'This Jubilee extravaganza seems to be a big 'look over here!' exercise to distract from the historic, current and persistent issues in Britain and with its monarchy,' writes MakushaMichaela.
century. I remember being taught in school that colonialism was a ‘long time ago’ and part of Britain’s past. But it is not so distant, not for many of us who have family members who were raised under colonial rule, their homes, cultures and languages erased to expand white British supremacy.Nowadays, the British royal family seem to be nothing more than show ponies who wear stolen jewels to uphold a bygone era of Britain that is becoming less relevant.
She knows the national anthem better than I do, proving just how entrenched Britishness and royalism were part of the culture, to keep control of the colonies. In Britain, so many of our parents and grandparents from Ireland all the way to the Caribbean can recall living under British rule, yet we’re supposed to believe that it is merely a distant part of Britain’s history, when it is so very much part of our present.
Yet Queen Elizabeth II is not so removed from this; she started off her reign as a ruler of Queen of the British empire, ruling over 70 colonies and ‘dependencies’ and the royal family’s history is inextricably linked with the British empire, which subjugated people around the world.
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