This is needed for them and other "cultures" to even approach any sort of parity... Underachievers on the world stage, in some cases in ancient times, but glaringly self-evident nowadays!
If they had been here that long, then as Brits they'd also share the alleged guilt of slavery. So should they be receiving reparations, or paying them?
He probably also takes issue with white folk wearing braids, seeing it as cultural appropriation. If so, then only half of his big head's Barnet should be braided.
"Black histories are a vital part of England’s story". They were only a tiny tiny fraction, like 0.01% of the population at most for 99.9% of the countries history. They are not vital at all.
@GaryGeezer-12s I disagree. Black histories are a vital part of England's story. It will explain to future generations how all the drug abuse, gang violence, and corruption of the English language came about. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Olusoga is a race grifter without parallel. His constant drum banging on about his particular hobby horse, rather than adding to his stature, merely illustrates his own insecurities.
I was born in 1947, lived in South Wimbledon, and did not see a single black person until I was 12, when we had one black girl in our class. Britain in the past was white, which is an actual fact.
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I was in a boy's comprehensive school from 1961 to 1967. The school had 1200 boys and only one was black. However, there were other schools in the same city that were almost exclusively foreign.
I was born in 1945.family in South Wimbledon. Lived in and went to school in Mitcham. Last year at school had one black in year he was a nightmare alway wanting to fight and lippy to teachers. I went to technical college no blacks there. Mitcham now has a very large black community.
I went to school in Manchester in the '80s - similar size ~1200 and 2x 'black' boys. To be fair we didn't use the term 'black' then as it was seen as divisve.
@@hardy21ishI lived in London Road Mitcham and moved to Kent in 1998. A lot of Nigerian’s moved in and SS Peter & Paul school and Church was inundated with them. My friend’s daughter was in Nursery class and was the only white child.
There were no Africans in Britain in olden days as there was no work for them. There was no BBC, no TV adverts, shows or films, no NHS, no security guards and no Premiership football. Diversity had not been invented.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebbWe use to call those coffee table books, filled with glossy pictures or fantastic tales to foster light social conversation. Surely I'm not the only person that recalls those times?
"What evidence exists for the idea that black people lived in Britain at the time of the Romans?" TBH, very little. Above all, as few black people (sub-Saharan Congoids) ever did live in Britain in Roman times, or in truth, at any other, before the beginning of later C20th mass migration from Britain's former Empire. Then the uncontrolled de facto open door ingress of virtually anyone from anywhere that began after 1997with the repugnant Blair governments and their sham-Tory successors
Plenty been lied about in history whenever it’s politically expedient! I have a book from the 1800s called Ur of the Chaldees by a lady called Anna Wilkes, in the insert it says, with the permission and consensus of her husband. It says many Brit’s at that time believed Troy was in the London area of Britain (Cambridge, near the Wash) and the Welsh at that time believed they were the sons of Gomer. Apparently, up until the late 20th century the British origin story and was taught in schools was many Brits descended from the Trojans (as far back as the time of Brutus.) I have copies of articles from several MSM notable papers claiming 72% of the British belong to the same DNA haplogroup as King Tut. 85% from Scotland and 92% from Anglesey, Wales. Plato, Timaeus: Ancient Greek - Athenian laws and public offices were closely related to civic institutions, the center of which was the Prytaneum. Magistrates were called prytaneis, and every executive post prytaneia. The Welsh name for Britain is Prytan or Pretan. The welsh language is so similar to Hebrew the same syntax can be used for both and it’s basically to talk like Yoda from Star Wars. In 1675 Charles Edwards published A number of Welsh Cambro-Brittanic Hebraisms in which he shows that whole phrases in Welsh can be closely paralleled by whole phrases in Hebrew. Apparently old Cornish is even closer to ancient Hebrew! One of the more common combinations of hieroglyphs is the 'sun and goose. The sun = Y Rha or Yr Haul, which phonetically gives Rha = power Goose is Gwydd which is another one of those Welsh words with wonderful dual meanings Gwydd also means "a state of recognition, or knowledge; presence". So taken as two words that form a sentence (and allowing for Welsh word order) we have - "knowledge of the power/God". The marvellous thing with this frequently seen combination is that the two words can also be combined to form one longer word that adds even more meaning - Phonetically Yr Rha - Gwydd = Yr arglwydd = The Lord! Yr Arglwydd is still the term used in Welsh Chapels to proclaim the Lord (Jesus.) Cymroglyphics by Wilson and Blackett. Reprinted by Ross Broadstock. Thucydides (5th Century Greek historian) wrote about the Taulentians, of the Illyrian race', who were living on the shores of the lonian Gulf, on the west coast of Greece. We know from classical mythology that a certain Galatea gave birth to three sons: Galas, Celtus and Illyrius, who founded the three major Celtic peoples: the Gauls, the Celts and the Illyrians, so that Professor Henri Hubert's hypothesis" that the ancient Greeks had been in contact with Celtic culture through the intermediation of the Illyrians is thus mentioned by two ancient sources.
in fairness, writing books like this, getting your mates in high places to write glowing reviews and making a mint is a good business plan. I don't understand 'English' Heritage and others who not only facilitate it but actively put down the truth which will ultimately lead to their own demise??
This is needed for them and other "cultures" to even approach any sort of parity... Underachievers on the world stage, in some cases in ancient times, but glaringly self-evident nowadays!
Also, never let the truth get in the way of a trillion dollar industry like the so-called green sustainability racket or the people trafficking racket.
I was talking to a recent graduate of 22 years of age the other day. She informed me that the ancient Celtic Britons were black. This was quite the revelation when I went to shave and saw my pale rather palid face. I said to her that, as an Englishman with a strong Welsh and Cornish ancestry too I'd imagine you will find the Britons were of my colouring... Of course she would not have this. I find it rather enlightening to be on an island of such young minds of great knowledge.
During the late 40's and up to the mid 60's I never saw a black person, until I joined the army and met some of those who were recruited from the West Indies.
Agree with you absolutely. I get depressed when I talk to my grandchildren because they have been brainwashed into believing this garbage with no counter view being available to them.
If you weren't aware in the National Curriculum for Year 1, 5 year old children, part of the history lessons are about famous and notable people. It lists who you would expect but it then has and/or regarding only 2 people. Mary Seacole and/or Florence Nightingale meaning a teacher could ignore the real nurse and only talk about that fake one. @@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb
I remember visiting Donegal in the 70’ and 80’s. I do not remember seeing any people who looked foreign anywhere. Letterkenny was the main town I remember, it was 100% white from my memory.
Any African here as a Roman soldier would have been a Berber from what is now Morocco or Libya. Not Subsaharan Africans. Typical Olusoga to try to bend the truth with careful use of language.
You only have to go on TH-cam and search for black monarchs of Europe. Septimus Severus always pops up despite the fact he was half Italian and half Punic. Hoodwinking is what Olusoga's form of history relies on.
@@ashwhite8610 why would a Roman legion be accompanied by slaves? Genuine qaustion! As I can't see the Roman army would go to the exspense of shipping let alone feeding lots of slaves and what would be their purpose? The Roman army had lots of auxiliary units recruited from their empire,, but they tended to use them close to their own provinces,, in a legion I would imagine only the legate and other senior commander's would be accompanied by their own personal slaves,,
I'm 53 (born 1971) and there were less than a dozen black kids in my senior school all told. I personally never shared a single class with any ethnic kids of any domination in my entire schooling full stop. I followed school with a year at college to top up my grades - same thing - the college only had around 20 or so which I hardly saw & never shared a class with - this was 1987/8 by now.....I've only ever worked with 2 black guys in my entire working life. When I hear Simon talking about these people and institutions writing books about all our history being dominated by blacks and other peoples I truly find it extremely difficult to swallow this fraud.......WHY though begs the question? Normalisation......?
I grew up in rural LIncolnshire. I never saw a black person in real life until a visit to London in 1991. It's a very good question. Immigration to the UK from Africa and Asia has only escalated over the past 30 years or so. Why they now want to go back and rewrite history to claim there were millions of black people here pre-1950 say...I think you hit the nail on the head, normalisation.
@@jimmycampbell78 IF 'They' get away with it ALL real history will be dissolved and the generations to come will know no difference. It's been going on like that anyway as we're finding out our true history more and more as time goes on.....Tartaria and all these amazing buildings we no longer know how to build, all these stunning sculptures and errrr 'other' forms of FREE energy.....I wonder which group likes altering history.....they like controlling EVERYTHING....especially the money supply 🤔mmmmmmm
There is a reference in "Hstoria Augusta" about the (African) Emperor Septimius Serverus being offended when seeing a real black Roman soilder who was stationed at Hadrians wall. There is also the "Updown" girls Skeleton found in England & dating from 600AD.Her DNA analysis proves that she somehow had Nigerian forbearers.
The biggest laugh I had the other week was Rudolph Walker being interviewed by Cat Deely and Ben Shepherd. Walker talked about how badly Windrush people were treated especially the nurses who came to work here. He said that 80% of nurses in the UK during those days were black. Really how I couldn't believe what I was hearing I had to rewind that section as I thought he had said 18%. I looked up the census info which didn't back up his statement. There were a handful of nurses here. There aren't 80% of black nurses here now so where the hell did he get that from.
It's like these people who say that black people "saved the NHS." 5000 trainee nurses arrived from Africa and the Caribbean to work in the NHS between 1956 - 1971. Out of a total of 250,000 NHS nurses in that period that is 2%. Are they really saying that 1 in 50 black nurses saved the NHS?? Compare that with the 13,000 nurses recruited from northern and southern Ireland over the same period. At one time one in every 12 nurses was Irish. Why is no-one saying that the Irish saved the NHS or at least acknowledging the Irish contribution?
Instead of bullshiting about how this country was fifty years ago he should've stuck to telling us why he kept calling his next door neighbour a ' white honky ' .
If it were possible to determine race by examining skulls, then it would follow that race is not a social construct. So in this sense Olosuga is arguing against current Leftist orthodoxy.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb Having a wingspan (fingertip to fingertip) that is equal to one's own height is found almost exclusively among White Europeans, while virtually all Sub-Saharan Africans have wingspans that exceed their own height. Is it a _"social construct"_ dictating the fact that I cannot have Sickle cell disease?
None because it didn't happen, DEI in history is a lie. 1948 and downhill since then, that's black history in Britain with the exception of very few examples.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebbRemember your demonstrably false claim that the biography which was the basis for the movie "12 Years a Slave" was written by the former slave himself, Si? It's up there with the video you made the other day that your 'stalker' has a mail order bride! Yet more claims you'll now slither away from. LOL
We all remember how Britain used to look, so did our parents Grandparents and Great grandparents as told experienced catalogued and photographed but unfortunately after my Son instills the truth into my infant Grandson this kind of story telling will eventually become fact and unless we can reach into the future to defend the truth it will be lost!
I was born in 1947 and grew up in Manchester. Everyone was white. We moved to London in 1964 and lived in Ealing. Everyone was white in our neighbourhood. There was a big Indian Hindu community in Southall. I first saw some black people in Shepherd's Bush, but the majority were white. I remember how surprised my grandmother was when she came to visit us and saw black people on the way into central London. She had never seen any black people in her entire life. She would then have been in her 70s.
This is needed for them to even approach any sort of parity... Underachievers on the world stage, in some cases in ancient times, but glaringly self-evident nowadays!
I was watching a couple of videos on utube just yesterday that showed many photos of people throughout London during the 1800's & early 1900's & not one black face was amongst them. Today it would be hard to find one white face amongst them.
I'm sure there was but we're not talking millions or even thousands, there might have been just a handful of individuals here and there. Given how mindsets, slavery, economics and such like worked in the ancient world 99% of people simply didn't travel beyond 20-30 miles from their homes. When I say slavery I mean people of all colours, creeds, ages and religions were bought and sold as slaves including white people. The only people who travelled widely across continents were traders on the "Silk Road", soldiers with conquering armies and where it was safe to do so pilgrims on religious visits to holy sites. This ridiculous idea that we had diversity and inclusivity 2000 years ago or further back, is just typical of the liberalist agenda trying to rewrite history.
Of course it is, you'd have to be insane to believe such nonsense. The idea that people of sub-Sahara Africa (who hadn't even invented the wheel) made their way up into Europe and became a significant population is just mental. There might have been a handful of slaves travelled with the Roman Armies but that would be it.
To think that until recently I thought that the majority of people in academia and so called high position in society spoke the truth and could be trusted but it makes me wonder nowadays. At least I now know what the term gaslighting means. Thank you for another thought for today Simon.
Simon, perhaps you could write a book entitled "Debunking Black History in Britain"? Otherwise, this stuff will acquire the patina of established fact.
Ha, funny you should mention that film. Its black director, Steve McQueen, was on ITV local news yesterday. He, as part of a promotional piece, was seen interviewing a Blitz survivor, an elderly white man. Funny, no mention of the fact that it is the Blitz as seen through the eyes of, yes, a black boy. Out of the thousands of white children, Britain being at that time almost entirely white, the idea that a black child should be representative of London in the early 1940s is an absolute joke. But, as I said, there is no mention of historical revisionism at work.
By speaking of "African" as a generic racial designation, it allows others to claim the heritage of Egyptians and Carthaginians as their own. It's like somebody from Laos claiming that something that happened in ancient Anatolia is "his" heritage, because both come from Asia.
I know several people from Barbados and after listening to some of their delusions I decided to check if their names matched plantation names in Barbados. And they do. There’s even marriage records for owners and inheritances, assuming the plantations weren’t actually owned by blacks then their names are derived to identify who owned them. Africans seem to be quite different and don’t have any resentment that ive seen, well no resentment for slavery. Of course I wouldn’t be so offensive as to suggest the origins of their names, but in a way blacks were part of British history for a long time, but mostly on plantations in the West Indies and not here in the motherland. I didn’t see one till I went to secondary school in 1975. Now that school is massively diverse, the whole demographic is massively changing
Look at as many of the earliest Victorian photographs as you can and apart from a very few people in port towns, you will never see a person of sub Saharan African ancestry.
That will be fake news. I bet in the future there will be a push to convince us all that photographic evidence has been manipulated to erase or change the coloured faces.
I am constantly baffled as to why 'black british history' is pushed. The evidence is so tenuous and yet vast tomes are thrust upon the unknowing. Keep up the good work Simon.
If black people were in the uk for that long,they would have had enough time to breed in larger numbers,which would have been visible in the general population. But nothing of the sort has been observed.
@@markshrimpton3138the claim is that it hasn’t shown up because of DNA drift, which would make sense if it is a tiny population. However, they claiming a large population which invalidates the claim of DNA drift. It is sucking & blowing at the same time. Anything to get the results they want
My grandmother waa born in July 1899. As a child l remember her telling me the first time she physically saw a black man was in Dudley, Worcestershire ( as it was then ) and this was an American soldier. That was in 1942.
There you go then, that seems like conclusive solid proof about the entire population of Britain for the last several hundred years. Your grandmothers anecdote.
The issue of reparations raises its head with this claim. If they were here during the Atlantic slave trade: 1) Why did they allow slavery given their claims of “empowerment” and prominence? 2) How are they not at least partially responsible, if all White people are held to such account (for slaves and actions which they and their ancestors never took part in)? They’ve lost me on this one unless there’s some fraud going on.
Whenever I am unfortunate enough to see the race grifter Olusoga I can't help but think he is trying, and failing, to hide a sly smirk and cheeky wink knowing that he can say whatever he pleases on the BBC with the clear understanding that absolutely nobody will fact check him, edit his script or in any way direct him away from spouting a never ending stream of factually incorrect racist bile.
What’s interesting is that Olusoga is mixed race. His mother was white. He was born in Lagos, Nigeria but came to this country with his mother when his Nigeria father left his family. It was his mother, a white woman, who brought him up.
I watched a slidwshow of Victorian England it was 14 mins long with a different picture and explanation about every 5 secs , remarkably, there wasn't one black person in any of them
Out of all of the current issues we’re dealing with around race and immigration, the rewriting and destruction of our history worries me the most. It genuinely breaks my heart because I know it’s part of a bigger movement to deny the English an ethnicity.
@@markshrimpton3138 Don't worry. Remember that unlike Whites, Blacks can racially appropriate to their hearts content. No doubt they can appropriate and falsify evidence, as they have already done, writing literature on the supposed advanced sub Saharan Societies that invented everything in the known Universe.
The bulk of the British population during the times of the Roman occupation were white, including Gauls and Germans. The few 'Africans' came from the Mediterranean coast of Africa; they were not Bantu nor any other ethnicity south of the Sahara Desert.
They always hide the fact that Romans called black people "Ethiopians" (and not "Africans" nor "Moors"), Ethiopian being a greek term meaning burned faces. "Ethiopians" were very uncommon in the Roman Empire, and the few who actually were present were usually from Nubia. The sight of an Ethiopian was so rare that an African Emperor - Septimius Severus - was in shock when he saw one black soldier at the Hadrian wall that he thought it was a bad omen. Whether or not the story is actually true or not, it shows that "blackness" of appearance was seen as very unusual and linked to negative ideas like death in Roman culture.
Whats also hidden is arabs refered to themselves as "black," back in ancient times anyone with brown hair n brown eyes could be called black, it was never n exclusive term for southern africans until the last 50 years, imo.
In the early 70's a black lad turned up at my school, all the kids gathered round him and started touching his hair because they'd never seen a black person in real life before... absolutely true.
@davidmclachlan. Have you ever paused to think how that boy may have felt about that experience? Did you ever wonder how you might have felt as a white boy going into an all black class and the other pupils gathered round and started touching you?
They are teaching this rubbish to my daughter at school, infact that historian is hailed as a great black briton during black history month, another thing that dosn't exist
I grew up in the 1960's in Welling, Kent which is actually in the London Borough of Bexley. I honestly did not see a black person until I started work in 1972 in a factory in Deptford/Bermondsey. I assure you its not racist it is just a statement of fact. There were no black children at any of my schools or anywhere on our council estate. When I did start working and socialising with black people at work it didn't seem strange as everyone just got on without a thought of any judgements. In fact we all laughed at the way the character of Alf Garnett was portrayed because it was so extreme and comical. I now find it bizarre that those of us who lived through those years are told how it was totally different to what we observed and experienced. The 21st Century is a very strange place at times I find.
The Roman Army used auxiliary troops consisting of non-Roman citizens as a supplement to their Legionary cohorts, often doing specialized jobs such as cavalry. After a disaster in the Teutoburg forest when German auxiliaries "went native" and sided with the local opposition, the Romans used auxiliaries in regions away from where they had been recruited. So some north Africans (almost certainly not sub Saharan Africans) may have served in Britain. But there's no reason to believe they would have stayed if they survived their twenty five years service and won Roman citizenship. They were there to do a job, and they were moved around frequently, depending on where trouble was brewing in the Empire.
Next you will be telling us that the windrush generation rebuilt Britain while the indigenous population sat around scratching their heads not knowing how to do it.
'Black Fantasy Month'.
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'Grift'
This is needed for them and other "cultures" to even approach any sort of parity...
Underachievers on the world stage, in some cases in ancient times, but glaringly self-evident nowadays!
Black Lies Matter
Black Li(v)es Matter.
If black folks really have been living in the UK for 2000 years, then they have had plenty of time to make something of themselves.
They’re all brilliant architects, don’t you know.
They simply can't. I live in S Africa and the evidence of this is everywhere.
@@jimsimpson1006You means as "train" archs.. 😢
they've lived in Africa for MILLIONS of years and done fuck all....
If they had been here that long, then as Brits they'd also share the alleged guilt of slavery.
So should they be receiving reparations, or paying them?
David Olusoga is a Liar, pure and simple .. i.e. Not mistaken. Not sloppy.. A LIAR.
It's not just a lie, it's a fabrication - which takes a lot more work than a mere lie.
And for a purpose.. on a par with operation mincemeat . His whole body of work. Evil.
He's a LIAR.
Does he ever mention his white half, he seems to go on a lot about his black half. People who are neither one nor the other often seem to do this
He probably also takes issue with white folk wearing braids, seeing it as cultural appropriation. If so, then only half of his big head's Barnet should be braided.
"Black histories are a vital part of England’s story". They were only a tiny tiny fraction, like 0.01% of the population at most for 99.9% of the countries history. They are not vital at all.
Don't think they were any fragment or percentage of the population at all until recent manufactured importation being facilitated.
They were hardly a relevant statistic before the 1980s.
@@sergpiesadly now they are mostly relevant in the wrong statistics 🤦♂️
@GaryGeezer-12s I disagree. Black histories are a vital part of England's story. It will explain to future generations how all the drug abuse, gang violence, and corruption of the English language came about. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Can we go back to them being 0.01%?
Lately, I spent time looking at hundreds of victorian photos, early 20th century, world war 1 and 2. Every person white. Strange that!
Black and white photos?
They will claim somebody reversed the negatives!
Everyone was wearing Whiteface!!
@@TJspaceman..Comment of the day!
I actually saw a black kid in a photo from the Victorian age, turns out it was just a Chimney Sweeper..
Where I live there were no black people 20 years ago , never mind 2000 years ago 😂
There certainly were a lot in Coventry and Birmingham even 60 years ago.
You were lucky !
When I started school in Netherton, Dudley, in 1970 we had 3 of em in our class
There were literally none at my midlands junior school in 1979.
There was hardly any here in Coventry in the 70s
I grew up in rural LIncolnshire. I never saw a black person in real life until a visit to London in 1991.
Olusoga is a race grifter without parallel. His constant drum banging on about his particular hobby horse, rather than adding to his stature, merely illustrates his own insecurities.
Well said.
He is half white
Still a major race grifter .
I think he secretly hates the fact that he looks more white than black even with those stupid dreadlocks.
Wakanda, man!
Proud to be White. So are My Children. 🇬🇧👍
I was born in 1947, lived in South Wimbledon, and did not see a single black person until I was 12, when we had one black girl in our class. Britain in the past was white, which is an actual fact.
I was in a boy's comprehensive school from 1961 to 1967. The school had 1200 boys and only one was black. However, there were other schools in the same city that were almost exclusively foreign.
I was born in 1945.family in South Wimbledon. Lived in and went to school in Mitcham. Last year at school had one black in year he was a nightmare alway wanting to fight and lippy to teachers. I went to technical college no blacks there. Mitcham now has a very large black community.
I went to school in Manchester in the '80s - similar size ~1200 and 2x 'black' boys. To be fair we didn't use the term 'black' then as it was seen as divisve.
I lived in Putney during 1960s and the same ,
@@hardy21ishI lived in London Road Mitcham and moved to Kent in 1998. A lot of Nigerian’s moved in and SS Peter & Paul school and Church was inundated with them. My friend’s daughter was in Nursery class and was the only white child.
Without lies black Brittish history would die.
When history was being written, they were busy che wing the covers off books.
It's debatable recent history only!
You’ve just earned a “Super true !” 👍
Bullseye 🎯
They even claim they built the pyramids instead of the egyptians.
There were no Africans in Britain in olden days as there was no work for them. There was no BBC, no TV adverts, shows or films, no NHS, no security guards and no Premiership football. Diversity had not been invented.
If there were so many of them, how come you don't see many of them in pictures from the two world wars.
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They all went home for Christmas and didn’t come back until after the war
No KFC or JD sports
Then came sugar cane and cotton....plenty of work opportunities.
The fact that anyone would spend money on such crap is beyond me!
It's a bestseller!
Frightening!
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebbWe use to call those coffee table books, filled with glossy pictures or fantastic tales to foster light social conversation. Surely I'm not the only person that recalls those times?
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb So was that other work of fiction called Roots and yes, I fell for it too.
It all goes to show, there's a fool born everyday.
Thanks for reading the book Simon so that we don't have to!
It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it!
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebbDoes he say the Samurai were black too?
But the children are reading it and being taught it.
@tonyclough9844 Yes. 75,000 copies put in schools. Making it an Amazon bestseller.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb😅
I never saw a black person during my childhood in England, never mind Roman times
you must be the worlds oldest man.
It's all hog Wash black washing yet again
In short, Olusaga's book is a work of fiction, not history.
Pseudo-history. As a work if fiction, it is not entertaining enough.
His story.
Evil fiction.
Agreed, but probably more fantasy than just fiction.
Correct, exact same with that other work of fiction Roots.
"What evidence exists for the idea that black people lived in Britain at the time of the Romans?" TBH, very little. Above all, as few black people (sub-Saharan Congoids) ever did live in Britain in Roman times, or in truth, at any other, before the beginning of later C20th mass migration from Britain's former Empire. Then the uncontrolled de facto open door ingress of virtually anyone from anywhere that began after 1997with the repugnant Blair governments and their sham-Tory successors
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It should be illegal to lie about and change history
Not when the person who makes the rules is the one lying about them.
Simon favourite bunch are good at it too.
@@Occident.6 Million lost and found😂
What was taught about Africa has been rewritten, but you cant hide the truth or the Sun , from an unbiased Qualified Historian!
Plenty been lied about in history whenever it’s politically expedient! I have a book from the 1800s called Ur of the Chaldees by a lady called Anna Wilkes, in the insert it says, with the permission and consensus of her husband. It says many Brit’s at that time believed Troy was in the London area of Britain (Cambridge, near the Wash) and the Welsh at that time believed they were the sons of Gomer. Apparently, up until the late 20th century the British origin story and was taught in schools was many Brits descended from the Trojans (as far back as the time of Brutus.) I have copies of articles from several MSM notable papers claiming 72% of the British belong to the same DNA haplogroup as King Tut. 85% from Scotland and 92% from Anglesey, Wales.
Plato, Timaeus: Ancient Greek - Athenian laws and public offices were closely related to civic institutions, the center of which was the Prytaneum. Magistrates were called prytaneis, and every executive post prytaneia. The Welsh name for Britain is Prytan or Pretan. The welsh language is so similar to Hebrew the same syntax can be used for both and it’s basically to talk like Yoda from Star Wars. In 1675 Charles Edwards published A number of Welsh Cambro-Brittanic Hebraisms in which he shows that whole phrases in Welsh can be closely paralleled by whole phrases in Hebrew. Apparently old Cornish is even closer to ancient Hebrew!
One of the more common combinations of hieroglyphs is the 'sun and goose.
The sun = Y Rha or Yr Haul, which phonetically gives Rha = power
Goose is Gwydd which is another one of those Welsh words with wonderful dual meanings Gwydd also means "a state of recognition, or knowledge; presence".
So taken as two words that form a sentence (and allowing for Welsh word order) we have - "knowledge of the power/God".
The marvellous thing with this frequently seen combination is that the two words can also be combined to form one longer word that adds even more meaning - Phonetically Yr Rha - Gwydd = Yr arglwydd = The Lord!
Yr Arglwydd is still the term used in Welsh Chapels to proclaim the Lord (Jesus.)
Cymroglyphics by Wilson and Blackett. Reprinted by Ross Broadstock.
Thucydides (5th Century Greek historian) wrote about the Taulentians, of the Illyrian race', who were living on the shores of the lonian Gulf, on the west coast of Greece. We know from classical mythology that a certain Galatea gave birth to three sons: Galas, Celtus and Illyrius, who founded the three major Celtic peoples: the Gauls, the Celts and the Illyrians, so that Professor Henri Hubert's hypothesis" that the ancient Greeks had been in contact with Celtic culture through the intermediation of the Illyrians is thus mentioned by two ancient
sources.
There are still plenty of people who remember exactly what Britain used to be like. Won't be forever, though.
Their envy is staggering.
in fairness, writing books like this, getting your mates in high places to write glowing reviews and making a mint is a good business plan. I don't understand 'English' Heritage and others who not only facilitate it but actively put down the truth which will ultimately lead to their own demise??
Instead of envying us, they could always try achieving a few things by sheer hard work.
This is needed for them and other "cultures" to even approach any sort of parity...
Underachievers on the world stage, in some cases in ancient times, but glaringly self-evident nowadays!
All those lacking all capacity for achievement beyond breeding, tend to hate those with capacity to achieve in life!
Understandable though!
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Also, never let the truth get in the way of a trillion dollar industry like the so-called green sustainability racket or the people trafficking racket.
A good story? I think not.
Or a bank balance.
Also, never let the truth get in the way of a trillion dollar industry such as human trafficking.
So true
Olusoga is well known as a race grifter. If it wasn't for the BBC and other media, people would ask, "who's he?"
He should thank his lucky stars that his wife's employed by the BBC, so she's undoubtedly pulled some strings for him.
I was talking to a recent graduate of 22 years of age the other day. She informed me that the ancient Celtic Britons were black. This was quite the revelation when I went to shave and saw my pale rather palid face. I said to her that, as an Englishman with a strong Welsh and Cornish ancestry too I'd imagine you will find the Britons were of my colouring... Of course she would not have this. I find it rather enlightening to be on an island of such young minds of great knowledge.
That was a success from a Marxist lecturer
You should ask her why do WHGs only have a genetic affinity with modern day Europeans and no connection to black Africans?
Some of those Bell Beaker people who migrated around 2000 BC looked a bit Eurasian, they found one and reconstructed her face.
@@FestonTrenchfoot You should as her why WHGs only have ancestry with modern Europeans.
Just ask her where all this black is in our DNA.
Could keep this one simple - no evidence whatsoever.
During the late 40's and up to the mid 60's I never saw a black person, until I joined the army and met some of those who were recruited from the West Indies.
A selection of material from Simon Webb should be required as core resources for all schools during black history month.
That is a kind thought. Thank you.
Agree with you absolutely. I get depressed when I talk to my grandchildren because they have been brainwashed into believing this garbage with no counter view being available to them.
It would be great just to present different views for discussion, critical thinking is a vital life skill but dear old DO doesn't want that.
@@Charonupthekuiper
Indeed.
If you weren't aware in the National Curriculum for Year 1, 5 year old children, part of the history lessons are about famous and notable people. It lists who you would expect but it then has and/or regarding only 2 people. Mary Seacole and/or Florence Nightingale meaning a teacher could ignore the real nurse and only talk about that fake one. @@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb
There are whispers here in Ireland suggesting that Africans were the original inhabitants of this country, too.
The Leprechauns were actually Pygmy's, I have heard this from a black Man
th-cam.com/video/8JyWE4zVhJU/w-d-xo.html
@@musthaveacamel2157 😂
I remember visiting Donegal in the 70’ and 80’s. I do not remember seeing any people who looked foreign anywhere. Letterkenny was the main town I remember, it was 100% white from my memory.
@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool The only place the Irish seen a black man until the recently was on TV chasing Tarzan
I think English Heritage should change its name to African Heritage as it’s obviously embarrassed with England and its history!
And BBC to ABC
The only black people you see at English Heritage sites are on the booklets and posters.
Leftist propaganda
Be careful getting history lessons from people who say men can get pregnant.
His whole body of literature is to provide himself with an identity & place of meaning.
He is dual-heritage and therefore conflicted about this. His writing is a form of therapy.
* body of ILLITERATURE * 🙂
@yiguanas812 😁
It's his way of attacking and undermining a group he appears to have an intense dislike for.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebbTommy Robinson 'is dual heritage'.
He's conflicted too, right?
LOL
Any African here as a Roman soldier would have been a Berber from what is now Morocco or Libya.
Not Subsaharan Africans.
Typical Olusoga to try to bend the truth with careful use of language.
more likely slaves. Each legion had a massive slave contingent and yes some would be black.
You only have to go on TH-cam and search for black monarchs of Europe. Septimus Severus always pops up despite the fact he was half Italian and half Punic. Hoodwinking is what Olusoga's form of history relies on.
@@idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533He was White.
@@ashwhite8610How did Italy get hold of black slaves?
Did they sail to Lagos or send camel trains thousands of miles across the Sahara?
