The Commonwealth games are here, again! . . . a hideous spectacle of Slave Masters humiliating their keep.

It’s near impossible to miss the hysteria that overwhelms Australia each time this grotesque event takes place. The media bombards everyone with phrases such as “our golden girls . . .” or “record breaking medal tally . . .” etc. etc. and we have endless images of athletes who are exploited to boost our egos for a short period of time, before we all forget them and get back to making profit – our only aim in life.

Fig. 1 - The Master v Slave games.

But, take away the glory media images and what this event boils down to is, a bunch of middle sporting white nations, selectively eliminating nations, so they can shower themselves with medals competing with third world nations whose competitors are used as whipping fodder for boosting their own egos – a trip of nostalgia back to the good ole’ days of Empire.

“ . . . a bunch of middle sporting white nations, selectively eliminating nations, so they can shower themselves with medals competing with third world nations whose competitors are used as whipping fodder for boosting their own egos . . .”

The event is peddled as maintaining the unity of the commonwealth or giving the slaves an opportunity to participate and fuel their aspirations. In reality, it is a grotesque gladiator like arena where white masters enter better equipped and the slaves are thrown in with little hope of success, but euphoric glory for the masters.

History of the games

The first “official” (Yes, the masters played many a “game”, unofficially, before and after this) event – the British Empire Games – took place in 1830, when slavery was at its pinnacle. A title more befitting the event. Then, the games were exclusively white, even though British Guyana and Bermuda participated – which is how the game should have remained. The slaves merely played the role of an ox – logistical machinery carting the baggage and equipment around.

“The slaves merely played the role of an ox – logistical machinery carting the baggage and equipment around.”

The sports included swimming, rowing, lawn bowls!!! Sports that, I’m sure, all the slaves indulged in, in their spare time as minimal it might have been! As I often say, there are more swimming pools down my street than in the whole of most of the colonies and when it comes to the current day velodrome, the bikes adorned by the slave masters would be more expensive than the whole GDP of many of the slave colonies put together!

The whole concept is driven by the insatiable Western need for boosting ego through humiliation of the weak – and, not surprisingly, the colonies were their victim. But with the “abolition” of slavery, the means of humiliating and beating up slaves became more challenging – they needed to be indirect. The “Empire games” was just one of many opportunities to do just that.

At the time of non-white participation, the Empire was already crumbling. Regardless, the Masters still had the weapons to ensure they could periodically whip their slaves metaphorically, at least, at what’s now called the Commonwealth games.

Fig. 2 - Medal Tally.

The history of the medal tally gives us great insight into the purpose of this grotesque event. Particularly when we segment the information into colonials and settler-colonies - the Masters, versus the colonies – the slaves.

“The whole concept is driven by the insatiable Western need for boosting ego through humiliation of the weak”

Overall, with the colonies gaining independence in the 50s and 60, we see an increase in the slave capability to win medals, although only in a rather miniscule manner – sufficient to enable the Masters justify the event.

Over the century of this event, it has been hosted by a slave nation just on 3 occasions. Not surprisingly, the slaves improved their performances in these specific games with their best performance at Delhi in 2010. No doubt a reflection of the officiating and perhaps the selection of disciplines

In 1986, we see the revolt of the slaves, who boycotted the event due to Apartheid in South Africa and the racist bigoted Thatcher regime in London. Needless to say, at the time, the Masters considered any resistance to apartheid as an act of terrorism – as they do today in Palestine. Perhaps it was this resistance against apartheid that accounts for the steady decline of slave performance that preceded that year, since the peak in Jamaica.

“Needless to say, at the time, the Masters considered any resistance to apartheid as an act of terrorism – as they do today in Palestine.”

In general, the Slave Masters have won 80-90% of medals even though there are over 5 times as many slave nations participating (12 – 69). The ratio is probably worse if one considers the populations they represent! Having said that, it is far more even if we considered the GDP per capita relating to medal counts. What is clear is that the GDP per capita of a nation directly correlates to its sporting prowess.

