My Grandad told me a story about this. Proper battle. And loads of British troops came running from the local base to fight the American Military police. Many of the American Military police were arrested by the UK police for using firearms in public.
Now this is a story that deserves to be adapted into a movie. The shame here needs to be witnessed so the truth can come out that America has been wanting to forget for so long that continues to this day.
The famous line relayed by an American whom had befriended an old lady in East London in WW2. She had promised him that she would open a bottle of scotch she had saved in an emergency. In a severe raid her house was flattened and she was seriously injured. She was being carried out on a stretcher near death and her American friend said. “Eh Doris, are you going to open that bottle of scotch now?” She gave a wry smile and said. “ Not yet, I told you it’s for an emergency.”
In a famous incident an old British lady was asked what she thought of the American soldiers. She said she liked them but she wasn't sure about the strange white guys who came with them. 🤔
i cant tell if yo think this is a bad thing or a good thing, but i see it as a good thing.. anyone can call themselves what they want as that is their genetic line. but born here you are one of us regardless of your skin, so you are British! but when it comes to america if youre born their, your not just American but they have to throw the African in there too...why? is it just to make minority's stand out? would you class them as just american if they are born and raised in your country
I agree with the sentiment, but they are British not English though. The English are the native peoples of England, just like the Welsh are native to wales, the Scots Scotland and the Irish Ireland, but all are British. You don't call white Australians aborigines or white New Zealanders Maori do you? I'm not having a go at you pal, I'm just sitting the record straight and giving an explanation so any who read this understand the difference between English and British so don't any offence chum.
Love what you are saying I think in Britain people are not too bothered about skin colour they are more against cultures that don’t integrate. We have an attitude do what you want as long as you don’t adversely affect someone else or make me change my culture
People are people, love to all! There are always people with extreme views in the minority. Media pushes these cases for ratings and it’s hurting our culture
Absolutely correct. We British never really had the same race-based viewpoint that America is afflicted with. There were never slaves in the mainland UK and free productive people of all kinds from across the empire were productive members of society in the UK. What *matters* to us is your VALUES. If you're from a culture that hates individual freedom, or that thinks they're superior and others inferior.. That's where the problem lies.
I am very proud to be British. We are not perfect to be sure, but, we are a cut above. I dont agree with BLM nor their politics. Race shouldnt be politicised. I firmly believe everyone should be treated equally, and based on their own personal merits. This is one of the great moments in my countries history. Glad you got to watch it. :)
I Why not. Black Lives do not Matter? Are you saying that you are so fucking thick that you are in disagreement with facts? Way to be proud, you dumb fuck. Get out of the country I fought for. The one my grandad died for, you ignorant cunt.
@crushthevicar so because I disagree with the policies and organisation of BLM that makes me a bad person...right? No. Try reading my full comment and actually comprehending what I said.
You may not agree with BLM and their policies but everybody must understand that it's very different in the US. It's been nearly a hundred years since Bamber Bridge and this is still going on in the US. I guess sometimes it's time to stop asking nicely! And their Police? To say they're not like ours is an understatement. We've had property equality for centuries. They have lip service
My dad was in the Royal Navy in WW2 He said in the build up for D Day they used to often go for a pint with the black troops because they hated the white troops calling the Black soldiers boy. He said they were willing to lay down their lives for freedom. There was no room for prejudice.
I think we British believe in fairness above all and any rule or authority that enforces blantant UNfairness is given short shrift in the UK. Had I been a serviceman in WW2 and heard white American troops disrespecting their black comrades in that way, I would have given them one hell of a tongue lashing.
Those three pubs in Bamber Bridge each have a Roll of Honor for the Black American troops killed during World War 2! The town hasn't forgotten it. Also the British pubs putting up signs saying "Black troops only" in response the US army officials demanding they segregate the pubs is classic British humour/attitude lol!
It's a terrible piece of history. I am very proud that the British soldiers stood by their new friends, they came over to help fight an evil coalition and deserved to be treated as heroes. Stay safe my friend. Somerset UK
Bridgwater in Somerset stood up to racial segregation in WWII, refusing to have white GI’s billeted on townsfolk unless black GI’s, bivouacked in tents, were billeted too. When the black soldiers arrived, they marched through the town to cheering crowds, and in homes were apparently treated like royalty.
"Don't be a dick and we'll get along fine" has always been my mantra - black, white, neon green, I don't care, if you're ok with me, I'll be ok with you.
I new a Jamaican gentleman who served in the West Indian Core in England and he said that the white American soldiers used to try to treat the West Indian black soldiers the same way when the saw them in a pub. When the white American soldier said, “Boy, come here!” To their a black American soldier, the soldier would obey fearfully. When they tried it on West Indian soldiers, they got their heads kicked in! 😂
We had a really black American friend, for years, over time we also had a Jamaican one the two were total opposites but friends too..and that's how it rolls!
My grandad told me a story of when he was in the war. He was a medic and at the time attached to a Gurkha regiment. Long story short, one of the Gurkha soldiers was at the bar getting in a round when a couple (3 or 4) white US soldiers came in and tried to intimidate the Gurkha. Needless to say, my grandad spent the rest of the night patching up the US servicemen.
5:08 I love it, that's such a British response to the demand. "You don't want to socialize in the same building as black troops? ok that can be arranged"
British Sarcasm too: "You said impose Segregation and we did. The White Yanks will be nowhere near near the black troops because they aren't allowed in. You should have been more specific." LOL
You should look up Somerset Vs Stewart case of 1772... where the case for a slave’s right to walk free in England resulted in a decree being made where any slave that set foot on British soil was decreed automatically a free man as Britain’s air was “too pure” to allow anything less than a free man to breath.
@@MrGiant You might also enjoy watching BBC's 1993 'Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles' dramatisation (here on TH-cam) which tells a true story. In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visited the Hebrides Islands, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him were his friend, the Scots diarist James Boswell, and his black Scots servant Francis Barber. They enjoyed hospitality at several castles on Skye, and in one, Francis met a black servant brought back from America as a slave by a Scottish Laird. The encounter provides an interesting look at the way attitudes were changing as regards slavery.
There's a quote from that sort of era. "England's air is too pure for a slave to breathe." Or something along those lines. It means that anyone who breathes the air of England is free. It's correct, even in law. There was *never* a legal status of 'slave' in the UK. People here have only ever been free, as soon as the law was first created.
@@etherealhawk Slavery was prevalent and legal in England in Roman and Anglo Saxon times. The Normans discouraged it and their successors banned it while, at the same time, effectively making everyone, except the clergy, more or less the property of someone from the king down - but not quite slaves. Wikipedia has a few paragraphs on this. I think there was a brief period in the middle ages when slavery was legalised in English law but it went against all post Conquest legal history and tradition, was extremely unpopular, and repealed very quickly. Of course, the Welsh and Scots captured and enslaved English people and the Corsairs from North Africa used to raid Ireland, Western France, Cornwall, Wales, etc for slaves right up to the 17th Century - they even had a base on Lundy Island from which the carried out raids and transfers to ocean-going ships. Even West Indian and North American slavery included people from the British Isles, as described in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. Slavery in the Americas was not really legal in English terms. It was fudged through by the wealthy profiteering classes who usually had relatives with landed estates in England and held positions in Parliament - money and desire for more of it defeated and distorted legality.
William the Conqueror (1066-1087) : "No man is allowed to sell another man. Anyone breaking this law will pay a fine to the king." Nearly a thousand years ago!
Suzi Quatro also became famous in the UK before returning to the USA. The same with the Australian group the Seakers who were a minor Melbourne act before achieving fame in Britain then returning home as hero's .
The events that took place at Bamber bridge are shocking and still to till this day some 81 years later are disturbing. Why on earth would you waste time by sending military police to arrest someone for not wearing the correct uniform, some jumped up charge that could be handled the next day even if had merit. It was clearly done to create a disturbance and set up a dangerous confrontation. Now I have spent a lot of time in the West Indies and I married a woman from St.Vincent that’s nearly 50 years ago most of friends are black and I have always had the greatest times being amongst them.
I'm so proud of my Country and to be British and a part of it too, nobody is going to change that. everybody should be proud of where they have come from and should not blame others for the past's mistakes and bad times, we look at the past to learn from this not to blame each other for it.
@@cockneycharm3970 Where you come from is an accident of birth, why would that be something to be proud of? You might as well say you're proud of having blue eyes.
*Over 3000 Black American GI's Applied for British Citizenship before the war ended. A majority moved to Cornwall south west England were there families still live today. Many other thousands of Black American GI got Citizenship in France and Belgium, which started the famous Brown European Baby boom in the end of the 40's*
South West Britain...!!, even today there are several descendants of black USA servicemen with broad Cornish accents. Their fathers /grandfathers fitted in better than the white gum chewing ones 👍.
