Colonial History Quotes

“The ‘modern’, ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, Christian European coloniser could not get himself to acknowledge that the lived experience and traditional knowledge of native societies gathered over millennia could teach him more than a thing or two about living in harmony with nature as opposed to merely salvaging what remained of it in the name of ‘sustainable’ development.”
― J Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

“Jews were never the focus of World War 2, it was about the invaders being invaded. Lo and behold, Nazis are the villain, though England, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal caused far worse damage!”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“99% of the world's human rights violations are manufactured by the west.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“The Great Firewall (The Sonnet)

99% of the world's human rights
violations are manufactured by the west,
either directly or retrospectively.
No wonder, China is so strict about limiting
western influence on the national psyche!

China is right to ban our entire western internet,
Wouldn't you do the same if you had the might!
If you were self sufficient enough, wouldn't you do
the same to the moron whose biggest contribution
to the world has been genocide, partisan, apartheid!

Every parent tries their best to keep
their children away from bad influence.
You ain't qualified to speak of liberty
till you take off your western glasses.

Political correctness is not social justice,
any more than bigoted boneheadedness is.
Moral sensitivity is just mark of judgmentality,
till we disinfect ourselves from our westernness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Early Arabs and Indians invented astronomy and algebra, Early white people invented genocide and massacre.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Rushmore is a monument of massacre, Buckingham is a palace of plunderers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“World is wider than white textbooks can contain, Justice is too sacred for imperials to grasp. While many a offspring are righting the wrongs, there are plenty who're still stuck in the past.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“My Earth, Your Earth
(The Sonnet)

My America fosters the
spirit of self-correction,
Your America lies in the
continuation of exploitation.

My England lives in a willful
drive for making amends,
Your England lies in deliberate
denial of historic mess.

My Australia battles to
assimilate those once wronged,
Your Australia boasts proudly
atrocious plunders as tradition.

My India is the most radiant
beacon of multiculturalism,
Your India is a septic tank
of prehistoric nationalism.

I wish I could tell you, you and I
are the same, but we are not.
My earth is a celebration of people,
Your earth is chained to dead customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“My America fosters the
spirit of self-correction,
Your America lies in the
continuation of exploitation.

My England lives in a willful
drive for making amends,
Your England lies in deliberate
denial of historic mess.

My Australia battles to
assimilate those once wronged,
Your Australia boasts proudly
atrocious plunders as tradition.

I wish I could tell you, you and I
are the same, but we are not.
My earth is a celebration of people,
Your earth is chained to dead customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Blood and Blunder
(The Sonnet)

The world is filled with atrocious holidays,
Columbus Day, Australia Day and Thanksgiving.
Holidays steeped in blood and blunder, are
passed on proudly as occasion of merrymaking.

Imagine celebrating 9/11 as a day of freedom,
Yet colonizers do exactly that without shame.
And these animal holidays are a thousand times
more atrocious than the crash of nine eleven.

Nine eleven is a ghastly stain upon history,
there is no doubt or question about that.
But what about the infinitely larger stains,
inflicted, respected and celebrated by cowards!

Human rights can never prevail till we
dismantle every false celebration.
Animals find honor in blood and blunder,
We become human through course correction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“When natives are treated alien,
and aliens take over as master,
cultures uprooted by legal decree,
honor is stolen as spoils of war,
defying the delirium of king and country,
rise and stand human against imperial larceny.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Alien Native
(The Sonnet)

When natives are treated alien,
and aliens take over as master,
cultures uprooted by legal decree,
honor is stolen as spoils of war,

empires erected on blood and bones,
when prosperity is rooted in plunder,
homes are stripped of hopes and dreams,
violations feed the palace of blunder,

when baboons are adorned with bootleg,
each rock is drenched in bloodshed,
when festivities thrive on thievery,
correction is cursed as blasphemous,

defying the delirium of king and country,
rise and stand human against imperial larceny.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“But the fact is, like my mom, most Filipinos prefer to keep history in the dark or, in these days, sold to the highest bidder.
Who can blame them.
It's kind of painful to remember.”
― Gina Apostol, La Tercera

“Baa Baa White Sheep
(The Sonnet)

Baa baa white sheep,
have you any wool!
Yes sir, yes sir,
London tower full.

Pull it over your eyes,
or weave it into blanket.
All stink of blood and blunder,
a scent second not even to crumpet.

Imperials rise upon indigenous fall,
declaring themselves as light-bringer.
Native tears form kohinoor on the crown,
Blood is but cologne to the colonizer.

