Fossils from a bygone imperial age of inequality, bias and servitude that are desperately seeking to contain an untenable situation that has exploded in their faces. The Firm is struggling like a fish of of water to save its antique powerbase.
The Express stated (9/3/2021)
Oprah Winfrey was 'very ill-advised' to rule out the Queen and Philip over racist claims
Regarding Meghan’s race claims – well, a few previous remarks by an elderly royal (Philip) could give some weight to her assertions, even though her finger is not currently thought to be directed at him – or is it?
Just a few of Philip’s race-related quips here:
“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh).
To Aboriginal leader William Brin, Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
“The Philippines must be half-empty as you’re all here running the NHS” (on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital).
“If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China).
“You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got pot belly” (to a Briton he met in Hungary).
“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands).
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test” (to a Scottish driving instructor).
To a British trekker in Papua New Guinea, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”
“I’d like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” 1967.
To black politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, 1999: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”
Prince Philip is a fossilised exabit from an imperial bygone age - a jolly good chap, grinning, alluring, the charming royal elder. Some of his general comments are admittedly hilarious and raise a laugh from many with most especially the older generation relating to his well-timed and politically incorrect sarcasm.
However, he also cheerfully walks about, spouting racial vulgarities at will, largely without challenge.
All the while his hapless red-faced staff desperately try to explain his alleged blunders away, as best they can. If you or I were to spew out race quips like Philip in a town centre, we would be swiftly arrested and prosecuted. Of course, it’s one rule for them and another for us lesser mortals.
With one privileged family claiming traditionally divine right to rule and be superior to all others one would think that the penny would drop, but no. The trusting UK populace has not yet realised that we can never have true equality and democracy with such a bigoted feudal system in place. No one voted the royals in – they just inherited their lofty position because of who they are!
Nevertheless, Philip’s discriminatory quips about throwing spears and slitty eyes, etc are not gaffes. This is purposeful thinking that is well indoctrinated into his psyche from an age of institutionalised, bigoted, and repressive education by both state and church. This is him just speaking is mind, as he sees it.
Moreover, the Queen may ‘tut, tut’ at his remarks but she has never completely halted his behaviour. We can only imagine her awkwardness as the quips fly so easily out of his mouth – One cannot say that about those natives these days my dear. He is simply tolerated by the Queen. On marriage in 1997 he said: “You can take it from me the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.”
Philip means exactly what he says and does not care how offensive it may be to others. He is the living vestige of British colonialism. He is proof that the Monarchy (and all its parasitic hangers-on) have no place in a contemporary, democratic, society that is trying very hard to banish the ghosts of imperialistic rule, slavery, and class privilege. How far his aristocratic prejudice has rubbed off on the rest of the ‘Firm’ remains to be seen.
Are we really that surprised at Meghan’s race allegations? Will we ever know who she was alluding to when she made the claim about a royal member who had raised the question of her child’s colour?
The Queen says ‘issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning’ but adds they will be dealt with privately.
Again, would we expect more from the Firm. Embarrassing are potentially destructive issues must be kept in-house. This is the way the aristocracy has always habitually dealt with challenges and dissent.
Like the Church and its massive child abuse axis – any obstacle with the Firm that may prove rather awkward has to be quickly brushed under the carpet – the good old image of respectability and control must be preserved – at all costs!
Media reports are saying that Americans are in shock over the latest race allegations. In some ways this is surprising as it indicates that US citizens somehow thought that the UK was now a genuinely democratic system, wherein equal rights prevailed.
Once, King George ruled England as he did the colonies, with punishment imposed for supposed treachery. The same colonial spirit of supremacy over others is still here – just waiting patiently to resurface when the cherries fall into place.
Today, Philip’s regular race comments mirror and remind us that the old-time bigotry is just under the surface of social respectability. Moreover, the high- flying, handshaking, social graces of UK aristocracy are a text-book fantasy that masks an ancient and far more sinister truth.
Within the shadowy corridors of the Firm, the old imperial predisposition of superiority lingers patiently on after its creation through many centuries of cruelty, bloodshed, bigotry, and invasion.
Like a great bird of prey, it now waits, carefully camouflaged in a fragile cage of respectability and fine airs, for the day it may fly again.
One cannot have the Nation’s subjects (that’s you and me) gossiping, can one?
The privileged ones have closed their doors, as fully expected and it is now royal damage limitation time.
The hallowed Firm looks after its own (even the rebellious and racist ones and the show must of course go on.
Are we really that surprised?
More:
https://pat-regan.blogspot.com/2021/03/royalty-kept-trusting-public-in-dark.html
https://pat-regan.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-royal-farce-what-is-it-costing.html
https://pat-regan.blogspot.com/2012/06/britain-in-regal-glory-or-still-in-dark.html
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