Now, if you know about the first Women’s March in 2017, you probably know it was more than 4 million people across the globe. Yeah, our first item is about The Women’s March.
And I’m like, but weep for the women who we will never know their names.īrittany: That’s coming up. And I’ve seen videos and pictures of Nigerians and other people who are like weeping at Buckingham Palace. Luvvie Ajayi: History is of no fault of one person, but I also won’t be sitting there being like I am weeping. On the show today, I’ll be talking about the Queen’s colonial legacy with writer Shannon Melero, historian Caroline Elkins, and cultural critic Luvvie Ajayi. And then that time never comes, but it’s gonna come today. And we get told to hold our truths until a more appropriate time. Look, decorum and the absolute adherence to it is a vestige of white supremacy culture. While we’re talking about where the Crown Jewels are from, and we must, we need to be asking who exactly built Wall Street and why Latin America speaks Spanish in the first place. But isn’t the colonizing of millions of people across the global south far more unpleasant? I mean, and if you really wanna get unpleasant, here’s a cold, hard fact, Great Britain ain’t the only one. Told that a country was in mourning and now just isn’t the time to mention all these unpleasantries. Right? And as such when former and current subjects of the British Commonwealth spoke some of their harsh truths when Queen Elizabeth II passed away last week, many of them got told to pipe down. One shouldn’t interrupt the beauty to make people uncomfortable.
Not only distracts from some harsher truths, it renders those truths impolite. The pump, the circumstance, the intrigue, all of it. So, a guy named Clive Irving who’s the former managing editor of the UK Sunday Times, he says that the Monarch uses quote, pageant as an intoxicant. You too have found yourself at least momentarily caught up in the fever.
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whether it was the Netflix series or a Diana documentary or a Royal wedding. Now, if you are honest with me, you too, my friend, have found yourself distracted by the high drama of the Monarch. But let’s be honest, we’re here for the chaos and the costuming and Gillian Anderson’s slow British drool as she plays Margaret Thatcher. Sure, the show has done a bit to hint at the fault of the empire in the subjugation of people of color across the entire globe.
I know, uh, there is a lot to be said about the history of colonization and racism under the British empire.īut I don’t know, there’s something about the Netflix treatment that makes the cognitive dissonance just palatable enough.
Y’all know the one with Claire Foy and, um, the, um, the British Meryl Streep y’all know who I’m talking about. Please note: This transcript has been automatically generated.īrittany Packnett Cunningham: Hey, y’all it’s Brittany. Now What? Three Brilliant Women on Colonialism and the Future
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