@@ashwhite8610 why would a Roman legion be accompanied by slaves? Genuine qaustion! As I can't see the Roman army would go to the exspense of shipping let alone feeding lots of slaves and what would be their purpose? The Roman army had lots of auxiliary units recruited from their empire,, but they tended to use them close to their own provinces,, in a legion I would imagine only the legate and other senior commander's would be accompanied by their own personal slaves,,
I'm 53 (born 1971) and there were less than a dozen black kids in my senior school all told. I personally never shared a single class with any ethnic kids of any domination in my entire schooling full stop. I followed school with a year at college to top up my grades - same thing - the college only had around 20 or so which I hardly saw & never shared a class with - this was 1987/8 by now.....I've only ever worked with 2 black guys in my entire working life.
When I hear Simon talking about these people and institutions writing books about all our history being dominated by blacks and other peoples I truly find it extremely difficult to swallow this fraud.......WHY though begs the question?
Normalisation......?
I grew up in rural LIncolnshire. I never saw a black person in real life until a visit to London in 1991. It's a very good question. Immigration to the UK from Africa and Asia has only escalated over the past 30 years or so. Why they now want to go back and rewrite history to claim there were millions of black people here pre-1950 say...I think you hit the nail on the head, normalisation.
Europa the last battle explains a lot.
@@jimmycampbell78replacement.
👆 beat me to it
@@jimmycampbell78 IF 'They' get away with it ALL real history will be dissolved and the generations to come will know no difference. It's been going on like that anyway as we're finding out our true history more and more as time goes on.....Tartaria and all these amazing buildings we no longer know how to build, all these stunning sculptures and errrr 'other' forms of FREE energy.....I wonder which group likes altering history.....they like controlling EVERYTHING....especially the money supply 🤔mmmmmmm
When they dig up a trainer and gold chain I’m in.
Fried chicken bones?
Watermelon rinds? A preserved can of grape soda?
Remains of a spliff?
Gold tooth.
You forgot the gold tooth.
Britain grew up white. Nothing wrong with that claim.
All memories I hold for the past 6 decades are that Britain was completely pale until they opened their borders recently and a darker tide swept in.
@@M-S_4321
That sounds like a good title for a book: The Dark Tide.
If you need to talk about that then you have already lost the battle ..........do you know how brainwash works?
@@M-S_4321 Not quite, there were large numbers of Indians and West Indians in Coventry and Birmingham in the 1960s.
If Black people are British, then are responsible for the slave trade.
Other than the odd sailor staying in a port town for a few nights there were essentially zero sub-Saharan Africans in the UK until Windrush.
Apart from all the documented evidence of it being otherwise, you are correct.
I'm guessing absolutely none
You guess correctly!
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb how would you know?
@@GreggFellowsbecause it's obvious to everyone who doesn't lie.
There is a reference in "Hstoria Augusta" about the (African) Emperor Septimius Serverus being offended when seeing a real black Roman soilder who was stationed at Hadrians wall. There is also the "Updown" girls Skeleton found in England & dating from 600AD.Her DNA analysis proves that she somehow had Nigerian forbearers.
@@GreggFellows He read it, did you ? Grt back to your sausage rolls...
The biggest laugh I had the other week was Rudolph Walker being interviewed by Cat Deely and Ben Shepherd. Walker talked about how badly Windrush people were treated especially the nurses who came to work here. He said that 80% of nurses in the UK during those days were black. Really how I couldn't believe what I was hearing I had to rewind that section as I thought he had said 18%. I looked up the census info which didn't back up his statement. There were a handful of nurses here. There aren't 80% of black nurses here now so where the hell did he get that from.
It's like these people who say that black people "saved the NHS."
5000 trainee nurses arrived from Africa and the Caribbean to work in the NHS between 1956 - 1971.
Out of a total of 250,000 NHS nurses in that period that is 2%.
Are they really saying that 1 in 50 black nurses saved the NHS??
Compare that with the 13,000 nurses recruited from northern and southern Ireland over the same period.
At one time one in every 12 nurses was Irish.
Why is no-one saying that the Irish saved the NHS or at least acknowledging the Irish contribution?
The largest group of nurses from the EU are Irish @@johno4521
@@johno4521 Probably because the English don't yet harbour the same guilt about anti-Irish racism.
Instead of bullshiting about how this country was fifty years ago he should've stuck to telling us why he kept calling his next door neighbour a ' white honky ' .
Let me guess. Nobody stepped in to challenge Rudolph about his assertion and accepted it as gospel?
If it were possible to determine race by examining skulls, then it would follow that race is not a social construct. So in this sense Olosuga is arguing against current Leftist orthodoxy.
Yes, I shall be talking a little about that, later today.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb Having a wingspan (fingertip to fingertip) that is equal to one's own height is found almost exclusively among White Europeans, while virtually all Sub-Saharan Africans have wingspans that exceed their own height.
Is it a _"social construct"_ dictating the fact that I cannot have Sickle cell disease?
Make Phrenology great again.
It is an excellent wheeze to promote an account of the past that you know no one dares poo poo for fear of the dreaded race card.
None because it didn't happen, DEI in history is a lie. 1948 and downhill since then, that's black history in Britain with the exception of very few examples.
One of the two best channels on all of TH-cam. Bless you, Simon
Thank you for your good thoughts.
Angry bootneck
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebbRemember your demonstrably false claim that the biography which was the basis for the movie "12 Years a Slave" was written by the former slave himself, Si?
It's up there with the video you made the other day that your 'stalker' has a mail order bride!
Yet more claims you'll now slither away from.
LOL
@@stevenharvey1447 RICHARD THE FORTH channel is excellent.
@stevenharvey1447 Richard the Fourth channel.
We all remember how Britain used to look, so did our parents Grandparents and Great grandparents as told experienced catalogued and photographed but unfortunately after my Son instills the truth into my infant Grandson this kind of story telling will eventually become fact and unless we can reach into the future to defend the truth it will be lost!
The modern tendency to describe any person who isn't caucasian or east asian as 'black' is textbook sophistry.
I was born in 1947 and grew up in Manchester. Everyone was white. We moved to London in 1964 and lived in Ealing. Everyone was white in our neighbourhood. There was a big Indian Hindu community in Southall. I first saw some black people in Shepherd's Bush, but the majority were white. I remember how surprised my grandmother was when she came to visit us and saw black people on the way into central London. She had never seen any black people in her entire life. She would then have been in her 70s.
@@raymondbonington9355 Shepherd's Bush.
so the birth and death records of Manchester are falsified? The census reports also?
Like most works of 'black history' it's a work of pure fiction.
This is needed for them to even approach any sort of parity...
Underachievers on the world stage, in some cases in ancient times, but glaringly self-evident nowadays!
Why do leftists make such a hoo-ha about black people coming to England aboard the Empire Windrush, if there were so many black people already here?
Spot on!
Precisely. The Windrush mob would simply have been swallowed up by all those other wonderful black people already here.
A top up.
Being a leftist means you can hold two conflicting thoughts and believe them both to be true. I think that's in Orwell's' Nineteen Eighty Four book..
I was watching a couple of videos on utube just yesterday that showed many photos of people throughout London during the 1800's & early 1900's & not one black face was amongst them. Today it would be hard to find one white face amongst them.
Chimney Sweeps would be the only black faces to be seen on a daily basis.
I'm sure there was but we're not talking millions or even thousands, there might have been just a handful of individuals here and there. Given how mindsets, slavery, economics and such like worked in the ancient world 99% of people simply didn't travel beyond 20-30 miles from their homes. When I say slavery I mean people of all colours, creeds, ages and religions were bought and sold as slaves including white people.
The only people who travelled widely across continents were traders on the "Silk Road", soldiers with conquering armies and where it was safe to do so pilgrims on religious visits to holy sites. This ridiculous idea that we had diversity and inclusivity 2000 years ago or further back, is just typical of the liberalist agenda trying to rewrite history.
Of course it is, you'd have to be insane to believe such nonsense. The idea that people of sub-Sahara Africa (who hadn't even invented the wheel) made their way up into Europe and became a significant population is just mental. There might have been a handful of slaves travelled with the Roman Armies but that would be it.
What puzzles me is; why are they so determined to "prove" that they were always here? What do they hope to get from it?
Political and demographic power by these 'fake' historical pieces to claim this land as their own.
Their dominance perhaps?
stuff, for free
Takeover.
FOOT IN THE DOOR....
To think that until recently I thought that the majority of people in academia and so called high position in society spoke the truth and could be trusted but it makes me wonder nowadays. At least I now know what the term gaslighting means. Thank you for another thought for today Simon.
File under fiction
Simon, perhaps you could write a book entitled "Debunking Black History in Britain"? Otherwise, this stuff will acquire the patina of established fact.
Thank you, Simon, for refuting what seem to be unsubstantiated claims. The so-called evidence would seem to have conjured up out of thin air.
Can anyone name a successful black country?
The west midlands!
Montenegro
Wakanda ?
I can't think of one. Can't think of any former colonial countries that didn't turn to sht as soon as they got independence either
Yes, the roman empire!, ha harrrr I win!
The new Steve McQueen movie needs addressing Simon, another example of doctoring history (inserting black people in England when there were none)
I searched for a new film, Blitz, set in WWII. After looking at the cast, I won't bother watching it.
There was 1 black ARP warden in the whole country.
Ha, funny you should mention that film. Its black director, Steve McQueen, was on ITV local news yesterday. He, as part of a promotional piece, was seen interviewing a Blitz survivor, an elderly white man. Funny, no mention of the fact that it is the Blitz as seen through the eyes of, yes, a black boy. Out of the thousands of white children, Britain being at that time almost entirely white, the idea that a black child should be representative of London in the early 1940s is an absolute joke. But, as I said, there is no mention of historical revisionism at work.
By speaking of "African" as a generic racial designation, it allows others to claim the heritage of Egyptians and Carthaginians as their own.
It's like somebody from Laos claiming that something that happened in ancient Anatolia is "his" heritage, because both come from Asia.
I know several people from Barbados and after listening to some of their delusions I decided to check if their names matched plantation names in Barbados. And they do. There’s even marriage records for owners and inheritances, assuming the plantations weren’t actually owned by blacks then their names are derived to identify who owned them. Africans seem to be quite different and don’t have any resentment that ive seen, well no resentment for slavery. Of course I wouldn’t be so offensive as to suggest the origins of their names, but in a way blacks were part of British history for a long time, but mostly on plantations in the West Indies and not here in the motherland. I didn’t see one till I went to secondary school in 1975. Now that school is massively diverse, the whole demographic is massively changing
Look at as many of the earliest Victorian photographs as you can and apart from a very few people in port towns, you will never see a person of sub Saharan African ancestry.
That will be fake news. I bet in the future there will be a push to convince us all that photographic evidence has been manipulated to erase or change the coloured faces.
Shhhhh, David is actually giving us a reason to claim reparations from Africa
I am constantly baffled as to why 'black british history' is pushed. The evidence is so tenuous and yet vast tomes are thrust upon the unknowing. Keep up the good work Simon.
Good morning to the very best history teacher in Britain, Simon Webb
Good evening.
😁👍
If black people were in the uk for that long,they would have had enough time to breed in larger numbers,which would have been visible in the general population.
But nothing of the sort has been observed.
And it would show up in DNA tests.
@@markshrimpton3138the claim is that it hasn’t shown up because of DNA drift, which would make sense if it is a tiny population. However, they claiming a large population which invalidates the claim of DNA drift. It is sucking & blowing at the same time. Anything to get the results they want
@@canuck3169 indeed.
Because black people would only ever have sex with other black people..... ok, got it, a very thought through point. well done.
Apart from the crime statistics now they do stand out above whites 😂😂😂
The Windrush should have been treated like the Belgrano.
Here, here.
Or rerouted to Madagascar; a fate a certain other tribe should’ve endured.
A bit Harsh🤣🤣
Or lusitania
Or the bismark
Continue calling out their lies, Simon.
My grandmother waa born in July 1899. As a child l remember her telling me the first time she physically saw a black man was in Dudley, Worcestershire ( as it was then ) and this was an American soldier. That was in 1942.
There you go then, that seems like conclusive solid proof about the entire population of Britain for the last several hundred years. Your grandmothers anecdote.
amazing how easy it is to forget somthing that never happened
Olusoga.. beloved of BBC.
The issue of reparations raises its head with this claim.
If they were here during the Atlantic slave trade:
1) Why did they allow slavery given their claims of “empowerment” and prominence?
2) How are they not at least partially responsible, if all White people are held to such account (for slaves and actions which they and their ancestors never took part in)?
They’ve lost me on this one unless there’s some fraud going on.
I am an Archaeologist and can confirm there have never been any Gorilla skulls found in Roman digs and excavations.
"Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” Dr Joseph Goebbels.
