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Sheldon Thomas
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Sheldon Thomas
@SheldonThomas3
AI Risk & CSR Accountability Consultant | Helping UK, US & Caribbean corporates prevent human & reputational risk through ethical AI-supported decision
London UK Katılım Haziran 2011
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Yesterday, the co-owner of Manchester United, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, said the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants.
When we use the word “colonised,” we should be historically precise.
Colonisation was not migration. It was extraction.
The British Industrial Revolution was materially financed through transatlantic slavery and colonial resource flows, profits from Caribbean plantations helped capitalise banks, insurance markets and industrial expansion.
Formal empire continued into the 1960s. After independence, many former colonies entered IMF structural adjustment programmes that required currency devaluation and austerity.
Take Jamaica. In the early 1970s the exchange rate was roughly £1 = J$2. Within a decade, repeated devaluations under stabilisation policies reshaped its economy and long-term debt trajectory.
Migration into Britain did not emerge in isolation. It followed empire, labour recruitment and post-war reconstruction.
If we are going to use the language of colonisation, we should do so with economic and historical accuracy.
There is a longer structural conversation here, one that goes beyond headlines.
I’ll share on my LinkedIn page tomorrow (Friday).
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@churchtalkative Real talk if you have time could you send me the scriptures you used in this video about answered prayers, I will try to look them up but just encase it would be appreciated, stay blessed and I pray God will continue prosper you,
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The secret to getting your prayers answered isn’t begging God | Tia Talley
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@ChristIsComing5 This is a real word in season, thank you so much for this word, stay blessed
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@ThatAlexWoman just a little reminder, even though I agree with you please try and remember how Britain, France, Belgium, and Germany destroyed Africa through the slave trade and the last 300 year of colonialism, kept Africa and the Caribbean locked out economically, even today.
Alex Phillips@ThatAlexWoman
Let's be clear These men are NOT asylum seekers They are opportunists who pay the most evil of international gangs who traffic girls, harvest organs and sell drugs, to illegally break into a country Their families didn't build Ireland. They have no entitlement to it. They don't care about the culture, history, nor people It is wanton destruction by the politicians to allow them to invade. End of. mol.im/a/14416593
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#NFLonNetflix I’m rooting for the Chiefs from the UK, both my teams lead there prospective leagues, Liverpool FC is leading the premiership, big things a gwan in 2025
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@NFLonNetflix watching from the UK, I’m rooting for the man dem, the Chiefs, both my teams are leading, Liverpool FC, are leading the premiership, big tings in 2025, big up Netflix
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Warren English@TheWarEnglish
Secret #2: Cholesterol is NOT the only cause of heart disease. Other main causes are high: - Blood sugar - Triglycerides - Blood pressure - Chronic inflammation A high-sugar and junk food diet worsens all of these factors. Fix your diet before resorting to medication.
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If that is what you going to point out, not that some white are so stupid in believing that black people who have never been given an apology or compensated and still are held back today in every area of UK society and you want to pick out a gramma error, well, that’s like, a man writes how his going to kill someone and you write back and say you spelt “som one” wrong, face reality, the history of England is disgraceful and you should be ashamed, of the history of this country and the countries it has destroyed and messed up,
Peter Wright@PeterWright1801
@SheldonThomas3 @AshleaSimonBF You’re pretty dumb yourself Sheldon. Your use of the English language is poor. There’s a difference between they’re and there.
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Young lady, before you swear and say F off back to Africa, remember, England, France and Spain came into Africa by force took millions of slaves stole all our resources, remember that Africa is the riches continent in the world, still today, England had no resourced and still do not have resources and everything they have and built was on stolen resources and slave money including the royal families wealth, so before you open your mouth, learn about the corrupt history of England and the royal family, who are not even British, there German & Greek, look it up, your ignorance is so typical of some of you uneducated white people, who are so dumb, you are an embarrassment,
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F*ck off back to Africa then.
You don’t love Britain and Britain doesn’t love you so jog on hun 👋
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Real talk my sister, I don’t know this young lady, but she is so on point, I would only add that most men are even worse, they bring nothing but drama to the table,
Raphouse TV (RHTV)@raphousetv7
Lady Explains Why Men Are Not Obsessing Over Women Anymore 😳
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