The Monarchy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
2022 ж. 12 Қар.
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John Oliver discusses the future of the British monarchy, what they have and have not acknowledged about their past, and how Winston Churchill preferred to go down waterslides.
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For those of you who are curious, Sky did in fact air this segment.
Thank you, was scrolling the comments in the hope to find the answer.
@@andreaszweili8593 I was, too.
@@nicolkatanji1980 Were they Russian trolls singing at those Scottish and Irish football matches? 🤦🏻♂️ Your list of excuses managed to stop just short of blaming the Irish for their own famine - I suppose, with hindsight, they should have had a more broad-based diet? I’m just not sure that “our bunch of colonising racist c**ts were no worse than all the other colonising racist c**ts knocking about” is a terrific defence. Oliver’s point is that a sh*t-load of wrongs were done in the name of the monarch; maybe, a bit more humility and reparation might have fewer British and Irish people not overly upset at the old bat’s passing.
@@nicolkatanji1980 yes, shut up now. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love how John slyly forced Sky to air the episode, by calling them out on their censorship (which has been happening for years btw - they have been crudely editing out the more brutal attacks on the Royal Family since the beginning of the show). Now they would look monumentally stupid if they refused to air it & major news outlets would 100% picked up on it and amplify their shameful servility. Americans look at the UK, see socialized healthcare, a few welfare programs and assume UK media is more open to leftist rhetoric. But that's DEFINITELY not the case. First, socialized healthcare is more of a 'historic accident' and ever under attack, as the conservatives never surrender their effort to undermine it, gut it and end it. It weirdly coexists with shockingly cruel right-wing policies, which the UK media consistently promotes. John Oliver's show, as it is, would never be given air-time. I suspect it is only reluctantly allowed because of the power of HBO, and because it's technically American. btw, John did the same subtle arm-twisting to Jimmy Fallon - after that numpty silenced his questions about Amazon working conditions & union busting, Oliver put Fallon on the spot in front of his crew & on camera, and challenged him not to edit out what happened
When that British woman said "I think people would like what we have" all I could think was "Because you took it from them."
The British Museum in a nutshell. Not that any others that were created during the colonial era are any better. Also sometimes it looks like museums are more interested in hoarding, pardon conserving, stuff than actually displaying it to teach people.
Not to mention, when it comes to the Monarchy itself, I've never - not once - heard the sentiment "I'd like to have a royal family, like they do in UK".
@@ThaEzzy our (s) elected folks already cost us plenty. They feel like royalty I'm sure!
If anyone wanted to abolish my traditional monarchy, I'd spit in their.
We executed our short lived european impossed monarchy (The Absburg emperor) here in Mexico. And they weren't even all that bad dudes, they instigated reforms to help the poor and the needy... But we don't take kindly to monarchs. We didn't just banished them or return them to Europe. We fuking shoot them. So no, not all people want the same stupid shit that the britsh, specially ex-colonies.
The level of sarcasm and derision in Lidia Thorpe's delivery of the oath. Absolutely legendary.
Lidia Thorpe is a rag with absolutely zero support in Australia
badass
Totally brilliant!
Most Aussies think Thrope is an Angry Wacko
@@TOTN17 And let me guess: these "most" are ... not aboriginal?
I know an indigenous Canadian, my age, who, while we played disc golf, told me how whenever the Government boat came into the village's inlet he had to hide. He did this successfully, so he fully learned his people's language and did not disappear into an unmarked grave at a boarding school due to abuse. Now I hated school, but my god, there's plenty of stories about similar mistreatment of native children in the US, and we think we're good guys.
I wholeheartedly agree with you!! The Indian children were forced to enter these schools, leaving their families and their culture to learn English and the Catholic faith!! They were used as slaves, tortured, punished if they could not remember their lessons! These schools were a nightmare for all these children!!! This country is responsible for many atrocities against our American Indian brothers and sisters!!! And, today they are still being persecuted for being who they are!!!!! They were here first! This is their country!! We, the US, should begin paying them for our sins against a beautiful people!!
We are **most definitely** not "the good guys". We are, in fact, guilty of the same crimes we're currently accusing of China _ten times over_
The latest iteration of the Taylor Sheridan Cinematic Universe, "1923", depicts this part of American history in all its gory brutality. Several of Sheridan's other works also delve into how modern day American Indians continue to be ignored and repressed.
At least Canada has ended the schools. The USA still has anywhere from 4 to 72 of them still up and running (depending on the source)
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This episode did in fact air in full on the Sky network. Way to go, Mr. Oliver.
This is the comment I was looking to find
Sweet!
way to sky tbh
Great!
I was curious. Thanks
John Oliver. The only Oliver who hates the monarchy more than Cromwell.
I understood that reference. Thanks, Monty Python!
As an Irish man, fuck Cromwell!
Brilliant!🤣
Armies assemble in the name of Lord protector
Now that was good!
As a Kenyan I thank you for highlighting the colonialism in our country..The effects are still being felt even Up to today
I'm sorry for this. I had no idea until I watched this segment.
The worst thing was the brain washing that left most of kenyans with self hatred and believe that anything good has come from a white person, I hope thier children will wake up 😢
Well change it. The future is in YOUR hands. How many Kenyans move to the UK for better opportunities? Plenty I’d say And I’ve seen pieces in documentaries about rich Nigerians taking 2 private jets to London to shop. One plane for the shoppers and one for their shopping. I’m sure Kenya is no different. Why not have a go at the Portuguese government who were your first colonisers? Because it doesn’t fit with the narrative? If you had a good brain you’d do some research into the advantages of being a Constitutional Monarchy. There are more checks & balances to minimise corruption. CM’s aren’t perfect but they’re definitely the best of the rest imo. And no mention of your countrymen’s ancestors selling their own people into slavery and making huge money. And how’s the corruption in your government? Asking for a friend 😎 The RF is there to unite people and to serve others. Can you imagine how dull it is cutting ribbons and pulling cords for strangers is. Do you know how important the RF’s around the world are for charities? I’ve heard from people who have done plenty of charity work in the UK. Unless there’s a Royal going to be there they have big trouble selling tickets. If there’s a Royal going to be there the tickets sell out within minutes. And not American style charities/tax dodges , REAL charity that helps others. Even Americans are using the idiot Harry to promote their fake charities.
