Interesting article by Lee Jasper on his objections to the Order of the British Empire http://leejasper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-empire-strikes-black.html
He raises many valid points, but misses the central point of the British Empire. Empires (whether British, or Zulu, or Chinese) are not benevolent mutual organisations. They are empires, and designed to maintain imperium over the subject peoples (if it is any consolation to Lee Jasper, my ancestors suffered from this imperium - their common land was taken away and they were reduced to servitude and destitution in the industrial cities).
But I am much more interested in paragraph 18 of Mr Jasper's article:
Are you not also a settler Mr Jasper? How is your status here any different from the settlers who went to Africa, Ireland, the Caribbean etc? Or do you think two wrongs make a right?
He raises many valid points, but misses the central point of the British Empire. Empires (whether British, or Zulu, or Chinese) are not benevolent mutual organisations. They are empires, and designed to maintain imperium over the subject peoples (if it is any consolation to Lee Jasper, my ancestors suffered from this imperium - their common land was taken away and they were reduced to servitude and destitution in the industrial cities).
But I am much more interested in paragraph 18 of Mr Jasper's article:
Are you not also a settler Mr Jasper? How is your status here any different from the settlers who went to Africa, Ireland, the Caribbean etc? Or do you think two wrongs make a right?
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