#Former colony

[vavuska]

Fake news here:

Barbados recently (30th november 2021) became a republic within the commonwealth instead of just an independent state. Since then Barbados has looked into ways of doing right to the people that were enslaved back in the colonial ages. Part of this is building museums about the atrocities, another part is attempting to get people to pay back reparations for their ancestors roles in slavery.

They've not pushed to get reparations previously, as the British monarch was still their head of state. With that no longer being the case, the Barbados PM Mia Mottley is calling for 1 specific family to pay reparations. Drax Hall was the largest slave plantation in Barbados and the only one still in the hands of the family of the original slavers. Its current owner is Richard Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset. This is who they're asking to pay these reparations. They want him to give the land back so they can build on it, and otherwise there's talk of them sueing for money instead.

The chairman of Barbados's national commission on reparations (David Comissiong) has talked about how other families might be asked to pay reparations too. In particular he mentioned the British royal family/ other relative of Queen Elizabeth, none of which is happening now

The only reason Cumberbatch is involved is the Telegraph used his name to ask whether he was involved so they could get clicks. Cumberbatch or his family, aren't involved in the slightest. Other newspapers than ran with this clickbait and made it much larger. Here is the only thing that's said about Cumberbatch

When asked if descendants of the Cumberbatch estate would be pursued, Mr Comissiong said: “This is at the earliest stages. We are just beginning. A lot of this history is only really now coming to light.”

They are not actually targetting him, Barbados in general is just making an effort to reclaim land that was used as slave plantations and use it (or the funds if they come to an agreement) to fund infrastructure.

The article linked here is just fully clickbait without doing much themselves, and intentionally using charged words like "reparations" to get clicks.

[fieriframes]

[The former colony itself becoming colonialist.]

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Black Diaspora, if King Charles dies on Black History Month we need to…

TURN IT UP!!!

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

I've started What The River Knows and maybe it'll change but my main issue currently is the implication that it's totally ok when the protagonist and her parents engage in 19th century archaeology in Egypt like babes they are not special! All that shit was unethical please don't pretend this is chill!!!

[chamerionwrites]

Aimé Césaire saying that colonization works to decivilize the colonizer truly lives in my head rent-free

[handweavers]

reading about the history of the tin mines in sungai ujong and malay (esp minangkabau) peasant and chinese labourer resistance to british colonial rule in what is now negeri sembilan and how the malay ruling class weaponized communalism - ie. the classic "malay ethnic solidarity vs chinese and indians" in opposition to class solidarity - in order to get the malay peasantry to stop fighting british colonial rule and help the malay nobility profit from british imperial rule, to the detriment of the class interests of the majority of malays as well as those of chinese and indians in the region. tale as old as time

[pencopanko]

TBH seeing people ask for a ceasefire is nice and all, but I want a fully independent Palestine.

I want the Palestinians to have all of their land back. All of it.

Quoting The Preamble of the 1945 Constitution from Indonesia, a nation which was first recognized by Palestine as an independent state in 1944, a year before the Declaration of Independence on August 17th:

"(...)Whereas Independence is the inalienable right of all nations; therefore, colonialism must be abolished in the world as it is not in conformity with humanity and justice."

That is all for now, may your watermelons taste fresh and sweet.

🍉

Salam Semangka, Penco

[bygideonsgrace]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S5E13

[tacagen]

k but anyone else seeing it. anyone

[aiteanngaelach]

Image ID: a screenshot of the hiberno-english entry in encyclopedia.com that has 3,967,691 views and has the logo of the oxford university press. it reads: HIBERNO-ENGLISH. A VARIETY of English in Ireland, used mainly by less educated speakers whose ancestral tongue was IRISH GAELIC. It is strongest in and around the Gaeltachts (Irish-speaking regions) and in rural areas. It preserves certain Gaelic... Screenshot ends. End ID

I literally made this same post last year and it's still up like. "spoken by the lesser educated" it's spoken by almost everyone in Ireland you weird classist english fucks. colonialist british empire mentality alive and well i see... Hiberno-english is literally so much nicer sounding than english english anyway. "ancestral tongue" "Irish gaelic" Labhraím GAEILGE inniu tusa liúdramán

[unamazing-sheep21]

Got back from rainforest holiday. Conclusion is that colonialism is the cause of all modern world problems. It is the cause the world is heating up. Wish those mfs minded their own business fr. wtf.

[unhonestlymirror]

Okay but

Hetalia game concept: 3 countries VS their 100 micronations/(former)colonies

[fate-motif]

i find it hilarious that on the surface you'd think two animated shows from the same franchise that happen in a relatively close timeframe would be ripe for a crossover but above else you cannot have lower decks and prodigy cross over because one of them is an adult workplace comedy and the other is an epic about children so instead we're gonna handwave the century between strange new worlds and lower decks to get a crossover

[butchniqabi]

queen on her deathbed? family rushed to go be with her?

[stackslip]

lmao this clownish, hypocritical, farcical, vindicative mess of a country. this loony nation that will literally throw a whole tantrum, from government to media stations to randoes on the street, because it deeply believes that it is entitled to the spoils and fruits and suffering of the people it oppressed for centuries, as *thanks* for "civilizing" them. any backlash to that notion creates unprecedented fury and petty vindictiveness towards the nationals of said country. on one hand the new governments of niger and mali are "human rights abusing juntas", on the other any national from this country must be severely punished for their governments' refusal to bow down and lick the sole of france's boot like they're supposed to.

[rwoh]

this is more of a personal commentary because I don't think it's my place to police anyone but when people write the fire nation as homophobic as a shorthand for them being bad it doesn't come across the way you think