Should Charles III Commence His Reign By Acknowledging and Apologizing For Britain’s Past Sins?
Given what is at stake, I believe so…
It was Prince Williams’s staggering ignorance of history during his recent trip to Jamaica that did it for me.
Here’s a young man who had attended some of the very best schools that money can buy in the United Kingdom and yet walked into a meeting with the Jamaican Prime Minister, with less than basic knowledge of his family’s atrocities and history of the last four centuries.
Even if he did have some knowledge, it was certainly not present when he opened up his mouth to speak.
Some will argue that this isn’t by accident but by design.
Millions of young men and women of Williams age will have gone through school learning next to nothing about the true extent of the brutality of the slave trade and colonialism under the British empire.
As with these things, you can only cover them up for so long.