@@michelegraham9044 I could point out 4 fallacies in your argument but I won't cause I don't have the time like you😂😂... I'm busy trying to change the system left behind by the colonists . Anyway,keep educating us people who don't have good brains as you stated(whatever that means).. you're doing the Lord's work my dear😊👌🏾
As an Australian, we still see some of the horrific affects of indigenous child kidnapping, such as insane crime rates ect.
You know what’s more awkward than having the “Lizzie’s in a Box” song stuck in your head? Having to explain what it is to people when they catch you singing it to yourself.
Just say a football chant
@@freneticness6927 WHAT
@@freneticness6927 ??????????
@@freneticness6927Lizzie's in a box, in a box
@@thatoneguywiththevoice328 So are the victims of bloody sunday mate. The famines over so why dont you go home.
We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.” -James Connolly on George V
Already wrote that on another comment but: *slaps table* Exactly! EXACTLY!!!
@@wilhelmdietrich8474 people can't be held accountable for that long, but regimes can, and he is the regime
I didn't want to hear this when the Queen died, but boy do I stand corrected about the monarchy.
I adore this entire thread.
Beautiful
Finally, the most British man reacts to the most British institution.
Zazu has spoken!
@@datafoxy Mr. Bean has spoken!!
😂😂😂Just perfect
@@InvestmentIdea
Absolutely! I'm so satisfied by someone finally admitting that mushy peas are fucking disgusting!
How dare you insult a vital British institution? We would not be British without mushy peas. Abolish the monarchy by all means, but never, never take away our mushy peas.
Got me in the first half
Let us all remember the wisdom that lizzie in the box emparted us before she passed away, " we should embrace modest materialism" while she was sitting on her golden throne.
Translation: Cost of living is going up, so get used to eating shit.
She also had a gold piano
All hail the corpse emperor?
Is it too late to eat the rich? No? When can we get that going?
@@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025 they anticipated that... they have now city size bunker enclave.. just in case total anarchy prevails and government collapsed.
Irish Times: “Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown.”
I almost gave up on reading this, and am glad I made to the end. 😮😂😂😂
Honestly I don't see any kind of reason why _ANYONE_ would have a good opinion of the british
Omg I loled at this
I am Russian and I imagine being neighbour of the UK from the end of WW2 when empire still existed to the Troubles in the end of 20th century was the same for Irish as being a neighbour of Russia has been for Ukraine since Putin started expressing the desire to restore Russian "sphere of influence"(~2007) up until now
I still can't believe they actually published this!
My mom is 91 years old. She’s an Irish Catholic born in the north of Ireland. She’s been in Canada since 1957. She doesn’t have her citizenship cause she won’t pledge allegiance to the queen.
Éireannach go Brách
Hooray for Ireland!
well done
Wow
so shes stateless?
Devastatingly, the last residential school in Canada was Gordon Residential School in Punnichy, Saskatchewan, and it didn't close until 1996. The first one opened in 1831. It's disgusting how long it was allowed to go on, and England had a large part in that. Canada did not become its own country until 1867. Thank you for showing what they, and the white Canadian government, did to the indigenous people of our land.
Canada became its own country in 1867....just like you said....yet it took you 130 yrs to close them...and STILL you blame the UK....get real, stop looking to others for your mistakes.
Prince Philip having this moment with the Bobs: "Can you tell us what it is, you DO here."
I find it hilarious that there's a man who's legally not allowed to purchase eggs. I'm just picturing him buying a dozen eggs at his local grocery store and an entire swat team just busts in and tackles him to the ground
He’s allowed to buy them, just not allowed to transport them. So he either have to use delivery service, or have someone carry his eggs for him… 😂
@@gorillaguerillaDK yeah I know lol but that's why I'm picturing him just remembering his wife asking him to buy some eggs for the cake she's going to make later and he decides to grab them on his way home from work probably not thinking about the situation and boom! Police raid
thank god, eggs are they only things he could possibly throw. who would think of throwing - lets say - tomatos or cakes...
Exactly! Notice how western colonial ALWAYS call anyone who fights against their colonialism like Mau Mau uprising in Kenya as a “terrorist” organization. Funny how that term is used against 2 billion Muslims worldwide.
@@MrNukedawhales "people cant affort to eat and heat their homes? Bah! let them throw cake." ~ Marie-Antoinette (probably)
As an Irish person, this segment is giving me life.
If only they'd talked about Frank Kitson
Ireland has carried a burden and paid a high price as next door neighbors.
Lizzy's in a box much love Irish brother from 🇲🇽
@@maximusmcmahon1301 Every idiot needs a scapegoat
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As an Australian, I am 10000% behind you John ! I can't wait to get rid of that ridiculous family that has nothing to do with this Country.
In the 1930s, Bertie had to resign the Monarchy to be with the divorced woman he loved. Now, in the 2020s, we have a Monarch and a Queen, both divorced adulterers. WTF!!! Bye bye Charlie Boy and Camelarse, we don't need you or the pathetic Royal Household that protects you by attacking Harry and Meghan. Looking forward to Australia leaving the "British Commonwealth" and gaining one of us, preferably a First Nation leader (the true sovereigns of Oz) as Head of State.
While we're at it; electing one man to run a country is idiotic for the same reasons. Congress has been" tits on a boar" as well. Turns out there's a perfect size for a smoothly run State; and we should save- in our case Washington-- for interfacing with the rest of the world. The states should run themselves, keep their income tax, set their goals and standards too. Washington gets ten percent of each state's haul, to keep the worthwhile organizations running. The states can compete and share what they learn in Washington instead of the present day Congress blathering away about conspiracies, a waste of oxygen. We're all waiting for Washington to solve the myriad problems about which they have no clue. Leaving the States to deal with them is creating a challenge they will all welcome.
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totally agree
@@MultiMolly21yeah, because that worked out so wonderfully the first time we tried it. As we all know, the Articles of the Confederacy remains to this day the most successful foundation for the US government in history, and isn’t at all notorious for crashing and burning immediately because the states were running around in absolute chaos because there was next to no oversight by any federal authorities or regulations.
As a Kenyan, this is a eye opening piece of our history, most of which we are not told about and the watered down version is taught in our schools.- Sadly, the effects of colonization is till felt to this day especially in the issue of land.
"Why they are working so hard not to offend a family who's name was branded into people skin, and who sit atop a pile of stolen wealth, wearing crowns adorned with other countries treasures" well done to whomever wrote that. Power piece of text.
