Outrage after Sky News host says King Charles should not apologize over colonial atrocities in Kenya
Sky News host Andrew Bolt claims Kenyans reaped several benefits including learning English and King Charles should therefore not apologize over colonial atrocities
Sky News host Andrew Bolt claims Kenyans reaped several benefits including learning English and King Charles should therefore not apologize over colonial atrocities.
While hosting the Bolt Report show, the Australian show host wondered why the King acknowledged that many Kenyans suffered under the hands of the colonialists.
He believed that if colonialists had not arrived in Kenya, the country would not be where it is now.
Bolt felt that the King had to show pride in his statement that an apology would tarnish Britain’s history.
“There are bad things we did, but there are also good things that we did. We gave you democracy even if Kenya does not always live up to it as it should.
“We gave you the gifts of the English language. I have been to Kenya and I look around and think that if the British hadn’t been there, then it wouldn’t have been good as it is,” he stated.
Bolt was responding to the address made by King Charles III on October 31 at the State House Banquet in which he admitted that Kenyans suffered at the hands of the colonialists.
The King acknowledged colonial atrocities but did not issue an apology.
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“It matters greatly to me that I should deepen my understanding of these wrongs, and that I meet some of those whose lives and communities were so grievously affected,” the King stated.
However, Kenyans took offense at the Australian conservative columnist’s remarks as they expressed their outrage on social media.
Several internet users chastised the commentator, pointing out that English was imposed on Kenyans through the school system and that they already knew their native languages.
“I suppose I too, would feel angry having to pay for the sins of my grandfathers, but on the other hand, we were the victims of colonialism, they don’t get to choose our reaction to it,” Wa Irangu, an X user commented.
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