More Wokeness Over the Death of Queen Elizabeth By James Reed
The latest piece of wokeness comes from Narelda Jacobs, an indigenous newsreader, who has said that Britain must apologise for its colonial history. Well, they have been falling over themselves doing this for decades, so no point. And she said that indigenous people should not be criticised for refusing to mourn the Queen’s death, given colonialism blah, blah. Again, just imagine if China had colonised this joint, back in the day? But, never mind, if anyone does not want to mourn, so be it, their right. But, it is absurd to suppose that the Royal family had the obligation to correct the infinite supposed wrongs of colonialism. They are non-political. Surely it was, and is, the job of the political leaders to do all that Jacobs wants.
Say, is the Cedric Jacobs mentioned below the same one who published with the League’s publishing wing, Veritas, offering a critique of the mainstream woke land rights position?
Healing a divided nation: land rights : an aboriginal perspective
Author: Cedric Jacobs
Print Book, English, 1986
Edition: View all formats and editions
Publisher: Veritas, Bullsbrook, Western Australia, 1986
I don’t know. Must have the same name, a coincidence naturally.
Oh, no sooner did I write this, then this boring one came up, as talk is cheap:
It is enough to make me, on that ground alone, oppose any form of the indigenous Voice referendum, regardless of everything else!
“An Indigenous Australian newsreader has called on Britain to apologise to First Nations people for its colonial history following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Narelda Jacobs, a presenter on morning show Studio 10, expressed her resentment towards the monarchy and said Aboriginal people shouldn't be criticised for refusing to mourn the Queen's death.
She described the British monarchy as a 'symbol of colonisation' and asked what had been done by the modern-day Royal Family to 'make up for that'.
'There was a great wrong that was done,' she said. 'Australia was settled without the consent of First Nations people that were here.'
Jacobs also confessed how 'frustrating' it was for her to hear stories of how her late father Cedric Jacobs, an Indigenous man, survivor of the Stolen Generations and reverend of the Uniting Church in Australia, had met the Queen and Prince Philip in the 1980s to receive an Order of the British Empire.”
Here is some relevant and interesting material from America by Matthew Boose, on the Queen hatred phenomenon, largely of the Left:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/11/anti-white-hatred-laid-bare-with-elizabeth-iis-death/
“Queen Elizabeth II never ventured into politics, but in death, almost inevitably, it seems, she has been dragged into the undeclared racial hostilities of our time. Souls warped by grievance and envy are ghoulishly dancing on her grave and mocking the “white tears” of her people.
The leftist, anti-white media have been a bit more subtle, but the message has been the same. They have wasted no time trying, however implausibly, to define the queen’s legacy as one of oppression and violence toward non-whites. Some have attacked the institution of the monarchy itself as a racist relic and issued calls for reparations.
The real purpose of these attacks is not historical fidelity but revision. The anti-white crowd wants Britain to repent for its “shameful” past (where would those who deplore “colonialism” rather be living than the Anglosphere?) and embrace a “progressive,” more “diverse,” future (one that, from the glimpses we’ve been given, actually looks pretty medieval.) Their real issue is with the European civilization the queen represents, a civilization that they believe is dying a much-deserved death, particularly insofar as it is majority white.
The queen was a link to another world that has been swept away. Britain had fallen from its zenith when she inherited the throne, but it was still recognizably British. At the end of her reign, Britain has been totally transformed. Its former Christian decency, which the queen represented so well, has been lost. What little remains cannot last while Britain lacks the self-respect to defend its (actually good and rather impressive) history. If a figure so benign as the queen is a malevolent “colonizer,” then who is innocent? Why not abolish the monarchy at that rate?
The charges of grave evil flung at the departed queen could not be more absurd or unjust, given that Britain lost what was left of its empire during her reign. And what a stunning fall it has been. Britain has, more than most other Western societies in the post-war era, succumbed to the peculiar sickness of self-hatred. What has all of Britain’s groveling achieved? Has it won the goodwill of resentful foreigners who are replacing Britons? Far from it—Britain’s abjection has only emboldened its attackers, as weakness always does.
In an ironic twist of fate, the famously magnanimous Brits are learning what it is like to be colonized by people much less beneficent than they ever were. Their head of state, who served Britain and the Commonwealth nations faithfully and patriotically for 70 years, is viciously attacked even before she has been laid to rest. She hardly could have done more to accommodate modernity without sacrificing the dignity of the crown, but it wasn’t enough for these people. She did not apologize for her country’s former greatness, and for that, she must go down in disgrace.
The racial hatred evoked by the queen’s passing is a window into a future that awaits the West unless something changes. Anti-white racists will never be satisfied until the erstwhile “colonizer” has become the subject. Does the West still have the will to defend itself? To say, without apology, that the world it built was a great one?”
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