Communists criticising Imperialism. Where's the Celts reparations from Roman Italy? Where's the British's reparations from Viking Scandinavia? Where's the Russians reparations from Mongolia? Where is the reparations for the entire Balkan peninsula from Ottoman Turkey? You wanna be victims for the rest of your lives be my guest, but don't try to tear us down along with your self pity. or you could get over it and move forward into the future.
@ella walsh Have you even read the BLM manifesto? Do you understand who they actually are? They are black supremacists and that is just as bad as being a white supremacist.... (something that hardly anyone is these days). BLM do not want equality, they want domination. If you support them you are nothing more than a tiny minded racist who cannot see that we are all people, regardless of skin colour and that ALL LIVES MATTER!
You mention a couple of invasions in Britain's history. Add in the Saxons, Normans plus big attempts by the Spanish, Dutch and the French; not forgetting, of course, the Germans, all of which is conveniently forgotten. Add in incessant tribal wars across the globe, especially in Africa and South America and you have to wonder where these Marxists are coming from. The Year 2020 will long be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Martha belle Ooh sorry madam beg your forgiveness...I’ll go now and self flagellate until a stunning and brave Marxist professor with all the correct innate identity characteristics tells me to stop. Ok?
A snek Boi Please sir...will you accept an answer replete with nuance and things you disagree with or cannot relate to? Or must my opinions be totally inline with the commissar? I can’t afford ‘unconscious bias’ training!
@@arshaq4200 Mistake no.1 - I didn't invade anyone. Mistake no. 2 - All Empires invade, from Rome to the Caliphs to the Inca of Peru. Mistake no. 3 - Letting idiots like you live in our country who try to guilt naturally empathetic Europeans into handing over money/power. Turks and Persians don't give a shit about all the people their ancestors slaughtered and enslaved.
@@CharlesDickens111 so your saying a group of people are being deprived from education, employment, medical treatment, economic abuse should remain silent causebit may reduce the efficiency for white people.
See this is the problem with you old fucks, cant tell the difference between learning and a scam. You are so unwilling to listen to others but fall for internet scams on the daily.
@@PaulNicholas420 hey look at that you completely got me wrong with that one. But goes to show that an idiot like you would think being a women who does gender studies is a bad thing.
@@calthedragon5686 if you didnt care you wouldnt have watched the video or have left a comment. maybe you are a little young to understand yet. And I dont mean that as a negative point about you but more that we are not taught well enough in this country's education system.
@Damo 616 go an study the mamluks before you make such stupid comments, have you ever seen a photo where women in bangladesh were forces to carry the white people on the shoulders, now let's talk about that.
Glad slavery was outlawed and that no one alive today in the western world had anything to do with it. Maybe we can turn our attention to slavery in the world today and not moan about the past.
By tearing down statues, the past will be forgotten. We should look at people in history and learn from their achievements and their failures. "We are not makers of history. We are made by history".
@@libertarian8218 Statutes =/= history. When was the last time you learned history from looking at a statute in a public place? No one does, you learn history from books and similar sources. Statutes are about idolising a person and what the represent. So take down shitty people, and put them in museums where they belong.
But those slave owners aren't white and that's against the current western world agenda of trying to guilt white people for crimes they aren't responsible for committing. In order to get them to be accepting of paying their own tax money to be conquered.
They can only get butthurt but it's the truth, the blood of millions of people worldwide are on the hands of the imperial british and people who still support them are complicit and will burn in hell for their mass murders.
@@OfficialSilverMoon Oh dear, was that us? We're so sorry for leaving all this technology and infrastructure just lying around. Those medical advances? My, we can't apologise enough!
@@higofyp You could just except your blood-ridden past and realise while you did bring advancements to society. You only could due to slavery and torture of millions around the world.
@@marzuqahmed218 That's only half true. What's your history? I'm positive I could find some dark shit your ancestors did. Does that mean I must perpetually atone for the sins of people I can't even name? My family were peasants and miners for centuries, never owned a slave, never colonised anything. How much blood is on the hands I reply to you with?
As a child of refugees to England I was born here I seved 9 years British army to show my gratitude to our amazing country and her people. I for 1 don't feel guilty for slavery that was hundreds of years ago lam also quite sure that if I sat in front of a psychiatrist or psychologist and stated I feel guilty because of a crime committed hundreds of years ago he would try and reassure me that it wasn't my fault and that it really was insane to think and feel guilty for something you wasn't involved in plus it was hundreds of years ago. But then again that's probably the worst type of racism to some on the left
@@kaizer8280 so your answer is no? Africa shouldn't take accountability for selling their people into slavery? Making tribes fight for their lives to decide who would be sold?
@me hee what an idiot. South Asians were given the high paying jobs whilst Chinese were used as near slave labour and paid extremely low wages, undercutting what any African worker was willing to work for. Simple as that. Don't speak about things you know nothing about.
