A historical scalpel that exposes the bones of empire with forensic clarity — but the Wolf still hungers for the marrow.
If Unbekoming were to add a final turn — showing how the same predatory mind that cut off Indian weavers’ thumbs now programs AI models and ESG compliance reports — the loop would close. The serpent would reveal its modern skin.
A suggestion: in the follow-up, name the continuity outright — not just empire → corporation, but parasite → host body swap. Show how the East India Company never died; it merely digitized. That’s the punch that turns righteous history into ontological revelation.
As always: an interesting article. But, who writes ‘history’.?? Is it perhaps the Establishment du jour. The victors. The powers that be.?
Who’s responsible for teaching our children,that: men can dress as women and hang out in biological women’s changing areas (to name just one of the many farcical anomalies currently in vogue).
Let me drift out slightly here; didn’t the Māoris, down under, take slaves, and abuse them; buy and sell them.? As did African chieftains several centuries ago. The Moors bought and sold men women and children, more than a thousand years ago.
One wonders what it must have been like living as a member of the hoi-polloi, back in the day, in say, Ancient China.? Or Egypt; when they were knocking up the Pyramids.?
I mean: French, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian or Spanish colonialist regimes, anyone.!?
Has anything ever been legit.? Kosher.? Proper.? Or even remotely democratic.!!
And, who had us all hiding in cupboards, wearing masks. Standing apart from each other. And telling us all that exercising, dog walking, playing golf or going down the beach, would be tantamount to killing your elderly loved ones.!
It wasn’t really Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan. Was it..??
I need to research the British Empire in India. My grandfather (born 1865 in Bangalore, yes, we have very long generations in my family) was Eurasian, dark skinned, and came to the UK after working on the merchant ships as a doctor in WW1. So he was a product of the British education system in India. A well educated man, educated in a British school in India. I know that his younger Anglo Indian (and dark skinned) relatives came to study at the Trinity College, Dublin University in the thirties.
He died in 1939, so I never knew him. I wonder what he would have said about the Empire?
The results of the empire continue down the generations, I look white, but have this mix in my background, the consequences of Empire, and I am not alone in this in the UK. There are many of us.
I am sceptical of black and white, guilt and victim, colonist vs exploited, history. Much of this simplified history is propaganda from the US/CIA which runs its own empire quite differently.
India and its problems are vast, embedded in historical and material circumstance and beyond any one administration to solve.. As the people who actually faced the problems die off, those who come later cannot recognise the real practical limitations that existed in those times.
As an example of this post hoc distortion of history, I have heard criticisms of the UK because we did not bomb the Nazi concentration camps in Europe.
This debate in the 1980s provoked a letter from one of the generals in charge of the Air force (very elderly at the time and probably the only one left alive who could say what really happened) He wrote that this possibility had, in fact, been debated by the top brass.
At the time the UK had no planes that could fly deep into occupied Poland and get back safely to the UK. The planes could not carry enough fuel for such a long flight. The crew would have had to ditch the plane deep inside Poland and try to get home by land through Nazi occupied Europe....it would be a suicide mission.
In addition the generals had no way at that time of knowing the conditions in the camps on the ground, and whether the occupants wished to be bombed in order to destroy the camp...any air assault would have meant the deaths of many inmates.
In the circumstances it was felt best not to attempt to do this even though they probably could have found some men willing to die in order to carry out the bombing raids... they did not wish to put their own men into this situation, nor massacre camp inmates without warning them of a raid.
it is very easy to forget the true material circumstances of the people in different times and judge them by false values. This is happening too much these days.
I appreciate both of your marvelous, insightful, and thoughtful comments greatly. At 60 my grandparents were all a bit younger than your grandfather (all both in the 1880’s/‘90’s). It was my great-grands that were all 1860’s and before, lol. I have come to realize that despite some drawbacks, such as them passing before you meet them, and in my case, older and less sprightly parents, there is a lot of positives as well. One that I treasure the most is the family stories and history that was passed down, as well as their knowledge of current events that otherwise would only be known to me through books. So many critical details that broaden prospective and inform knowledge that would have been lost otherwise. For example, in your story about the general. If he hadn’t of been available to discuss the nuances of the time, we wouldn’t have as easily or perhaps not at all known that that had indeed been discussed. There were so many constraints in past days that so many are unaware of today. It stunts our historical understanding I think, and the less we are unaware that we don’t know, the worse that gets I believe.