My father went on holiday to the US in the Eighties. He told me how he walked in to a store and was immediately treated with suspicion by the black guys at the counter. Once he spoke they realised he was English and then they were very friendly and chatted to him for quite a while laughing together and relaxed.
Us brits are stubborn and really dont like being told what to do. Of course theres still some racism here but we are mainly a very multicultural country as long as people aint doing us no harm we dont care race religion gender. Glad u reacted to this i believe it was around 10% of black american soldiers decided to stay in the u.k
So stubborn that we obediently behave like sheep in the face of the worst authoritarinism this country has faced in peacetime. Happy to obey lockdowns. Cowering if anyone walks within a few feet of them without a mask. Happy to see people not get NHS appts.Happy to be propagandised by fear. Happy to see businesses ruined. Oh yes, we are just so stubborn and won't be told what to do. Right, that said, the way we treated the Black GIs was exemplorary and we should be proud of ourselves on that front.
@@spanishpeaches2930 im not talking about the current covid situation i was talking about in general, however i do t believe anyone is happy about the lockdown and trust me im deffo not happy about people not being able to recieve treatments desperately needed, but at the same time its a global situation and had we had done nothing wed still be lossing thousands of people a day that didnt need to die. Im a homecare worker so ive seen it all first had and still had to try and carry on as normal. Its not ideal for anyone
@@mummywilford Well your original posts states that we are a stubborn people who don't like being told what to do....well it appears we do like being told what to do. The govt have behaved atrociously and incompetently, but all I see is sheep complying. This has been no worse than a very bad flu season. Did we shut the country down when Hong Kong flu killed more? Oh, and where has flu dissappeared to this season? People die, it's a fact of life. It's sad...my uncle died from covid. This is a seasonal illness we have to manage, just like old school flu.
It was only right that the Brits stood their ground in the context of Bamber Bridge riot. A foreign power demanding the local pubs who not to serve and how to serve another human is wrong in the first place 👌👌
The same thing happened in Bristol - it's referred to as The Battle of Park Street. I have also read about incidents in Portsmouth and elsewhere. Quite often US troops tried the same on Commonwealth troops and were shocked by the reaction from the British
There were similar incidents across the country. The only difference was in size. The American culture was very different, and had developed that way over hundreds of years.
On another reaction to this i did see a comment from a descendant of a black service man saying that their relative said it was their first good experience of a White person. Let's hope the world continues to learn from history.
You are right about some musicians. I think even Hendrix was popular in England before the USA. Probably the greatest guitarist ever and not immediately recognised in his own country first.
Hendrix first played in the US but failed to make it big. In 1966 he travelled to London, meeting his idol Eric Clapton, and soon became hugely popular in the UK, before achieving international fame. He settled in London and called it home.
Pretty much true for all the African American blues musicians. Even African Americans weren't listening to blues music. They had to come to Europe to be feted and treated like stars with respect and, more importantly for them personally, to be paid. Even younger artists on Stax and Motown labels were appreciated widely more in UK than in USA at least up to the mid-1960s. The Rolling Stones asked for Muddy Waters to start their show on, I think Ed Sullivan, and deliberately moved back to take the limelight off themselves.
I loved your speech at the end, you seem very understanding and open minded. I am white and from the UK, my great grandfather was a half black American GI and he was in a black segregated regiment in Mardon near Moretonhampstead. He met my English / Cornish great grandmother who was married at the time and she got pregnant by him, soon he went off to Omaha beach and we never saw him again. In 1945 my grandmother was born, for 75 years my family have been searching for him and now I am the only one in my family that remains looking and still haven't found him. My grandmother did a DNA test and she is 23% African so the rumour of my great grandfather being of African descent was true but still no sign of him. It's sad because if my great grandfather survived the war he wouldn't of been able to return to the UK due to the Jim Crow laws in the UK and wouldn't be able to go outside of the US. He unfortunately may of never known he had an unknown daughter out there
Thank you for sharing your story. I hope some day you will find your family and is able to learn even more about you history. I hope you have a good week my friend.
@@MrGiant Thanks mate you too! Keep up the good work I'm really enjoying your content so far. I just finished watching several of your videos comparing American and British police and the history of the ottoman empire and also your geography now videos. You're pretty open minded I'll say again and I am glad to run into someone like that. We need more open minded people in the world
@@davidhoward2487 I believe he may of been in the 392nd Engineer General Service Regiment as they were a segregated african American stationed near where my great grandmother lived but I can't find a list of the men who was in that regiment at the time
@@AidanC850 get in touch with some American military guys and ask them who to get in touch with? I'm sure they will have lists of names of every American that came here during the war.
I know of someone that didn't go back...my neighbours father. My neighbours father was a black GI who stayed in England during the war. He was from Michigan and came to Britain for the war effort when he was 21. He loved England and its way of life so much that in 1944 he went AWOL from the American army while stationed in the UK. He met a woman called Ada who was in her 50s and owned a bakery just outside of Shrewsbury. She and her family hid him for 3 years. He applied for special status to remain and finally in 1956 he got his full UK citizenship. He moved to Lewisham, met his wife and had 3 daughters, my neighbour being one of them. I've seen family videos of him and he sounded like Del Boy 😂. My neighbour, June, said she was so thankful he run away to stay here because she hates Americans 🤦♀️.
I'll be honest us Brits can be arseholes - however just on occasion we stand up for what is right. Simply put the soldiers were in Britain to fight the enemy it didn't matter what colour they were. And it is everyone's right to have a beer or two before going to risk their lives
No other empire gets the grief the British Empire gets. All we did was create an Empire of Trade, we where rich, and every other country we went to their leaders wanted what we had. Our only problem was we where to good at it. Never forgot your history, especially if your working class, we've had 2000 years of being controlled by elites, our elites only took that misery to the rest of the world for 200 years. No matter what others cry, we're stronger than anyone could imagine.
Where I grew up in 40s and 50s Britain, whenever people heard or read about racial conflict, the attitude of the people around me was clear. There is only one race - the human race. In my long experience the vast majority of Brits still think that way.
Back in 1984 I was an airman serving with XV bomber squadron at RAF Laarbruch in what was then West Germany. A USAF fighter squadron based in the UK came over to spend a week training with us. The first night they were there we threw a party to welcome them. A couple of my friends and I moved around the room chatting and drinking with our American guests and as we did so we got talking with a group of coloured guys. We spent about ten minutes joking and drinking with them before moving on to welcome others of their squadron. The next group we approached were about 4 or 5 white guys and as we did they glared angrily at us and one of them stepped forward and said "What the fuck do you think you're doing talking to those n***ers?!" Needless to say we moved straight on. To be fair we spoke to many other white people that night who didn't seem to have a problem. It shocked me not just because of the hatred and racism but the fact it was in a military unit. As anyone who has ever been in the military will tell you your life can depend on those around you in your unit and therefore you always look out for each other. It's often referred to as camaraderie.
I remember a similar incident happening in Birmingham, England. My father was helping organise dances in the city for US military personnel (he worked with friends who had a jazz group) and they were told to stop allowing Black GIs to attend the dances. He and the vicar in charge of the church hall were the dances refused and they won against the US military authorities.
“Like me” seems to be intrinsic. My brother was setting up characters for a boxing game he was going to play with my niece and asked “What colour skin?” “Brown like me!” was her reply. She was about three years old. No racism involved, it was just a physical characteristic. Last summer a young friend told me I was far too white and needed some sun. She has brown skin, curly hair and was six years old. There was no malice or hatred in what she was saying. I’ve cared for and about her since I first held her at 11 hours old. Black, brown, golden or white, skin is skin. Ginger, black, brown or blonde, straight or curly, hair is just hair. We are all like each other in so many ways. The human race is a team event and we need each other if we are to win.
I was with you till the "Ginger". 🤣 (If there's any left wing type Gingers out there who just crumbled to the ground in tears while screaming "Why Lord Whhhhhhhy"!?, grow up buttercup, I was joking.) 🙄🤣
@@gregw1973 I’ve a good friend whose excuse for doing anything really stupid is “I can’t help it, I’m ginger.” We decided her hair isn’t a more normal colour because the strange thoughts in her head have affected the roots. I’ll be vilified for use of the term normal. 😁
@@darrenjones5885 😁 We all know theres nothing at all bad about em... but they're all we have left, apart from the Welsh and the sheep... 🤣 (Joking... saw you're called Jones) Hehe
@@gregw1973Well that is a kick in both balls as a Welsh person who has a ginger beard u hit two of my key features, I truly find this to be a double diss 💯😂(I don't truly actually I'm joking but anyway), back to the point but what do u propose to do about meand others like me?, catch us and forcibly sheer alongside the sheep 💇♂️💇♂️🐑 🐑 u sir are much worse than a left wing fascist ,ur a right wing stylist 😂💯 😂👍👊✌️
I imagine many of the soldiers wondered why they were fighting for a country who didn't like them but then got to Great Britain and realised that was why they were fighting. Lovely reaction.
Love your thoughts, so very true. I wish people would listen to each other more and not be scared of our differences. Embrace them and learn from each other. How amazing would our world be if we just recognised our similarities and embraced our differences. Much love from the Cotswolds, UK. xx
I'm proud to say i grew up in Bamber Bridge, it wasn't the only place in Britain that this happened ,white American soldiers got their arses kicked many times for the same thing, we stand together or we fall together
I'm also very proud that my country (UK) welcomed the Afro-American soldiers. I saw a post somewhere saying : "In US blacks are called Afro-American In UK blacks are called British citizens" When in Kenya where I lived for 3 years during their fight for independence, the very large population of Indians were given British passports.
British people welcomed soilders and men who came to help us no matter there colour or creed. They were heroes to comes thousands of miles to help fight evil. The pandemic workers who are from non UK countries have been seen as heroes like they are with the locals. I hope you have a wonderful day from John in Scotland.
I saw some training video's supplied to US troops at the start of WW2. They where educational in format, to teach them of the allies they would fight alongside and of the enemy. There was a video preparing US troops for being deployed on UK soil. Teaching them social differences etc, how to fit in. In one clip, it showed a British woman talking to two US soldiers, and extending them an invitation to join her at their families dinner. One of the soldiers being white and one being black. - The white soldier then turns to the camera and says: "No, what you saw here was not a dream... In England they believe in equality. That men of different colour should be treated equally. So scenes like this, may be common, and we ask you, whilst you serve on British soil, to respect the views of that nation, and to put aside your prejudice." - the video itself was shocking to see, but apparently these soldiers had not watched this video, or did not care for it's message.
You wet my eyes, friend! So much truth in what you said... Hopefully the humankind will see one day we are all brothers and sisters no matter what... btw i am a "white" guy from Germany who is tired to apologize for the doings of my grandparents. I know that was a sad time for so many people and many bad things happened but be no "ever look into the past" kind of guy. Let us learn out of the past and do the best we can out of it and do this together!
A lot of Brits just couldn't believe how badly the black troops were treated by their fellow countrymen. The UK is by no means perfect, but we're a long way behind the US in terms of racism. I gather that one of the problems at Bamber Bridge was that white GIs had to wait for black GIs to be served. All this just to cut a queue.
There’s a plaque to William Crossland and other Black GI’s in the Old Hob Inn and a couple of other pubs in Bamber Bridge. Hopefully the one at the Old Cob survived a recent fire, but if it didn’t, there’ll be a new one put in place for sure.
Your video reminded me of something my gran told me when she was younger during WW2, tis just a short thing, but thought I'd share it with you. My gran said the US troops had just come over, and so everyone could get to know each other they had a dance at one of the air fields. She said one of the American soldiers (who was black) asked her to dance, and they had a dance, and after she was pulled aside by one of the American officers who said "Don't do that, we don't encourage that sort of behaviour in America" So she replied with "You're not in America anymore" and went and had another dance.
I grew up in Bamber Bridge. The locals call themselves "Briggers". We Briggers keep this story alive and are still proud of what our grandparents and great-grandparents did for the black troops. The Hob Inn pub is still there today, still operating as a very nice pub and restaurant with a beautiful thatched roof. The "Battle of Bamber Bridge" is commemorated in a framed newspaper article on the wall.
My father served in the RAF in the Second World War. When the US entered the war a lot of their troops were based at different bases around the UK, often sharing them with british troops. My dad experienced some of this and told me that our troops hated the ‘Yanks’. They had more money, better equipment even uniforms but what was worse was the continual fighting between black and white troops. The common complaint from our men was that if only the white Americans put as much effort into fighting Germans as they did their black colleagues the war would be over quicker. Our people were no saints but fighting a comrade of whatever colour or creed was definitely frowned on and fights in pubs where our men and the locals fought against the white Americans to protect the black guys was perhaps not an every day occurrence but it did happen. The number of rape of English women by white American soldiers is even today hushed up.
Love this video, what a great human. The incident in the English pub I never heard of but shows the people the everyday people don't care about colour on a face to face level, it is those control freaks in authority that do. I can't change the past as a white guy, all I can do is apologise for anything that happened towards other people of colour and nationality, I don't feel guilt for it because I wasn't involved and my family as far as I can trace were working class and not elites, my mother is very tanned and in the 70's she was racially insulted in a shop even though she is white. She got called a C--n and a half breed. I'm proud of my mum for giving this other woman a slap, and the whole shop clapped my mum. Thanks for your video dude.
Makes you realise why Ali refused to serve in Vietnam. Why should he fight and possibly die for a country that hated him? And he was the one called a traitor and un-American. It should be doubly embarrassing for Americans, considering that at the time the UK still had much of its empire, which gives the impression of ordinary Brits being as imperialistic, racist and overbearing as their American counterparts, or even moreso. And yet, it would seem they weren't.
After WWI a black American soldier decided to stay in the UK. It transpired that had he returned to his town in America he would have been a casualty of a white uprising that ended up with many Black's murdered. As it was he went on to meet my grandmother's sister and had children. I am a lucky man in that I grew up with mixed raced relatives, blood relatives who I love. Please just treat everyone as human beings...you will only find peace and harmony ❤
There are documented cases of black G.I's being pulled off buses with their kit bags on their way home from Europe. One man was attacked for requesting the use of the toilet. The driver reported him to police. He was beaten and blinded. Orson Welles the actor tried to highlight this terrible attack and the treatment of men fresh from the theatre of war. His films were banned in some states after. Some of these soldiers never reached home after setting foot back in the USA. RIP.
Glad you covered this. As you said, racism is everywhere and whilst heavily tilted, not confined to one direction. We all have a lot to do still. The problem in the modern world is that America is exporting its own unique racism issues and history to the world. The British have historical problems, but we also gave the world the path and muscle to start the path to liberation.
My great hero, Joe Strummer said: It's time to take humanity back into the centre of the ring, let's think about that for a while. People are what matters!
Similar thing with blues musicians from America. Basically ignored by most white Americans. These guys were musical geniuses, but they lived in poverty. However, in the UK they were loved and adored and treated with respect by Brits. And some of those Brits went on to form some bands you might have heard of... The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones.
4 of the returning troops got in touch with Martin Luther king, I think they sat on the freedom movement committee, they explained first hand about non-segregation, ex LI soldier England.
I live in Yorkshire. In the UK. I follow. Leeds united football club. ..wat you call soccer. The 1st English club. To promote. The end of racism in football. ...us Yorkshire folk. Are the salt of the earth 👏👏👏👏
Great video man! Sorry I'm late to the party. This video gave me mixed emotions, as a white British male, I'm certainly proud of this story, but at the same time it's sad that America's obsession over this issue found it's way to our shores and someone died because of it. We don't have that over here, it's always alien to me when I see all the racism in the States, because it's very different here. We embrace other cultures and I feel more so than any other, black people have been welcomed the most to British soil. Sure, like you said, racism exists everywhere and it does here, but in the UK, it's the racism that's the minority, very much unlike the US. One final thing, it always puts a smile on my face when I walk down the street and I hear the Jamaican accent. Because as long as I've been alive, it's been part of my country and culture here in England. Gave you a sub 👍
Here is a real shock for you all, this the Bamber bridge incident was not a one off the British people repeatedly supported the Black American Soldiers against the USA forces, this included support with violence by the British people against the USA forces.
i grew up in the 70s in hereford uk. my mum only listened to black music barry white, tamla motown etc she was way ahead of her time. (rip). i remember watching roots by alex haley on the tv and my mum said watch and learn kids. and she was right.
Great reaction and wise words at the end. We should all remember that we all have far more in common than we have that divides us. I never met a person that doesn't want a warm home, food on the table and for their kids to have better opportunities than they did. History is a text book for us to learn from and though we cannot change the story of the past we can shape the future based on the lessons of the past.
May I suggest you read the book "To Sir with Love" by E R Braithwaite and published in 1959 (made into a movie in 1967 with Sidney Poitier). He was from Guyana and became a school teacher in the East End of London after the Second World War (where he was a pilot in the RAF). He died in 2016 at the age of 104.
There are some ignoramuses everywhere and if they insult you they show theirselves for what they are , which is lower than you . Thank you for your great outlook !
I caught your reaction on brittains crusade against slavery, so I had to check if you had done this one too... Great reaction to both.. I personaly like to hear some reflektions on issues that are important from those doing reaction videos... IF it is for entartainment then reflections might be a bit redundant.. Great work
I’m sorry I have to disagree, as much as I like the guy, I think “sadly” he totally missed the point in the British crusade against slavery video. He was simply too indoctrinated to grasp it, but he’s entitled to his opinion … although obviously he redeemed himself in this one 😂
Sorry mate but "Americans" the most racist country on the planet. Not like you and me,,,... Let's make things different but without the woke shite that's currently going on?
You are. one hell of a nice heartwarming person. I am an English person, who went to a (somewhat privileged) prep school in Kenton the 1950s. One o my friends was a younger version of you, another was a boy who was from what was then called Persia - the boy from Africa had a father who was a Judge in his country, and visited the school during special occasions eg ‘speech day’, he wowed everyone in his ceremonial robes. Nobody ever thought or spoke about skin colour or segregation, we all treated each other as we found them, character was based on personality and how you got on with your friends. It makes me feel like crying when I hear about stories and events that you have described. I know now that all this hatred and animosity exists and it makes me sad. I just wish that we could be like we were when I was young and obviously very naive. Please don’t be like those are hole and become bitter, we are just not all like that- at least where I live in the East Midlands, England.
Absolutely heartbreaking for the families of the soldier whom got killed . Just heartbreaking . To think he got killed when he was serving his country and not even through the war . Just total disregard and lack of love for fellow person's life . To us this is a history story but those families they had to mourn and live with that for what I imagine would of course be always . So much unnecessary heartache in the world and lives cut achingly short . My heart goes out to all the heartbroken families everywere suffering . 🙏❤️
Wow, coincidence I'm seeing this now. A little over a year ago I went to this pub with me dad and they had some pictures there in honour of the lads involved with this. I live in Lancashire and this pub is only 15 mins drive from me house, the landlord explained the story after me asking out of curiosity and it was quite an eye-opener
I am white, I am British. Sometimes when you listen to the woke generation you would think Britain is the most racist country in the world. We played a major part in slavery, but then led the way to abolish it, we are not perfect as a country, but by God, I believe this is a country that generally holds it's hands up ready to welcome, rather than making it a fist and a weapon. Stand up for what's right, stand proud and don't let this vile, disgusting woke crowd win. By the way Bombastic Nation, great channel, I've subscribed!!
We’re all brothers and sisters of the world, your reaction is a credit to you and the wonderful people who taught you your values. You’re a beautiful human! Much love 💚
I used to work in a Care home (It's like a Retirement home in the US) and one of the Residents there told me a story where some American Soldiers were making a fuss in a local pub over Black Soldiers sitting and drinking among White people and Locals. Our Soldiers stood up for them and then the American Military Police came over and dragged away the Soldiers that started the fuss.
This is good I live Liverpool UK and we had a US base in Burtonwood which is a few steps up the railway line. Well we have a black area in Lliverpool called Toxteth All the black GIs had to do was get on the rail road line and pop into TOXTETH. The White Gis would not go there Anyway there are places there as good as The Cavern. Where the Beatles played catering to the black guys there. The black performers sang and danced for the GIs. The Aneicans black guys had a great weekend It got to the point where the black US guys brought their US 45 rpm discs to them to keep and learn off. . By the next time they got leave the singers had learned the US discs and did the songs for them. The guys thought the place was as good as Harlem As the base was there until the end of the Cold War and as the Beatles sometimes played these clubs is it any wonder that the first couple of Beatles LPs had songs like Please Mr Postman, You Really Got a Hold on me. And Twist and Shout that none if us kids had ever heard of. Motown had yet to break big here. It'seens ike the white Gis really missed out. So no trouble for the black GI guys here! .
What a lovely, considered reaction. As I've said before, regarding this incident, part of the British attitude was that, along with a genuine regard and respect for their fellow servicemen, they already had the enemy trying to invade them, they really didn't need their own allies having a go as well!!
I remember as a kid, my father having to go to America for 6 months. He came back shaken by much he encountered but mostly this: he was a friend of the great Satchmo (Louis Armstrong!) and one night, after dinner, suggested they go back to his hotel for a nightcap. It was a 5 star International hotel . (Even in South Africa, at the height of Apartheid, International Hotels didn't ban black Africans!) But they were told that Satchmo would have to go around the building and enter through the back Delivery entrance!! My father immediately went upstairs, packed up and checked out....and booked into Armstrong's hotel.
My friend, we didn't have any slaves here, as William the Conqueror banned them in 1066! My grandad was an overseer in a Lancashire cotton mill, this was in the 1800's..And was the one that all the workers, mainly women, went on strike in support of the black American cotton pickers..I'm very proud of him...
My Grandad told me a story about this. Proper battle. And loads of British troops came running from the local base to fight the American Military police. Many of the American Military police were arrested by the UK police for using firearms in public.
Now this is a story that deserves to be adapted into a movie. The shame here needs to be witnessed so the truth can come out that America has been wanting to forget for so long that continues to this day.
Was this in Cardiff, Wales. There was a similar sounding incident, the Chief Constable got involved and banned the MPs carrying guns.
@@christineaustin1397 No it was near Blackpool.
@@christineaustin1397 Lancashire UK
The famous line relayed by an American whom had befriended an old lady in East London in WW2. She had promised him that she would open a bottle of scotch she had saved in an emergency. In a severe raid her house was flattened and she was seriously injured. She was being carried out on a stretcher near death and her American friend said. “Eh Doris, are you going to open that bottle of scotch now?” She gave a wry smile and said. “ Not yet, I told you it’s for an emergency.”
In a famous incident an old British lady was asked what she thought of the American soldiers. She said she liked them but she wasn't sure about the strange white guys who came with them. 🤔
I love that, so typically British and it makes me proud and really happy for some reason!
@@draxbak is it because she was simultaneously not racist and mildly xenophobic at the same?
@@totallybored5526 I think there might be something in that! I do like that type of humour.
British humour is the best :D
@@totallybored5526 Welcome to Britain.
Black person in America: African-American
Black person in England: English
Or British..
i cant tell if yo think this is a bad thing or a good thing, but i see it as a good thing.. anyone can call themselves what they want as that is their genetic line. but born here you are one of us regardless of your skin, so you are British! but when it comes to america if youre born their, your not just American but they have to throw the African in there too...why? is it just to make minority's stand out? would you class them as just american if they are born and raised in your country
I agree with the sentiment, but they are British not English though. The English are the native peoples of England, just like the Welsh are native to wales, the Scots Scotland and the Irish Ireland, but all are British. You don't call white Australians aborigines or white New Zealanders Maori do you?
I'm not having a go at you pal, I'm just sitting the record straight and giving an explanation so any who read this understand the difference between English and British so don't any offence chum.
@@unionjackjackson4352 i know the difference as im scottish 😂😂😂
@@JakesAquaticAddiction are you sure? Never can tell with you Jocks!🤔😁
Love what you are saying I think in Britain people are not too bothered about skin colour they are more against cultures that don’t integrate. We have an attitude do what you want as long as you don’t adversely affect someone else or make me change my culture
As a Brit, we love ya cos we love ya! There's no reason to explain.
People are people, love to all! There are always people with extreme views in the minority. Media pushes these cases for ratings and it’s hurting our culture
Absolutely correct. We British never really had the same race-based viewpoint that America is afflicted with. There were never slaves in the mainland UK and free productive people of all kinds from across the empire were productive members of society in the UK. What *matters* to us is your VALUES. If you're from a culture that hates individual freedom, or that thinks they're superior and others inferior.. That's where the problem lies.
@@etherealhawk Yep. Also we forcibly ended slavery through military force with our Navy because it was against British values.
@Debra Charles how is america the least racist xd
I am very proud to be British. We are not perfect to be sure, but, we are a cut above. I dont agree with BLM nor their politics. Race shouldnt be politicised. I firmly believe everyone should be treated equally, and based on their own personal merits. This is one of the great moments in my countries history. Glad you got to watch it. :)
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Why not. Black Lives do not Matter? Are you saying that you are so fucking thick that you are in disagreement with facts? Way to be proud, you dumb fuck. Get out of the country I fought for. The one my grandad died for, you ignorant cunt.
@crushthevicar so because I disagree with the policies and organisation of BLM that makes me a bad person...right? No. Try reading my full comment and actually comprehending what I said.
Skin colour should not come in to the way you think of someone. We All are people at the end of the day
100% agree my fellow Brit 🇬🇧
You may not agree with BLM and their policies but everybody must understand that it's very different in the US.
It's been nearly a hundred years since Bamber Bridge and this is still going on in the US.
I guess sometimes it's time to stop asking nicely!
And their Police? To say they're not like ours is an understatement.
We've had property equality for centuries.
They have lip service
My dad was in the Royal Navy in WW2
He said in the build up for D Day they used to often go for a pint with the black troops because they hated the white troops calling the Black soldiers boy.
He said they were willing to lay down their lives for freedom.
There was no room for prejudice.
I think we British believe in fairness above all and any rule or authority that enforces blantant UNfairness is given short shrift in the UK. Had I been a serviceman in WW2 and heard white American troops disrespecting their black comrades in that way, I would have given them one hell of a tongue lashing.
Mine also
Well said mate. I'm white English and we all need to be human
Those three pubs in Bamber Bridge each have a Roll of Honor for the Black American troops killed during World War 2! The town hasn't forgotten it.
Also the British pubs putting up signs saying "Black troops only" in response the US army officials demanding they segregate the pubs is classic British humour/attitude lol!
It's a terrible piece of history. I am very proud that the British soldiers stood by their new friends, they came over to help fight an evil coalition and deserved to be treated as heroes. Stay safe my friend.
Somerset UK
Bridgwater in Somerset stood up to racial segregation in WWII, refusing to have white GI’s billeted on townsfolk unless black GI’s, bivouacked in tents, were billeted too. When the black soldiers arrived, they marched through the town to cheering crowds, and in homes were apparently treated like royalty.
@@catherinerobilliard7662 that is interesting I didn't know that I'm a Bristol boy. Well done Bridgwater.
also live in somerset, home of every British rebellion :)
@@johickey3158 South West England has indeed a long history of rebellion; the Duke of Monmouth a case in point. I’m a Geordie so claim no bias.
A soldier is a soldier. the only colour there is green.
"Don't be a dick and we'll get along fine" has always been my mantra - black, white, neon green, I don't care, if you're ok with me, I'll be ok with you.
I new a Jamaican gentleman who served in the West Indian Core in England and he said that the white American soldiers used to try to treat the West Indian black soldiers the same way when the saw them in a pub. When the white American soldier said, “Boy, come here!” To their a black American soldier, the soldier would obey fearfully. When they tried it on West Indian soldiers, they got their heads kicked in! 😂
We had a really black American friend, for years, over time we also had a Jamaican one the two were total opposites but friends too..and that's how it rolls!
My grandad told me a story of when he was in the war. He was a medic and at the time attached to a Gurkha regiment. Long story short, one of the Gurkha soldiers was at the bar getting in a round when a couple (3 or 4) white US soldiers came in and tried to intimidate the Gurkha. Needless to say, my grandad spent the rest of the night patching up the US servicemen.
@@paulbanks8727 The Brits love the Gurkha's.
@@ClodiusP hmm ,so why has it taken so long for Britain to give those that fought for the commonwealth the same recognition as others ...
@@cherrymcgregor535 The Brits hate the Gurkha's!
5:08 I love it, that's such a British response to the demand.
"You don't want to socialize in the same building as black troops? ok that can be arranged"
British Sarcasm too: "You said impose Segregation and we did. The White Yanks will be nowhere near near the black troops because they aren't allowed in. You should have been more specific." LOL
You should look up Somerset Vs Stewart case of 1772... where the case for a slave’s right to walk free in England resulted in a decree being made where any slave that set foot on British soil was decreed automatically a free man as Britain’s air was “too pure” to allow anything less than a free man to breath.
Thank you, I will look that up. Hope you have a great upcoming weekend.
@@MrGiant You might also enjoy watching BBC's 1993 'Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles' dramatisation (here on TH-cam) which tells a true story. In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visited the Hebrides Islands, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him were his friend, the Scots diarist James Boswell, and his black Scots servant Francis Barber. They enjoyed hospitality at several castles on Skye, and in one, Francis met a black servant brought back from America as a slave by a Scottish Laird. The encounter provides an interesting look at the way attitudes were changing as regards slavery.
There's a quote from that sort of era. "England's air is too pure for a slave to breathe." Or something along those lines. It means that anyone who breathes the air of England is free.
It's correct, even in law. There was *never* a legal status of 'slave' in the UK. People here have only ever been free, as soon as the law was first created.
@@etherealhawk Slavery was prevalent and legal in England in Roman and Anglo Saxon times. The Normans discouraged it and their successors banned it while, at the same time, effectively making everyone, except the clergy, more or less the property of someone from the king down - but not quite slaves. Wikipedia has a few paragraphs on this. I think there was a brief period in the middle ages when slavery was legalised in English law but it went against all post Conquest legal history and tradition, was extremely unpopular, and repealed very quickly.
Of course, the Welsh and Scots captured and enslaved English people and the Corsairs from North Africa used to raid Ireland, Western France, Cornwall, Wales, etc for slaves right up to the 17th Century - they even had a base on Lundy Island from which the carried out raids and transfers to ocean-going ships. Even West Indian and North American slavery included people from the British Isles, as described in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. Slavery in the Americas was not really legal in English terms. It was fudged through by the wealthy profiteering classes who usually had relatives with landed estates in England and held positions in Parliament - money and desire for more of it defeated and distorted legality.
William the Conqueror (1066-1087) : "No man is allowed to sell another man. Anyone breaking this law will pay a fine to the king." Nearly a thousand years ago!
as brit, we dont judge people by colour of thier skin, there are racists, but few , mostly we judge people by actions
Jimi Hendrix had to go to the UK to get his career started. Pretty crazy that someone with so much talent had to do that to get any recognition.
He was a great guitar player but his singing was a bit bad though😁
Suzi Quatro also became famous in the UK before returning to the USA. The same with the Australian group the Seakers who were a minor Melbourne act before achieving fame in Britain then returning home as hero's .
Otis Reading loved the UK
The events that took place at Bamber bridge are shocking and still to till this day some 81 years later are disturbing.
Why on earth would you waste time by sending military police to arrest someone for not wearing the correct uniform, some jumped up charge that could be handled the next day even if had merit.
It was clearly done to create a disturbance and set up a dangerous confrontation.
Now I have spent a lot of time in the West Indies and I married a woman from St.Vincent that’s nearly 50 years ago most of friends are black and I have always had the greatest times being amongst them.
I'm so proud of my Country and to be British and a part of it too, nobody is going to change that. everybody should be proud of where they have come from and should not blame others for the past's mistakes and bad times, we look at the past to learn from this not to blame each other for it.
There should be so many more like you on this earth, but sadly not. Respect to you 👏
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No one should be proud of where they come from its irrelevant.
@@garibaldi54 Weird thing to say. It hurts no one to say they're proud of where they're from, whether its irrelevant or not.
@@cockneycharm3970 Where you come from is an accident of birth, why would that be something to be proud of? You might as well say you're proud of having blue eyes.
*Over 3000 Black American GI's Applied for British Citizenship before the war ended. A majority moved to Cornwall south west England were there families still live today. Many other thousands of Black American GI got Citizenship in France and Belgium, which started the famous Brown European Baby boom in the end of the 40's*
South West Britain...!!, even today there are several descendants of black USA servicemen with broad Cornish accents. Their fathers /grandfathers fitted in better than the white gum chewing ones 👍.
My father went on holiday to the US in the Eighties. He told me how he walked in to a store and was immediately treated with suspicion by the black guys at the counter. Once he spoke they realised he was English and then they were very friendly and chatted to him for quite a while laughing together and relaxed.
Us brits are stubborn and really dont like being told what to do. Of course theres still some racism here but we are mainly a very multicultural country as long as people aint doing us no harm we dont care race religion gender. Glad u reacted to this i believe it was around 10% of black american soldiers decided to stay in the u.k
So stubborn that we obediently behave like sheep in the face of the worst authoritarinism this country has faced in peacetime. Happy to obey lockdowns. Cowering if anyone walks within a few feet of them without a mask. Happy to see people not get NHS appts.Happy to be propagandised by fear. Happy to see businesses ruined. Oh yes, we are just so stubborn and won't be told what to do. Right, that said, the way we treated the Black GIs was exemplorary and we should be proud of ourselves on that front.
@@spanishpeaches2930 im not talking about the current covid situation i was talking about in general, however i do t believe anyone is happy about the lockdown and trust me im deffo not happy about people not being able to recieve treatments desperately needed, but at the same time its a global situation and had we had done nothing wed still be lossing thousands of people a day that didnt need to die. Im a homecare worker so ive seen it all first had and still had to try and carry on as normal. Its not ideal for anyone
@@mummywilford Well your original posts states that we are a stubborn people who don't like being told what to do....well it appears we do like being told what to do. The govt have behaved atrociously and incompetently, but all I see is sheep complying. This has been no worse than a very bad flu season. Did we shut the country down when Hong Kong flu killed more? Oh, and where has flu dissappeared to this season? People die, it's a fact of life. It's sad...my uncle died from covid. This is a seasonal illness we have to manage, just like old school flu.
