The writer said: “[C]olonialism sucked and still sucks and we don’t need its awkward vestiges affecting our modern-day sports.”
Here is what the founder of The John Birch Society, Robert Welch, had to say about “anti-colonialism” in his 1966 essay entitled, “The Truth in Time”:
“A direct extension of this division of the one Big Lie which is Communism has been the anti-colonialism theme. In one ‘colonial’ area after another Communist guerrillas have terrorized the natives, by massive tortures and massacres, into some semblance of at least passive support of a movement for ‘freedom and independence.’ This was not with any expectation of bringing about the so-called ‘liberation’ of the area by armed insurrection. The strategy was simply to have the show and pretense of a revolution serve eventually as a basis for Communist-controlled negotiations. The diplomats could then literally force ‘freedom and independence’ on the betrayed peoples. This was all done with the blessing, and frequently with the active help, of traitorous influences in the top levels of government in such imperial capitals as London, Paris, Brussels, and The Hague. This surrender of empire, and of the responsibility that goes with empire for the protection of the people it has absorbed, has been one of the most disgraceful developments in contemporary history.
“For the ‘independent nation’ phase, even when there was any substantial pretense of such a condition, was merely a transition stage in making the same area a colony of the Soviet empire. It was then ruled by a Communist viceroy with infinite brutality, instead of the benevolent orderliness and gradually rising standard of living which had been brought to such areas by pioneers of the civilized ‘imperial’ nations to which such areas formerly belonged. Yet the Communist lie of anti-colonialism has been sold to millions of gullible people, in America and everywhere else, as a movement of ‘liberation.’ And since 1945 the Soviets have thus put together the most cruel empire of all time, primarily by using the battle cry of anti-imperialism.”