Agree!
Conquering other narions is cool and great.
Very powerful moment indeed! I got CHILLS. Just for the record, in this case you would use "whoever"
One of the most incredible defenses of the royals is that they "don't actually cost anything" because the land they "share" actually brings in much more money than what they are -paid- given. At which point I guess everyone's just supposed to not ask how it was they came by so much valuable land, and why, after removing them, the people couldn't just take it back.
@@cindica1106 ... and "whose" .
My grandfather was a detainee in one of the detention camps during the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya. For five years he endured harsh interrogations (beatings, hours in stress position, starvation, forced labor) until he was able to convincingly renounce an oath he had never taken in the first place. When he left the camp, he found two of his children had died and my grandmother and the rest of his children on the point of starvation from being forcibly housed in a concentration village (yes concentration as in WW2 concentration camps) with no access to food. Thank you JO for bringing this atrocity to light. Anyone seeking more information read Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins
That's heartbreaking. 😪
Thank you for the book recommendation will read
Love how they were shocked and appalled by the Germans putting people in concentration camps while also putting people in concentration camps barely a decade later. Not to mention what they’d done in South Africa barley a generation before. Smdh
‘Histories of the hanged’ by David Anderson is another recommendation. My paternal grandfather was a MauMau oather who was brutally killed in the ‘50s.
If this is true, it'd be good if John's team saw this
Thank you for this brilliant program. I am a 78 year old, anti royalist and I remember the disgusting situation in Kenya and it was this that started me being politically aware. I hope to see the end of the system of royalty which would also negate the house of lords. These people have stolen from working people for hundreds of years.
Kenya and other colonial atrocities were directed by Winston Churchill. I learned that this year and was truly upset. He's always been presented as a hero.
Yep. That's partly also why he also lost the election instead of being put in under a landslide. Those left alive didn't want another fascist in power & remembered his attitude towards the Indians, the Welsh, the Irish and the Scottish among many others. He was a vile racist who wanted to eradicate the Welsh language and exterminate brown people just as intensely as Hitler, but because of a few speeches his record of atrocities goes unspoken, including Gallipoli where he forced British soldiers to stay and die when it was known that they'd lost the battle.
There's a commie here in Brazil that says that n@z1sm is just colonialism applied to Europe itself. Learning uncomfortable details about policies made by Churchill, De Gaulle, several american presidents and such exposes it as incredibly accurate.
thats the thing about war heroes, im discovering-they’re really good at war. that does not usually coincide with being a good person
Churchill was a hero during the war, not so much before and after it
The royal family could have come out against it. As figureheads, not giving the direct order doesn’t absolve them
I'm Kenyan and a Kikuyu and a huge fan of John Oliver. He has said what I have wanted the world to hear about the royal family and colonialism. My mum was just telling me that her parents and all their children were forced to live in specific villages/camps where they could be monitored by the white oppressors so what J.O says is completely true thank you
I am from India, and the queen and her institution was responsible for millions of deaths.... all orders were made in the name of queen, and she never apologized
Just know that just because it seems like nobody cares..most people of the world don’t support pain or suffering. Technology just allows us to see the best, and the worst of the world at any moment. Humans tools evolved faster than our brains. I’m happy that you’re happy enjoying John though. I’m from America and it’s the same..not everyone here is rich and crazy.
Just another example of the west picking and choosing how history unfolded. Unless you have had family who've lived through events like this or educate yourself you'll never know. I have family from India and the extent of harm caused there by the military and famines is just another one left out of their pages.
Please inform yourself. The RF had nothing to do with colonialism. And they never supported anything you might consider to be racist. Actually, during QE2 a lot of countries became independent and voluntarily joined the Commonwealth.
But that LONG AGO in history... or, wait, your mom, so not long ago. Thanks for sharing this madness, and hope you aren't poisoned by such recent DYSTOPIAN SOCIAL CONTROL endeavors. We all have our mud to grow out of, seems Aristocracy long to wallow more often than common people - it's so comfortable when surrounded by servants, never worrying about the next meal, the only thought how to Protect and Preserve the Legacy of the Family while not caring at all about EVERYONE ELSE. SOCIOPATHS == ARISTOCRACY It's a TRADITION, you don't know plebeian, you don't know anything about the hard life, PUTTING ON A SHOW ALL THE TIME... sounds just like Insta/TikTok/many KZheadrs/FB conjured fantasies of manufactured identities ONLINE - no it's unique to the Royals, you can't grasp it... really?!?
Nearly 30 minutes of John roasting the monarchy? We are truly blessed to receive this juicy episode.
It's older episode around 1 month ago
It's nice after last week's. More lighthearted.
I'm sorry no meme or no Sci fi can be more out of this world than prince Charles turning turntables in a black neighborhood pretending to be down with the street and saying "I dig that crazy rhythm" 😂😂😂"
You should respect the monarchy!
@@sarcastaball Sure. Why?
This piece shows why Oliver wins Emmys again and again and again.
Brilliant John. Please do not stop son. One Love.
“They might seriously want to think about why. Why they and everyone else are working so hard not to offend a family *whose name was branded into people’s skin and who sit atop a pile of stolen wealth wearing crowns adorned with other countries’ treasures* .” So well and poignantly said.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Goosebumps.
He said that and I thought : "There's that Cambridge education shining through the humour..."
The last time the British abolished the monarchy it didn't go so well.
To be fair king Charles II and James II were cousins not ancestors. He mistakenly said they were direct ancestors.
"The Sun never set on the British Empire, because even the God couldn't trust the British in dark." - Dr. Shashi Tharoor
That’s fire
*set
"when the white men arrived they had the bible and we had the land. they asked us to close our eyes and pray. when we opened them they had the land and we had the bible" - desmond tutu
@@lm_b5080 Never heard that one before, that's gold
lol
Im Asian but have heard bits and pieces of how the glory of British monarchy came about at the expense of black and brown people's freedom & liberty but Oliver's humorous albeit factual commentary reinforced it in an enlightening way. Indeed the monarchy painfully lacks accountability to begin with and irrelevance is the least of their problems.
@nicotorio8627 And also Asian freedom and liberty - Hong Kong fyi.
