Colonial History Quotes

“The ‘modern’, ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, Christian European coloniser could not get himself to acknowledge that the lived experience and traditional knowledge of native societies gathered over millennia could teach him more than a thing or two about living in harmony with nature as opposed to merely salvaging what remained of it in the name of ‘sustainable’ development.”
― J Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

“9/11 destroyed two bustling buildings, Mayflower destroyed a living continent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“In hollywood white man saves the world, in the real world white man has wrecked the world more times than he could make amends for in a thousand years.

So, to get straight to the point - the only way America could be considered a civilized nation, is if we embrace and celebrate our identity as an integrated society - otherwise, everything about America screams savagery.

The same holds true for England, as well as France, Spain and Portugal. Every society born of colonial roots, must abandon the garbage geopolitical dream of becoming a superpower, and place all their attention on making amends for the past - at least until prejudice and discrimination are no longer a dominant force in these societies. It's not about feeling guilty, it's about feeling human, and doing everything it takes to correct the mistakes that keep you from becoming human. And for that, it is imperative, you abandon your make believe glories of the past and look at the world with human eyes. Or to put it plainer still - it's not your fault that your ancestors were jerks, but if you fail to right their wrongs as civilized human, then you are just as jerk as them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“The danger is going back with this colonial attitude and disseminating information like the Inuit don't have history there.”
― Gayle Kabloona

“The terrorists you call pilgrims, did not immigrate, they invaded, pillaged and plundered a continent, they even plagiarized its name into a symbol of atrocity and violation, just like the nazis heisted a holy symbol from the east, and turned the sacred Swastika into the global icon of hate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“The groundswell of outrage over the invasion of Iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of American ideals. The subtext of the dissent was: This is not who we are. But not if you were standing where I was. It was hard to see the look in that palace tour guide's eyes when she talked about the American flag flying over the palace and not realize that ever since 1898, from time to time, this is exactly who we are. And what's more, Hawaii is, just as Theodore Roosevelt's circle predicted, crucial to the American empire's military presence in the Pacific. Pearl Harbor is still the headquarters of U.S. Pacific Command, just as it was for all three of America's twentieth-century wars in the Pacific with Japan, North Korea, and North Vietnam.”
― Sarah Vowell, Unfamiliar Fishes

“The groundswell of outrage over the invasion of Iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of American ideals. The subtext of the dissent was: This is not who we are. But not if you were standing where I was. It was hard to see the look in that palace tour guide's eyes when she talked about the American flag flying over the palace and not realize that ever since 1898, from time to time, this is exactly who we are.”
― Sarah Vowell, Unfamiliar Fishes

“When I use the term colonizer, I refer only to those who take pride in colonial exploits, and not to those accountable human beings who happen to descend from colonial ancestors. Colonialism is the enemy, it has nothing to do with skin or ancestry. As long as you stand true on ethics of equality and mettle of character, rather than boasting pedigree and archaic tradition, you are a champion of humanity, no matter your ethnicity, ancestry, profession or status.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“White Man, Apex Predator of Earth (Sonnets 2399-2400)

You know how the dinosaurs went extinct - they committed suicide when they saw the white man coming. They said to themselves, clearly white men are the apex predator of earth, so there's no point of us being!

Asteroids wiped out the dinosaurs, caucasteroids wiped out civilizations. Colonialism was a mass extinction event, yet no textbook has the spine to bear the burden.

You demonize hitler for his measly 6m white body count!

Americas were radiant with life, love and wonder, then columbus happened, and population dropped 90%, bengal had the world's finest silk industry, then churchill happened, and industry collapsed, 4 million starved to death, millions massacred across india, like australia, like leopold-infestation in congo.

Everywhere the white man has laid his eyes on, plague, famine and massacre has followed, and they had the gall to send missionaries to the south - ubuntu, advaita, aztecs and mayans, each could eat eurotheologies for breakfast and still have room for a 50 course meal.

In a way we should be thanking the cannibals, they were doing humanity great service, if only the africans, indians, native americans, aboriginal australians had done the same, earth would have been spared the brutalest extinction event in the history of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“White men are the apex predator of earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In Colonial English they say: not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslim. In Naskarian English we say: not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, traffickers, thieves, morons and imbeciles were white.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“United States has a 9/11 Memorial, Germany has a Holocaust Memorial, but if you endeavor to commemorate the earth victims of White Terrorism, you'll run out of walls before you run out of names.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In Colonial English they say: not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslim. In Naskarian English we say: not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, traffickers, thieves, morons and imbeciles were white.

United States has a 9/11 Memorial, Germany has a Holocaust Memorial, but if you endeavor to commemorate the earth victims of White Terrorism, you'll run out of walls before you run out of names.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, traffickers, thieves, morons and imbeciles were white.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, and traffickers were white.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“At the end of the century, fascism leaves no lasting mark on thousand year old civilizations, it's only the adolescent countries like the US that get wiped out of existence, destiny manifested on patchwork history and bootleg culture, collapse into obsolescence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“White history sells the West as the free world, but dig into earth history, and you'll realize, West is the biggest threat to life and freedom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Fall of America is a blessing for humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Enlightenment was born in the South of Earth - math, medicine, poetry, philosophy, theology, almost everything was invented in the South, then the Northerners barged in, and pretended they invented astrophysics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are vestiges of colonialism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I am the warfare, and the rewriting of civilization started decades ago, when I made slave out of the most tyrant language on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“We live in a world built on colonial atrocity, where exploitation is advancement and genocide is genesis.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Autopsy of The West (Naskaristana 2754-2757)

Food just tastes better when you eat with hands, sitting on the floor, together with family - which goes against the artificial, life-wrecking lifestyle invented by the west -

in western narrative, isolation is liberation, the elderly is inconvenient, apathy is aesthetic - invasion is ambition, exploitation is exploration, indifference is etiquette, appropriation is innovation -

this is the autopsy of the west, not biopsy, because we do biopsy of the living, not the dead. We cannot establish proper, healthy human integration, without first decolonizing the world, which is why it is imperative, that the world outgrows the west, no matter the country -

in short, whether you're born in a first world civilization of the global south or a third world country of the north, like England or America, you must outgrow the west, if you want to be civilized, if you want to be human.

The American must stop being american, you must outgrow everything that the pilgrims held near and dear, because the pilgrims were among apekind's most grotesque offenders, second only to their own forefathers, the british empire and other euro imperials.

You cannot end dehumanization while abiding by the narrative established by the dehumanizers, you cannot end a pandemic while playing by the rules of the virus - you cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place - colonial history is not heritage, it's a crimescene.

Civilization is care over conquest, civilization is integration over isolation, civilization is belonging - to burn the bridges with dehumanizers is the first requirement of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“In western narrative, isolation is liberation, the elderly is inconvenient, apathy is aesthetic - invasion is ambition, exploitation is exploration, indifference is etiquette, appropriation is innovation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“In western narrative, invasion is ambition, exploitation is exploration, indifference is etiquette, appropriation is innovation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot end dehumanization while abiding by the narrative established by the dehumanizers, you cannot end a pandemic while playing by the rules of the virus - you cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Colonial history is not heritage, it's a crimescene.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“The entire colonial terrorist lot not only believed that God was on their side, they also thought they were the voice of reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace