🥇 40 most read Voice articles in 2022 At number 1: Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu SholaMos1 writes: 'It’s time to call out Prince William on racism'
Do not mistake his comments as ignorance. Nothing could be further from the truth., a student of geography, trained British military officer and a White privileged man of wealth and class cannot claim any kind of ignorance on the effect of treating wars in Europe as ‘alien’ and the exception compared to elsewhere.
In the fourteen days since it was invaded by Russia, the dog whistle rhetoric dehumanising African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries as uncivilised – or the racial disparity in how Europeans treat White refugees as opposed to Black and Brown refugees fleeing wars – has been stark. The only reason we see White people as ‘natives’ of countries like Canada, the United States and Australia to name a few is because their ancestors savaged the indigenous inhabitants of these territories with violence and pure evil.
To date, wars which have erupted in countries in Africa and Asia have had the fingerprints of Europeans all over it, be it directly or indirectly, that have instigated and/or escalated the wars there. So Prince William should re-examine what he means by ‘alien’ because violence and war is in the DNA of Europe and in his bloodline.