@@AB-nw9hcOh fuck off 😂 how did that liberty and freedom go when the monarchy left in 1997? Oh that’s right, straight into the hands of the CCP
❤ this description of what Royals do: “Think of the royals as Mickey and Minnie at Disneyland, they don’t run the rides, they’re mascots of the whole operation.” This is a fantastic well-written segment! Thankyou! ❤ 🇨🇦
The best part that he didn’t even mention is that years before this aired, he turned down an honorary order from the queen because he didn’t want to be associated with the empire.
I think I remember him telling the story on Seth Meyers' show a bit ago
Not any 'honorary order'. A knighthood, namely Order of the Britsh Empire. And it's especcially the 'Empire'-bit why he rejected it.
@@martijnspruit An OBE isn't a knighthood. They are entirely different.
@@martijnspruit I understand that, I was just phrasing it that way because I was going to say “an order from the queen” and I didn’t think that captured exactly what was happening, and I couldn’t conjure up whether or not it was an OBE, MBE, et cetera
This needs to be the first comment.
Thank you for highlighting the maumau story, my grandfather who is still alive and in his nineties was a victim of that horror, he was detained in Kismayu in Somalia and watched his siblings burnt alive, only a sister remained. He usually narrates these stories alot. He says before everything was forcefully taken away his family were actually wealthy landowners.
I wept when I read this. You are still living with that generational trauma. I'm so very sorry.
I’m so sorry your family experienced such atrocities 😔
Thank you for keeping his story alive. That is incredibly important.
jirri. that is some fucked up stuff. miss kimani, i never knew about that. i feel ill about it
In Barcelona there is the Mau Mau cultural centre which is where I learned about this. Devastating and deserves reparation
I can‘t watch this often enough. Thank you, John Oliver.
I'm an American, living in Las Vegas. I've frequently run into Londoners....the first question I ask them is: "what do you think of the Monarchy ?" Literally 100% of them give me the same stock answer: "because of the Monarchy, we make millions from tourism." I've been to London...I don't remember being invited into Buckingham Palace or any of the royal gardens. If the Monarchy ends, my guess is tourism will INCREASE. The mansions, palaces and gardens will still bring tourists...nothing will change.
and the palaces and gardens can be turned into institutions serving the public.
What'll change is we'll have an a$$hole president stinking up the place that half the country will actively hate. Tell me, between 2016 and now, wouldn't you rather have a head of state that could be relied on not to make things worse?
As a Brit, yes I’m in the minority like John, but we’re definitely here too. I’ve not been to Las Vegas though, wouldn’t want to go, maybe it’s certain types it attracts there. I’m guessing they go for the gambling and the shows. I’d rather not be somewhere that noisy and busy but I live in the back arse of nowhere, have sensory processing disorder and prefer the quiet and lack of people
The hustle and bustle is kind of the point of Las Vegas Have you ever been to a stadium to witness a match? Do you know how noisy that is? Yet millions go every day That is the point of it@@BeeLZBeeb
Why do you have the electoral college or the second ammendment or senators or gerrymandering.
As a Kenyan, that newsreel is infuriating and depressing. Then, they ask why we can't mourn the queen or "celebrate" the royal family.
Mau Mau Forever
Sadly with all the various crimes against humanity that were committed by the British Crown over the centuries they were in power, it's difficult to not miss a bunch of these instances in the large quantity of other offenses.
so sorry for all the suffering you have endured til this day
Being half Kenyan and half British myself, I believe that there needs to reparations. How can my British family members live on social welfare and comfortability, by virtue of the riches stolen from my Kenyan relatives, whilst the latter work their behinds off in order to provide the basic essentials and still struggle to make ends meet? Not right!
Same here. Hurt to watch. I def celebrated her death tho
Charles, the man whose face answers the question, "What if 2 cousins had a kid?"😂
*slaps table* EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
Well, his parents ARE cousins so....
Bravo for saying what needed to be said.
“of all the places they could have said she is in, a box is actually quite generous” had me dying. Exceptional writing and delivery, couldn’t have been more perfect.
That colonial officer's response is chilling, not just because it says 'yes.' But because it further says that he doesn't regret it.
@@nicolkatanji1980 She's not gonna fuck you, bro.
@Nicol Katanji oh I get it! The British were mostly killing non-white people, so we should all overlook it now that Russia is attacking poor innocent white people. Thanks, Nicol. I'm glad you're happy with atrocities as long as "everyone" was doing it and it wasn't against white people. Please, go sit down somewhere and never speak.
I don't wish bad things to others but I fcking hope he suffer the same pain he inflicted to others.
Just as evil as the Japanese and Germans in WW2. I am appalled they sidestepped calling the camps in 1950-58 Kenya as CONCENTRATION CAMPS. Like the one Britain used in South Africa in 1899 for the 2nd Angloe-Boer War.
Why would he regret it , hes part of master race , people still believe that in England , have you not been reading how EU dictatorship oppressed English people and now when England is independent , there is glorious future of stealing stuff from other countries , like in good old days .
What's classy if you're rich and trashy if you're poor : living on public money 💕
also wearing raggedy clothes.
Also inbreeding.
I have to add that i stole this from somewhere on the internet but thought it would be way to perfect here ! Also love the inbreeding comment, priceless !!
Socialism for the corporations and banks, capitalism for the poor!
Also everything else
My great grandmother was born as a colonial subject of King George V, she saw the reigns of Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II and is still alive in the reign of Charles III. Her opinion of the royal family is overwhelmingly negative as she saw with her own eyes the devastation of the subcontinent following British withdrawal, her own father was a prisoner of war in WWI; however she had great respect and affection for Elizabeth to the point that she cried at the news of her death, yet refuses to even speak of Charles (Primarily because he mistreated Diana).
Have she ever watched a single documentary of Diana? The queen is equally if not more responsible for her tragedy.
@@minniewannie Nope, she’s 91, legally blind and can’t really understand English that well.
@@minniewannieShe had a huge role in it but the majority cause we Charles' mistreatment of her.
Is your great grandmother 200yrs old?
@@DaylanTheAngrySauerkraut she’s 89
Charlie boy's opinions on cancer treatments are extra fun now
As a US History teacher, I remember our principal announcing that Elizabeth had died and Charles was “our king now” and I never had a greater urge to dump tea into a harbor.
This was in the US?
Don't forget to dress up as an Indian!
@@evelynkokemoor6398 somehow I don’t see myself doing that part haha
@@bikeman9899 yup!
Um . . . Are you in the US? If so, your principle needs to go back to school. Charles is not "our king". If you're in Canada, i guess it makes sense, but so does your desire to dump the tea.