I agree one hundred percent with your last paragraph here and go on to say that not only is it happening too much these days, but it is also being far less discussed than it should be. I believe it can easily lead to people today thinking they have superior judgement/character to those in the past; and I think that leads to our detriment, not betterment.
Many thanks for two great posts, has given me much to think on today, which is greatly appreciated.
All 3 on this thread have made very nuanced points. I'm also sceptical about viewing things through the black and white type of lenses. There're always many aspects in the bigger pictures as you've elucidated in your last paragraph. Interesting to compare with the success of places like Singapore and Hong Kong due to the administrations set up by the British.
So, what is India? A nation? About 3,000 languages are spoken in India. A religion? The caste system (which is doing very well, thank you) has been banned for several decades, and out of thousands of deities, eclecticism rules, while according to some, Hinduism is becoming monotheistic, and all those gods and goddesses are only various aspect of One and the Same. The Brahmin are still on the top.
At graduate school, I once asked a student from India why they step over the dying in the streets instead of helping them, and he said, "They will reincarnate, anyway." So, WHY WOULD THEY WORRY ABOUT BRITISH RULE OR TEN MILLION DYING? Indians competed for lucrative positions, so they learned English, which is still their lingua franca. By now, they can also take revenge on whitey by taking their jobs in the West (not sure how British identity has been expanded to being white, but "neocolonialism" has been part of the academic BS for several decades in a process in which Americans are resigning from their positions).
It's like talking about "the Chinese," many of whom can communicate with each other only with their ideograms, and old and inefficient form of writing that, nevertheless, allows for elitism, too. The British did take advantage of China, too, during the opium wars, but the millennial power structure prevailed in the long run, and they couldn't force the Chinese to learn English.
We do not realise how "medieval" many of these societies were when they were introduced to a technologically and scientifically advanced 19th C industrial civilisation. The culture shock to the British who went out to the colonies must have been immense.
At the inception of British rule in India, among Indians slavery existed, child marriage as young as nine in the case of girls, and suttee, the "voluntary" immolation of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre.
All outlawed by the British - it took years to get these laws enforced against traditional acceptance of these practices. Also the Thuggees
Thuggees were a secretive criminal cult in India from the 14th to the 19th centuries, known for their organized robbery and murder of travellers, often using strangulation as their method. They were believed to worship the Hindu goddess Kali and operated primarily in northern and central India, instilling fear among the populace until they were suppressed by the British in the 1830s.
I have a book in my home about a young girl who was rescued by the West African Squadron.
She was eventually adopted by Queen Victoria. The point is that she was about to be sacrificed by a rival African chief. I was astounded as this was 1840, and I had no idea that human sacrifice to Gods was still carried out in Africa at that date.
Her name was Sarah Bonetta. Bonetta was the name of the British naval ship that rescued her.
This is not to condone or excuse the abuses of power that went on in the British Empire. Merely to ask for some historical perspective on these issues. The power of modern technology is so great that we forget how limited the actions of a 19th century colonial administration were in a country as vast and diverse as India. Many things that went wrong were not by design, or wickedness, but from muddle, poor communications and incapacity.
Absolutely. What technology there was was not always reliable or readily available, and mistakes were rampant. Thank you for this reminder. Even today with vastly superior technology, things are still not always reliable or understood correctly, or at all.
Islam allows for a significant amount of acquiescence, too. The most common saying seems to be, "Allah will provide," so they are lacking ambition. Also, it requires just about complete conformity, so the person cannot stick out a whole lot... Outbreeding everyone else seems to be the most common form of "Jihad," that is, taking over the world and force everyone into compliance (Islam = submission).
