Opinion: Forget swearing allegiance to queen and country, be the best - serve family and community.

Toyin Agbetu explains one of the reasons why Britain wants African children to swear blind allegiance to the crown and secretly welcomes them failing at school.

My six year old came home from school the other day with horrific news. The school had held a ‘careers’ day where the children spent the afternoon being entertained by police and army officers. As immoral as this was it is unsurprising, many people in Britain seem unable to grasp the simple fact that the UK is currently engaged in three major wars, one on the streets with our youth, one in Iraq and the other in Afghanistan. The last two in particular needs young bodies to send into the battlefield. At sixteen years old, Britain continues to have the youngest serving child soldiers in europe. The problem it has is finding children willing to die for racist middle class european ideals.

As a result the UK has developed a deliberate strategy of recruiting young children by planting seeds that promote jobs in the armed forces as an exciting “way out” of socio-economically deprived communities. Male or female they don’t care, by getting children to swear allegiance to Britain and using media propaganda such as Prince Harry’s courageous “secret” tour of duty they seek to manipulate those afflicted with poor academic attainment into an action packed gun focused occupation.

Whilst it’s commendable that the National Union of Teachers has voted to campaign against this evil form of exploitation we urgently need to take matters into our own hands. The quickest method is to write a letter to our children’s school instructing them to inform you in advance whenever they plan to have any kind of ‘job fair’ where a military career is being presented by army personnel.

Then simultaneously at home we teach our children that a solider is a trained and paid assassin of the state. Self defence is one thing but those initiating wars where hundred of thousands of innocents are killed despite there being no threat of attack are of the same mentality as those who enslaved Mama Africa in the unprovoked war known as the Maafa. I do not wish my children to ever believe it is ‘cool’ to kill for money. Not even so they can earn a ‘legal’ salary. So unless you want your baby returning home one day in a body bag from Iraq or Afghanistan, tell the school it is your intention to collect your child/ren early on the days that they are being programmed with the notion that to be in the British army is to ‘be the best’.

The Walk: Available on DVD

On 27 March 2007 a Pan Africanist named Toyin Agbetu challenged the British Government, Monarchy and Church as they gathered to hold a religious celebration for the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in Westminster Abbey, England. The ritual, which made no mention of the Haitian Revolution, the Middle Passage and the African freedom fighters that ended Britain’s system of transatlantic and colonial enslavement focused on the acts of parliamentarian William Wilberforce.

Toyin, who condemned the service as an insult and disgrace, halted the proceedings with words that gave a voice to the collective view of millions around the world. As Maafa truths were revealed he was demonised and misrepresented in the British media as a ‘lone madman’.

Watch the restored uncensored footage of what happened that day and afterwards when the African community in Britain stood beside him - from his arrest and incarceration to the eventual dropping of all criminal charges. Their journey took them from Westminster Abbey, outside Downing Street, the National Portrait Gallery, Africa House and eventually to the belongings of their Ancestors still illegally held captive in the British Museum.

This is the story of their walk…

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