Archive | Colonialism

No love for the white man.

By claiming that the land doesn't belong to whites.

Everest has plenty of white privilege.

AOC previously called the country an "Apartheid state."

It also claims “black life is an integral part of German reality."

"It was an oversight on our part to not make the connection to a year of colonization, conquest, and genocide."

Happy Veteran's Day.

"Our government’s commitment to truth and reconciliation demands that we diversify and decolonise."

New book condemns Churchill as a racist.

The college wanted to remove the statue entirely, but settled for an anti-colonialist plaque.

She says it's part of America's "shameful past."

Spanish conservatives defend their nation's history.

Black mayor: "Our shared history in the city is tainted by colonial violence and systemic exclusion."

They also want to “identify and officially restore the original Te Reo Māori names for all towns, cities and places."

"The conquest and colonization are signs of backwardness, not of civilization."

India's poverty owes more to its failure to industrialize.

Eskimos want full autonomy from "colonialist" governments.

UN human rights chief: "I am calling on all states to stop denying — and start dismantling — racism."

"The Black and Palestinian struggles for liberation are interconnected, and we will not let up until all of us are free."

"[T]he Brazilians came from the jungle, but we Argentines came from the ships."

"We will ask forgiveness from Namibia and the victims' descendants."

Jean-Jacques Dessalines exterminated white settlers in Haiti.

College cites "regulatory and financial challenges."

"If you support Black Lives Matter, it was not a difficult leap to saying Palestinian lives matter, too."

"Today we recognize something which we have denied for a long time."

University wants to reduce "Eurocentric" and “white savior” approaches to math and science.

The council demands Portugal "tackle racist biases against people of African descent."

It also removed the school's conquistador mascot.

California’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum supports "countergenocide" to displace white Christian culture.

China adopts "woke" lingo.

Some ornithologists claim naming birds after white people bears the "stench of colonialism."

Macron and his ministers think they undermine national unity and abet Islamism.

Government-commissioned report criticizes the "excesses of a culture of repentance.”

Council member: We should celebrate Juneteenth "just like we do July 4th."

Trump says Columbus Day will never be replaced "as long as I'm President."

BBC lets slip: "It would be unfair to judge a 19th Century man by 21st Century principles."

Should they be invited back?

A group called "Topple the Racists" has a long list of targets.

Dark cinema.

Why didn’t Charles de Gaulle partition Algeria?

One-in-three Brits is still proud of the empire.

Just as American blacks blame whites for their failures, Africans deny responsibility for the misery they bring on themselves.

An eminent scholar sums up a lifetime of study.

Interesting rebuke of the "1619 Project."

We think we can guess her answer.

Nine Māori were killed after the 1769 arrival.

"White women have historically kept power firmly in white hands by defending and denying its violence."

The savage Berber insurrection in Morocco.

Do inferior and superior “cultures” account for differences in wealth?

A look at the racial thought of Hegel, Kant, and other classic philosophers.

Dedan Kimathi led the Mau Mau.

And give the Congolese reparations.

Leader of Indian group: “Millions upon millions of Native Americans have died in European-perpetrated genocide.”

“Black history is British history.”

Myths of "exploitation" mask the reality of progress.

Protesters don't like "colonial" in the name of a restaurant in a gentrified area.

Ad's message was supposed to be tolerance and acceptance.

Who will be next?

Each century of colonization raised GDP by 40 percent.

Fascinating map explains genetic consequences of historic events.

One of the Seven Wonders of the World will now be called "Mosi Oa Tunya".

And what about all the people the Mau Mau hacked to death?

Says in the future, miscegenation will appear normal.

Since China is not a white country, it can be imperialist without penalty.

The roots of our crisis go deep into the past.

Oh no! It wasn't the evil white man, after all.

Congolese: "If the whites came back, we’d give them the country for free."

Says colonies’ riches were plundered.

Anti-Tintin jihad goes global.

Corruption, bad governance at fault, says historian.

African says Europeans must confess, repent, atone, and then "we can talk of reparations."

SA president's brother: average African poorer now than under colonialism.

Even as Namibians begin to take whites' land, they demand apology for colonial era.