Normally, I wouldn't care, as long as they don't move in here (they do), and they stick to their customs in their homelands, but they are treating Jews and Christians like animals:
Hmm. The British Empire was never British. It was the Venetian Empire run from the independent City of London occupied by the Venetians who slipped into power with William of Orange. The Brits have been their useful idiots and cannon fodder.
"...these rulers privately deplored the lengths required to maintain British favor." So they had no agency, rich as they already were? They betrayed, no actively turned on those whose well-being should have been their primary interest. As former, hereditary leaders of their people, they could have stopped the British Raj had they not been just as interested in wealth and privilege. The leaders of India are doing it still, but don't worry, 'cause reincarnation, and it will be your turn to be privileged someday. This trying to victimize the world's most populous country by a handful of English just makes white supremacy look real. Stop already.
This is an important point. It seems to be unarguable today that Irish produce etc. was being
shipped to England, under guard, throughout the course of the potato famine. The Irish weren't too stupid or lazy to eat something else. Similarly, I remember a book called Mother Country, which describes a history of ruthless treatment of English people by their rulers, through the poor laws etc. In the U.S., every time I am asked to complete a questionaire asking me to check a box for my ethnicity, I wonder why there is no option for mixed. Does the one drop rule have to be preserved forever? Divide and conquer.
The conditions of the English working people in the 18th C were atrocious. Death sentence or transportation (penal slavery) for minor offences. Later in the 19th C they were so bad Marx and Engels thought the revolution must happen in the UK. Dostoevsky was shocked by the poverty when he came to London, and he knew Russian serfdom.
There is no such thing as "white privilege" but there is such a thing as the privilege of wealth and class. Economic injustice must not be mentioned - too true and dangerous to the elite - look elsewhere - blame your victim - divide and conquer.
My grandfather grew up sleeping in a barn year round with his two brothers so that his parents and three sisters could all sleep in their house. As far back as I recall him, he slept under multiple wool blankets year round, a bit less in summer I believe.
My father, (the son of the Indian gentleman I discuss earlier) remembers being put out on the street, homeless, by the landlord during the depression. His father died in 1939 when he was 12. They had no money and he was fostered out.
My mother's father died in the same year. He was refused medical care as they could not afford to pay the doctor. My Mum was 11. She had to start work at 14. She remembers hiding under the kitchen table when the rent man came round as they could not pay him.
The father of a friend was left with his sister in a children's home in the thirties. His Dad was a docker in the East End, had no work, and could not look after them. His Dad gave him a "lucky" bean and left. He never saw his father again. He was fostered and used as cheap labour.
There was no welfare state in those days.
The story that white privilege is shared by all white people is a lie to disguise the exploitation of the white working class. My parents knew this reality as they had hard lives. It was only after WW2 that anything was done to ameliorate the situation of ordinary people in Britain. We are being fed lies to cause civil hatreds and divert attention from the plutocrats who are causing all this harm. They want to reverse all the social progress of the last 200 years. They use the ignorance, complacency, and hatreds of the people to their own ends to remain in power.
Britain exports a fake Merchant Ivory/Jane Austin version of its history. Jane Austin was a great writer, but she never mentions there was a terrible agricultural depression in the years she was writing and the farmhands and workers in the country villages she writes about starved.
Oh yes, my mum told me some truths and my dad was one of 11 children brought up in a farm tenancy with 2 room and scullery and outside toilet. There are many horror stories that have been omitted from " the story".
this was the real white supremacy. the youngsters from now seem to have never learned history. this is how white people went to non-white countries, ruined the country, plundered it, enslaved the people and took away their self-esteem, and then, when a handful realized what was going on and threw them out, killing and harming them, they were surprised. This is still going on in some places, I recently saw a documentary from the Myanmar border, where baptist ministries are being established, the local chief loses his power, people are force-converted and boys are stolen away from the villages never to be seen again. Of course in the name of religion, but in fact, govt plundering going on and on, and these locals too afraid to stand up against them
Now there's the semi-soft colonial power of Big Green.
Australia sends its coal to China to make giant whirlygigs to send to Australia to reduce its coal consumption. You can see them chopping the birds and falling apart just off Wollongong's coal coast. Moreover, gas-rich Australia has enormous terminals for the import of...can you guess?