Not all of colonial descent are colonizer,
but those who take pride in the past are.
To these animal ghosts of the human world,
no matter your ethnicity send a get well card.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Deutschland über alles (The Sonnet)

If the germans have no right
to take pride in their past,
neither do the british
or the americans.

In fact, the scale of british and american
atrocities, surpasses the SS many folds.
'Deutschland über alles' is 'jingle bells',
compared to british and american holocaust.

Yet germany had the human decency
to dump its horrific national anthem,
while colonial pride is still dominant,
across much of america and england.

Radical inhumanity warrants radical reparations,
a concept yet foreign to Buck House and Uncle Sam.
When you are the largest manufacturer of massacre,
making amends should be your existential anthem.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“If the germans have no right to take pride in their past, neither do the british or the americans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Radical inhumanity warrants radical reparations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Refugees & Colonizers (The Sonnet)

Refugees carry culture,
Colonizers carry infection.
Colonizers are the virus,
Refugees are civilization.

Refugees live on hope,
Colonizers thrive on greed.
Refugees dream of acceptance,
Colonizers dream supremacy.

Refugees are the true free and brave,
they carry within the silver lining.
There's nothing brave about genocide,
no matter the whitewashed thanksgiving.

Refugees are practicing healers,
living testament of wounds to ointment.
Colonizers are proof of darwinism,
that from monkeys comes the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Refugees carry culture,
Colonizers carry infection.
Colonizers are the virus,
Refugees are civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Refugees are practicing healers,
living testament of wounds to ointment.
Colonizers are proof of darwinism,
that from monkeys comes the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“9/11 destroyed two bustling buildings,
Mayflower destroyed a living continent.
You cannot conceive a nation in liberty
by wiping out a living civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“9/11 destroyed two bustling buildings, Mayflower destroyed a living continent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Crime against first nations is the first crime against humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Carry on Up The Tower (The Sonnet)

British museum is not a repository of relics,
it's a time capsule of british barbarism.
It's a classic case of cannibalism, narcissism,
kleptomania and psychopathy combined in one.

Tower of London is not a heritage site,
it's the Bedlam of the british.
The title of "heritage site" belongs
to memories of pride, not primitives.

Buckingham palace is not a noble home,
it's the national zoo of England,
where they coddle massacre 'n stagnation,
with no civil initiative for atonement.

Nobility of blood is nobility of the jungle,
modern nobility involves substance of character,
whose identity isn't anchored in transgressions,
bloodline defines chimps, humans by behavior.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“God Save The King, Sonnet
(New UK Anthem)

God save our gracious King,
Long live our noble King!
Even if he is a philanderer,
God save our righteous King!

Send him victorious,
happy and glorious,
ruler of the free world,
even if he is ignominious!

Thy choicest gifts in store,
on him be pleased to pour,
let starving natives starve,
so our king may rightly soar.

May he defend our laws,
and ever give us cause,
to be but proud morons,
merrying over massacres.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Colonialism is cannibalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Jack and Jill (Colonial Sonnet)

Jack and Jill once went up a hill,
to pick the fabled golden fruit.
So they trapped some blacks-n-browns,
to serve them tireless hand and foot.

Jack and Jill had a glorious dream,
to make the world imperially great.
So they bought some colored folks,
to boss around from their noble bed.

Jack and Jill were full of themselves,
they nicked 'n nicked without repercussion.
Like shameless filth then they sold tickets,
exhibiting the spoils of their barbarism.

Jack and Jill were textbook white trash,
not the right idols of civilized society.
You cannot unscrew their diabolical screwups,
just have the decency to not repeat history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Yankee Dongle (Pilgrim Sonnet)

Yankee dongle crossed the pond,
sailing on a ship called Mayflower.
He plucked and tucked a feather in cap,
and called himself the lone ranger.

Yankee dongle made many westerns,
to maintain the narrative in favor.
Propaganda is a key apparatus,
when you're out to roam as killers.

Yankee dongle ran away from home,
he had trouble with his tyrant father.
So he sought out a land of his own,
where he was the new face of terror.

Yankee dongle is his father's son,
same vision, but 100 times the cunning.
Thus, while his father is losing grip,
pilgrim spirit continues transgressing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Achievement comes later, atonement comes first.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Refugees carry culture,
Colonizers carry infection.
Colonizers are the virus,
Refugees are civilization.

Refugees are practicing healers,
living testament of wounds to ointment.
Colonizers are proof of darwinism,
that from monkeys comes the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations