{"id":56544,"date":"2018-06-11T15:18:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56544"},"modified":"2018-06-11T18:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:33:03","slug":"hungarys-first-black-mp-aims-to-destroy-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56544","title":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s first black MP aims to ‘destroy prejudice’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hungary\u2019s first black MP aims to ‘destroy prejudice’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
\n2018-06-11<\/p>\n

Tom Mulligan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Olivio<\/a>
\nOrsolya Kovacs<\/em>
\nOlivio Kocsis-Cake<\/a>: Fidesz<\/a> always finds an enemy who must be hated <\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Hungary<\/a> has a reputation for anti-immigration politics, but a young black liberal MP<\/a> wants to revamp the country’s image.<\/em><\/p>\n

Olivio Kocsis-Cake<\/a>, of the opposition Parbeszed<\/a> (Dialogue) party, is being sworn in as an MP on Monday, taking a seat vacated by a colleague who is stepping down.<\/p>\n

Mr Kocsis-Cake (pronounced “kochish-tsocker”) has become a talking point in Hungary because of the strong anti-migrant rhetoric – particularly against non-whites – ratcheted up by members of the governing Fidesz<\/a> party, its loyal national media and far-right groups like Jobbik<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“In the 1990s I was physically in danger a number of times when confronted by skinheads<\/a> on the street. But now this is very unusual. Mostly I just get suspicious looks,” Mr Kocsis-Cake told independent news website Index.hu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Parbeszed won just five seats in the 2018 election, in which the right-wing Fidesz of Prime Minister Viktor Orban<\/a> secured a super-majority of 133 seats and the ultra-nationalist Jobbik came second with 26 seats…<\/p>\n

…Two different generations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Olivio Kocsis-Cake was born in 1980. His mother is Hungarian and his father, from Guinea-Bissau<\/a>, came to Hungary via Senegal<\/a> in 1976, aged 18.<\/p>\n

Like many students invited to communist Eastern Europe<\/a> from developing countries<\/a>, Marcelo Cake-Baly studied and graduated at the Karl Marx Economics University<\/a>. He settled and found work as a Budapest<\/a> tram<\/a>-driver and was even a one-time film actor…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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