Kemi Badenoch: I don't identify as Nigerian any more
Cornelius Hamelberg
Cornelius Hamelberg
I intuit that K.B. has thereby annoyed a great many
of her former countrymen and countrywomen.
Oxfam? I may be wrong:
back then, as Linton put it, Inglan is a bitch
and added “the conservative party is not so hearty”
I understand that it’s a very sensitive issue : she's
the leader of the Conservative Party, she herself,
not a British bulldog exactly - like Churchill - speak less
of a “toothless bulldog “. She no longer identifies as Nigerian
she wants to be the next prime minister of Great Britain, i.e.
of Merry England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales
inherit the mantle of of her idol Margaret Thatcher -
projecting herself as some kind of iron lady, Lady Shakara ,
like Black iron in Zion, coming off as anti-immigration
Ah - some of these children of the Diaspora
“ she misses home and her boots are sore
she has not got no roots no more “
The only problem of course is that Great Britain
is not yet ready for their first black & beautiful
female to declare 10 Downing Street as her official
residence and that’s one of the many reasons why
the Conservative Party is currently doing so badly
Hopefully, her story
is not supposed to
parallel the parable of
I’m assuming that whether or not she
“no longer identifies as Nigerian any more”
in her heart of hearts, she is still Yoruba
Reminds me of a Jewish joke which culminates in the mother asking her son,
“Benjamin, tell me, are you still circumcised?”
Does the truth have to be defended?
I should think not. Old Bill himself disguised
as Polonius (not Cornelius Adebayo) did say
“This above all - to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Writing a memoir could be a difficult task even
for Michael Heseltine (cover to cover the only Tory
memoir I’ve read so far) but I daresay that the kind
of memoir currently percolating in her head -
” and the truth shall set you free” - bearing in mind that back then
there were no slaves / kidnapped Africans in Merry England, in
response to her submission “ I don't identify as Nigerian any more!”
- and mind you, egusi soup by any other name would taste as sweet,
this is part of what Kemi - British to the bootstraps, the brassieres
& underwear could be likely to chirp :
“I was expecting an avalanche of critical responses
to land on my head, in tune with what Malcolm X once
said about our folks over there in the United States
who erroneously believe that they or their ancestors
had been on board The Mayflower with The Pilgrim Fathers
when the ship docked at Plymouth Rock.
Malcolm:
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock,
my brothers and sisters - Plymouth Rock
was landed on us ! ”
In her own defence and self exoneration 👍
whilst others chant Nigeria We Hail Thee
she too is entitled to sing And Still I Rise