” … this champion of all things reactionary simply doesn’t deserve the paeans of praise being heaped on him at the moment.”
GEORGE W BUSH installed a bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office at the White House. When Barack Obama came to power he had the bust returned to Britain.
Obama’s Kenyan grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama (below), was imprisoned in one of the concentration camps Churchill and his imperialists had invented.
Churchill was born in 1874 into a Britain that was painting huge areas of the world map bloody red.
Just three years later Victoria crowned herself Empress of India, and the rape and pillage that would mark Britain’s advance across Africa and much more of the globe moved up a gear.
At Harrow School and then Sandhurst the young Winston learnt the simple message: the superior white man was conquering the primitive, dark-skinned natives, and bringing them the benefits of Christian civilisation.
Kenyan leader Jomo Kenyatta and later Archbishop Desmond Tutu would sum it up in a beautiful single…
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Great post to share! So many things I didn’t know — Obama’s grandfather, Desmond Tutu’s amazing summary paragraph. But I did suspect Churchill may have had clay feet, if only because war and imperialism are two of the darkest things in existence.
Peter Frost often busts lionized political figures down to size, but he’s also a fount of the forgotten history of many brave individuals. I enjoy and appreciate his research as well as its presentation.
Yes, Frost is excellent.
Agree!