I'd like to put it down to stupidity or fad. But it's extractive colonialism, for bloody sure.
And the result of their empire goals is the now the evident wrath of God on the U.K. The same will happen and is happening to the USA. Evil governments bring despair upon their own citizens.
And now, nearly 80 years after the British administration left India it is now the most polluted, corrupt country on Earth with huge numbers of people living in absolute squalor.
Thank you for a timely reminder about how empires operate. The British East India Company's template was copied and pasted across the empire on which the sun never set.
Ireland, India and Palestine/”Israel”-the three “I’s” demonstrate, to this day the modus operandi of the most evil regeime ever to blight our world-division, sectarianism, partition, pillage, famine, cultural appropriation. Not of course by the British people, who benefited not one jot, but by the satanic bloodline's "elites".
The British colonial genocidal acquisition of power and control in her erstwhile colonies has changed in image, but persists in actuality. The City of London Corporation and the Bank of England are in control, not the sock puppets in the UK Parliament.
Brilliant. Brutal. Necessary.
A historical scalpel that exposes the bones of empire with forensic clarity — but the Wolf still hungers for the marrow.
If Unbekoming were to add a final turn — showing how the same predatory mind that cut off Indian weavers’ thumbs now programs AI models and ESG compliance reports — the loop would close. The serpent would reveal its modern skin.
A suggestion: in the follow-up, name the continuity outright — not just empire → corporation, but parasite → host body swap. Show how the East India Company never died; it merely digitized. That’s the punch that turns righteous history into ontological revelation.
Cosmic! To tie a couple things together, here’s what I’m thinking:
1. British empire is the first great manifestation of evil in the last 500 years—and that’s visible from East India companies and others
2. British Empire is the manifestation of John Dee’s vision — dark magic in action
3. That same vision, fueled by East India Company, gave us false sciences, like germ theory.
4. These false sciences like climate change and ESG are the same things from this evil vision
The takeaway is that by peering deeper into things, we can see evil manifestos looking to be manifested. Once aware of them, we can snuff them out: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/rich-people-do-magic
Fortunately we are all contributing to the destruction of this false narrative!
Sorry for the long post but let me know any thoughts — from all and anyone
Quite right!
Most people are too lazy to write anything themselves, and it is pathetic.
Thank you for this grim exposé; the bloody history of the British Empire should be exposed.
And the City of London banking center
still manipulates governments and populations throughout the world.
Indeed! The greatest manifestation of evil in recent times
As always: an interesting article. But, who writes ‘history’.?? Is it perhaps the Establishment du jour. The victors. The powers that be.?
Who’s responsible for teaching our children,that: men can dress as women and hang out in biological women’s changing areas (to name just one of the many farcical anomalies currently in vogue).
Let me drift out slightly here; didn’t the Māoris, down under, take slaves, and abuse them; buy and sell them.? As did African chieftains several centuries ago. The Moors bought and sold men women and children, more than a thousand years ago.
One wonders what it must have been like living as a member of the hoi-polloi, back in the day, in say, Ancient China.? Or Egypt; when they were knocking up the Pyramids.?
I mean: French, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian or Spanish colonialist regimes, anyone.!?
Has anything ever been legit.? Kosher.? Proper.? Or even remotely democratic.!!
And, who had us all hiding in cupboards, wearing masks. Standing apart from each other. And telling us all that exercising, dog walking, playing golf or going down the beach, would be tantamount to killing your elderly loved ones.!
It wasn’t really Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan. Was it..??
Dean! I’m about to explore history in the following series. Unsure if you’ve seen this but sharing for others as well who may be interested : https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/updates-and-reflections-the-synthetic
Very astute comment!
I need to research the British Empire in India. My grandfather (born 1865 in Bangalore, yes, we have very long generations in my family) was Eurasian, dark skinned, and came to the UK after working on the merchant ships as a doctor in WW1. So he was a product of the British education system in India. A well educated man, educated in a British school in India. I know that his younger Anglo Indian (and dark skinned) relatives came to study at the Trinity College, Dublin University in the thirties.