@@spanishpeaches2930 When it's for your own good, then just do as you're told..and btw your ignorance of a Pandemic being like Flu..is staggering!
It was only right that the Brits stood their ground in the context of Bamber Bridge riot. A foreign power demanding the local pubs who not to serve and how to serve another human is wrong in the first place 👌👌
The same thing happened in Bristol - it's referred to as The Battle of Park Street. I have also read about incidents in Portsmouth and elsewhere. Quite often US troops tried the same on Commonwealth troops and were shocked by the reaction from the British
Yeah, my dad was on leave from the army and got into fisticuffs with a white GI after buying a black soldier a pint.
There were similar incidents across the country. The only difference was in size. The American culture was very different, and had developed that way over hundreds of years.
@@wessexdruid5290 America has not existed long.
@@wessexdruid5290 the US was only about 170 years old when this happened; the pub it happened in at the time was 170 years older than that
@@catherinerobilliard7662 But the slaves had been there for centuries before that.
I think the seeds of the civil rights movement were sown in the minds of returning soldiers having experienced a new way of by treated
True..that...
On another reaction to this i did see a comment from a descendant of a black service man saying that their relative said it was their first good experience of a White person. Let's hope the world continues to learn from history.
Hope so!
Exactly my thoughts , glad you made the point
You are right about some musicians. I think even Hendrix was popular in England before the USA. Probably the greatest guitarist ever and not immediately recognised in his own country first.
Yes, that's right. Hendrix was discovered by a British manager - Chas Chandler of The Animals.
Hendrix first played in the US but failed to make it big. In 1966 he travelled to London, meeting his idol Eric Clapton, and soon became hugely popular in the UK, before achieving international fame. He settled in London and called it home.
Pretty much true for all the African American blues musicians. Even African Americans weren't listening to blues music. They had to come to Europe to be feted and treated like stars with respect and, more importantly for them personally, to be paid. Even younger artists on Stax and Motown labels were appreciated widely more in UK than in USA at least up to the mid-1960s. The Rolling Stones asked for Muddy Waters to start their show on, I think Ed Sullivan, and deliberately moved back to take the limelight off themselves.
The beatles did the right thing when touring america there refused to play in any venue that had segragation . Respect .
I loved your speech at the end, you seem very understanding and open minded.
I am white and from the UK, my great grandfather was a half black American GI and he was in a black segregated regiment in Mardon near Moretonhampstead.
He met my English / Cornish great grandmother who was married at the time and she got pregnant by him, soon he went off to Omaha beach and we never saw him again. In 1945 my grandmother was born, for 75 years my family have been searching for him and now I am the only one in my family that remains looking and still haven't found him. My grandmother did a DNA test and she is 23% African so the rumour of my great grandfather being of African descent was true but still no sign of him. It's sad because if my great grandfather survived the war he wouldn't of been able to return to the UK due to the Jim Crow laws in the UK and wouldn't be able to go outside of the US. He unfortunately may of never known he had an unknown daughter out there
Thank you for sharing your story. I hope some day you will find your family and is able to learn even more about you history. I hope you have a good week my friend.
@@MrGiant Thanks mate you too! Keep up the good work I'm really enjoying your content so far. I just finished watching several of your videos comparing American and British police and the history of the ottoman empire and also your geography now videos. You're pretty open minded I'll say again and I am glad to run into someone like that. We need more open minded people in the world
GamingWith Steve Have you tried finding the Regt. in UK?
@@davidhoward2487 I believe he may of been in the 392nd Engineer General Service Regiment as they were a segregated african American stationed near where my great grandmother lived but I can't find a list of the men who was in that regiment at the time
@@AidanC850 get in touch with some American military guys and ask them who to get in touch with? I'm sure they will have lists of names of every American that came here during the war.
The arrogance of Americans, more then than now admittedly, has always astounded me.
I know of someone that didn't go back...my neighbours father.
My neighbours father was a black GI who stayed in England during the war.
He was from Michigan and came to Britain for the war effort when he was 21. He loved England and its way of life so much that in 1944 he went AWOL from the American army while stationed in the UK.
He met a woman called Ada who was in her 50s and owned a bakery just outside of Shrewsbury. She and her family hid him for 3 years.
He applied for special status to remain and finally in 1956 he got his full UK citizenship.
He moved to Lewisham, met his wife and had 3 daughters, my neighbour being one of them.
I've seen family videos of him and he sounded like Del Boy 😂.
My neighbour, June, said she was so thankful he run away to stay here because she hates Americans 🤦♀️.
I'll be honest us Brits can be arseholes - however just on occasion we stand up for what is right. Simply put the soldiers were in Britain to fight the enemy it didn't matter what colour they were. And it is everyone's right to have a beer or two before going to risk their lives
Perfectly put
No other empire gets the grief the British Empire gets. All we did was create an Empire of Trade, we where rich, and every other country we went to their leaders wanted what we had. Our only problem was we where to good at it. Never forgot your history, especially if your working class, we've had 2000 years of being controlled by elites, our elites only took that misery to the rest of the world for 200 years. No matter what others cry, we're stronger than anyone could imagine.
Keep in mind that Britain was instrumental in ending the slave trade.
Where I grew up in 40s and 50s Britain, whenever people heard or read about racial conflict, the attitude of the people around me was clear. There is only one race - the human race. In my long experience the vast majority of Brits still think that way.
Back in 1984 I was an airman serving with XV bomber squadron at RAF Laarbruch in what was then West Germany. A USAF fighter squadron based in the UK came over to spend a week training with us. The first night they were there we threw a party to welcome them. A couple of my friends and I moved around the room chatting and drinking with our American guests and as we did so we got talking with a group of coloured guys. We spent about ten minutes joking and drinking with them before moving on to welcome others of their squadron. The next group we approached were about 4 or 5 white guys and as we did they glared angrily at us and one of them stepped forward and said "What the fuck do you think you're doing talking to those n***ers?!" Needless to say we moved straight on. To be fair we spoke to many other white people that night who didn't seem to have a problem. It shocked me not just because of the hatred and racism but the fact it was in a military unit. As anyone who has ever been in the military will tell you your life can depend on those around you in your unit and therefore you always look out for each other. It's often referred to as camaraderie.
I remember a similar incident happening in Birmingham, England. My father was helping organise dances in the city for US military personnel (he worked with friends who had a jazz group) and they were told to stop allowing Black GIs to attend the dances. He and the vicar in charge of the church hall were the dances refused and they won against the US military authorities.
Weve had our troubles in British history but we are a welcoming bunch and I'm so proud of our history
“Like me” seems to be intrinsic. My brother was setting up characters for a boxing game he was going to play with my niece and asked “What colour skin?” “Brown like me!” was her reply. She was about three years old. No racism involved, it was just a physical characteristic.
Last summer a young friend told me I was far too white and needed some sun. She has brown skin, curly hair and was six years old. There was no malice or hatred in what she was saying. I’ve cared for and about her since I first held her at 11 hours old.
Black, brown, golden or white, skin is skin. Ginger, black, brown or blonde, straight or curly, hair is just hair. We are all like each other in so many ways. The human race is a team event and we need each other if we are to win.
I was with you till the "Ginger".
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(If there's any left wing type Gingers out there who just crumbled to the ground in tears while screaming "Why Lord Whhhhhhhy"!?, grow up buttercup, I was joking.)
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@@gregw1973 I’ve a good friend whose excuse for doing anything really stupid is “I can’t help it, I’m ginger.” We decided her hair isn’t a more normal colour because the strange thoughts in her head have affected the roots.
I’ll be vilified for use of the term normal. 😁
@@darrenjones5885 😁
We all know theres nothing at all bad about em... but they're all we have left, apart from the Welsh and the sheep...
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(Joking... saw you're called Jones)
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@@gregw1973Well that is a kick in both balls as a Welsh person who has a ginger beard u hit two of my key features, I truly find this to be a double diss 💯😂(I don't truly actually I'm joking but anyway), back to the point
but what do u propose to do about meand others like me?, catch us and forcibly sheer alongside the sheep
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u sir are much worse than a left wing fascist ,ur a right wing stylist 😂💯
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I'm glad you realise Ginger is a skin colour. Sick of being regarded as white when it's quite obvious my skin is a pallid blue LOL
My father was in the RAF in WW2 and brought a fellow airman ,a Jamaican ,home on leave with him . My mother welcomed him with open arms .🇬🇧
I imagine many of the soldiers wondered why they were fighting for a country who didn't like them but then got to Great Britain and realised that was why they were fighting.
