Yoke’s on you
We all know that being a true citizen of the People’s Republic involves a fair amount of leftist guilt and pinko posturing. But can you take things too far?
Well, why not ask Andrew Hawkins of Plymouth. According to Wednesday’s Evening Herald, he recently travelled to Gambia to say ‘Sorry’ for European involvement in the slave trade. Which was nice of him, wasn’t it?
The double-page spread was accompanied by a lovely photo of the over-wrought chap wearing chains and kneeling in front of the Vice-President of Gambia.
Apparently, Andrew ‘believes’ he is related to Sir John Hawkins, who is known as England’s first slave-trader. The evidence for this ancestral link was attributed, rather vaguely, to his family’s ‘verbal history’.
As you might expect the tale provoked much intelligent debate on the This Is Plymouth website.
Unfortunately, it also attracted this effort from Ian Stabb in Ivybridge:
“When will the politically correct minority realise… they do not represent the majority!
“I, for one, am hugely proud of my country’s history - warts an’ all!
“If you are ashamed of my country… leave.”
‘Hugely proud’ of our involvement in slavery, eh? Suddenly Mr Hawkins doesn’t seem quite so loopy after all.
Posted by Thin White Duke
June 24th, 2006
