Posted on 10/01/2021 2:53:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
In comments made in 2018 and leaked in September 2021, Kemi Badenoch, now British minister for equalities, remarked, "I don't care about colonialism because I know what we were doing before colonialism got there. They came in and just made a different bunch of winners and losers." It is not exactly clear how to interpret this message by a politician, born in 1980 in London of Nigerian parents, who grew up in Nigeria and has been a Conservative member of the British parliament since 2017. However, it suggests a view of "colonialism" different from the woke version, or from the vision of those who have criticized her.
Badenoch had already entered the partisan controversy over the report of the British Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, BCRED, published on March 31, 2021. She defended the report and pointed out the complex picture it presented which differed from the way that issues of race in Britain, as in the U.S., are often presented. The report indicated that racism and discrimination remain a factor in Britain, but also that factors other than racism may account for disparities among ethnic groups. What is important in this analysis is that it does not deny that institutional racism exists in the U.K., but it holds that the term should be used more carefully, and always based on evidence.
Conclusions of the BCRED report challenge general views and imply that there is room for legitimate disagreement and debate on issues of racism and discrimination. And Badenoch's remark recalls that colonialism was not confined to Europeans — and, even with them, lasted only a relatively short time. Colonialism was not invented as a result of the consequences of voyages of Columbus to the Americas, which involved Portugal, Spain, Britain, and the Dutch.
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A good summation of the reality of slavery being transculteral, and which provides balance to the myopic propaganda of the Left, however it needs citations to sources to be used polemically.
I grew up in a society that started off as a colony controlled by a European power. We got freedom in 1776 and we’ve done OK. I don’t hate colonialism.
Colonialism is so bad tens of millions of native black Africans illegally colonize Europe to live under white rule after white Europe give African colonies back to the native black Africans. Makes sense.
It is culture, and the ethos of liberals works to reduce America to a 3rd world country.
the RATS say Colonialism, but what they hate is Western Civilization...
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