He died in 1939, so I never knew him. I wonder what he would have said about the Empire?
The results of the empire continue down the generations, I look white, but have this mix in my background, the consequences of Empire, and I am not alone in this in the UK. There are many of us.
I am sceptical of black and white, guilt and victim, colonist vs exploited, history. Much of this simplified history is propaganda from the US/CIA which runs its own empire quite differently.
India and its problems are vast, embedded in historical and material circumstance and beyond any one administration to solve.. As the people who actually faced the problems die off, those who come later cannot recognise the real practical limitations that existed in those times.
As an example of this post hoc distortion of history, I have heard criticisms of the UK because we did not bomb the Nazi concentration camps in Europe.
This debate in the 1980s provoked a letter from one of the generals in charge of the Air force (very elderly at the time and probably the only one left alive who could say what really happened) He wrote that this possibility had, in fact, been debated by the top brass.
At the time the UK had no planes that could fly deep into occupied Poland and get back safely to the UK. The planes could not carry enough fuel for such a long flight. The crew would have had to ditch the plane deep inside Poland and try to get home by land through Nazi occupied Europe....it would be a suicide mission.
In addition the generals had no way at that time of knowing the conditions in the camps on the ground, and whether the occupants wished to be bombed in order to destroy the camp...any air assault would have meant the deaths of many inmates.
In the circumstances it was felt best not to attempt to do this even though they probably could have found some men willing to die in order to carry out the bombing raids... they did not wish to put their own men into this situation, nor massacre camp inmates without warning them of a raid.
it is very easy to forget the true material circumstances of the people in different times and judge them by false values. This is happening too much these days.
I appreciate both of your marvelous, insightful, and thoughtful comments greatly. At 60 my grandparents were all a bit younger than your grandfather (all both in the 1880’s/‘90’s). It was my great-grands that were all 1860’s and before, lol. I have come to realize that despite some drawbacks, such as them passing before you meet them, and in my case, older and less sprightly parents, there is a lot of positives as well. One that I treasure the most is the family stories and history that was passed down, as well as their knowledge of current events that otherwise would only be known to me through books. So many critical details that broaden prospective and inform knowledge that would have been lost otherwise. For example, in your story about the general. If he hadn’t of been available to discuss the nuances of the time, we wouldn’t have as easily or perhaps not at all known that that had indeed been discussed. There were so many constraints in past days that so many are unaware of today. It stunts our historical understanding I think, and the less we are unaware that we don’t know, the worse that gets I believe.
I agree one hundred percent with your last paragraph here and go on to say that not only is it happening too much these days, but it is also being far less discussed than it should be. I believe it can easily lead to people today thinking they have superior judgement/character to those in the past; and I think that leads to our detriment, not betterment.
Many thanks for two great posts, has given me much to think on today, which is greatly appreciated.
Thank You!
All 3 on this thread have made very nuanced points. I'm also sceptical about viewing things through the black and white type of lenses. There're always many aspects in the bigger pictures as you've elucidated in your last paragraph. Interesting to compare with the success of places like Singapore and Hong Kong due to the administrations set up by the British.
So, what is India? A nation? About 3,000 languages are spoken in India. A religion? The caste system (which is doing very well, thank you) has been banned for several decades, and out of thousands of deities, eclecticism rules, while according to some, Hinduism is becoming monotheistic, and all those gods and goddesses are only various aspect of One and the Same. The Brahmin are still on the top.
At graduate school, I once asked a student from India why they step over the dying in the streets instead of helping them, and he said, "They will reincarnate, anyway." So, WHY WOULD THEY WORRY ABOUT BRITISH RULE OR TEN MILLION DYING? Indians competed for lucrative positions, so they learned English, which is still their lingua franca. By now, they can also take revenge on whitey by taking their jobs in the West (not sure how British identity has been expanded to being white, but "neocolonialism" has been part of the academic BS for several decades in a process in which Americans are resigning from their positions).
