“I am as entitled to comment on my home nation as the next & the endless insistence that I display my gratitude is rooted in racism. Racism which is, in itself, rooted in the fact that the children of imperial immigrants born here are not always seen as fully British” - @sathnam
This point, which @sathnam eloquently & movingly makes in his book Empireland, is amplified by the fact that opposition to British imperialism is itself quite as venerable & vital a tradition in Britain as support for it: the tradition upheld by Dr Johnson, by Byron, by Orwell.
Feeling bad I did not originally post the full footnote, so here - in a late attempt to make amends - it is. 
https://twitter.com/sathnam/status/1405415672738369538
And if you have questions for @sathnam on the British Empire, we will be recording an episode of @TheRestHistory with him tomorrow.
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