“The government and the education system failed to explain to white Britain that, as the academic Adam Elliot-Cooper puts it, we had not come to Britain, but 'rather that Britain had come to us'. They did not explain that the wealth of Britain, which made the welfare state and other class ameliorations possible, was derived in no small part from the coffee and tobacco, cotton and diamonds, gold and sweat and blood and death of the colonies.” ColonisationRacism In Britain Book:Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire / Black Listed / Black and British: A Forgotten History Source: Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire / Black Listed / Black and British: A Forgotten History