British Empire: good or bad?

Everyone should read @kehinde_andrews' work. This is one of the smartest books on racism / colonialism you'll ever read:

Yes, the British Empire built roads & railways. Because they needed them to move all the plundered wealth to their ships.

Moral of the story is: if you're going to be a serial killer, at least remember to build a few roads or a railway

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You were robbed for the Late Late 😉

Mixed bag? Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India and from 1891 to 1920, killed in excess of 50 million Indians and partitioned the country. In return they left behind the railways...

And you can only 'end slavery' if you had slaves

@Reunify32 “Britian’s “divide-and-rule” policy separated southern Sudanese provinces from the rest of the country and slowed down their economic and social development. The British authorities claimed that the south was not ready to open up to the modern world.“