Over the course of the century of games, the “eligible” nations have been craftily carved up such that no sporting powerhouse was eligible apart from the King’s nation and the settler colonies that still bowed to his/her majesty. Republics were entertained only if they had no sporting prowess and were economic victims of the empire – e.g. India, Sri Lanka and most of Africa. Whilst the republics such as the USA were excluded. This was an event to boost the ego of the empire (Britain and its settler-colonies).

How are the slave nations handicapped?

Britain and its settler-colonies, whilst upholding the ideal, have never been known to be great sportsmen, without some form of leg-up. The Brits would control the participation whilst in the more crass settler colonies blatant cheating was the go – “win at any cost” was the catch phrase of nations like Australia. Until they discovered that the resident slaves had something to offer in bolstering their capabilities – The Yankee slaves were sweeping up the medals on the international stage!

“. . . they discovered that the resident slaves had something to offer in bolstering their capabilities – The Yankee slaves were sweeping up the medals on the international stage!”

Fig. 3 - Churchill's holocaust.

The slave nations had 3 primary handicaps

1.     Their economies had been pillaged and they were battling neo-colonialism, where the empire continued to control their economies, ensuring they would never recover.

2.     Their populations were malnourished over centuries of engineered starvation no different to the barbarism featured in Palestine.

It is not uncommon in slave families that have migrated to the West that relatively small parents should have giant kids – a result of generations of malnutrition and the plethora of hormones pumped into the animals as a part of industrial scale protein farming.

3.     They Lack sporting infrastructure and facilities that are essential for mastering skills and capability required for international competition.

All of this directly impacting the levels of participation in slave nations where the citizens didn’t, and still mostly don’t, have the luxury of indulging themselves in sports.

How do slave nations buck the trend.

The geo-political transformation that has engulfed the world has rapidly demolished the control that the West has had on slave nations. China, Russia and now Iran are ensuring there are alternatives to Western subservience. This transformation has liberated the slave nations and enabled them grow.

These nations are addressing the three handicaps, in that order – first the economy that will solve malnutrition and they support the development of facilities that underly excellence in sport.

Why have such an abhorrent event anyway?

The question is, is this event sustainable? Does it add any value and why do slave nations participate in this humiliation?

It is questionable that this event is sustainable. The recent kerfuffle regarding the hosting of the event is quite telling. Australia, the most wealthy of commonwealth nations, withdrew from its commitment to host the current games. Both Malaysia and Singapore politely declined to stand in and Scotland, rather reluctantly, agreed to host a severely constrained games, which limited the events, no doubt, to suit the slave masters. A flicker of hope that this event will be quashed forever.

“. . . , there are now far more regional events that occur where the competition is on a level playing field. The athletes not only get to participate, but they get the opportunity to experience the glory of winning in fair competition, . . .”

Some may argue that this is an opportunity for the athletes of slave nations to participate outside domestic competition. No doubt, the athletes prefer the minor grubbing they get here compared to the Olympics. However, there are now far more regional events that occur where the competition is on a level playing field. The athletes not only get to participate, but they get the opportunity to experience the glory of winning in fair competition, rather than be whipped by their slave masters in a contest that has been engineered to have the odds heavily stacked against them.

Why do the slave nations still accept the periodical humiliating whipping? The answer to this question is a blog in itself. However, it would take the form of,  recognising that the reasons would differ from nation to nation and generally be due to a mix of, economic coercion, bribery of officials and politicians and the influence of a still powerful contingent of population that benefited from colonisation and still wallow in colonial nostalgia and aspirations of acceptance by Western society.

Free the world of this grotesque relic of colonialism

Perhaps, for the sake of the naïve, we accept that it was all good intentions at the time of its inception. Never-the-less, the Empire games has out-lived its purpose and this grotesque relic of colonialism should be dismantled and a special place reserved in the museums of abominable colonisation – Let’s hope Glasgow is its death-throe.

“. . . this grotesque relic of colonialism should be dismantled and a special place reserved in the museums of abominable colonisation”

It’s time for the slave nations to demand respect and dignity by rejecting such a grotesque spectacle.

Let’s put a stop to the whipping fest, I say!