“They thought they were doing the right thing,” Theresa’s friend says. “Then they were wrong,” Jenny says. “My grandparents were born in colonial Nigeria. I don’t care about Britain’s good intentions. Good intentions don’t excuse destroying somebody’s culture. Good intentions don’t excuse anything. We can’t judge dead men by our standards, fine, but we choose who we canonize, and we can do better. Shouldn’t we want to do better?”