Were the South Africans, or native Americans or aborigals asked NO, so get off you high stool you can go move to some dipshit racist convent in Mississippi if you don't like people because they have slightly more of a single chemical in their skin tissues
My parents went to England in the 1950s. They could not get accommodation because they were "Irish". Should my parents have a grievance ? Irish people were discriminated in United States for many years. Should they have a grievance and start tumbling the Protestant and generally anti catholic founders of United States? Should Israelis go to Egypt and demand the destruction of the statues and pyramid of Ramesis the second because he enslaved them several thousand years ago? History is history. In our modern generation we earn respect as the Irish did. We do not destroy respect and inflame discrimination as the IRA did. BLM is more akin to the IRA than to the decent hard working immigrants who came to Britain during the 20th century and earned respect!!
Your parents left with free will to England. The Africans didn't leave their countries on their own free will. The United States and other countries kidnapped and used Africans for free labor. Did your parents go to England to work as free laborers on free will? I highly doubt it.
@@cheryltennial9212 Wrong!!. tens of thousands of Irish were forcibly sent on penal prison ships to Australia in the 18th and 19th century. Many died on the journey. Should their descendants start burning, pulling down statues of Colonial monuments across Australia? The Irish earned respect and helped to build a great nation. They did not sit on their asses looking for pity!! If you read about the history of slavery in Africa, it went on for centuries during the Arab conquests across north africa. The caliphates enslaved millions of people in east and west Africa. They mutilated slave mens genitalia, and many of the women were used as sex slaves. It was the Arab traders who supplied the slaves along the shores of west africa to the British and American Slave ships. David Livingston the great British explorer documented the horrors of the arab slave markets. It was the British who forcibly stopped the arab slave trade across northern africa from the 1830s on. In fact slavery continues today. Learn your history and help to do something about the misery of Africans today who are suffering across africa. The next time you buy a designer dress or a processed product, first try to find out if you are supporting an asian or african sweat factory.
The available evidence would suggest the first humans in Britain were from the line of Homo antecessor, that that is believed to have come from spain. The Celts therfore should return their stolen property to the spanish. For myself, I can trace my roots back to the saxons so could I please have a nice house in Hamburg?
we were the first nation to end slavery we outlawed the practice throughout the empire and paid such an enormous sum of money we only finished paying it off in 2014, we also fought naval battles to smash the trade. Slavery, the brits ended it...... you're welcome.
Protect complete history, even when it gives the national mythology a black eye. Don’t let propaganda pass for history and you won’t have a bunch of people correcting your “history.”
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@@_robustus_ Could very easily say the same about those who support the opposite direction, you know, like those that seem to think Churchill was nothing but a racist.
I think we’re all getting tired of this nonsense. Poor me. That was then this is now. Get over it and move on nobody’s got time for this whining. Good lord!
YodaGrammar l - Don’t talk cr@p. Most of the countries that were colonised are far better for it. Roads, infrastructure, morality, healthcare, etc. Even India was a morass of peoples all fighting each other. When the Europeans left Africa much of it simply degenerated back into the violent bushland it was before. I’ve walked across most of Africa, north to south. Most of the older people I met regret the end of colonial times, and saw it as a golden age. The whining has started recently and always comes complete with begging bowl.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 - You really need to speak to people who were at the receiving of being colonized (or their ancestors) to get both a balanced and realistic view of British colonisation. Your comments clearly show that you have not spoken to enough people, but only to an appropriate selection. And bravo for alluding to have walked across Africa, but please take off your rose tinted specs and don't post crap like '"Even India was a morass of peoples all fighting each other" without having done your homework properly. Don't mix or try to compare the historical colonisation of Africa (a huge continent) with that of India. Do you even know how/why the infrastructure that you have cited was (really) built in India ? People like you think that British colonisation left India a better place, because that is what you have had showered upon you by the 'older people' who 'regret the end of colonial times'. So, don't come onto a forum like this and speak for another country or culture if (like I said before) you haven't done your homework and if you are not part of that country/culture that was on the receiving end of any colonisation !!
All empires were built off the backs of slavery. the British one isn't special. the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians... all of them had slavery and not all of them were black. we need to accept and remember but let it the fuck go. this is honestly ridiculous and quite frankly asking, no expecting people to kneel and prostrate themselves in front of others in this day an age for something that their ancestors did is disturbing. BlackLivesMatter was an understandable and important message but I lost all respect for it the moment they chose to propagate and condone violence and vandalism. then they started tearing down statues? Fuck that. People aren't saints and are often a product of their time. we need to acknowledge the good and the bad. (never mind that some of the statues they're wrecking have nothing to do with slavery). What next, are we going to dismiss and revile Nelson Mandela for being a terrorist? or is that not the same because he was black? This movement has gotten out of hand and the BBC needs to stop with their pandering propaganda bullshit
@@iamkinginmycastle2018 I probably missed a lot of empires but you're not wrong in noting that they seem to only focus on the 1 that is obviously white
If I am not allowed to take pride in the accomplishments of my ancestors, then I am also not to be held accountable for their mistakes and sins. Much like how Britain's language and culture was French for centuries, your ancestors should've fought harder.
As a white Englishman where are my reparations from Italy, turkey, Scandinavia, Denmark, france most countries have practiced slavery and many still do but the uk as far as I am aware doesn't we ended slavery in the civilised world.
Italy? I take it you mean the romans? Turkey - Ottomans? Scandinavia - Viking’s? Those kingdoms are long gone, those people nothing like their modern inhabitants. We English are still here, our royal line unbroken. Reparations is a complex issue, and I don’t think it’s the answer. Partly because just throwing money at the problem is glib and shallow, partly because we could never pay it back. But some compassion and respect for the generations of trauma endured would be a start
@@nedbarton9868 I'm sorry but i don't see your point. All I'm trying to say that it is impossible to play the reparations game because every civilisation has suffered at the hands of another.
James Hunt sorry it’s prob not coming across very well. Im just saying that we are the still same country that enslaved those people, you can’t say that Italy owes the uk for the Roman subjugation of Celtic Briton because both those civilisations are long gone. Reparations aside we could at least have the heart to acknowledge the multigenerational trauma that is still being played out today.
@@bdale5231 Its people from Hong Kong . I doubt it will be all three million though . Probably a few hundred thousand at the end of the day . Many will probably go to Australia as well .
The coloured people that came to this country worked hard and took a lot of abuse from white British people, Thay held there heads high and fought for their right to be treated as equals in Society . The grandchildren of these brave people has now put racism back 50 years and created a society that have made more people become racist. the white British people won't forget how's the black lives matter has treated them it will be interesting to see if the diversity policies and laws are still in force in the next few years. White people won't be put down for long before they start fighting back
kenneth mcmurray the mere fact you say coloured shows you are racist. We are not coloured haven’t you ever read the poem you got the cheek to call me coloured . What do you want wp ?? You stole everything we got made brought saved for . What more do you want wp ?? A vessel with our blood ?? If a Blackman did what Derek did to George l would be hanging my head in shame .. but NOPE WP are more triggered by the burning of buildings, lotting not the lynching of a black man on the streets of America in the 21st century my God have some remorse.
Yeah the past is bad..... I am a non-english person living in Bristol and there are a lot of people from different cultures/countries which makes it great here and makes us a diverse and cultural rich city #ProudBristolian
When the Berlin Wall came down the former eastern bloc countries had two options: 1) prosecute the former communists and secret police in a public mud-flinging match that would have gone on for decades, or 2) call an amnesty on their crimes, and get on with rebuilding their countries. So, BBC. I see you’d have gone for option 1. You’ve got nothing productive to do but to waste all your efforts trawling up dirt about the supposed evils of the past. You are condemning hundreds of thousands of people to waste their intellects on revenge for past sins instead of working constructively to create a brighter future. It’s retrograde, unprogressive, and it’s just wrong.
I’m from an “Eastern Bloc country”. Don’t you DARE use our trauma to try and justify your unwillingness to acknowledge the past. We have suffered a lot at the hands of our oppressors and the psychological, social, economical repercussions are still visible today. We didn’t just “forget”. We have thousands of memorials around the country commemorating the brave people and soldiers that stood up to the occupying forces. We acknowledge our past. We don’t have Nazi or Communist statues. So don’t you dare bring us up in your defence of your ignorance.
BloopyBlobBob not just ignorance, wilful, contrived revisionist history. Britain has persecuted dark skinned immigrants INVITED to the _’mother’_ - land and the recent ‘hostile environment,’ deportation flights, not to mention prison demographics all back this up. These types are the sort of empire building wannabes for whom no stretch is too far to justify their delusions of grandeur or faux victimhood. Britain has a nasty past, a nasty present and always seems to be involved somehow when darker hued people are being disenfranchised around the world. It is an historically and institutionally racist country where black opinion, advancement or inclusion is usually stifled by ‘people’ like this. Fact. They’d rather sweep the whole thing under the carpet and convince themselves that that nothing but good happened or is happening - cognitive dissonance of the most irrefutable. Look at Meghan Markle, apart from marrying into royalty why exactly is she _still_ being hated on even after throwing in the towel and leaving!? Contrast that with Kate Middleton as yet another example of the typical Britishness people are trying to highlight. Just wait for the inevitable - _”if you don’t like it, why don’t you leave”_ reaction from this post.I’ll almost lay money on it! BURYING A PROBLEM OR DENYING ITS EXISTENCE NEVER SOLVES IT.
That was Britains treatment of West Africans and Jamaicans. Imperial history would include the fact that we used our own children as slaves, how we treated the Irish, what we did to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, India etc.
I will not be made to feel guilty for who I am. I will not be made to feel guilty for the sins of my forefathers. I’m proud of who I am, proud of this country’s fine history and proud of my family’s achievements. I have no self-loathing or ‘white guilt’.
Dan Dank 80 British citizens being treated like nothing is enough for me to get angry. Imagine if you were suddenly deported today, it would be an incredibly traumatic experience.
I think you are referring to the Arab and then Turkish empire that conquered the middle east and south east Europe, massacred villages and enslaved the people. That unfortunately does not fit the agenda of modern RAP history or the BLM Agenda!!.