It's like talking about "the Chinese," many of whom can communicate with each other only with their ideograms, and old and inefficient form of writing that, nevertheless, allows for elitism, too. The British did take advantage of China, too, during the opium wars, but the millennial power structure prevailed in the long run, and they couldn't force the Chinese to learn English.
We do not realise how "medieval" many of these societies were when they were introduced to a technologically and scientifically advanced 19th C industrial civilisation. The culture shock to the British who went out to the colonies must have been immense.
At the inception of British rule in India, among Indians slavery existed, child marriage as young as nine in the case of girls, and suttee, the "voluntary" immolation of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre.
All outlawed by the British - it took years to get these laws enforced against traditional acceptance of these practices. Also the Thuggees
Thuggees were a secretive criminal cult in India from the 14th to the 19th centuries, known for their organized robbery and murder of travellers, often using strangulation as their method. They were believed to worship the Hindu goddess Kali and operated primarily in northern and central India, instilling fear among the populace until they were suppressed by the British in the 1830s.
I have a book in my home about a young girl who was rescued by the West African Squadron.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron
She was eventually adopted by Queen Victoria. The point is that she was about to be sacrificed by a rival African chief. I was astounded as this was 1840, and I had no idea that human sacrifice to Gods was still carried out in Africa at that date.
Her name was Sarah Bonetta. Bonetta was the name of the British naval ship that rescued her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Forbes_Bonetta
This is not to condone or excuse the abuses of power that went on in the British Empire. Merely to ask for some historical perspective on these issues. The power of modern technology is so great that we forget how limited the actions of a 19th century colonial administration were in a country as vast and diverse as India. Many things that went wrong were not by design, or wickedness, but from muddle, poor communications and incapacity.
Absolutely. What technology there was was not always reliable or readily available, and mistakes were rampant. Thank you for this reminder. Even today with vastly superior technology, things are still not always reliable or understood correctly, or at all.
You have made well observed and balanced points in this post, thank you.
In another article, I wondered why people kept having many kids in Gaza, despite the horrible conditions they have been through for decades.
The reason is religious beliefs, like the example of reincarnation.
Tell people that the highest thing is to be fruitful and multiply, restrict women's rights, and blame the poor for being poor.
It's beyond idiotic, it's insane.
Islam allows for a significant amount of acquiescence, too. The most common saying seems to be, "Allah will provide," so they are lacking ambition. Also, it requires just about complete conformity, so the person cannot stick out a whole lot... Outbreeding everyone else seems to be the most common form of "Jihad," that is, taking over the world and force everyone into compliance (Islam = submission).
Normally, I wouldn't care, as long as they don't move in here (they do), and they stick to their customs in their homelands, but they are treating Jews and Christians like animals:
https://thestoryofmohammed.blogspot.com/
Hmm. The British Empire was never British. It was the Venetian Empire run from the independent City of London occupied by the Venetians who slipped into power with William of Orange. The Brits have been their useful idiots and cannon fodder.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/black-nobility-101
"...these rulers privately deplored the lengths required to maintain British favor." So they had no agency, rich as they already were? They betrayed, no actively turned on those whose well-being should have been their primary interest. As former, hereditary leaders of their people, they could have stopped the British Raj had they not been just as interested in wealth and privilege. The leaders of India are doing it still, but don't worry, 'cause reincarnation, and it will be your turn to be privileged someday. This trying to victimize the world's most populous country by a handful of English just makes white supremacy look real. Stop already.
Look intoo the highland clearances in Scitland and the potato famine in Ireland...same playbook of ethnic destruction
This is an important point. It seems to be unarguable today that Irish produce etc. was being
shipped to England, under guard, throughout the course of the potato famine. The Irish weren't too stupid or lazy to eat something else. Similarly, I remember a book called Mother Country, which describes a history of ruthless treatment of English people by their rulers, through the poor laws etc. In the U.S., every time I am asked to complete a questionaire asking me to check a box for my ethnicity, I wonder why there is no option for mixed. Does the one drop rule have to be preserved forever? Divide and conquer.
