The
irreconcilable
differences between WASP/White Anglo-Saxon
America and“Americans of Color” were never
more evident and
prominent as they were with the passing of
Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, and now,
in the aftermath of her death. The
Queen’s “symbolic relevance,” her historical
representation of indisputable “White Power”
- via any
means required, i.e., imperialism
and colonialism,
is
undeniable.
British royalty represents and embodies the
concept of“The sun never sets on the British
Empire.” The empire’s
span across the globe ensured that the sun
was always shining on atleast one of its
numerous colonies.
But
at whose expense?
“Colony”
equals
“forcibly” occupied
land…against
the
native people’s wishes….
The
sun,
still till this very day, never sets on the
vast empire of the crown because they
employed every twisted and diabolical method
available, e.g., lassie fare Genocide,
to attain global domination.
India,
the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the
South Pacific…14overseas territories lands
and people who were, unquestionably,
looted and pillaged in the name of the
British crown.
Hell,
Austria…. a British penal colony turned into
another White-Man’s Land….
Great
Britain
is an aging,
if not nearly obsolete,
empire.
Translation:
an extensive group of states or countries
under a single supreme authority, and in the
case of this empire that global “authority”
was attained and maintained by barbaric if
not neanderthal type means.
I’m
sorry, but that matters.
And
the idea that the bloody construction of
this empire obviously does not matter to
White America speaks loudly about how very
easy it is
for mainstream White America to minimize,
rationalize, marginalize and in the end
justify, if not dismiss, the murder and
mayhem which
was waged all around the world to construct
the empire.
So
when
I see people of color all wrapped up in this
nonsensical fairytale, it speaks to our
mis-education, our unawareness of global
history, or just perhaps our self-hatred.
We, too, don’t thinkall that ancient history
matters today.
Negro,
please! Free your mind, your ass will
follow!
I’d
argue
it’s easy for White America to conjure up
some idyllic yarn to depict the British
Empire because of the obvious: it is the
“Motherland” for so many White Americans, it
is a consistent and constant ally in the
semi-hostile world of color.
America, too, was deliberately and
recklessly built with the land,blood, sweat,
tears, and lives of people of color.
Both
empires were manufactured with violence.
In
Nigeria, many are still haunted by Britain’s
role in their civil war, when the global
power secretly tried to prevent the
Republic of Biafra’s secession efforts. In
Kenya, Britain tortured thousands of rebels
in detention camps, for which it
apologized in 2013.
Look,
I frown on the simpleminded notion of
royalty. As much as I’dlike to anoint the
Obamas as Black American Royalty, I
understand
they are human, not God-like. Now for me to
place the British royal family on some
pedestal or mantle, and to shed a tear over
the
passing of a charming woman… I just can’t do
it.
And
I
understand Queen Elizabeth II was one of the
“good ones,”better (less racist and elitist)
than her forebears and peers,
nevertheless….she reigned over arguably what
was the epitome of the m ost barbaric
machines of white supremacy, ever in the
annals
of time - its imperialistic enterprises are
the cornerstone reasons why every single
day, in cultures around the globe, non-white
folks
are hyper concerned that they or their kids
are “too Black.”
Much
of
the globe has been brainwashed to hate
themselves. Whoorchestrated this
indoctrination? Who force-fed the propaganda
down
the world’s throats? The British autocracy
is the heart andsoul of whiteness: an
institution which has orchestrated the
invasion
of what, 75%, 80% of the world’s nations,
authorizing andfunding some of the most
savage systems of pimping and exploiting
known to humankind.
Forgive
me, but in my humble little mind, I can’t
help but transposeFrederick Douglass
thoughts on the 4th of July to the British
crown…
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth
of July?
What
to a world of color is the British crown? An
institution that revealsthe gross injustice
and cruelty to which the world is a constant
victim. To us, your monarchy is a sham; your
boasted liberty, an unholy license; your
national greatness, swelling vanity; your
sounds
of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your
denunciation of tyrants,brass-fronted
impudence; your shouts of liberty and
equality, hollow
mockery; your prayers and hymns, your
sermons and thanksgivings, with all your
religious parade and solemnity, are, to the
world mere
bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and
hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes
that would disgrace a nation of savages.
So,
for
White folks on both sides of the Atlantic to
arrogantly assume,to carelessly presume, it
is logical that much of the world would sit
in front of their screens with tears running
down our cheeks and a warm, glowing feeling
in our hearts….only illustrates in stark
Black and White the level and depth of how
very disconnected, andmore trifling, disinterested
with reality White folks remain.
White
people, please!!!
