This St David’s Day, Why is Labour Trying to ‘Decolonise’ Wales From Welsh People?
It is March 1st, and the annual return of St David’s Day, the national Day of Wales.
One man who may not be breaking out the daffodils to celebrate is Rashaad Thomas, a black American “freelance author and poet” commissioned by the Arizona Republic newspaper to pen a stereotypically victimhood-drenched op-ed article back in 2019, in which he complained about going into a local restaurant and seeing a photo of some white men wearing blackface hanging on the wall. That the photograph showed a group of Welsh coal-miners from Cwmbach in 1910, and that their ‘blackface’ was actually ingrained workplace coaldust, mattered not to Rashaad.
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Send the whole lot of the current crop of Ruling Daft Taffs down the mineshaft at the Blaenavon Big Pit National Coal Museum and cut the lift cable. Job done.
For the record, if memory of the museum serves right, miners’ pit-top showers were built after the Second World War, some 40 years after the offending photo taken in 1910.
As ever, offence is taken, not given.
In my opinion the result of policies like this will be the exact opposite of what they are hoping for.
Slowly, gradually but inexorably the resentment towards the woke left, with its insane ideology will build up. More and more people will realize that they are being exploited and spat on by a loud, aggressive elite. At some point there will be a backlash.
It’s quite astonishing that a government supposedly there to serve the people should be openly declaring an intention to change how people think on matters that are so obviously not the business of the state. It says as much about the warped view of what a state should be doing as it does about the politicians saying this.
Yes and regarding important stuff, the Welsh Government failed (refused) to give a cost-benefit analysis for Lockdowns….Something an Independent MP was asking for many times, only to be fobbed off by the Drakeford wan*er!
We can all come on here and moan about this on a daily basis for the next four years because nothing’s going to change until you get new leadership that actually gives a stuff about the UK and the British people. Imagine living in a time where countries’ leaders demonstrably hate their own people and are as unpatriotic and traitorous as it’s possible to be, because this contempt ( and who they really serve ) is shown now on a daily basis and in a myriad different ways. If we go back and take a look throughout history at previous leaders, as a comparison, we are surely living in strange and unique times. The problem is that the treachery is now evident literally all over the place ( you even have a globalist monarch! ), all organizations and institutions are impacted, and until you get different, non-Uniparty, leadership that’s how it will remain; ”Every single one of our so-called “impartial” institutions is infested with leftist, woke, two-tier, free-speech-hating, anti-British groupthink: The police The judiciary The Civil Service Parliament Education system The BBC Ofcom MSM I’ve completely lost faith in ALL of them. These institutions used to make us all proud.… Read more »
Yeah, but is it only the leadership doing this?
In my country of birth (Eastern Europe) if the leadership tried to denigrate the national heroes the public outcry would sweep them away. You just couldn’t do it.
Likewise, imagine if the leadership tried to insult the Muslims and make them feel ashamed of their past. Do you think they would put up with it?
So I must admit, even though I have lived in Britain for 34 years now, I still don’t get it. Why do you put up with it? Is there some masochistic trait to the British psyche?
This whole woke crap could not have gained any traction if the masses had rejected it but somehow the majority of people, even if not supporting the ideology, at least tolerated it. “Yeah, yeah, we are racist, sexist, yeah yeah we should be ashamed of our past, yeah yeah a man can become a woman, yeah yeah”, like sheep.
People on this forum are the exception, at least here there is ridicule and refusal to comply. But, I have to say, in general, there is just resignation and acceptance.
“…there is just resignation and acceptance.”
Sad to say that I meet a lot of people who believe it’s all good and just. Of course, when you start to question them (gently or otherwise) they get very defensive very quickly, because they know they haven’t actually thought about it and cannot defend their statements, regurgitating the propaganda as they do.
My father is from Eastern Europe, came to England in the early seventies. My wife is Polish. So we know about totalitarianism, you might say. I am sorry to say that I see it rising in England. It’s one of the very many reasons we recently emigrated to the French Pyrenees. It’s filled with people who ran from totalitarianism and/or dictatorships over the decades, so there’s a lot of solidarity. And a lot of anti-Micron graffiti.
And the weather is a lot nicer.
I wish I could pull my wife from this burning building, I have location envy of you! Enjoy.
I have been to France many times as a kid, Spain was too hot for my father. Have good memories jogging on the French countryside around 17, that was when I was really getting into fitness etc.
Likewise! I’m Cardiff born, but now happily living in Burgundy, though suffering not a little from hiraeth.
As English (Surrey), we put up with it because, we are pleasant, accepting, congenial, polite and willing to accept order. The average English person automatically trusts authority, respects ‘the management’, believes in institutions and rather naively trusts pretty much everyone…. Not stupid, more stupidly nice. I still meet people who think C19 was a genuine pandemic, that CO2 is killing the planet, and that we have a democracy….. laughable, nice people, educated, pleasant working tax payers…. I shake my head, I spit nails, I bluster, then what?
Well, you know, we had a saying in the army.
It’s not nice, not sweet and cuddly and not comforting. But it is true.
The saying was: “He who is stupid, let him die.”