We would not have to leave if your ancestors stayed away from invading many lands TYRANTLY !! and displacing innocent peaceful people to and from lands that they did not wish to go to but nevertheless have settled and live in now. SO YOU LOT ARE THE ONE'S THAT SHOULD HAVE LEFT...........LONG LONG BEFORE YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE ARRIVED !!!!!🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ ????????????
@@michellephillips3655 do you have any idea about the history of slavery? It was only stuck up wealthy people that owned slaves. Not everyone from the UK. People like me were the ones who fought to free them. The UK was the first country to abolish it, your history teacher never told you that? Look how angry you are with your false beliefs. Black people were sold by black people as well so Africa can't of been that peaceful. You all act like the UK is the big bad wolf. Yes, it has a dark history. Name one country that hasn't. Bottom line, don't blame people living today for things that happened long before that were born. You all believe in white privilege, which is something that doesn't exist too. Every person in this world struggles at some point in their life. What about the white families in Africa too.. Do they have privilege? Being murdered in they own homes. Africa is beyond saving. The government endorse the killing of whites over there. Honestly you don't even know how lucky you are if you live in the UK. Good luck trying to destroy this country with your BLM movement though, such a sound and honest movement that no way will be rejected by peaceful non racists like myself.
@@bmotion7648 aaaww that's fine then, that sure cancels out the actions of the slave owners. I guess we should all excuse them for their bbrbaric behaviour
@@michellephillips3655 the people who owned slaves are long dead. Get over it. My ancestors were enslaved by the Romans. You don't see us crying out for reparations to Italy. Stop being a victim your whole life.
It’s history you can’t change , bring the statues back shows that we moved on and that the world isn’t like that anymore they aren’t known for slave trading there there for another reason
If you are doing so well and making a good living. Go back to your home place educate the young people there. Stand straight walk tall and make a difference.
Exactly, constantly focusing on guilt and past ain't helping. Its manipulation to keep people in low state for control. Good at least someone realise it. All these stay alert virus, feel guilty BLM all created for that reason. And media just promoting it ruclips.net/video/Fi_x090LGO8/видео.html
Evgenia Mukhtarova easy for you to say when you haven’t gone through the impact or the after affects of its cause. Look into what dehumanising treatment they had gone through such that they lost their names, their identity, their religion, their homeland and their rights. When you have been subjugated under that treatment then let’s hear you say let’s forget - You never could. Believe me forgetting and moving on isn’t the solution. Recalling and remembering puts into perspective the atrocities that had occurred and helps us recall those who had sacrificed their lives for the struggle to be free. You will only understand this if you study the subject matter openly and with a pure heart. Peace
@@CEO786 with pure heart and peace you would forgive. Forgiving is only way to freedom. Otherwise people in Russia would moan and cry everyday like you how Germans dared to start Ww2, distroy country and due to that to protect country, 25mln people within 5 years was gone, cause whoever went to fight back knew they might never come back. Or starvation after collapse of USSR cause trator Gorbachev was doing everything possible to realise that. But people still managed to find way to survive. And we remember this time with good laugh, сalliing it dashing 90s. Its always a choice to be victim and have weak mindset, or to be fighter with strong mindset and move on and learning on past mistakes. Russia would be another English colony if we thought like you.
You are lucky if you live in Britain so be great full .... also remember Britain played a leading role in stoping slavery .. also remember that you should be trying to stop modern day slavery instead of whining about slavery from hundreds of years ago
I fear they simply cannot. The BBC, who have a mandate to be unbiased, have utterly failed, and have capitilated to narratives and click-bait which will be their own undoing. Its a shame but they really do need defunding as they are part of the problem is so many ways. I feel sorry for what decent journalists it still has trapped within it. But it has to go.
Without the history of slavery there wouldn’t be any black people today calling the U.K. their Home. I thing we all just need to accept the history just the way it is and get on with each other.
Well that's not true actually there are plenty of black people in the UK descended from recent African immigrants with no link to slavery. My grandfather on my father's side came over from Nigeria in the 60s for instance. All that aside however, I agree with the sentiment, that in any society it's important for mutual understanding, respect and good will to take precedence.
@@bobobobobo4 LGBT like Matt Lucas,, David Walliams and the BBC are the snowflakes, they ridicule mock and degrade everything around them, but can't tolerate valid criticism. LGBT fragility#, like you.
I think we should build statues of things that diversity and multiculturalism has helped accomplish, for example, Bandokay, Anjem Choudary, Zone 2, NPK, Usman Khan, Mohammad Sidique Khan, Hasib Hussain, Germaine Lindsay, Salman Abedi, Khalid Masood, Khairi Saadallah, Sadiq Khan, Diane Abbott. They should all get their own statue
Why are people angry about criticising bad parts of British history? Why blindly be proud of bad things? Why hide from the truth (in any matter, not just this one). Acknowledging it doesn't make modern Brits any worse, so why are they scared?
So if you shit sandwich yesterday and ate nothing today does that mean you gave it good? Or would you say damn that shit sandwich I ate yesterday was terrible
Bugatti Bezzy okay, so where are the solutions exactly? I mean, this is the media showing us that we ate a shit sandwich...but what do we do about that? Do we just cry to ourselves about how terrible we are until we get better?
Anthony Burke oh so this isn’t about helping people to understand your point of view, but rather an ego boost for you to prance around about how much you “know”...you going to answer the question or not, even if it’s a summary at least you could show that you have some sort of insight aye?
Ask any of them if they had preferred to remain in Africa or be given the chance of a greater new life in Britain? I THINK THE ANSWER IS OVERWHELMINGLY CLEAR! So count your blessings and be grateful FOR what this country has offered you, a much better, albeit imperfect, life!
If life in Britain was so much better as you put it, why on heck did your ancestors go and ambush and settle in Alkebulan? That's the original name of Africa, but I guess you already knew that since your so clued up on your history. If we should be so grateful for what your ancestors have to offer and Britain was the best thing since slice bread, then please do tell me why are so many white people still living in Africa, the Caribbean islands and Australia? Why do they continue to exploit these places of their rich resources?
@@2stepnaturally774 I am not going to apologize for history, Africans invaded and enslaved each other centuries before Europeans even arrived. If you are weak, you get exploited, either it's between tribes or races. Humans (allegedly all Africans) invaded and eradicated Neanderthals (native Europeans) thousands of years ago, should Africans now apologize to the real Europeans? Give me a break! If you are weak and dumb, you get eliminated and die off, natural selection is not the most politically correct universal truth! Stop blaming and shaming the winners, work on yourself instead!
The UK essentially went bankrupt in the late 1970’s. Were the 'benefits of a colonial past' what paid to get us out of that position? Or have we reinvented ourselves since then and worked really hard while still paying (a lot of) aid to the commonwealth nations?
As a trans black man I salute my ancestors for enduring enslavement in the past. I would not have been so fortune to live in the west today if it wasn’t for their sacrifice.
Black history: migration from war zones, slavery.. bit boring compared to ours world wide dominance bringing medicine, school and technology around the world, alot of fighting in our history but no country in Europe is any worse or better.
Ethiopia, Mali, City of Congo go read about those for starters. I bet you've never actually tried to educate yourself on the history of other places, so of course you'll think only Europe has history.
hypercatjohn stealing it from China during the opium wars and forcing the locals to toe heroin and then only giving it back in 97 and still behaving like it’s theirs
The thing is, I've always been aware of the dark side of Britain's colonial past. Mine and my parent's generation weren't subject to a focused propaganda campaign like my grandparent's generation was. I never harboured any great illusions regarding the benevolence of the British empire. It's just now people in the common sphere are catching up and listening to what's been said all along.
@@shasmithie4630 if the past had been different, current affairs would not be the same. The present is the present because of the past. OUR HISTORY IS OUR PRESENT
Let's apologies for something that happened when none of us were alive, that our great great grandparents did, good job main stream media in creating more division in society.
We should learn what the lives of our ancestors were like about 2 or 300 years ago, and learn about their sacrifices, twists of history both good and bad. Then we should look at the privileges we all take for granted today, thanks to our ancestors who have brought us here today to enjoy the the harvest of their sweat and tears, their inventiveness and innovation. That is the history that our modern "RAP" generation are demanding that Britain and Western Europe should apologize for!!
@@DrJams According to the new guidelines of modern day RAP culture, It is racist and sexist to use "white males". since using gender to describe a group of people could offend the transgender community, and "white" could offend the black lives matter community!!.
my mother said: lots of Bristolians got rich off slaves, only Colston also spent it on other people not just himself, so why should he be attacked? (I know that's not the point, but she also has a point)
I am not apologising for our great history. We have one of the most colourful and rich histories of any nation. We were better than the rest at the game of Empire. We have nothing to apologise for. Britain abolished the slave trade and the Royal Navy enforced the Abolishment across much of the globe. We paid for it financially (in taxes) for 200 years. our top athletes, sports people, celebrities etc...are black. This movement is 50 years too late.
50 years too late is EXACTLY why it is necessary. We cannot keep walking around like our shit doesn't stink. No one, and I mean no one, is asking for you to personally apologise for Britain's colonial past. We need to re-learn historical truths through an objective platform in order to understand why many groups feel marginalised. The tokenism of an elite few doesn't make up for the statistical disadvantages many POC experience. We can always do our best to learn, to keep learning and to change our attitudes to show that Britain is the forward-thinking nation that you purport.
@@user-tr2pr1sd1u why did you report my comment? it was a fair point of discussion? how can we debate or discuss in a civil manner if genuine comments are removed?
Now there’s a thing ( GAMAL ABDEL NASSER was the the 2 president of EGYPT on 1956 he went on national tv and said “ THE ISRAELITES LEFT BLACK AND RETURNED WHITE?
Yes Paul.....I remember that.....Good man.. *"These Jews """ ???? Their ancestors were just East European many centuries ago....Converted to the Hebrew faith.. Ashkenazi... Much later Rothschild brought the Coburg's over to England to take up "" royal "" status , to use this counterfeit lot to conquer nations , device and rule..... So they are too white.....but they call themselves Semites ????? They can't be white and be Semitic..... I wonder how our Yiddish mama queen thinks she could explain her way out of getting caught in her local Synagogue ??? THANKS PAUL FOR THAT REMINDER....
Abzinoo all jobs do matter... are you trying to say black people get paid risk their lives trying to save people? You cant compare the NHS to black people thats so silly
There are things in our history, like all countries, that are not worthy of celebration. The point is, now, today, Britain is far, far better than most of them for rights and equality and tolerance, hands down. We can *all* be proud of that.
Thanks BBC. As a Jamaican American I am very interested in this issue. My dad fought in WW2 and I know that the existing economic problems in the Caribbean are a direct result of the triangular slave trade, colonialism and neo-colonialism.
I had to go an wash my face and eyes after watching this... A BBC article I could actually get behind and was truly neutral. It is our History, all history (good and bad parts) belong to us all. We need to preserve it to understand where we went right, where we went wrong and so we can see how much we've moved forward. Those seeking to remove history and re-write history miss its purpose. History shows us both the great accomplishments and the great tyranies we, humans in general are capable of and gives us chance to reflect. To tear down slaver traders' statues and remove their memory does a disservice to all those that wouldn't be here and wouldn't be enjoying the country we share without. Though a sordid, sorry time... The ancestors that suffered under slavery should also be fondly remembered for their suffering which bought people to one of the greatest countries on Earth. We don't have to give thanks to the slave traders on display if we don't want to but if you wouldn't be here without them.... Choose to honour your ancestors that we're bought here because of them.
Whats the point in recognising history when its only going to be used as a weapon against you by people who manipulate it and refuse to see it any other way? isnt about time we actually moved forward?
@@mrc3014 because looking for the truth is important. It's not hurt Germany to recognise their 20th Century history or Belgium to recognise their history in the Congo, why should it hurt Britain. And at the moment, racism is partly fueled by ignorance of history. When people talk badly about foreign countries and people, a lot of it is ignorance that comes from colonial ideas (that places were backwaters before British rule). When people tell kids to go back home, they probably wouldn't say that so easily if they knew about colonialism and overall had more awareness of history.
@@dannyzee4 Mate how do you propose to change peoples minds, how do you convince a BLM supporter that Britain were the ones who did more to end slavery than anyone else in the world for example. people will just cherry pick what they want to support their narrative regards of what version of history really happened, and the journey you embark on to prove yourself right or others wrong is the road to hell. please dont be so naive. sure we do need to understand history but not right now and not when it is being weaponised.
@@mrc3014 You have it totally wrong. It is exactly now, when misinterpretations of our history are spreading like wildfire to challenge and educate these BLM goons before more useful idiots destroy what they don't understand.
People in these comments should be ashamed of yourself. How you can look in the mirror, after all this hate you bleed online is beyond my comprehension.
Sadie Robinson - A lot of it is a counter-reaction to the hate sown by the BBC in slots like this. Preaching to people about something they had no part in, indeed which happened centuries before they were born, and then asserting they are tainted and have some kind of original sin. It is so un-christian, so un-British and it’s tearing the country apart.
Imagine moving to a country you hate.
Imagine saying that to the colonialists ;)
@@moulion they're all dead.
Imagine being captured and taken there against your will
@@blewis1733 Hong Kong's colonial governor Chris Patten is still alive.
Imagine thinking it's as simple as that. Get properly educated because you're only spreading hate.
Communists criticising Imperialism.
Where's the Celts reparations from Roman Italy?
Where's the British's reparations from Viking Scandinavia?
Where's the Russians reparations from Mongolia?
Where is the reparations for the entire Balkan peninsula from Ottoman Turkey?
You wanna be victims for the rest of your lives be my guest, but don't try to tear us down along with your self pity. or you could get over it and move forward into the future.
Well said
Times have changed, we now show compassion to one and other, at least the majority of people I know do. You clearly are a psychopath
@@ellawalsh47 No, the thing is you're the psychopath and you don't even know it
@ella walsh Have you even read the BLM manifesto? Do you understand who they actually are? They are black supremacists and that is just as bad as being a white supremacist.... (something that hardly anyone is these days). BLM do not want equality, they want domination. If you support them you are nothing more than a tiny minded racist who cannot see that we are all people, regardless of skin colour and that ALL LIVES MATTER!
You mention a couple of invasions in Britain's history. Add in the Saxons, Normans plus big attempts by the Spanish, Dutch and the French; not forgetting, of course, the Germans, all of which is conveniently forgotten. Add in incessant tribal wars across the globe, especially in Africa and South America and you have to wonder where these Marxists are coming from. The Year 2020 will long be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Don’t watch the BBC, the opening seconds of video just showed why’ defund them.
Why? Why can't we talk about our past as a nation? Do we always have to have this blinded, ignorant, uneducated patriotism
The BBC are very biased and bought. They used to be the voice of the people, but it isn't now.
i invite you to battle me at the colosseum
Seems like you're a racist
@@Actaris80 spot on!
Proud to be British. We were never asked. Defund the BBC.
Martha belle Ooh sorry madam beg your forgiveness...I’ll go now and self flagellate until a stunning and brave Marxist professor with all the correct innate identity characteristics tells me to stop. Ok?
Tom McGnarley answer the question
A snek Boi Please sir...will you accept an answer replete with nuance and things you disagree with or cannot relate to? Or must my opinions be totally inline with the commissar? I can’t afford ‘unconscious bias’ training!
Tom McGnarley just answer itb
Proud we stopped slavery
When nobody else would,
Proud we invented the west
And the modern world as we know it.
Diversity is our weakness.
Because you don't like being challenged
@@teefx5681 No, because it needlessly muddles a nation and reduces its efficiency.
@@arshaq4200
Mistake no.1 - I didn't invade anyone.
Mistake no. 2 - All Empires invade, from Rome to the Caliphs to the Inca of Peru.
Mistake no. 3 - Letting idiots like you live in our country who try to guilt naturally empathetic Europeans into handing over money/power. Turks and Persians don't give a shit about all the people their ancestors slaughtered and enslaved.
@@CharlesDickens111 so your saying a group of people are being deprived from education, employment, medical treatment, economic abuse should remain silent causebit may reduce the efficiency for white people.
Justice are you talking about the white working class? They have worse access to all of those things than any other group in the uk
Read the comments BBC. You aint fooling no one
See this is the problem with you old fucks, cant tell the difference between learning and a scam. You are so unwilling to listen to others but fall for internet scams on the daily.
ShortBread hello gender studies girl 😂😂😂🐑🐑🐑🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
ShortBread bruv I’m not even old I’m 15, and I’m with these lot. They’re right. We were never asked
@@PaulNicholas420 hey look at that you completely got me wrong with that one. But goes to show that an idiot like you would think being a women who does gender studies is a bad thing.
@@calthedragon5686 if you didnt care you wouldnt have watched the video or have left a comment. maybe you are a little young to understand yet. And I dont mean that as a negative point about you but more that we are not taught well enough in this country's education system.
#DefundTheBBC
Cancel your TV licence.
Have you
If you don't like British History you know what to do.
Its not about liking or disliking, its about establishing the facts and not water it down to beautify history
@Zzzzeyd I'll piss on you scumbag
Zzzzeyd mind if I join?
@@MM-og3qz dog
@Damo 616 go an study the mamluks before you make such stupid comments, have you ever seen a photo where women in bangladesh were forces to carry the white people on the shoulders, now let's talk about that.
Glad slavery was outlawed and that no one alive today in the western world had anything to do with it. Maybe we can turn our attention to slavery in the world today and not moan about the past.
What are you on about, there's people in current times who were being compensated by the government cause of their loss on their slave business
Don’t think you got the point. Also you literally contradicted yourself.
By tearing down statues, the past will be forgotten. We should look at people in history and learn from their achievements and their failures.
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history".
@@libertarian8218 Statutes =/= history. When was the last time you learned history from looking at a statute in a public place? No one does, you learn history from books and similar sources. Statutes are about idolising a person and what the represent. So take down shitty people, and put them in museums where they belong.
But those slave owners aren't white and that's against the current western world agenda of trying to guilt white people for crimes they aren't responsible for committing. In order to get them to be accepting of paying their own tax money to be conquered.
NEVER ASKED SINCE 1948
Bigboy Ramboy you captured us tho.we weren’t asked either if anything blame the elites
@George S lies go watch any documentary
manboobs and who are the elite. White people
@@douevenfootnite8964 J people
@@thejjdm1126 what did he say that was a lie? Britain didnt bring slaves to back
British people were never asked
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They can only get butthurt but it's the truth, the blood of millions of people worldwide are on the hands of the imperial british and people who still support them are complicit and will burn in hell for their mass murders.
@@OfficialSilverMoon what ever fits your tiny mind lol
@@OfficialSilverMoon Oh dear, was that us? We're so sorry for leaving all this technology and infrastructure just lying around. Those medical advances? My, we can't apologise enough!
@@higofyp You could just except your blood-ridden past and realise while you did bring advancements to society. You only could due to slavery and torture of millions around the world.
@@marzuqahmed218 That's only half true. What's your history? I'm positive I could find some dark shit your ancestors did. Does that mean I must perpetually atone for the sins of people I can't even name? My family were peasants and miners for centuries, never owned a slave, never colonised anything. How much blood is on the hands I reply to you with?
As a child of refugees to England I was born here I seved 9 years British army to show my gratitude to our amazing country and her people.
I for 1 don't feel guilty for slavery that was hundreds of years ago lam also quite sure that if I sat in front of a psychiatrist or psychologist and stated I feel guilty because of a crime committed hundreds of years ago he would try and reassure me that it wasn't my fault and that it really was insane to think and feel guilty for something you wasn't involved in plus it was hundreds of years ago.
But then again that's probably the worst type of racism to some on the left
It's not about guilt, it's about being aware of history and not oversimplifying it
When's Rome being knocked down as it was built on slavery?
You state the protest and we will join you
Hey man you wanna get rid of vactican city let's go.
Edit: People actually downvoting this, I was just agreeing with the guy.
