Less than a decade from Nazi #ConcentrationCamp revelations, the #BritishEmpire showed why they inspired Hitler. #OperationAnvil, beginning #ThisDayInHistory in 1954, ethnically cleansed #Nairobi of the #Kikuyu peoples; 20k to torture camps, 30k lost homes & went to reservations.
#Tory politician #EnochPowell took the mask off the #neofascist elements in the British right with his #RiversOfBlood speech on #ThisDayInHistory in 1968. In it he decried rates of #immigration from the former #BritishEmpire & opposed the anti-#discrimination #RaceRelations Bill.

Colonialism was horrific, and soaked down into the bones of the societies that practiced it

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1996531/colonialism-was-horrific-and-soaked-down-into-the-bones-of-the-societies-that-practiced

LOOKS LIKE KRAUT'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS
Warming pan, UK, ~1720 AD
Indian soldiers arriving in France, World War I, 1914
How will attitudes change if students like me aren’t taught the truth about British colonial history?

The skewed perspectives in my A-level curriculum are staggering. Until that changes, harmful ideas about race and migration will live on, says Emerging Voices winner Astrid Barltrop

The Guardian