Lover of South African Apartheid
No warning did I ever get,
That I really should have been born white,
Before the shooting and the bombing,
That ruined our economy.
How silly of me to not be white,
What’s more, I’m not indigenous;
My adoptive dad’s lived there for years,
He’s white (but not indigenous),
And a fluent speaker of the Queen’s English,
So I guess he ticks all the right boxes.
I’d love to live next door to him,
In a humble little terraced street,
But Hodge’s BNP friendly criteria I can’t meet!
How silly of me not to be white,
And to not be indigenous,
By fate I have been doubly cursed;
My life’s deemed of less worth than dad’s.
https://spotlight-newspaper.co.uk/politics/12/25/margaret-hodges-shameful-legacy/
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Thu 4th May 2023 11:28
Thanks Manish and Russell.
It's a hastily somewhat clumsily-written piece on a subject that's been preoccupying me for a while.
Several decades ago, I came to the conclusion that as far as UK politics were concerned, the terms "right wing" and "left wing" were, for my purposes, now redundant.
I now see some people in the UK supposedly on what I naively once considered to be traditionally the "far / left", espousing philosophies and causes which are equally popular with people on the traditional "far / right".
I refer in this specific case, to their hypocritical suppport for, and their personally profiting from Apartheid regimes in several countries, and to their "dog-whistling" to racism in general.
Those very same people are amongst the first to loudly cry "racism", in their efforts to denigrate innocent people in a malicious, specious, and slanderous way.