Once again into the breach of pandering to the race mongering industry. When will it stop?
The government has apologised for failures to properly commemorate black and Asian troops who died in World War One fighting for the British Empire.
Some troops were commemorated collectively or their names were recorded in registers, while their white counterparts had headstones.
FFS! Enough already. Britain is unusual in doing this anyway. Other nations really don’t bother. The French and Germans for example don’t get the obsession with visiting war graves. This is perhaps even more pertinent now that no one is alive who was there or involved. All of which is relevant to the point of apologising. If you go to the Menin Gate, there are long lists of the fallen – including those from the Empire. So what? Attitudes were different a century ago. It happened. To apologise for things people did and said who are now dead and cannot account for themselves now is noxious in the extreme.
A report by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission found the reason for this was “pervasive racism”.
This is an organisation I have always had respect for. That respect has just died.
He told MPs there was “no doubt” prejudice had played a part in what happened after WW1.
Yes and it was a century ago and attitudes were different then. It has no relevance to today and the people who made those decisions were informed by the attitudes prevalent at the time. As a society, we have moved on. It is not up to us to seek to change the past or apologise for it. It is not our place.
Labour MP David Lammy, who was critical to bringing the matter to light, called it a “watershed moment”.
Without wishing to poison the well, but Lammy is the racist race grifter in chief. Why anyone takes any notice of this obnoxious, vacuous man is beyond me.
It also cited racist comments such as the governor of a British colony saying in 1923 that: “The average native… would not understand or appreciate a headstone.”
Yes it was 1923 nearly one hundred years ago. We still had an empire, people really believed that other races were inferior. Get over it and grow up. I for one am heartily sick of race being rammed down my throat day in and day out by these tedious people. A few years back, I gave it no thought whatsoever. I just treated people as I found them, giving no thought to things like skin colour. Now, I despise everyone involved in this tawdry scam and if you wanted me to be a racist, you are going the right way about it.
Historian Prof David Olusoga, whose TV company produced Unremembered, told BBC Breakfast that apologies were not enough and resources would need to be committed if the commission was serious about restorative justice.
Ah yes, another master race baiter demanding money for nothing. I once watched a part of one of his programmes. I switched off after about ten minutes as it quickly became apparent what his game is – the man is a nasty little race grifter. I will never watch any of his programmes again.
“If the Commonwealth War Graves Commission had set up a committee and discovered that 100,000 white British soldiers lay in mass graves – unmarked, uncommemorated – and the documentation proved that that had been deliberate, what would they do?” he said.
In every war prior to WWI, this is precisely what happened. Funnily enough, we don’t make a big deal about it and we don’t blame racism either.
Lammy is an odious racist and should be put back in his box. How long is all this apologising for nothing going to go on. We have NOTHING to apologise for. The UK is the most tolerant country in the world. FFS why is most of Africa trying to get here and live off our largess !!!
If all this carries on its going to turn me into a racist as well LR.
Saw this on BBC news, leading and just about only topic.
My first thought was “What are they hiding?”
EU, Biden, Starmer, Greeta, Attenburg, one of them has made a major fuck-up. Look, a squirrel.
“The average native… would not understand or appreciate a headstone.”
It is possible that this statement is literally true. Different cultures have very different funeral rites.
Quite so. That thought did cross my mind.
The average Abo was probably busy splitting the atom. Or possibly munching witchetty grubs, I always get this mixed up.
Crossed my mind too
wouldn’t surprise me if headstones etc are predominately a white Christian tradition. We’ve seen footage from India on news last few days of ‘with Covid’ being burnt on funeral pyres
As for Lammy, another Left race baiter like Abbott, Butler, Litha Nandy (who is now Black) and BBC, C4 in thrall of their divisive propaganda
The past is history, it can’t be changed – accept it
Lammy was elected purely because of his skin colour – how racist is that?
Now he’s a master baiter.
Nasty, toxic man with ignorance the size of the average solar system sitting comfortably like a cod supper on both shoulders.
Now that’s a waste of good fish ‘n’ chips!
Well, if you want to talk waste, the man’s a waste of oxygen.
In my view apologising for the acts of others, whether in the past or present, is always a meaningless and vacuous gesture. I remember Blair doing it in the 90s, presumably because it made him look virtuous, and thinking it was silly then.
Any apology conducted on behalf of someone else is nothing more than vacuous virtue signalling. An apology is only an apology if you do it for something you have done and feel genuine remorse. These idiots are cheapening the whole thing.