{"id":1126327,"date":"2022-06-18T08:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T08:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/18\/what-did-you-people-think-happened-during-colonization-that-you-crave-it-white-rule-so-much\/"},"modified":"2022-06-18T08:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T08:02:55","slug":"what-did-you-people-think-happened-during-colonization-that-you-crave-it-white-rule-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/18\/what-did-you-people-think-happened-during-colonization-that-you-crave-it-white-rule-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What Did You People Think Happened During Colonization That You Crave It &#038; White Rule So Much?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"h-popular-ghanaian-actress-lydia-forson-has-posed-a-question-to-ghanaians-who-have-publicly-indicated-that- they-prefer-being-colonized-that-being-under-the-sort-of-democratic-rule-that-is-happening-in-the-country\">Popular Ghanaian actress, Lydia Forson has posed a question to Ghanaians who have publicly indicated that they prefer being colonized that being under the sort of democratic rule that is happening in the country.<\/h2>\n<p>The actress asked this question in a recent post she made on her verified social media handle on the popular social media platform, Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Her post comes at a point when many Ghanaians are sharing their thoughts about being under colonial rule with many believing that it would have been better if Ghana had stayed longer under colonial rule.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to these sentiments, Lydia wrote;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonest question ;<br \/>What did you people think happened during colonization that you crave it and white rule so much?<br \/>Do you think white people were massaging our backs and serving us tea?<br \/>Do you understand that colonial \u201cMASTERS\u201d means we were the servants?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-18-at-7.55.52-AM-1024x650.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-813223\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some reactions her post got are;<\/p>\n<p><strong>@andraa_oh<\/strong> \u2013 Miss Lydia there\u2019s one thing I realised about you , that you know who you are and what you are about and it\u2019s really lovely to always see that in your expressions as well \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p><strong>@sayyourss<\/strong> \u2013 We don\u2019t know our history hence some of us insult our ancestors who offered their life\u2019s for us to enjoy some peace\u2026.slavery ended not up to a century ago and our people are shouting for white rule\u2026sad we don\u2019t know who we are..<\/p>\n<p><strong>@Kayofficial5<\/strong> \u2013 I think our educational system failed us in teaching our children the horrors of colonization. And our educational system failed us in educating our children about how we thrived before they came. The empires that were charting their own courses before being reduced to nothing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>@H3limizzz <\/strong>\u2013 We are still in neocolonialism so this isn\u2019t anything new,the question I would want to ask is,What were our ancestors doing when these people came to our shores with their SHIPS,ships and CANOE aren\u2019t the same,so this even says it all,They are gone koraaa<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"4c0e52e9151c24ad1b253392-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Ghanaian actress, Lydia Forson has posed a question to Ghanaians who have publicly indicated that they prefer being colonized that being under the sort of democratic rule that is happening in the country. The actress asked this question in a recent post she made on her verified social media handle on the popular social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1126329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18059,13673,7070,345,2243,3852],"class_list":["post-1126327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-colonization","tag-crave","tag-happened","tag-people","tag-rule","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}