declined to comment, and Jovan himself has never apologised or explained his comments. Trying to be elected in a 93% white area when you've made persistent racially sensitive comments is an odd way of going about things.
After failing to win a seat in the House of Commons, The Guardian put out another piece about Jovan but only talking about his hardship. His comments and The Guardian are solely focused on the racial abuse he suffered during this campaign. Whilst it's good to highlight the issues black politicians have to deal with, completely ignoring the racism from Jovan is dishonest and biased political PR journalism. Jovan continually claims to be for the working class yet refused to acknowledge their questions here. It feels like some people say "working class" but in reality mean "poor black people". Which would align perfectly with his very own comments that he is " doing this for every Black and brown person in the country, and doing this for a lot of working-class people in the country".