When some descendants of migrants who are now citizens of foreign countries and happen to be in government talk, one wonders where their sense of history is.
So it is with Kemi Badenoch, the British Secretary of State for Business and Trade.
When addressing financial bosses at TheCityUK’s international conference in London last week, Badenoch said, “It worries me when I hear people talk about wealth and success in the UK as being down to colonialism or imperialism or white privilege or whatever.”
The British Prime Minister, too, had, in April 2023, rejected a call for the government to apologize and pay reparations for the UK’s historical role in slavery.
We feel these people of migrant descent should go back to their history and see if their claims are valid.
Is it the “point-of-no-returns” that are now museums littering the ports where slaves are taken into servitude? Is it the humongous number of people that were taken away into slavery? Is it the large number that died? Is it the artefacts that were taken away? Is it the families that were separated?
How were those who eventually got to the places of enslavement treated?
Did they have any dignity? Did they have any human rights? Were pets not better than they were? How much were they paid? Were some of their names not changed to the slave masters?
We think all these talks about a known fact amount to rewriting history, and we do not expect them from descendants of migrants.
“If gold rusts, what will iron do!”
