I grew up, a product of Empire. Not the side of the victorious, but the trampled upon by the British boot. The same British boot that we're all still licking.
My grandfather fought in the British army and came to Britain in the 1960s. He did not want to, but Great Britain had f*ked up the region so royally he felt he had no choice but to move. Know this, no-one wants to leave their homeland; the actions of the colonial West invariably force them to do so.
There's an interesting phenomenon in Islam that instead of one devil - Shaytan, there are many - Shayateen - plural. This was a warning to all who were forced to come to the West.
I mean, the black slaves were Muslim before they were taken to the US and forced to abandon their faith, and the devils were literally f*cking everywhere. They were torturing them and using them, humiliating them and raping them, then claiming they were the rapists and lynching them. George Washington, that dude who everything important is named after, was such a Shaytan that he threatened his slave's whole family if she didn't return to him after she escaped. Read what the bastard wrote:
"If she will return to her former Service, without obliging me to resort to compulsory means to effect it, her late conduct will be forgiven by her Mistress; and she will meet with the same treatment from me, that all the rest of her family (which is a very numerous one) shall receive."
If it looks like a threat, and sounds like a threat, it's a bloody threat.
But he was one of the good'uns.
Even the great Saviour, that juggernaut of a man, Abraham Lincoln, was a white supremacist who wanted to send the blacks 'back home':
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.... And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
"If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,---to their own native land?"
If it walks like a supremacist, talks like a supremacist; he's a white supremacist.
Let's take a pause here, just for a second, to admire how malignantly effective the Empire's propaganda machine is, that this dude is actually seen as the personification of Western liberty and equality. It's always staggering to learn how much we've been played.
Whenever the West lionises a leader, you know there must be a catch. Personally, I take it as a warning. The Greatest Brit in history is Winston Churchill - according to the British public, who are an enlightened folk and whose talents range so far and wide that it is their dogs who are the ones winning the Britain's most talented awards. Before I get accused of reverse-racism (which means you're also being discriminated against when your standing on your head):
"No, you can't be racist against the British, Karen, they aren't a race but a nationality aka a man-made construct created to be as r*cist as f*ck to others and stop them coming in whilst simultaneously using the whole wide world as their local nightclub, complete with public urinals and vomit. Classy. Yes, Karen, I am British. Where am I from, you say? Manchester. Oh, you mean where are my parents from? Cheshire. In ya face, b*tch."
The British university professors of today very patiently tell us brown folk with only the 'slightest' of irritation that no, Winston was not an advocate of chemical warfare. It was only teargas to make those natives run away crying and that is no different from taking a doll from a little girl when she is being naughty, and it is all for their own good. Yes, the Bengal famine thing was not his proudest moment, but the British soldiers were very hungry so he was in a bit of a pickle.
Minimisation of abuse of coloured people is routine in the Western Empire because they abuse them non-stop. I'm gonna get super serious for just a moment: in Western Family Court systems alone, the minimisation of abuse of brown and black women is completely systemic. Here are some of their own reports:
UK Ministry of Justice Report 2020: "The specific difficulties of BAME (black and ethnic minority) women navigating the family justice process should not be overlooked..there is.. ‘a continuing pervasive culture of disbelief, indifference and hostility towards victims of abuse’.
UK: Domestic Abuse Commissioners Report July 2023: "A culture of disbelief for victims and survivors raising issues of domestic abuse, with a lack of understanding and/or minimisation of domestic abuse by the courts....Additional barriers to justice in the Family Court for marginalised and minoritized adult and child victim and survivors of domestic abuse."
UN Report July 2023: "Minority women face additional barriers...women reported feeling revictimized and “very belittled, very diminished, not really listened to” by professionals."
It is extraordinary that in 2023, this is what Western governments and the UN themselves are writing about their own regimes of systematic racism. Even they - Masters of double-speak, Orwellianism, hypocrisy, down right mendacity, non-stop fabrication, pathological lying - can't hide in any of the multitudes of arsenal they have amassed to conceal all truth - the fact that they are malevolent and tyrannical oppressors of women of colour.