As someone who strongly believes that people who commit funny crimes deserve equally funny punishments, the case of egg man brought a tear to my eye
If I were in the UK, I would buy him eggs and deliver them to his home so that he can have eggs for breakfast, but not break the conditions of bail. Also the idea of having a King Charles III, makes me glad that I live in China. 🇨🇳 The first two were horrible. Oh and if that guy comes here, I would offer to cook him an omelette, with all the fixings.
@humphrey spelling bee: I say we administer silly, humiliating, and above all, highly public punishments to anyone and everyone who violates the dignity of humanity. Supreme Court abolishes abortions? Those that voted for the abolisment must stand in the middle of the busiest intersection of the city, at the busiest time of the day, lift up their robes, and sodomize themselves with balloon animals, and woe betide ANY whose balloon pops, for the further punishment of their failure will be visited on the whole lot of them! Billionaire robot wearing a human skin refuses to crack down on neonazis, bullshit peddlars, and other assorted trash people on his own site? Ten days in the stocks, with rotting fruit provided free for passers-by. Textbook malignant narcissist attempts to stage a coup? Surround him with only the most brutally honest clinical psychiatrists, who will constantly bombard the fast bastard with all of his flaws, his weaknesses, his insecurities, until he's thouroughly broken, then we rebuild him and medicate him into a functional human being. Once they're finished about two hours later, we can all go to lunch.
@@Mr.Patrick_Hung China's not exactly a model society...
@@HOTD108_ they are also breaking the law by being on youtube as well, since its banned in china since 2012.
@@Mr.Patrick_Hung Glad to live in China under modern God-Emperor Xi, are we?
Never been so proud to be Welsh. Both the egging and confrontation were here in Wales.
Moved to Wales from England about two years ago. I thought I might get a break from the jubilee shit when that happened, but the whole street had a jubilee party. Couldn't move for fucking bunting.
Thank you John.❤ I learn so much when I watch your shows. Your sense of humour is right on the mark. We all missed you!
Thank you for highlighting the atrocities that the British government carried out in "her majesty's name" in my home country of Kenya 🇰🇪
I had no idea any of that happened. Beyond horrible.
@@mollyrose1596 yeah you know that’s why history is important
Now, Kenya is committing its own atrocities against LGBTQ+ people, so, get back to me when that ends.
If you're interested, Jacobin Magazine recently did an article about the Mau Mau rebels and interviewed several of the surviving fighters. It's available for free online.
@@polemius01 I live here and while Kenya IS a 80% christian Nation (gee I wonder where they got that from) and Homosexuality is frowned upon, NOBODY has the time or inclination to persecute members of the LGBT+ community, you are thinking Uganda or Ghana (entirely different countries, please try to keep up).
John Oliver is a treasure, calls em straight, to hell with flashback. Good Man!
According to a poll published early this year, the popularity of the Royal Family in Britain has actually plummeted to a new historical low: as of now, only about 1/3 of the British people is still in favour or supports the monarchy and/or the royal family.
I’m kind of surprised it isn’t lower.
And yet there are so many things that need changing in the country more urgently that it's safe.
I love how John is not a hypocrite. He's actually got offer from The Empire to get OBE but he refused. He doesn't want to owe them anything
You down with OBE? No, that's not me!
It would be a very bad move for someone in John’s position to accept a title from the monarchy.
*from the Empire to get
As an Irish person, I thought this was pure poetry. Thanks John.
lizzie’s in a box !
@@arjungutta7762 IN A BOX!
As an Indian, I feel the same.
I like rusty spoon
Still she'll be remembered more than an Oscar Wilde or U2 or Robbie Keane
I was at a Rastafarian indigenous village in Jamaica playing drums when the queen died.
emotionally unavailable guacamole 🤣🤣🤣
Can I just say, I will never get tired of how perfectly John Olvier recreates the "50s British newscaster" voice. He's done it in countless episodes by now and it's always a highlight
YES! I KNOW! Whenever John does a British impression, you know it is gonna be funny! It is inception for anglophiles! Also, that newsreel voice never gets old!
I think this is his best one yet. He maintained it over a stretch. He usually laughs at himself while doing it but this one was perfect
I love anything using that voice. That’s why quagmire in family guys sounds so goofy l
He can mock the English accent (that's his own kin) and gets away with making fun of the Australian and Texan twangs....... But God help him if he EVER tried to imitate (even in jest) the accent of a person of colour!! He wouldn't have the guts!!! Pure hypocrisy!!!
@@colincolin13 Man, I can shoot characters and innocent people in a video game, but GOD FORBID I ever shoot an innocent person in real life, suddenly I'm a "murderer" and "threat to society". Fucking libtards /sarcasm Get over yourselves, mate.
As an American, hearing a British person mock an Australian accent was the highlight of my week
Oh, man! I completely agree! 💯 👍🏽
@@nicolkatanji1980 You shouldv'e shut up before saying all that bullshit
Did you see John Oliver talking about Eminem and Australians? kzhead.info/sun/fJ2odJSQg4l7oI0/bejne.html
As an Australian, mine too
Love John Oliver! So sane, so funny and so damn right!
Absolutely excellent piece John! As always, spot-on catalyzing the most interesting discussions to be had in modern society.
There were actual concentration camps set up in Kenya during the colonialist era where locals were detained, tortured and killed. The British government attempted to erase this from history, but we remember. Thank you John Oliver for never hesitating to bring forward the hidden truths and uncomfortable conversations
The British also put white people in Concentration camps during the Boer war. It wasn't racist, it was just a British thing to do.
All overseen by PM Winston Churchill!
Also the camps are violating a bunch of human rights rules by themselves, you can't white wash real history😮
Hip hop hooray.
@@genericyoutubeaccount579 Don't project our modern understanding of race backwards. It was not how they thought of it, and, given *every* prior use of them was explicitly racial, and every one after... why was that one different?
Fun fact John The name 'Mau Mau' is not actually in the kikuyu language but actually just a phrase conjured up by the colonialist at the time from what they used to hear kikuyu people chant to them. The phrase/word that they would chant repeatedly was 'Uma' which translates to 'Get out' as a way of telling the British to go away from their lands. The word being said over and over, 'uma uma' was heard by the British as Mau Mau and thus the name was born.
