Posted on 05/26/2004 11:54:38 PM PDT by kattracks
May 27, 2004 -- Britain's top black politician condemned Princess Michael of Kent yesterday for her bigoted outburst at a Manhattan eatery, labeling her a "walking disaster with foot-in-mouth disease" — and urged Americans not to believe she speaks for all of the United Kingdom. "This is bigotry — it is racism. It is saying, 'Go back to where you came from when we ruled the world,' " Lord John Taylor of Warwick told The Post."I want to stress to the American people that the princess's bigoted remarks are not typical of the British people. We in Britain love Americans, irrespective of their racial or cultural origin."
Taylor, 51, Britain's first black lord and author of "No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs," added that the House of Lords, which includes dukes, duchesses, earls, viscounts, bishops and barons, may issue a formal statement of condemnation.
"What she said has connotations to when black people were slaves. She has let Britain down badly and I'm ashamed of her remarks. It's insulting and embarrassing," he said.
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This article doesn't mention what she said.
Actually, it's a common attitude over there. I've been communicating with a few British civil servants and watching their press for some time.
Most of them are embracing socialism and social progressivism while participating in the resurging European positive regard for empire. They want a return to empire, and they want to lead it.
Resurrected neo-NAZI canards abound over there now.
That was a totally uncalled for comment. If she was unhappy with the noise, she should have asked that they move her to another table.
Am I alone in wondering why didn't the Brits send these inbred twits to the guillotine?
Charming. And she's here to attend her daughter's graduation from that communist indoctrination center known as Brown.
The Post didn't make it clear if this event happened before, after or during the time that the guy who was stabbed in the gut upstairs stumbled into the cafe.
And all this in a beautiful restaurant with outdoor tables on a beautiful day.
It's a great city.
This is usually said as an ironic comment over here. I have American friends who I call 'bloody colonials' sometimes, always in jest when we're arguing over some trivial point or other and they always reply with some witticism regarding my Englishness!
You used to live over here?
Night! Nice talking to you.
Marchetto and other witnesses said Young marched up to the princess' table and demanded, "What did you mean by that, 'back to the colonies?' " "
"I did not say 'back to the colonies," Princess Michael retorted. "I said 'you should remember the colonies.' Back in the days of the colonies, there were rules that were very good. "
"You think about it," she told Young. "Just think about it." "
""What she said has connotations to when black people were slaves..."
I think some people have overlooked this little fact. Telling them to go back the days of slavery is unquestionably a racial slur. I don't care how you spin it.
Hello, Princess: THESE ARE THE COLONIES!
Where is her reference to slavery? I don't see it anywhere. Could it be that she meant something benign and these people want it to mean something bad just to "feel offended"? Some people are just looking for a reason to be offended.
No, she known for putting her foot in her mouth.
Her father was a Nazi, so she comes by it honestly.
Apart from the boorishness of her behavior, which was evidently rivaled by the objects of her derision, she was intellectually right, much of Africa was better off under BRITISH colonial rule.
Hey, I'm proud to be from the former colony. I like being an American, and am grateful that I was born here.
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