The conditions of the English working people in the 18th C were atrocious. Death sentence or transportation (penal slavery) for minor offences. Later in the 19th C they were so bad Marx and Engels thought the revolution must happen in the UK. Dostoevsky was shocked by the poverty when he came to London, and he knew Russian serfdom.
There is no such thing as "white privilege" but there is such a thing as the privilege of wealth and class. Economic injustice must not be mentioned - too true and dangerous to the elite - look elsewhere - blame your victim - divide and conquer.
White privelege??... my grandad was down a coal mine at 14 years old
My grandfather grew up sleeping in a barn year round with his two brothers so that his parents and three sisters could all sleep in their house. As far back as I recall him, he slept under multiple wool blankets year round, a bit less in summer I believe.
My father, (the son of the Indian gentleman I discuss earlier) remembers being put out on the street, homeless, by the landlord during the depression. His father died in 1939 when he was 12. They had no money and he was fostered out.
My mother's father died in the same year. He was refused medical care as they could not afford to pay the doctor. My Mum was 11. She had to start work at 14. She remembers hiding under the kitchen table when the rent man came round as they could not pay him.
The father of a friend was left with his sister in a children's home in the thirties. His Dad was a docker in the East End, had no work, and could not look after them. His Dad gave him a "lucky" bean and left. He never saw his father again. He was fostered and used as cheap labour.
There was no welfare state in those days.
The story that white privilege is shared by all white people is a lie to disguise the exploitation of the white working class. My parents knew this reality as they had hard lives. It was only after WW2 that anything was done to ameliorate the situation of ordinary people in Britain. We are being fed lies to cause civil hatreds and divert attention from the plutocrats who are causing all this harm. They want to reverse all the social progress of the last 200 years. They use the ignorance, complacency, and hatreds of the people to their own ends to remain in power.
Britain exports a fake Merchant Ivory/Jane Austin version of its history. Jane Austin was a great writer, but she never mentions there was a terrible agricultural depression in the years she was writing and the farmhands and workers in the country villages she writes about starved.
Oh yes, my mum told me some truths and my dad was one of 11 children brought up in a farm tenancy with 2 room and scullery and outside toilet. There are many horror stories that have been omitted from " the story".
this was the real white supremacy. the youngsters from now seem to have never learned history. this is how white people went to non-white countries, ruined the country, plundered it, enslaved the people and took away their self-esteem, and then, when a handful realized what was going on and threw them out, killing and harming them, they were surprised. This is still going on in some places, I recently saw a documentary from the Myanmar border, where baptist ministries are being established, the local chief loses his power, people are force-converted and boys are stolen away from the villages never to be seen again. Of course in the name of religion, but in fact, govt plundering going on and on, and these locals too afraid to stand up against them
Reading your description of the hierarchies, we're reminded that the British also had a caste system of their own.
Outstanding!
Now there's the semi-soft colonial power of Big Green.
Australia sends its coal to China to make giant whirlygigs to send to Australia to reduce its coal consumption. You can see them chopping the birds and falling apart just off Wollongong's coal coast. Moreover, gas-rich Australia has enormous terminals for the import of...can you guess?
I'd like to put it down to stupidity or fad. But it's extractive colonialism, for bloody sure.
And the result of their empire goals is the now the evident wrath of God on the U.K. The same will happen and is happening to the USA. Evil governments bring despair upon their own citizens.
Amen!
A lot of this sounds really familiar. I think we Americans have done this to ourselves!
And now, nearly 80 years after the British administration left India it is now the most polluted, corrupt country on Earth with huge numbers of people living in absolute squalor.
Thank you for a timely reminder about how empires operate. The British East India Company's template was copied and pasted across the empire on which the sun never set.
Ireland, India and Palestine/”Israel”-the three “I’s” demonstrate, to this day the modus operandi of the most evil regeime ever to blight our world-division, sectarianism, partition, pillage, famine, cultural appropriation. Not of course by the British people, who benefited not one jot, but by the satanic bloodline's "elites".
The British colonial genocidal acquisition of power and control in her erstwhile colonies has changed in image, but persists in actuality. The City of London Corporation and the Bank of England are in control, not the sock puppets in the UK Parliament.