That's awesome
I always thought it was the swahili acronym for "Muzungu Aende Ulaya Mwafrika Apate Uhuru" (White Man Gi back to Europe for The African Person to Get Independence)
I had never heard about this topoc before, but there is a card game I used to play here in Brazil that was kinda like uno, but with traditional cards and you had to say "mau mau" when you had only one card left. It means "bad bad" or "mean mean" in Portuguese, but now I'm wondering if it doesn't have anything to do with this revolution.
@@informedpanda254 that was also something we grew up being taught (but as a Swahili acronym). The Maumau though were from the kikuyu ethnic community( one of the tribes in Kenya) and a bigger percentage at that time only spoke kikuyu amongst each other and not Swahili (the national language). In that case, it must have most definitely come from the ‘uma uma’ and not the ‘mzungu atoke Afrika, …….’ I think that must have come later.
@@informedpanda254 This was adopted later after the name Mau Mau was brought to light. A way of roping in politics and the revolutionists as fighting for the same cause
There's still so much that (for obvious reasons) wasn't even mentioned here, including, for example, the dismissal of Gough Whitlam in 1975, collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War, the 1943 Bengal famine, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
You are so spot on. And all Americans need to see this and respect why we don't have a monarchy!!!!
Also as a Kenyan, I hope to see Kenya (and ALL East African countries) EXITING THE COMMON WEALTH in my life time!
Kenya isn't even part of the monarchy anymore. Kenya didn't even keep the parliamentary system, instead bringing in the far more corruptible and dictatorship-prone presidential system as used in the US, Syria, and Argentina. And you're free to leave the commonwealth, just convince a majority of your representatives. It's become more of a sports club anyway. 😋
Just be aware that China is ready to replace it, which is another whole chapter to come.
@@mlr4524 I'd rather Asians than the English
@@juminrhee4255 Yeah, that's the point you missed I guess; I hope the politicians in Kenya manage this in my lifetime. And I know what challenges my country faces thank you, don't need a refresher from you
@@mlr4524 oh no, not China! How terrible!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1200">20:00</a> - _"If I just wait long enough, maybe either the journalist forgets his question or I die of old age."_ energy right there.
GWB didn't even pause that long
🤣🤣🤣
"Maybe there's still a way left i can feel good about myself.. lemme think"
@@intorainbowzOG Because he was interrupted.
Worse, I think violence was on his mind.
Truly enjoyed the depth of this .
God Bless you John,From an lrish man,laughing His Ass Off👍
I'm Indian, I've got a few Irish and Scottish friends. And when the funeral was happening, you can bet that we were drinking and singing
Amen to that. 🎉
Did you celebrate when Rishi became the PM? 🙌🍾🥂🎈🥳💃🎉🎆
@@nHans no. He's still a Tory.
AND!!!
Hahaha cheers mate.
as someone called lizzie, hearing a bunch of people sing "lizzie's in a box" with such glee honestly put a big open-mouthed smile on my face. sing that shit at my funeral, please
@@nicolkatanji1980 define peace. I am intrigued. Better place? Explain how the Brits were good to the people they oppressed and robbed. I think you need to watch this segment again and many more like it. the entrenching is deep with you. Going to take a long time to dig into you to find common sense.
Hehehe... nice one. They should have added "... box, Drop it like its hot"
@@MassiveMawEnglish That's how the world works. The powerful used to oppress by force, now they do it financially. It's how the world has always worked. I don't like it either, but denying the reality of it doesn't help.
@@nicolkatanji1980 we know hun. And us poking fun at a dead monarch that everyone expected to die bc she was so old is not going to stop a western coalition. Stop weaponizing world tragedies to try to scurry away from real criticisms
@@nicolkatanji1980 so bc others did worse we shouldn’t talk about the terrible things your country did? That’s not how this works babes
Absolutely BRILLIANT 👍 Thank you🙏
John, I hope you remember the lesson of Kenya when considering the issue of Israel and Palestine. I have a feeling you do.
UK viewers, please, please let the rest of us know how long of a segment of Churchill on a waterslide did you see?!!!
I'm glad he at least let us see a couple times through, I'm sure somebody will throw together the entire segment if it doesn't air.
This video is outright banned for me in the UK, had to use a vpn lmao
@@MIddleJaman yes, but that's been the case for all LWT videos for me. They seem to become available in the UK one month after their release
We need to be honest: Its DISGUSTING that Oliver LAUGHS OFF literal nazi censorship in 2022!! And the rest of you LAUGHED IT OFF TOO!! Censorship is the OXYGEN Of evil. No action in history was MORE EVIL than laughing off censorship. (There can be NO EVIL on earth, without censorship. Police can't kill daily unless censorship, see?) That's WHY it was the FOUNDATION Of Nazism 100 years ago.
What about HBO max in UK? I live in the Czech Republic, so I either see this on KZhead right away or about a week later it’s available on HBO max.
I from Barbados and I fully supported ditching the Queen as head of state to become a Republic. I feel like my country is a successful grown up who left home when it became an adult and made it in the world independently ... independent from a mother who protected us, but also abused and used us when we were a child! We are not resentful, but we still don't forget the good and THE BAD that she did..."our Queen".
Rihanna should be your Queen 👑!
@@michaelhurley3171 at least she wouldn’t need to take the Chinese money to prop the island up.
@@jameshill5621 yeah she has over a billion dollars so she doesn't need their money 💰
So she was a Boomer parent in a way?
Sic semper tyrannis, vivat republica
*Have you tried turning it off, and back on again?* He actually rebooted in front of our eyes...
I love this man. Why did youtube just let me discover him just now
We need a part two. Plenty more atrocities to speak about, especially from the Indian subcontinent.
You can easily make a miniseries, a continent per episode and still have plenty of atrocities to spare and the monarchy would always be right at the center. Anyone defending the monarchical institution is alike to holocaust deniers in my book.
