Mr President, I speak not only as a Briton, as a Londoner, and as a foreign secretary.
But I say to the Russian representative, on his phone as I speak, that I stand here also as a Black man whose ancestors were taken in chains from Africa, at the barrel of a gun to be enslaved, whose ancestors rose up and fought in a great rebellion of the enslaved.
Imperialism: I know it when I see it. And I will call it out for what it is.
David Lammy, the U.K.’s foreign secretary
I stand here also as a Black man whose ancestors were taken in chains from Africa, at the barrel of a gun to be enslaved, whose ancestors rose up and fought in a great rebellion of the enslaved.
Wikipedia says that he supports Israel
Oh of course.
It's like the Canadian government claiming to oppose antisemitism while simultaneously shielding Fascists and Axis collaborators.
Imperialism: I know it when I see it. And I will call it out for what it is.
Not when the west does it though
Well, his address was cringeworthy, but it's a bit of a stretch to say that he blamed Russia for the slave trade. I think that he was simply reminding people of his heritage as rhetorical ammunition.
I think a representative of the British government using slave trade to accuse Russia of imperialism is more than "reminding people of his heritage" but I get your point.
What I wrote is still much less of a stretch than the title of the article calling Putin a slave owner based on this exchange.
do these ghouls not realize how stupid they look to the rest of the world? you're literally the foreign secretary of the UK what the fuck are you even saying 😂 you would get spit by your ancestors for being a 21st century uncle tom.
