undesirable

He added: "Unfortunately with any kind of movement, you are going to get the undesirables. We can't control the masses, we can only control ourselves in these situations and the guys that are with us."

For generations society has broadcast the message to black women that they are undesirable, unmarriable, lacking in femininity.

It was considered a risky project at the time, when the gritty blocks near the Los Angeles Convention Center were deemed undesirable by most real estate developers.

According to the 1979 Estate Agents Act it is classed as an "undesirable practice" for estate agents to discriminate against prospective buyers if they don't take out a mortgage through in-house brokers.

"It is acknowledged by all that this is highly undesirable, yet as Dr Brown so powerfully observed, the position is worse now than in 2018."