Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy made an address at the United Nations claiming he is a descendant of Western slaves. However, a review of Lammy’s ancestry revealed that many of his forebears were involved in conquest and slavery, similar to their Western contemporaries.

Lammy’s ancestors were not enslaved “at the barrel of a gun” by Americans or Europeans, as he claimed; he is more likely to be a descendant of African slavers.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Rants About Slavery at the UN … But Guess Who His Ancestors Were?

The following was written by Jack Montgomery and published by The National Pulse.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy used a United Nations (“UN”) address to cringingly chastise Russia’s President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine to grandstand about Western slavery.

“Mr President, I speak not only as a Briton, as a Londoner, and as a foreign secretary… [but] also as a black man whose ancestors were taken in chains from Africa, at the barrel of a gun to be enslaved, whose ancestors rose up and fought in a great rebellion of the enslaved,” he said, adding: “Imperialism: I know it when I see it, and I will call it out for what it is.”

A review of Lammy’s ancestry by The National Pulse has revealed that many of his forebears were involved in conquest and slavery, at least as much as their Western contemporaries.

The new foreign secretary’s 2021 book ‘Tribes’ reveals he is “25 per cent Tuareg tribe (Niger), 25 per cent Temne tribe (Sierra Leone), 25 per cent Bantu tribe (South Africa), with 5 per cent traces of Celtic Scotland and a mishmash of other unidentified groups.”

African Slavery

The Tuaregs are a predominantly Muslim people who do not generally present as black Africans due to North African, Middle Eastern, and even European ancestry. Inhabiting mainly desert regions, slave raiding, slave trading and protecting slave caravans was a key part of their way of life and chattel slavery still exists in Tuareg lands to this day.

The Temne were also slavers, and their territories were unstable due to the existence of slave villages that rose in revolt periodically. After the British established Freetown in Sierra Leone as a home for freed slaves, the practice continued in the Temne hinterland into the 20th century.

The Bantu people, including the Zulu, were extremely warlike, seizing much of the territory they occupied in South Africa from the Khoisan, or Bushmen, hunter-gatherers, who are today a small minority in the country. Pygmy peoples were also frequently ethnically cleansed or enslaved by Bantus and continue to be discriminated against by Bantus today.

Far-Left Agenda

Notably, it is doubtful Lammy’s ancestors were enslaved “at the barrel of a gun” by Americans or Europeans, with the vast majority of slaves taken from Africa being sold by African slave masters.

His efforts to turn the Ukraine War into an opportunity to push racial grievances demonstrate not just his own well-established ignorance of history but the far-left ideology still at the heart of the Labour Party, despite Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s efforts to disguise it with a camouflage of bland managerialism.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, once on the extreme left of her party, is pulling a similar trick. It is not a coincidence that her team is currently recruiting Labour Party strategists.

Note from RW:  Unlike Lammy, I am a bona fide descendant of slaves.  Not only do I have ancestral records and family stories but I also have the DNA to prove it.  I cannot speak for all true descendants of slaves so I speak for myself.

I am sick and tired of this part of history being repeatedly misrepresented and politicised to push forward an agenda that has nothing to do with slaves who lived, loved, laughed and cried all those generations ago and most likely passed something down that makes me who I am today.  Without them, I would not have been me.

Contrary to viewing my ancestors as symbols of oppression, I am proud of my ancestors and I have no desire and wouldn’t dream of taking compensation for the lives that they lived.  I would rather their stories were told truthfully and factually, rather than made up dramatic stories told to suit an agenda, and any guilt money was directed towards helping those who are enslaved today to gain their freedom.  It is way past time to address the problems of the present while honouring and respecting those who lived in the past.

To David Lammy and all those who are pushing the historical slavery money-spinning agenda, I say: You do not speak for me nor do you represent me.  You are a disgrace hijacking mine and others’ history and using it for your own aims.  And you are a disgrace for not putting modern-day slavery and human trafficking front and centre.  If you want to honour my ancestors and recognise the lives they were forced to lead, then show some courage and integrity, and tackle the slave trade that is happening today.