Monday, January 19, 2015

The Flower of the British Empire

Take some Picts, Celts and Silures
And let them settle,
Then overrun them with Roman conquerors.

Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years
Add lots of Norman French to some
Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously.

Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans,
Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese,
Vietnamese and Sudanese.

Then take a blend of Somalians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians
And Pakistanis,
Combine with some Guyanese
And turn up the heat.

Sprinkle some fresh Indians, Malaysians, Bosnians,
Iraqis and Bangladeshis together with some
Afghans, Spanish, Turkish, Kurdish, Japanese
And Palestinians
Then add to the melting pot.

Leave the ingredients to simmer.

As they mix and blend allow their languages to flourish
Binding them together with English.

Allow time to be cool.

Add some unity, understanding, and respect for the future,
Serve with justice
And enjoy.

Note: All the ingredients are equally important. Treating one ingredient better than another will leave a bitter unpleasant taste.

Warning: An unequal spread of justice will damage the people and cause pain. Give justice and equality to all.
Benjamin Zephaniah, "The British"

5 comments:

  1. what praytell has become of the Brits of yore!!

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  2. This the way the world ends.
    This the way the word ends.
    Not with a bang, but a gang bang ––
    An endless orgy of miscegenation.

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  3. In a hundred years humanity will no longer be able to recognize itself in whatever historic iconography may survive the increasingly violent culture wars.

    Copulation with the population of a nation you are attempting to appropriate, whether by rape or mutual seduction, is probably the oldest, most effective form of conquest.

    Today's nativist is merely Yesterday's victim of unwanted aggression.

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