'I can’t celebrate the oppression of the British Empire' Reparations campaigner Xosei shares why she didn't celebrate the coronation
Reparations campaigner Esther Stanford-Xosei tells The Voice why she chose not to celebrate King Charles III coronation last weekendAS A self-respecting, proud Afrikan woman whose lineages stem from Afrika and across the Caribbean and wider Americas, I refuse to allow myself to be caught up with this façade of a coronation.
Understanding the meaning of the Maangamizi becomes clearer in this cacophony of voices from across society that are now calling for an apology. There must be a recognition that we were unjustly warred upon and subjected to genocide, ethnocide, war crimes, crimes against humanityto apologise, reinforces notions of a master-servant relationship and power dynamics which is endemic of our peoples’ dehumanisation and subjugation at the hands of the agents of the British Empire; commencing with his own predecessor in title of Monarch, Queen Elizabeth I.
Like his mother Queen Elizabeth II, as Head of the Commonwealth, King Charles assumes a legal title to around 2.7 billion hectares of land. This equates to around a sixth of the planet’s land surface.If King Charles is inclined to apologise, let it be an apology of substance. As various contingents within the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations , we must be involved in shaping the terms and words of any such apology.
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