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by James E. Knight<\/p>

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Empire\u2019s heir, or vampire\u2019s heir; in our historical experience, they have had the same meaning. A malevolent kidnapper who has sucked our lifeblood without remorse, and has left us to perish, while they enjoy the vitality, the vigor and the absolute luxury that the iniquitous transfusion has made possible.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not just a matter of\u00a0 Britain\u2019s major role in the greatest crime against humanity, and the great wealth and industrial development which it brought that country, at our expense.\u00a0 The truth is that the Royal Family of England participated directly in the trafficking and enslavement \u00a0of African people and amassed a tremendous fortune, which they continue to enjoy most lavishly until this day. They owned slave ships and slaves on plantations.<\/p>

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Then after slavery, as the kingdom continued to extract our marrow through colonial domination, members of the British royal family continued to hold estates in our region.<\/p>

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The multimillion bank accounts of these royals, the hundreds of millions of Queen Elizabeth and the many billions of the Crown Estate, are certainly not common wealth. They have it all.\u00a0 Yet we, along with their country, belong to a \u2018Commonwealth\u2019 and the head of their family is always our head of state.<\/p>\n

So here we are, after all these centuries, still Her Majesty\u2019s this, and on the brink of becoming His Majesty\u2019s that. Worse yet, we are still paying for it with the precious few pennies that we barely have at times in our treasuries. We pay locals to represent the British monarch as our Head of State, and finance the entire operations of that office. The money does not come from the Queen.<\/p>

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But now and then, she or one of her family members, even a grandchild, drops in to remind us that we must admire and exalt them for all that they have done to us. A chance to wave, or a precious opportunity to touch their golden hands, through a wire fence, is something that should bring us great joy.<\/p>\n

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Prince William, an heir to the throne, and automatically to our office of Head of State, came to the Caribbean, and as politically correct as the monarchy could afford to be, he delivered\u00a0 a carefully scripted bit of deadpan drivel, claiming to feel deep sorrow for what\u00a0 happened during slavery. Full stop.\u00a0 Smile, and be glad to cheer me, in all of your historically imposed poverty and suffering. I just happen to be fortunate \u2013 and, of course, superior. I look forward to being your Head of State.<\/p>

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For a people coming predominantly from the slave plantation, the dignity of having one\u2019s own Head of State, instead of the historical absentee owner, is not just a noble aspiration, but a corrective and collective historical responsibility.<\/p>

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