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I’m Concerned by Benin’s Lack of Diversity. Or Perhaps It’s OK. I’m Not Sure.
A British actress named Adjoa Andoh recently said that the coronation ceremony for the British King was too white: “We have gone from the rich diversity of the Abbey to a terribly White balcony.” Some shared her concerns, others were critical of her demands for racial diversity.
I wonder, if someone were to show her the picture below, of the coronation of the King of Benin a few years ago, if she would be concerned by its lack of racial diversity? If not, then why not? Benin is a West African country, and England is a northern European country. Should they have different standards for diversity? If so, why?
This is all very complicated. I don’t understand leftism. I’m not a leftist because I’m not smart enough. I wish Ms. Andoh would explain this to us.
Some people have WAY too much time on their hands. And I don’t mean Dr. B. What’s with these whining (or whinging, in UK speak) people finding affront where none is appropriate? It was a family gathering. Sounds like her full and complete complaint is about the lack of the presence of a certain other “black” actress on the balcony, one who would certainly have been welcome had she not stabbed the rest of the family in the back. Repeatedly.
For centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was world-famous for supplying the world with African slaves, kidnapped in wars against its neighbors, or on raids into the interior of Africa.
Did I hear somebody mumble something about, “reparations”?
If there were lots of non-whites it would have been deemed a reminder of Britain’s racist colonialism. And those minorities would have been guilty of participating in their own oppression by celebrating the ultimate symbol of white supremacy. And as if all those Platagenents, Stewarts, Tudors etc were not already intensely white, the Brits went and imported a German royal family just to maybe be even whiter. Chuck Windsor is a tree-hugging dork. He might as well be called Your Whiteness.
When everything is racist, then nothing is.
Jeremy Hunt will be extraordinarily interested to learn this.
EDIT–just to be clear:
At least the Andoh woman comes by her name honestly, unlike the last prominent race-baiter, Marlene Headley who–while dressed like an extra from The Lion King at a Buckingham Palace reception, and while calling herself (like a ship belonging to one country but registered in another) “Ngozi Fulani,” entrapped a hard-of-hearing octogenarian who was confused about her antecedents into a royal race row.
Lady Susan Hussey (who’d served as one of the late Queen’s (unpaid) Ladies-in-Waiting for about six decades, and is Prince William’s godmother), attended the Coronation service in Westminster Abbey last week.
No word on the whereabouts of Ms. Headley at the time.
So what is your problem there, She?
My post did not reflect any more or less knowledge of this part of the world than the remarks made by a majority of other people.
You didn’t get snarky with them.
In the past I have eagerly liked your topics, liked your comments and then one day it hit me – I could write a truly great piece and you would side step it.
Anyway your behavior is what it is, but please refrain from snark unless I am being offensive.
Thank you for your erstwhile support.
Of course, I have no way of knowing when this revelation occurred, for how long you’ve been imagining you know my mind , or why you’re projecting your own thoughts into my head. Nor am I completely sure exactly what it is that you are accusing me of here.
But I would not be at all surprised to discover that you’re the only person on Ricochet who thinks that I have it in me to “side step” anything.
Have a Blessed day.
Britain is certainly a lot more diverse than Benin, I assume. (Especially given the huge number of Indian, Pakistani, and now massive numbers of Muslim nationals who have made Great Britain their home.)
But a family gathering is not the same thing at all as a gathering in a public sports arena.
The people running this Equity/Diversity scam, the Soros, Schwab, Gates crowd, will not be happy until every family on earth has at least one representative of other ethnic groups sitting with them each night as we dine.
Given the Communist practice of converting private residences into boarding houses for the workers, this might actually be a goal at which they will soon manage to succeed.
Of course the party leadership will live like princes.
Because….
Or iow. the vast majority of Commonwealth citizens who moved to Britain were not unconnected strangers.
You walk through the grand sights – The Mall, for eg – of London and ALL of it was built from our sweat and suffering. In some senses it is also our city, we are not really strangers there.
Yeah, it hasn’t really worked out (yet) with Megan Markel- but life is long and the Firm has long horizon.
I know Diana died with an Arab Foetus inside her (did she jump or was she pushed), and that’s led to all sorts of speculation – but my money is still on Princess Charlotte scandalising the nation by either converting to Islam and marrying a Saud or transitioning to Charlie (no not that kind of Charlie) or both.
Mark it well. You read it first here.
The grand sites of London were built by whose “sweat and suffering”?
The people whose (over)taxes paid for them. Mr Literal Minded.
There is something low in people that makes them admire that. As impulses go, it’s even worse than wanting to chisel others’ wealth or or bring others down to your level.
Oh, I thought you said “our sweat and suffering.”
Fair question. Where does ‘us’ or ‘we’ begin and end? Is it legit for a 19 yo American to say ‘we won WWII’?
It’s absolutely legit under Amendment 1.