By Stanley Collymore
Speculating, as an Afro-Caribbean myself, on how Mary Jane
Seacole, were she to make a temporary re-emergence in the 21st Century, would
react to and what she would also possibly say about the intentionally racist
and scurrilous attacks on her by some so-called "prominent" members
of the British political class - infamously Michael Gove: the bastard, parental
paternity unknown, offspring of a biological slapper, Scottish mother who
readily and unconcernedly disposed of him the moment she'd evicted him from her
tainted body, after which and later at the age of four months he was adopted by
a wholly biologically unrelated to him Scottish married couple. Subsequently to
become, and still is, a far-right Tory supporter and later an MP for a
"safe" Conservative, parliamentary constituency seat - or more apt and
commonly known as a rotten borough cesspit - that Michael Gove still
represents.
And the avid social climber that he is - and realistically
one would need to be such were they to similarly find themselves through
discovery as in characteristically name changed Michael Gove's invidious
and considerably tainted, unknown biological origins situation - and in what is
still quite clearly, a significantly imperialist and colonialist mind-set
Britain among his tawdry sort, bastard Michael - both literally and
metaphorically so - became a UK regime minister first under the tutelage
of David Cameron and after his departure Theresa May. But in addition to
being an utterly obsessive and self-serving prat Michael Gove is also a hard
core and sycophantic admirer and stalwart toady of the antipodean and obnoxious
arch-Zionist capitalist, Rupert Murdoch.
This, therefore, is what, as I speculated earlier, would be
the relaxed but incisive riposte of Mary Jane Seacole: the Jamaican born and
nurtured, Afro-Caribbean British citizen; meritorious Crimean War Heroine,
justifiably and worthy recipient of the British Order of Merit (OM) award, and
the undoubted inventor and shrew initiator of what would inevitably become, what
the world at large subsequently and informatively came to know, fully
appreciate and, accordingly, now universally distinguishes and exclusively
recognizes as the incontestable precepts of modern day nursing, attendant with
its fundamental and indivisible, caring principles. And from a knowledgeable
and truly historical perspective - other than the skewed, sick and fraudulent
one of Florence Nightingale herself and her band of latter day and
calculatingly conspiratorial aficionados - the distinct usurpation and
barefaced attempt at stealing the authentic ownership and rightful legacy of
Mary Jane Seacole..
So as an Afro-Caribbean person Mary Jane Seacole in
direct reply would doubtlessly, stoically shrug her shoulders in expected
realization of the abject disbelief and contumacious posturing of her
racist detractors, then quite instinctively draw in a deep breath through her
closed teeth and partially opened mouth in what we Afro-Caribbeans derisively
and in put down fashion refer to as a "stupes", while at the time of
delivering this apt response seeing no specific need to either entertain or
actually make a caustic verbal rejoinder; smile broadly and effusively in that
characteristic Afro-Caribbean fashion of ours and laughingly reply: "What
else is there to naturally expect from a phalanx of delusional white
supremacist elements of the supposed master race, who conceitedly convince
themselves that they know it all, and just as idiotically publicly state and
insist that without them or the now departed past members of their kind nothing
of value was ever previously known, discovered or invented.
Adding, would Mary Jane Seacole, convincingly and with a
clever mixture of ruefulness and spirited optimism: "Every conscionable
move that is conceived and embarked upon starts with a small step and a bigger
purpose."
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