‘Could you imagine a street in London called Holocaust Highway?’ – Hon Flax-Charles
On Monday, September 7, 2020, during an interview with 284 Media, Mr Jaspert said paying reparations to the VI for acts of slavery and the slave trade is not the position of the UK at the moment.
He also called for relics of slavery such as the channel named after slave owner Sir Francis Drake to be preserved in the Territory for educational purposes.
Hypothetical ‘Holocaust Highway’
Now, according to the Junior Minister for Trade and Economic Development, Hon Shereen D. Flax-Charles (AL), speaking at the 14th Sitting of The Second Session of The Fourth House of Assembly yesterday, September 29, 2020, the Governor’s statement cannot be justified.
“Could you imagine, we have the Sir Francis Drake Channel... could you imagine a street or a highway in London called the Holocaust Highway?” the Legislator questioned.
Hon Flax-Charles comments came following outrage expressed from some community members urging the Governor to apologise for the statements deemed disrespectful to not only the people of the VI, but also enslaved ancestors who fought for the freedoms enjoyed today.
Hon Flax-Charles continued by saying that should there be a ‘Holocaust Highway’ in the UK, “there would be a great outrage. Mr Speaker, we have fought long and hard, Mr Speaker, to get where are today and we are not going to turn back.”
‘Governor must apologise’ – social commentators
Championing the calls for an apology is ‘Honestly Speaking’ radio host, Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline, who noted, “We are calling for, and will continue every time we get on this programme, an apology on behalf of his belittling and desecrating our ancestors, their blood, their sweat, their tears and ultimately their death.”
Several community members including Former educator, Mr Elroy A. Turnbull and social commentator Mr Kenneth G. Gladstone have spoken out against the statements, calling it both derogatory and insulting.
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45 Responses to “‘Could you imagine a street in London called Holocaust Highway?’ – Hon Flax-Charles”
Indeed. This so called ‘governor’ a completely rac**t big** low life has no clue about diplomacy nor how to govern.
The UK should be ashamed of themselves for sending such an ignorant obnoxious offensive incompetent imbecile to our shores.
All this so called ‘man’ does is bully us, our government, flash his luxurious lifestyle on social media, sit on our necks and rub our noses in his white privilege constantly
We know all about his w**** only recruitment policy, it’s very clear for all to see.
UK should send him back home on HMS Medway!
Completely ignorant most undiplomatic civil servant here!
Gus MUST go NOW!!!!
So like most things it’s a more complex situation than people would have you believe.
No we are not we just keep the first one u bi**h stole from us ..them that sound like names like of king and queen. Bi**h
Ask ur great perant there can tell u weather u white or black ...dam blind @$% coward
The world needs to know that Massa Days are over and we will not return allow ourselves to be enslaved anymore. As such because of the exploitation of experienced they should be compensated for the injustices by Colonial Masters.
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I love that image....
The Royal Family is Jewish-German jews, at that!
Remember, the original family names of the first cousins, Elizabeth and Philip, were Battenberg, then anglocized as Mount Batten!
As long as the Heads of State are Jewish, which they are, and their descendants will be for perpetuity, such nomenclatures are virtually impossible!
And yes in England there are lots of places named after invaders to the country. The UK was invaded many times throughout history - but that is it. It's history. Learn do not repeat. Get angry about modern slavery in Africa/Asia. You can change that. Change a name? Doesn't achieve anything.
When we start pointing fingers and demanding apologies and reperations let's start with countries in Africa first. But no we can't bare to admit that our own black people had a hand in pillaging our ancestors first then sold them to be slaves. Slavery was and is still wrong but don't crucify the Governor because he's white for what his white ancestors did and not crucify our black ancestors for what they did too.
Who the hell you think named these Virgin Islands....a flippin pirate! Get rid of your last names and give up your land that was passed down from the very same slave owners. YOU WERE BROUGHT HERE...ALL OF YOU!!!!
This word “indigenous” has crept into the BVI through ignorance. Now it is repeated over and over again but it doesn’t make it the right word.
Why does it matter? Because, the word describes people who were subjected to such horrors that they barely even exist in these islands or worldwide anymore - that’s right, they were almost entirely exterminated by the same system that meted different horrors on Africans. In fact their demise is what led to Europeans importing slave labour from Africa to the Caribbean.
So for descendants of Africans to completely ignore that experience of a real holocaust, wipe them out of history as if they did not exist, and appropriate a word that is of great political/legal importance worldwide because it defines their pre-European status in a post European world is a) deeply offensive to indigenous people everywhere, and b) a clear symptom of some people being simpleminded, which is not a good impression when you are trying to argue an intellectual point to further your own political/legal status.