It's OK for graves to be "white":
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ethiopias-prince-alemayehu-buckingham-palace-160035541.htmlEthiopia's Prince Alemayehu: Buckingham Palace rejects calls to return royal's body
Exhuming Prince Alemayehu's body would disrupt the remains of others, Buckingham Palace says.
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Buckingham Palace has declined a request to return the remains of an Ethiopian prince who came to be buried at Windsor Castle in the 19th Century.
Prince Alemayehu was taken to the UK aged just seven and arrived an orphan after his mother died on the journey.
Queen Victoria then took an interest in him and arranged for his education - and ultimately his burial when he died aged just 18.
But his family wants his remains to be sent back to Ethiopia.
"We want his remains back as a family and as Ethiopians because that is not the country he was born in," one of the royal descendants Fasil Minas told the BBC.
"It was not right" for him to be buried in the UK, he added.
But in a statement sent to the BBC, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said removing his remains could affect others buried in the catacombs of St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.
"It is very unlikely that it would be possible to exhume the remains without disturbing the resting place of a substantial number of others in the vicinity," the palace said.
"White" ethics in a nutshell. (The British were the ones who made the initial decision to bury the prince's corpse there! If exhuming the prince's remains would disturb others, that is entirely the fault of the British, which they must deal with! Why should Ethiopians be denied the return of the prince's remains because of a decision made by the British? Giving Palestine back to Palestinians would also disturb Israelis (whom the British gave Palestine to
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/israel/msg352/#msg352 ) for sure! Does that mean Palestinians shouldn't get Palestine back? Oh wait.....)
In April 1868 they laid siege to Tewodros' mountain fortress at Maqdala in northern Ethiopia, and in a matter of hours overwhelmed the defences.
The emperor decided he would rather take his own life than be a prisoner of the British, an action that turned him into a heroic figure among his people.
After the battle, the British plundered thousands of cultural and religious artefacts. These included gold crowns, manuscripts, necklaces and dresses.
Historians say dozens of elephants and hundreds of mules were needed to cart away the treasures, which are today scattered across European museums and libraries, as well as in private collections.
The British also took away Prince Alemayehu and his mother, Empress Tiruwork Wube.
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it was decided that the prince should have a formal education.
He was sent to the British public school Rugby but he was not happy there. He later moved to the Royal Military College in Sandhurst where he was subjected to bullying.
The prince had a "hankering" to return home, correspondence quoted by Heavens says, but that idea was swiftly quashed.
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After a decade in exile the prince died in 1879 at the age of just 18.
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/canada-residential-schools/Woke comments:
The European way, is to arrogantly take the position that they have the rights to this teens remains, period!
And all the more in step with European history when intertwined with “other” peoples, is that they are best suited to be curators of what is unrelated and not their own. Though royalty from the Dark Continent is a royal plus for the taking AND keeping!
Another sad story of the smash and grab carried out by Europeans in the colonial years.
Plunder wasn’t enough…Just like the British to take a child and his mother and no doubt consider them, property. The h-e-l-l and paranoia that child must have experienced!
British looted the whole world for centuries, including corpses. Of course it's very "disruptive" to give anything back.
of course they stole thousands of religious and cultural artifacts and jewels they won't be returning either. they won't admit it but it also seems like this young man is buried in a vault or mausoleum with several British royals buried on top of him over the years so retrieving his remains would be almost impossible without exhuming everyone else so they won't do it.
Contrast with the based comments such as:
Hilarious. Weez was kangzz. Blacks can’t be royal. Their best accompaniment was pick 1ng k0t inn.