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In my view, history provides some clues. Throughout the centuries of colonialism, Europeans could rely on helpful natives, who were ambitious or believed the white man’s supremacist myths. My own father was one of those. He always said that Indians and Africans needed to think and act like “the great British people”. The Suffragettes were obdurately opposed by countless women who believed in those same myths. Black slaves were captured and sold to white traders by African profiteers.
In contemporary Britain and America, culture drives the obscene behaviours which fail, oppress and violate so many humans. Rowley has accepted that. Dick never did. May, Patel and Braverman never will. It’s as if once in that club of power, they feel the need to show that they embrace and propagate its values more ardently than those who “naturally” belong. Jobsworths feel that too.
Few dare to expose the iniquities. Tyre Nichol’s black life did not matter to black officers; Cressida Dick was more protective of her officers than of the women whose lives they destroyed; Braverman, a child of migrants, seems to want to show she can be more brutally anti-migrant than any white man.
For the actual harm they do and for dashing our collective hopes for a better society, these assimilationists should never be forgotten or forgiven.
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