Reflections on a Royal Funeral.

I happen to believe that the only threat to the human community that we haven’t solved is violence. We know what to do about everything else — disease, global warming, hunger. We may not have the political will to solve these problems, but we know how to solve them if and when we choose.

We don’t know what to do about violence, either personal or state-organized violence, and the latter promotes the former. Most of the state-organized violence we have is occasioned by racism which was basically invented by the British Anglicans when they looted half the world and created the modern colonial system now referred to as the ‘Commonwealth.’ Isn’t that nice? The Commonwealth.

More times than I can count, Elizabeth visited the Commonwealth countries where she would be greeted by the local political toadies as some kind of saint, with all the bowing, scraping, and kneeling which goes along when we greet a saint. Most of these local leaders were Black, Elizabeth was White. So, there we had it every time — the Black kneeling to the White.

England wasn’t the only European country to go around the world to see what goods and resources could be robbed and taken back home. Spain stole gold from Peru, Portugal plundered Africa’s West Coast, Germany set up a colonial regime on Africa’s East Coast, France stole rubber from Southeast Asia, the Dutch took…