Lovely reaction.
Thank you.
Love your thoughts, so very true. I wish people would listen to each other more and not be scared of our differences. Embrace them and learn from each other. How amazing would our world be if we just recognised our similarities and embraced our differences. Much love from the Cotswolds, UK. xx
They had to make films to teach them how to behave.
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Greetings from Wales, UK. Love the videos man, thanks for checking this one out. Have a great day
I find it crazy that, despite living in the next town over from Bamber Bridge, I've never heard about this before. Makes me proud of my local people
I think the hob inn is still going strong. Had a beer there a few years back.
@@bengarstang3520 I think I've driven past it before. Never been in though
My son is a young British soilder, his friends and comrades are from all over the world and of every colour and religion and thats how it should be x
I'm proud to say i grew up in Bamber Bridge, it wasn't the only place in Britain that this happened ,white American soldiers got their arses kicked many times for the same thing, we stand together or we fall together
@Mr.Giant Respect on your post video talk. Rational, intelligent and honest. Respect once again from the UK 🇬🇧
I'm also very proud that my country (UK) welcomed the Afro-American soldiers. I saw a post somewhere saying :
"In US blacks are called Afro-American
In UK blacks are called British citizens"
When in Kenya where I lived for 3 years during their fight for independence, the very large population of Indians were given British passports.
British people welcomed soilders and men who came to help us no matter there colour or creed. They were heroes to comes thousands of miles to help fight evil. The pandemic workers who are from non UK countries have been seen as heroes like they are with the locals. I hope you have a wonderful day from John in Scotland.
I saw some training video's supplied to US troops at the start of WW2. They where educational in format, to teach them of the allies they would fight alongside and of the enemy. There was a video preparing US troops for being deployed on UK soil. Teaching them social differences etc, how to fit in. In one clip, it showed a British woman talking to two US soldiers, and extending them an invitation to join her at their families dinner. One of the soldiers being white and one being black. - The white soldier then turns to the camera and says: "No, what you saw here was not a dream... In England they believe in equality. That men of different colour should be treated equally. So scenes like this, may be common, and we ask you, whilst you serve on British soil, to respect the views of that nation, and to put aside your prejudice." - the video itself was shocking to see, but apparently these soldiers had not watched this video, or did not care for it's message.
It's here at 25mins 20 secs = th-cam.com/video/ltVtnCzg9xw/w-d-xo.html
@@BigAlCapwn ty for finding
It was called something skin to "know your ally", the main charachter/narrator is the guy who played Rockies trainer in the films (I think).
@@stephenelliott1135 Correct on both counts, it was Burgess Meredith, he also played the Penguin in the Batman telly series in the '60s.
There were quite a few British pubs that put signs up saying that American troops are welcome here but Black servicemen will be served FIRST.
You wet my eyes, friend! So much truth in what you said...
Hopefully the humankind will see one day we are all brothers and sisters no matter what...
btw i am a "white" guy from Germany who is tired to apologize for the doings of my grandparents. I know that was a sad time for so many people and many bad things happened but be no "ever look into the past" kind of guy. Let us learn out of the past and do the best we can out of it and do this together!
A lot of Brits just couldn't believe how badly the black troops were treated by their fellow countrymen. The UK is by no means perfect, but we're a long way behind the US in terms of racism. I gather that one of the problems at Bamber Bridge was that white GIs had to wait for black GIs to be served. All this just to cut a queue.
Us brits do love a queue, no matter who you are, get in line!
There’s a plaque to William Crossland and other Black GI’s in the Old Hob Inn and a couple of other pubs in Bamber Bridge. Hopefully the one at the Old Cob survived a recent fire, but if it didn’t, there’ll be a new one put in place for sure.
Let’s all do the human thing .
Many blessings from Southampton ,England
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Your video reminded me of something my gran told me when she was younger during WW2, tis just a short thing, but thought I'd share it with you.
My gran said the US troops had just come over, and so everyone could get to know each other they had a dance at one of the air fields.
She said one of the American soldiers (who was black) asked her to dance, and they had a dance, and after she was pulled aside by one of the American officers who said "Don't do that, we don't encourage that sort of behaviour in America"
So she replied with "You're not in America anymore" and went and had another dance.
I grew up in Bamber Bridge. The locals call themselves "Briggers". We Briggers keep this story alive and are still proud of what our grandparents and great-grandparents did for the black troops. The Hob Inn pub is still there today, still operating as a very nice pub and restaurant with a beautiful thatched roof. The "Battle of Bamber Bridge" is commemorated in a framed newspaper article on the wall.
I will have to put The Hob Inn pub on my bucket list.
Mate, I can completely relate to you and your views. If only everyone saw the world with the same humanitarian vision.
My father served in the RAF in the Second World War. When the US entered the war a lot of their troops were based at different bases around the UK, often sharing them with british troops. My dad experienced some of this and told me that our troops hated the ‘Yanks’. They had more money, better equipment even uniforms but what was worse was the continual fighting between black and white troops. The common complaint from our men was that if only the white Americans put as much effort into fighting Germans as they did their black colleagues the war would be over quicker. Our people were no saints but fighting a comrade of whatever colour or creed was definitely frowned on and fights in pubs where our men and the locals fought against the white Americans to protect the black guys was perhaps not an every day occurrence but it did happen. The number of rape of English women by white American soldiers is even today hushed up.
Hence the saying 'over-sexed, overpaid and over here' that was said at the time. At least it was said in Nottingham.
Love this video, what a great human. The incident in the English pub I never heard of but shows the people the everyday people don't care about colour on a face to face level, it is those control freaks in authority that do. I can't change the past as a white guy, all I can do is apologise for anything that happened towards other people of colour and nationality, I don't feel guilt for it because I wasn't involved and my family as far as I can trace were working class and not elites, my mother is very tanned and in the 70's she was racially insulted in a shop even though she is white. She got called a C--n and a half breed. I'm proud of my mum for giving this other woman a slap, and the whole shop clapped my mum. Thanks for your video dude.
Makes you realise why Ali refused to serve in Vietnam. Why should he fight and possibly die for a country that hated him? And he was the one called a traitor and un-American. It should be doubly embarrassing for Americans, considering that at the time the UK still had much of its empire, which gives the impression of ordinary Brits being as imperialistic, racist and overbearing as their American counterparts, or even moreso. And yet, it would seem they weren't.
U.S.A. - “you must enforce segregation”. Britain - “black troops only”. 😂 typical British response.
After WWI a black American soldier decided to stay in the UK. It transpired that had he returned to his town in America he would have been a casualty of a white uprising that ended up with many Black's murdered. As it was he went on to meet my grandmother's sister and had children. I am a lucky man in that I grew up with mixed raced relatives, blood relatives who I love.
Please just treat everyone as human beings...you will only find peace and harmony ❤
There are documented cases of black G.I's being pulled off buses with their kit bags on their way home from Europe. One man was attacked for requesting the use of the toilet. The driver reported him to police. He was beaten and blinded. Orson Welles the actor tried to highlight this terrible attack and the treatment of men fresh from the theatre of war. His films were banned in some states after. Some of these soldiers never reached home after setting foot back in the USA. RIP.
This was a profound reaction video, thanks brother! So many things I could quote and timestamp!
Glad you covered this. As you said, racism is everywhere and whilst heavily tilted, not confined to one direction. We all have a lot to do still.
The problem in the modern world is that America is exporting its own unique racism issues and history to the world.
The British have historical problems, but we also gave the world the path and muscle to start the path to liberation.
My great hero, Joe Strummer said: It's time to take humanity back into the centre of the ring, let's think about that for a while. People are what matters!
Similar thing with blues musicians from America. Basically ignored by most white Americans. These guys were musical geniuses, but they lived in poverty. However, in the UK they were loved and adored and treated with respect by Brits. And some of those Brits went on to form some bands you might have heard of... The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones.
I Live in a small town in Lancashire, England. My Grandad was a World War 2 soldier.He told be about this and I thought he was nuts.
US Army- You need to segregate.
UK - Okay
Next day - BLACK TROOPS ONLY
Classy middle finger.
Up the North😁🏴💪🏻🐎🥊🍻👑
It's literally the most British thing to do though isn't it 🤣
One of the wonderful things about being British - tell us to do something we don't agree with, we'll do it but in a way that you wont like.