This needs to be pinned or somehow be shown as the top comment
So agree we need that list of atrocities from the subcontinent. Did you know they passed laws banning Indian women from inheriting property? And soon after forcefully drafted Indian men to fight their wars in Europe. When men died IMMEDIATELY they went and stole the wealth of the female family they left behind. This wealth is some of the jewelry this family wears, calling it gifts. During WWII my great grandmother’s two brothers (her only brothers) realized the atrocities being committed in Burma. They were doctors and left. And soon were murdered by the Japanese. Burma, a British territory, was meant to repatriate my great uncles. Instead the Brits found their bodies and gave these two hindu men a Christian funeral, burying them. My great uncles had sons but instead of inheriting the family wealth a coup of British men stormed my great grandma’s family estate and robbed every single woman of her jewelry, of the money in the home. They were near destitute. And yet they had kept some of the money hidden, a preparation they needed to do because they saw what happened to every person in their village. When my great grandma passed in 2020 I lost my family’s direct link to this story. But my grandma doesn’t let the story die. She says it often. After my great grandma’s mother death that property was stolen by the Brit’s instead used as a British drinking house (a house of those who didn’t drink or smoke). A house Indians were banned from. Until 1947 when we attained independence. My great grandma held the family property until the 80’s, when the place became difficult to maintain. But her stories of the Brit’s have no respect. And about those jewels. From what I know, Elizabeth has worn some of my family’s stolen jewels. And family that has visited Britain has confirmed some of our property is on display at the British museum. Falsely attributed as being gifts from the Maharaja. It’s funny. Because we, and our family name from Palakkad in Kerala is being erased. Like many more Indian family names. The monarchal system and the Brit’s are responsible for the erasure of the rest of the world’s history and dynasty. And it’s lead to the DIRECT europhillia felt in the colonized world. That none of our people were notable or worthy. Because they stole that from all of us.
Just like theres a comprehensive series titled “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire”, we need one elaborating the extent of British Colonization from start to present
The last thing we need is a British crow yapping about how "incompetent" Indian govt is when in Britain lettuce lasts longer than Liz Truss
Twitter was quite the gathering place after the demise of the late Queen. Reactions ranged from “Oh, it’s so sad.” to “Has everyone already made a plan to party in Ireland?”
I loved how John Oliver summed it up in the episode after her death "As you might know. The world is going through a bit of a frenzy right now because an elderly Woman in her 90s died of natural causes" 😂😂😂😂 Facts. I mean I heard people compare this to JFK or Princess Diana and I'm like "..... NO"
@@brandonayong5823 Yeah, at least JFK and Diana dedicated their lives to hopefully improve people's lives, meanwhile Liz 2 was a cultural institution waiting to be dismantled
She's in a box, in a box, LIZZIES IN A BOX 🇮🇪
We had a party and it was awesome. That bih should've brought back our diamond just as a start. May she rest in eternal h€ll. She deserved no dignity from anyone she happily kept oppressed and didn't give back wealth.
@@ArcturusOTE any good jfk might have done is outweighed greatly by joining the vietnam war and the cuban embargo
"it's like i care, but i don't" i want her to know that i quote that, with that exact cadence, constantly
As someone from England who hates the monarchy, I love whenever John Oliver verbally destroys the Royal Family, making this one of my favourite LWT segments (closely followed by the museums and the Edward Snowden segments, for very different reasons). The only shame was that after talking about the effects of colonialism associated with the monarchy, he went on to use a clip of Winston Churchill as comic relief, without acknowledging the huge negative role that man had on different colonies of the British Empire during the 1st half of the 20th century. There are many within the former British Empire who would have far more contempt for him than they would for the monarchy.
John Oliver recreating that British Pathé Narrator Voice will never stop being iconic.
When a guy with a British accent has to put another British accent on top of his British accent lol
"iconic" is an overstatement, but I'll allow it.
@@Tcrror allow it? Thank you, your grace 😂
@@Tcrror "iconic" is the most recent English word being publicly abused into a shadow of its former meaning. "Aesthetic" is also on the ropes. [Sigh]
@@anahata2009 you sound like someone who hasn't come to terms with the fundamental transience of language, friend.
I learn more about history from John Oliver than all of my history classes in high school.
Horrible high school.
Schools are only going to teach you what they only want you to learn.
Pity most of it is highly selective.
It is surprising how much is not taught in schools, is it? I have some friends among the Native Americans in Canada. These horrible things use to happen as recently as 1990s. Indigenous children were taken from families for years, many never returned. They were raised to submission to white people, punished of any expression of their culure and origine (speaking their language, singing songs, praying to the spirits, talking with siblings) and they were heavily abused (punished by hunger, beated, detained in dark cold cellar), children were also sexualy abused there and many died from misstreatmen and abuse. I met a person who saw a priest to beat a child to death when he was detained in a residential school. It was just horrible to hear all the storries and when I got to know this I felt guilty as a a white European with Christian background, even so my country does not have any colonial history. An apology from all heads of all institutions involved in this horror should be a minimum. If the role of the royal family is to symbolically represent the monarchy and the church, so they are the best people to apology in the name of the monarchy and the church, because it is what representing mean and an apology is a symbolic act.
@@samuela-aegisdottir In the United States, Indigenous Ceremonies were outlawed until 1978. In addition, I have seen grown men cry over the trauma they experienced in the schools they were forced to attend. 💔
This is so spot-on
Don't listen to this guy he is not spot on. GOD SAVE THE KING
@@RickSatanLizzie’s in a box
@@RickSatanYou didn't actually say how he isn't spot on.
Well done John
It's crazy seeing the historical topic, the Mau Mau uprising, which i've spent like five years studying, is actually on HBO. AND they use THE interview with Terrance Gavaghan, genuinely one of the most insane documentary interviews of all time. Massive props to the interviewer in that clip, John McGhie, the way he held this war criminal's feet to the fire calmly and methodically was absolutely pitch perfect journalism.
@@nicolkatanji1980 Oh boy there is so much wrong with this post, ok firstly I think you missed the part that the oppression in Kenya didn't just affect the Mau Mau but the general people of Kenya. Most of them had nothing to do with the Mau Mau and were just put into the camps arbitrarily many were even kids. If you want a good book that really puts it into perspective I would recommend Dreams in the Time of War by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Second, "Everyone else was doing it therefore it was ok" is a really shit take. If someone as far back as 500 BCE could figure out slavery was bad then the British Monarchy could have done it. Third, people are calling on both France and Spain to apologize for their colonial actions especially France who quite literally has a colonial tax on their former colonies to this day so. Fourth, it is funny how you choose to discuss the Aztecs but failed to mention people like the Haudenosaunee who had essentially a working democracy so there is a variety of other people besides the Aztecs who would have benefited if the Europeans had just fucked off and not colonized. So yeah I think things would have been better for the Indigenous people of South and North America if the Europeans hadn't colonized. Fifth, this entire rant about these other powers doesn't do much to show why we shouldn't call out Britain on its actions. We also call out japan on their actions and its lack of an apology as well. Lastly, "the peace we've all enjoyed the last few decades" what peace? This screams a western perspective. There may have been peace for Western Europe and the US, but what about the rest of the world huh? There have been dozens of wars all over the world because of the actions of the West, some which still rage today.
