Black Hats

Having done so much to sabotage the national heritage by vandalising statues of race-baiters and slave traders, the forces of woke revisionism are about to embark upon a new and even cheekier phase of their cultural genocide by putting up a statue of their own. The sainted memory of Lord Nelson is to be desecrated by a sculpture of John Chilembwe, a preacher who led a 1915 rebellion in the British protectorate of Nyasaland. He was shot dead and his church burned by the best colonial troops in the world, and some forty people were strung up to demonstrate that, in the face of Prussian barbarity towards the civilisers of the Congo, the only thing wrong with British colonialism was that it might not last long enough. In the sculpture, Chilembwe is shown wearing a hat in the presence of a fellow Christian who also happens to be a member of the master race, in deliberate violation of the laws of British decency. Whether the sculpture's welfare will prove worthy of the same intense concern as in the cases of Churchill, Clive, Colston, Rustat and other wealth creators remains to be seen.