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Should I consider myself English?
Despite being a proud Black Country boy, ROGER McKENZIE has mixed feelings about Englishness and its all too common petty nationalism, following a lifetime of being considered inferior because of the colour of his skin
Male and female black slaves cut sugar canes in Jamaica. In the background, canes are bound together and loaded into oxcarts. Image date: 1825

THE arch-racist imperialist Cecil Rhodes once said: “To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.”

Closer to home, in 1937, another arch-racist, Winston Churchill, displayed his own master race inclinations when he said: “I do not believe that the dog in the manger has the right to the manger, simply because he has lain there for so long. I do not believe that the Red Indian has been wronged in America, or the black man has been wronged in Australia, simply because they have been displaced by a higher, stronger race.”

To them everything other than white is inferior and to be treated that way. Sadly these were not isolated views and were and are prevalent throughout England.

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