I hear genocide experts in the world are arguing of whether the murder of 25,000+ brown people in the biggest assault to human life in history is actually a genocide or not. What more proof that white people are so used to taking brown lives that they are literally still having arguments about about where the line of "maybe a bit too much" is 10,000 dead children later. As the sermon from Bethlehem this Christmas said:
"To our European friends. I never ever want to hear you lecture us on human rights and international law again. And I mean this. We are not white I guess. It does not apply to us according to your own logic."
Brown people are cheaper than actual bird shit.
And so to Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi
I don't rate Gandhi. We in the West are fed the line that a man who encouraged the Jews of Europe not to resist their own extermination but to voluntarily succumb to the gas somehow brought victory to Indians by doing nothing. Plus, I've got a problem when men say sh*t like this about black people:
"Your Petitioner has seen the Location intended to be used by the Indians. It would place them, who are undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs (racist term for black African), in close proximity to the latter.”
That's what happens when you pop over to London for your studies. I mean, I'm a brown, Muslim woman and even I became so scared of all brown men with beards when I moved to London, I made my brother shave. The Empire's propaganda machine really f*ks with your brain.
The big thing the Western Empire pushes on us about the amazingness of Gandhi is that by pushing his line of 'nonviolent' resistance, he defeated the violent British Empire and got them out of India. The message is this, "Oh all you who are brown and whose lands we have invaded, women we have raped, raw materials we have looted. You do not need to resort to arms to get us to leave. Just ask us nicely and peacefully, and off we will go back over the sea to our King!"
BULLSHIT.
The real reason the British left India was because of violent resistance, which they couldn't handle after the economic disaster that was the Second World War. They didn't go quietly though; they concocted a partition to ensure racial and religious tensions for decades to come, ensuring their continued dominance from afar. Gandhi did f*k all.
But in Gandhi they found an acolyte to their cause to spread their message. Nonviolent resistance is not resistance, it is accepting a fate in the hope it will change. This was his batsh*t attitude towards the Jews being exterminated in Germany, "The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife," and telling Hitler directly that he did not consider him a "monster." The Japanese have a saying, "White skin covers the seven flaws" and Gandhi had a serious case of white supremacy.
The real underlying message in the West promoting Gandhi is this: "Resistance is futile. Lie down and take it. Naked if you want. Make it fun and get your niece to join in too: if you don't get a woody, you win!"
And that's just it, the height of white Empire's reverence for the brown man is in his impotence. Even more laudable and deserving of not just a mere pat on the head but whole statues made of bronze, is that such impotence was self-trained and voluntary. Gandhi is the brown man the Western Empire want all brown men to be.
Mahatma was simply a lucky git in that the British finally f*ked out of India when he was alive so he could claim his ideology of "shut up and put up" really did work, and by collectively sitting on their arses, they were victorious over the British Empire. It's one of those “be there at the right time” moments, you know, the type which turn 5 minutes of fame into something akin to life-long sainthood.
The current Conservative British Government - the same lot who brought us Brexit because they hate Europeans, told Indians they weren't welcome to stay, created laws to make it impossible for poor brown immigrants to bring their families over, call Pakistani men 'groomers', loose hundreds of brown kids unlawfully to trafficking because they don't want to spend money on them and call anti-killing brown people protests "hate marches" - erected a huge statute of Mahatma in Parliament Square.
I mean, why wouldn't they? Gandhi was a raging racist who spoke sh*t about coloured people, abused women by making them sleep with him naked in his erection 'experiments', preached that minorities should shut up and put up and was a white supremacist. He is literally the personification of the Western Empire's raison d’être.
No wonder the Shayteen leaders of the West want us to revere him: He was a fellow Shaytan of the highest order, the pin-up boy they want all us brown folk to be.
There's an analogous example in US history with MLK, JR. The nonviolent methods of the SCLC were only "effective" because the very real threat of very real violence from the Black Panthers and the NOI, specifically Malcom X, who himself excoriated MLK JR as a "house negro" in a speech using the twin concepts "house negro" and "field negro" to describe the difference between folks like MLK JR and the SCLC and himself. Find the whole speech here:
https://youtu.be/7kf7fujM4ag?si=2FuSIo8Sk0oELEpj
Ok. Good chat 👍