At its height in the early 1920s (not very long ago!), the British Empire governed close to a fifth of the world’s population and a quarter of the world’s total land.9 When in 2014 a poll among British citizens finds that 59 percent feel that their colonial activities are a source of pride, outnumbering those who feel colonization was a source of shame by three to one, that is white supremacy. When half of those polled state they believe the countries that were colonized were better off for being colonized, that’s white supremacy, alive and kicking, in the twenty-first century.10