You will find when discussions were not closed down through censorship, there was lot of resistance to Woke rubbish online. But as you know, not all articles have a comments section to see the response of the public.
imagine if the leadership tried to insult the Muslims and make them feel ashamed of their past. Do you think they would put up with it?
No. The Muslims wouldn’t put up with that type of BS.
I agree with you, it is inexplicable that we have adopted a supine position, and allowed these ideological bastards to defecate over us.
They must be pretty disappointed that the only black “Welshman” the entire country knows anything about is the Monster who wanted to cause a race genocide and started the process by killing three young girls and injuring 10 or so more.
Great start, guys.
Shirley a statue next….. or perhaps a yearly march and day off….
The Welsh taxpayer is paying for this load of racist, discriminating propaganda.BUT, they will keep voting Labour,basically Labour could steal their homes,take theirchildren,beat them up and the Welsh would still vote them in.
LOL….Only in the South.
Indeed, another mystery to me. But I believe that Reform are gaining traction in Wales.
The real problem the madleft is trying to solve is that – according to the madleft – it’s not socialism that has failed the people, it’s the people who have failed socialism. Hence the madleft’s fundamental project of changing the people by means of The Great Replacement. Hence also the adoption of Orwellian terms like “decolonisation”. All this produces the madleft’s highly racialised and anti-white “anti-racism”.
” their ‘blackface’ was actually ingrained workplace coaldust, mattered not to Rashaad.”
Reminds me of Ali G Indahouse! “why do you have brothers in that photo! LOL.
I know Sacha Baron Cohen is on the Left, but in those days everyone was game for a good piss take, it was the late nineties before 911 with the attacks on free speech. In some of his later comedies, now and then he does attack the Left too, just not as much as the Right.
““You can be trained up to worship any colour so long as it’s black,” as Henry Ford almost said.”
I thought he said something along the lines of…..”You can choose any colour of the Ford Motorcar, as long as it’s black”
The clue is in “almost”
I think you missed the writer’s point there
“How many Nigerians fought alongside Owain Glyndwr?
Or Llewellyn The Great before that. In Herefordshire there is Mortimers Cross where a famous battle took place several miles up the road in Pilleth between Glyndwr and Mortimer. Welsh were on the high ground and won that battle. It is a very steep bank.
I regularly receive questionnaires from Carmarthenshire council, and in my replies, I ask them about their schizophrenic objectives. On the one hand they enthusiastically advocate for the Welsh language, on the other, they effectively advocate for the destruction of Welsh culture.
“rid Wales of racism by 2030”
The Welsh are fine. Leave them alone.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
Didn’t Wales have a black leader? Weren’t they celebrating him as the first black leader of a nation in Europe? Possibly bigging up Wales a there. What happened to him I wonder? Wasn’t he mentioned in a speech by Hamas Useless the former SNP leader and name checked along with our former Indian PM? Where are they all now?
Thank you, Steven Tucker, for this brilliant article! I wish it could be reprinted in the Spectator, it certainly deserves to be, though probably April 1st would be more fitting.
As for the idiots who contrived to bring about this ludicrous state of affairs, i
I suppose they have no idea that Cardiff, over a century ago, was one of the foremost anti- racist cities in the UK, due to the many seamen that made their homes there.
As an Englishman that’s lived in Wales for over 20 years I’ve faced some (not much) anti English racism.
It’s incomprehensible how the Welsh government and public sector are determined to destroy Welsh culture, heritage, history and society for some faux woke ideology yet at the same time want to celebrate it’s rich culture, heritage and history.
The Welsh public don’t want this it’s being forced upon us by a Marxist government that hates the culture it pretends to support.
The Welsh, and businesses, are fleeing Wales in growing numbers.
The health and education systems are far worse than in England.
There’s little work, except in hospitality and tourism that the government are determined to destroy as well. There is an ever growing number of Turkish (well Albanian) barbers, nail bars, tanning studios, vape shops etc, all laundering money, but that okay as it supports the poor gimmigrants that have found their way here.
The principality is falling apart. Perhaps the Prince of Wales could take control of his domain and sort it out!
The Music Department of Cardiff University is being closed down along with several others owing to financial cuts and restructuring. In its statement (linked below) it says, “Our proposals aim to create a more focused, higher quality research environment for staff and students that is world-leading with cynefin, place and co-creation at its heart.” Cynefin pronounced kuh-nev-in, is a Welsh word that signifies the multiple intertwined factors in our environment and our experience that influence us (how we think, interpret and act) in ways we can never fully understand. The Cynefin Company believes in “praxis and focus on building methods, tools and capability that apply the wisdom from Complex Adaptive Systems theory and other scientific disciplines in social systems. We are the world leader in developing management approaches (in society, government and industry) that empower organisations to absorb uncertainty, detect weak signals to enable sense-making in complex systems, act on the rich data, create resilience and, ultimately, thrive in a complex world.” Unmitigated drivel and an insult to intelligence, never mind highly trained and accomplished musicians, among others. Professor Wendy Larner, vice-Chancellor receives a basic salary of £290,000 per annum. https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2894086-securing-our-academic-future I for one would like to know… Read more »