@@dannycostello no it’s northern,nice try
4 of the returning troops got in touch with Martin Luther king, I think they sat on the freedom movement committee, they explained first hand about non-segregation, ex LI soldier England.
That was amazing..but also look what happened to Luther King!!
But at least it was a start, and as we all know there are casualties along the way, including you and I. 👍
Respect & Peace Brother....
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(From over the Pond)
I live in Yorkshire. In the UK. I follow. Leeds united football club. ..wat you call soccer. The 1st English club. To promote. The end of racism in football. ...us Yorkshire folk. Are the salt of the earth 👏👏👏👏
William Wilberforce---Yorkshire Lad.
Great video man! Sorry I'm late to the party. This video gave me mixed emotions, as a white British male, I'm certainly proud of this story, but at the same time it's sad that America's obsession over this issue found it's way to our shores and someone died because of it.
We don't have that over here, it's always alien to me when I see all the racism in the States, because it's very different here. We embrace other cultures and I feel more so than any other, black people have been welcomed the most to British soil. Sure, like you said, racism exists everywhere and it does here, but in the UK, it's the racism that's the minority, very much unlike the US.
One final thing, it always puts a smile on my face when I walk down the street and I hear the Jamaican accent. Because as long as I've been alive, it's been part of my country and culture here in England.
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Here is a real shock for you all, this the Bamber bridge incident was not a one off the British people repeatedly supported the Black American Soldiers against the USA forces, this included support with violence by the British people against the USA forces.
I remember watching the 2012 London olympics, an American reporter commented "there sure are a lot of African Americans in the UK".
i grew up in the 70s in hereford uk. my mum only listened to black music barry white, tamla motown etc she was way ahead of her time. (rip). i remember watching roots by alex haley on the tv and my mum said watch and learn kids. and she was right.
Great reaction and wise words at the end. We should all remember that we all have far more in common than we have that divides us. I never met a person that doesn't want a warm home, food on the table and for their kids to have better opportunities than they did. History is a text book for us to learn from and though we cannot change the story of the past we can shape the future based on the lessons of the past.
the awakening is invigorating
I'm English, and from Lancashire - the county that Bamber Bridge is in - we are all very proud of this , even if it was only a small gesture.
May I suggest you read the book "To Sir with Love" by E R Braithwaite and published in 1959 (made into a movie in 1967 with Sidney Poitier). He was from Guyana and became a school teacher in the East End of London after the Second World War (where he was a pilot in the RAF). He died in 2016 at the age of 104.
Yes Mark - a wonderful film and I bought the book years ago to get the full story; well worth reading.
There are some ignoramuses everywhere and if they insult you they show theirselves for what they are , which is lower than you . Thank you for your great outlook !
I caught your reaction on brittains crusade against slavery, so I had to check if you had done this one too... Great reaction to both..
I personaly like to hear some reflektions on issues that are important from those doing reaction videos... IF it is for entartainment then reflections might be a bit redundant..
Great work
I’m sorry I have to disagree, as much as I like the guy, I think “sadly” he totally missed the point in the British crusade against slavery video. He was simply too indoctrinated to grasp it, but he’s entitled to his opinion … although obviously he redeemed himself in this one 😂
Such a nice message you give upon your reflections. Great message to live up to.
great reaction Sir. thank you from Staffs UK
The "Blacks Only" signs they put up, that was a little bit of genius. 👏
Who did they think they were, coming here and telling us what to do.🤨
Sorry mate but "Americans" the most racist country on the planet. Not like you and me,,,... Let's make things different but without the woke shite that's currently going on?
You are. one hell of a nice heartwarming person. I am an English person, who went to a (somewhat privileged) prep school in Kenton the 1950s. One o my friends was a younger version of you, another was a boy who was from what was then called Persia - the boy from Africa had a father who was a Judge in his country, and visited the school during special occasions eg ‘speech day’, he wowed everyone in his ceremonial robes. Nobody ever thought or spoke about skin colour or segregation, we all treated each other as we found them, character was based on personality and how you got on with your friends. It makes me feel like crying when I hear about stories and events that you have described. I know now that all this hatred and animosity exists and it makes me sad.
I just wish that we could be like we were when I was young and obviously very naive. Please don’t be like those are hole and become bitter, we are just not all like that- at least where I live in the East Midlands, England.
Hi mr Giant. Every word that You said is on place. Love your videos and reactions. Simple said common sense! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely heartbreaking for the families of the soldier whom got killed . Just heartbreaking . To think he got killed when he was serving his country and not even through the war . Just total disregard and lack of love for fellow person's life . To us this is a history story but those families they had to mourn and live with that for what I imagine would of course be always . So much unnecessary heartache in the world and lives cut achingly short . My heart goes out to all the heartbroken families everywere suffering . 🙏❤️
They did it for the world, not just their shitty nation. Total respect for these warriors for freedom.
Your reaction and review really moved me…wow ❤️
Wow, coincidence I'm seeing this now. A little over a year ago I went to this pub with me dad and they had some pictures there in honour of the lads involved with this. I live in Lancashire and this pub is only 15 mins drive from me house, the landlord explained the story after me asking out of curiosity and it was quite an eye-opener
I am white, I am British. Sometimes when you listen to the woke generation you would think Britain is the most racist country in the world. We played a major part in slavery, but then led the way to abolish it, we are not perfect as a country, but by God, I believe this is a country that generally holds it's hands up ready to welcome, rather than making it a fist and a weapon. Stand up for what's right, stand proud and don't let this vile, disgusting woke crowd win. By the way Bombastic Nation, great channel, I've subscribed!!
"Integrate into the human race" - Very wise
We’re all brothers and sisters of the world, your reaction is a credit to you and the wonderful people who taught you your values. You’re a beautiful human! Much love 💚
Thank you. You have a great week coming up. Take care.
@@MrGiant you too
As well as this the americans had the heart to make fun of old british veterans joining the home guard to help where they could to defend the country
I used to work in a Care home (It's like a Retirement home in the US) and one of the Residents there told me a story where some American Soldiers were making a fuss in a local pub over Black Soldiers sitting and drinking among White people and Locals. Our Soldiers stood up for them and then the American Military Police came over and dragged away the Soldiers that started the fuss.
This is good I live Liverpool UK and we had a US base in Burtonwood which is a few steps up the railway line. Well we have a black area in Lliverpool called Toxteth All the black GIs had to do was get on the rail road line and pop into TOXTETH. The White Gis would not go there
Anyway there are places there as good as The Cavern. Where the Beatles played catering to the black guys there. The black performers sang and danced for the GIs. The Aneicans black guys had a great weekend
It got to the point where the black US guys brought their US 45 rpm discs to them to keep and learn off. . By the next time they got leave the singers had learned the US discs and did the songs for them. The guys thought the place was as good as Harlem
As the base was there until the end of the Cold War and as the Beatles sometimes played these clubs is it any wonder that the first couple of Beatles LPs had songs like Please Mr Postman, You Really Got a Hold on me. And Twist and Shout that none if us kids had ever heard of. Motown had yet to break big here. It'seens ike the white Gis really missed out. So no trouble for the black GI guys here!
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What a lovely, considered reaction. As I've said before, regarding this incident, part of the British attitude was that, along with a genuine regard and respect for their fellow servicemen, they already had the enemy trying to invade them, they really didn't need their own allies having a go as well!!
The great Paul Robeson spent many years in Britain when he was being persecuted by the American system.
I remember as a kid, my father having to go to America for 6 months. He came back shaken by much he encountered but mostly this: he was a friend of the great Satchmo (Louis Armstrong!) and one night, after dinner, suggested they go back to his hotel for a nightcap. It was a 5 star International hotel . (Even in South Africa, at the height of Apartheid, International Hotels didn't ban black Africans!) But they were told that Satchmo would have to go around the building and enter through the back Delivery entrance!! My father immediately went upstairs, packed up and checked out....and booked into Armstrong's hotel.
My father liked Paul Robeson
Sense spoken at last. Beautifully put sir. Blessings from Wales.😎🏴
Edwin Starr chose to live in England !
Great artiste too
WOW!! You have put into words, my thoughts. Lovely listening to your views. You are so right. Peace and Love.
I was born in a small house a stone's throw from this pub. We're still sticklers for proper morals.
I’m a few miles from Brig and never heard of this, I’m not surprised northerners didn’t take that crap back in the day 👍
My friend, we didn't have any slaves here, as William the Conqueror banned them in 1066! My grandad was an overseer in a Lancashire cotton mill, this was in the 1800's..And was the one that all the workers, mainly women, went on strike in support of the black American cotton pickers..I'm very proud of him...
Spot on mate, spot on! 🙂
There were also fights between Australians and Americans in Australia during WWII.
Oh wow, did not know that.