Every British soldier involved should spend the rest of their lives rotten in prison facing execution for their crimes.
@@jinmakome2796 Agreed, I hope that man in the interview who ordered soldiers to put their boots on the throats of kenyans rots, don't care if it is in hell, Tartarus, or has a shit reincarnation.
There’s a great radiolab episode about it, and about the site where the British have all their documents on the events hidden.
@@nicolkatanji1980 I don't even know where to begin with. Terms like 'ignorant', 'naive', and 'boot-licking' don't seem to do justice to that string of verbal diarrhea. I've never seen so much childish whataboutism in a single post. You've managed to make the UK and the monarchy look even worse with this comment. People reading this will now associate their supporters with your sub-Trumpian level of 'argument'. Bravo.
Why is it that the people who think they should not be held responsible for what their ancestors did still seem to think they deserve to inherit what their ancestors stole?
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I don't think they should be punished for what great great great grate gran or gramp did thats kinda fucking stupid but maybe not abel to hold land bc of the fact they are already geting a place to live food security and travel paid by the British people.
@@benozzy003 they need to be punished for it they still punishing everyone else for uprising against them
That's a fallacy Which you probably learned from this show for the majority of your arguments
Yeah, sure. Let's include those who sold their own people to slavery. The elephant in the room.
Thanks John, this video was so necessary!
John Oliver is one decent man.👍
“I spent 3 or 4 days studying this shit” My man has transcended
Im canadian, As you can tell by the fact that I’m two weeks late in commenting. I just wanted to say thank you for using your show to talk about the residential schools. The sheer number of unmarked mass graves of indigenous children found in the last two years is absolutely devastating and it is so important that people don’t forget it
It's pretty shitty that he didn't acknowledge that the last ones closed in the 90s rather than the 60s though. While the CoE may not have specifically run any after that, but there were still government run schools until the 90s and we didn't break off constitutionally from the UK until '82 so the UK government (and the Queen as a figure head) could have put a stop to it and didn't. She had a nice chunk of time to do so.
@@mishyhnyduik6725 The schools running after the 60's were run by the First Nations themselves.
@@mishyhnyduik6725 and the residential schools may have closed, but they've been replaced by family and children's services... A few years back they did a test. They took the same case files, and randomized the ethnicity of the family. People recommended removing children from the homes of cases that had indigenous names at three times the rate of any other ethnic group. In other words, the racism that has been instilled in us had lead to the foster care system replacing the residential schools.
@@andrewtorrens7790 Of course it has. Are you really surprised? Im not
@@paulfoley9370 Evidence? Ah, I see you’re either an apologist or a racist. Why would First Nations peoples run residential schools? Schools where their children were beaten, SA, starved, emotionally and psychologically abused? Why would FN peoples even support schools that had the sole purpose to “kill the Indian in the child”?
Long overdue. Well said, and backed up with facts. I couldn't agree more.
That long pause isn’t just the British monarchy reaction, it’s a world reaction. Stuttering silence.
The UK wanting to keep the monarchy and voting to leave the EU paints a picture not of a unique and quirky country, but a country that votes against its own economic self-interest.
It paints a picture of a bigoted country with supremacist sympathies and colonial nostalgia, actually. We've looked at you closer than ever before during the Brexit "debate" in the EU, and we're glad to have you gone.
The ruling class is effective at doing that in most countries, not just the UK.
Some things are more important than money. The US's culture of putting money above everything else is condemnable.
Uk is full of 🤡
The monarchy is profitable for all european countries that still have them.
I love that it appears that there’s a small child jumping up and down while flipping the bird with each hand while the crowd is chanting “Lizzie’s in a box.”
Yet, sports teams are fined and sanctioned if they were to say the same about another person.
That guy talking about indigenous people reminds me of a prof I had once. He taught ETHICS. He did just kind of glossed over the cultural and attempted physical genocide of indigenous people, referring to it like it was that one time a guy took all 5 everything bagels from the breakroom and left the other 20 non-everything bagels for everyone else. Like wtf?
Absolutely fantastic John, good on ya!!!!!!!
Those two young women made my day! Appropriately respectful of an old person of note passing and completely honest about their true feelings.
People need to stop being nice to oppressors
If I were that man that got arrested for throwing eggs I would have shouted: "Ah, Now we see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
Master reference
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!
This would have ended the monarchy.
They should only keep the monarchy if women in ponds hucking swords about is how they choose the king.
Truly a missed opportunity
Another great show John Oliver! As always,you have humor mixed in with the serious topic! I love you4 show! Go John,go! ❤❤❤❤
That pause and response is eerily similar to Tom Cruise's exchange with the interviewer in MAGNOLIA... "You won't answer the question?" "I'm silently... judging you."
The work you do is so important. I'm a Grenadian, and when our new government was sworn in in June, a national conversation started about why we have to swear allegiance to the queen, her heirs, and successors. The monarch is still our head of state, but the first time I visited the UK, immigration treated me like a criminal. Caricom (our regional institution meaning Caribbean Community) has outlined 10 reasonable ways for reparations to be given back to us for the legacy of colonialism, but we still haven't gotten an acknowledgement or an apology.
thank you for raising the point that people from colonised countries are actually not welcomed in to the country that colonized them.
Britain, age of imperialism: "You people are now subjects of our king, whether you want it or not. Obey and you get... well, not much, but at least we probably won't kill you (on purpose). Resist and we will kill you all." Britain, few years ago: "Where did all these foreigners come from? And they want to come here? To our country? I don't like that. I feel like the EU has stolen our independence!"
I'm Irish, and we've never gotten an apology either. I hope that Grenada and every other nation that suffered from British colonisation gets the reparations and apologies that Britain owes.
The monarchy will never apologize because that would mean accepting responsibility. Its the same reason no colonized nations will ever be given reparations.
This. As a South African of Indian origin, it grates so much when I have to pay exorbitant visa fees to visit the UK and really high international student rates to study there. From a heritage standpoint, I’ve been colonised twice!