Goebbells was describing how a certain Demograthic operate. He was not advocating for it! Another lie from history.
Goebbels should know...being an expert.
@@user-xd9yo3le7o He was a mere novice compared to the frauds we see and hear today.
@@user-xd9yo3le7ohe never lied.
The BBC keep featuring him ..... I wonder why that might be.
His wife's a BBC employee. If only she'd done something useful with her life.
I grew up in rural LIncolnshire. I never saw a black person in real life until a visit to London in 1991.
Deep joy
and? this is somehow connected to the idea that no black people lived in Britain?
Olusoga's claims smack of desperation!
no they stem from a well planned and orchestrated attack on the white christian european race.
He’s half white and obviously has a huge chip on his shoulder.
Whenever I am unfortunate enough to see the race grifter Olusoga I can't help but think he is trying, and failing, to hide a sly smirk and cheeky wink knowing that he can say whatever he pleases on the BBC with the clear understanding that absolutely nobody will fact check him, edit his script or in any way direct him away from spouting a never ending stream of factually incorrect racist bile.
What’s interesting is that Olusoga is mixed race. His mother was white. He was born in Lagos, Nigeria but came to this country with his mother when his Nigeria father left his family. It was his mother, a white woman, who brought him up.
I watched a slidwshow of Victorian England it was 14 mins long with a different picture and explanation about every 5 secs , remarkably, there wasn't one black person in any of them
Thanks for your good work, Simon.
You really are very welcome!
The blacks are like mistletoe if they don't have trees to grow on they will die.
One simply never knows what is going to happen yesterday.
Simon, at 02:33, you said, "The _ideas_ contained in it." Surely you meant to say, "The _lies_ contained in it."
Funny there are no revisionist history books about Indian and Asian people living in Britain at the time of the Romans
India didn't exist in roman times. It was Bharat.the English named it India when they colonised it
Probably because the Roman empire didn't extend into India or asia.
Out of all of the current issues we’re dealing with around race and immigration, the rewriting and destruction of our history worries me the most. It genuinely breaks my heart because I know it’s part of a bigger movement to deny the English an ethnicity.
Why people need to steal someone else’s history is beyond me
Black people do have at least one great talent. That of composing Tales of Fiction.
Which is strange considering that sub Saharan Africans had no means of writing. Until they interacted with Europeans they were totally illiterate.
@@markshrimpton3138 Don't worry. Remember that unlike Whites, Blacks can racially appropriate to their hearts content. No doubt they can appropriate and falsify evidence, as they have already done, writing literature on the supposed advanced sub Saharan Societies that invented everything in the known Universe.
Excellent as always Simon 💕
Thank you!
@ you are welcome x
These blacks keep digging up the same old skeletons, talk about RIP !
At least Burke and Hare only dug up a body once.
The bulk of the British population during the times of the Roman occupation were white, including Gauls and Germans. The few 'Africans' came from the Mediterranean coast of Africa; they were not Bantu nor any other ethnicity south of the Sahara Desert.
They always hide the fact that Romans called black people "Ethiopians" (and not "Africans" nor "Moors"), Ethiopian being a greek term meaning burned faces. "Ethiopians" were very uncommon in the Roman Empire, and the few who actually were present were usually from Nubia. The sight of an Ethiopian was so rare that an African Emperor - Septimius Severus - was in shock when he saw one black soldier at the Hadrian wall that he thought it was a bad omen. Whether or not the story is actually true or not, it shows that "blackness" of appearance was seen as very unusual and linked to negative ideas like death in Roman culture.
Whats also hidden is arabs refered to themselves as "black," back in ancient times anyone with brown hair n brown eyes could be called black, it was never n exclusive term for southern africans until the last 50 years, imo.
In the early 70's a black lad turned up at my school, all the kids gathered round him and started touching his hair because they'd never seen a black person in real life before... absolutely true.
@davidmclachlan. Have you ever paused to think how that boy may have felt about that experience? Did you ever wonder how you might have felt as a white boy going into an all black class and the other pupils gathered round and started touching you?
@simonmilligan7497....he loved it 😂, the centre of attention made him a celebrity!!
Sorry to disappoint you. 😅
@@simonmilligan7497 Bet there was a lot of hand washing afterwards...
I fostered a little black baby every time I took her out in the pram people would stop and ask me if they could touch her hair
@@GeorgeConnor-h6m I guess he revived a culture of cleanliness.
'They were everywhere'
'They were such a novelty they were in human zoos'
Which is it?
If you dont have any history make it up
Oh! for crying out loud, Lack of history month is over.
They are teaching this rubbish to my daughter at school, infact that historian is hailed as a great black briton during black history month, another thing that dosn't exist
In fact, not "infact".
@@englishciderlover7347English cider lover
Born in 1954, for a long time the only black men we ever saw were the coal man and the chimney sweep.
Im 66 ,started nursery 1963 left school 1975 ,never ever had a black or Asian in my school or class ..Thanks Simon ,always very informative .❤
I grew up in the 1960's in Welling, Kent which is actually in the London Borough of Bexley. I honestly did not see a black person until I started work in 1972 in a factory in Deptford/Bermondsey. I assure you its not racist it is just a statement of fact. There were no black children at any of my schools or anywhere on our council estate. When I did start working and socialising with black people at work it didn't seem strange as everyone just got on without a thought of any judgements. In fact we all laughed at the way the character of Alf Garnett was portrayed because it was so extreme and comical. I now find it bizarre that those of us who lived through those years are told how it was totally different to what we observed and experienced. The 21st Century is a very strange place at times I find.
Another example of Historical Appropriation.....
The Roman Army used auxiliary troops consisting of non-Roman citizens as a supplement to their Legionary cohorts, often doing specialized jobs such as cavalry. After a disaster in the Teutoburg forest when German auxiliaries "went native" and sided with the local opposition, the Romans used auxiliaries in regions away from where they had been recruited. So some north Africans (almost certainly not sub Saharan Africans) may have served in Britain. But there's no reason to believe they would have stayed if they survived their twenty five years service and won Roman citizenship. They were there to do a job, and they were moved around frequently, depending on where trouble was brewing in the Empire.
think about the role planned for the boat people in our country its not difficult to see the similarity with the downfall of rome.
Exactly.We know what brought demise of Ancient Rome
The word is after reading this book james o'Brien's knackers nearly exploded with excitement
Next you will be telling us that the windrush generation rebuilt Britain while the indigenous population sat around scratching their heads not knowing how to do it.
“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
― Ronald Reagan