Kev T
Don’t forget the Egyptians, even to this day Saudis Arabia still have slaves.
@@JP-sm4cs definitely, been there and the wealth is discraceful. 😁
@Mathius S It shows your ignorant mindset and you can't open your mind to see things from a different perspective. I pity you.
Doesn't Africa need to take some accountability for selling their people in exchange for some Rum?
Your question is like trying to persecute the person who buys drugs first before the drug dealer. How ignorant
You watched this whole piece and that’s the question your brain drummed up. Shocking
@@kaizer8280 so your answer is no? Africa shouldn't take accountability for selling their people into slavery? Making tribes fight for their lives to decide who would be sold?
you realise many slaves were kidnapped by whites as well right....just checking.
@me hee what an idiot. South Asians were given the high paying jobs whilst Chinese were used as near slave labour and paid extremely low wages, undercutting what any African worker was willing to work for. Simple as that. Don't speak about things you know nothing about.
I'm a victim of the Barbary slave trade...
@manboobs Using same logic as the Burn Loot Murder idiots. Let the past go.
We Were Never Asked. WATCH IT. NOW.
Were the South Africans, or native Americans or aborigals asked NO, so get off you high stool you can go move to some dipshit racist convent in Mississippi if you don't like people because they have slightly more of a single chemical in their skin tissues
BrokenBridges congratulations on liking your own comment, the guys right, WE WERE NEVER ASKED
@@womblowbobble1139 hey I'm allowed to like my own comment, that's just how cool i am 😎
My parents went to England in the 1950s. They could not get accommodation because they were "Irish". Should my parents have a grievance ? Irish people were discriminated in United States for many years. Should they have a grievance and start tumbling the Protestant and generally anti catholic founders of United States? Should Israelis go to Egypt and demand the destruction of the statues and pyramid of Ramesis the second because he enslaved them several thousand years ago? History is history. In our modern generation we earn respect as the Irish did. We do not destroy respect and inflame discrimination as the IRA did. BLM is more akin to the IRA than to the decent hard working immigrants who came to Britain during the 20th century and earned respect!!
Your parents left with free will to England. The Africans didn't leave their countries on their own free will. The United States and other countries kidnapped and used Africans for free labor. Did your parents go to England to work as free laborers on free will? I highly doubt it.
@@cheryltennial9212 Wrong!!. tens of thousands of Irish were forcibly sent on penal prison ships to Australia in the 18th and 19th century. Many died on the journey. Should their descendants start burning, pulling down statues of Colonial monuments across Australia? The Irish earned respect and helped to build a great nation. They did not sit on their asses looking for pity!! If you read about the history of slavery in Africa, it went on for centuries during the Arab conquests across north africa. The caliphates enslaved millions of people in east and west Africa. They mutilated slave mens genitalia, and many of the women were used as sex slaves. It was the Arab traders who supplied the slaves along the shores of west africa to the British and American Slave ships. David Livingston the great British explorer documented the horrors of the arab slave markets. It was the British who forcibly stopped the arab slave trade across northern africa from the 1830s on. In fact slavery continues today. Learn your history and help to do something about the misery of Africans today who are suffering across africa. The next time you buy a designer dress or a processed product, first try to find out if you are supporting an asian or african sweat factory.
@Max Larsen Traitors for running away from what?
@@cheryltennial9212 What about the thousands of migrants that come here willingly now a days?
"History is history" yet still we don't have statues of nazis her in germany
Balls to you all. I'm Celtic and I want all the Anglo Saxons, Vikings and the Roman's to give me back my lands.
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The available evidence would suggest the first humans in Britain were from the line of Homo antecessor, that that is believed to have come from spain. The Celts therfore should return their stolen property to the spanish.
For myself, I can trace my roots back to the saxons so could I please have a nice house in Hamburg?
Is right bro
@@11royals96 Oh for crying out loud lighten up. I'm making light of the stupidity of it all.
@@DA-md6ki I know, was it not obvious I was joining in with the daftness?
Just a reminder that it's OK to be white.
@Lloyd, who said it wasn't?
@@Frack_Black exactly
Frack Black The BBC
@Richard R Wow, how triggered are you by a single word of agreement! You sound rather paranoid actually mr generic screen name.
Lioyd Watson, your goddam right.
this was the same time the government was encouraging the british population to emigrate to australia...i dont get it?
we were the first nation to end slavery we outlawed the practice throughout the empire and paid such an enormous sum of money we only finished paying it off in 2014, we also fought naval battles to smash the trade. Slavery, the brits ended it...... you're welcome.
Absolutely delusional
@@TopTechTrendsX Look up The Slave Trade Act of 1807 and The West Africa Squadron.
After you have done this please comment again.
@@TopTechTrendsX Why is he though?
@@TopTechTrendsX absolutely 100% accurate, don't hate on history
I believe the first country to abolish slavery was Haiti in 1804
BIAS BBC!
Protect our history
Protect complete history, even when it gives the national mythology a black eye. Don’t let propaganda pass for history and you won’t have a bunch of people correcting your “history.”
@@_robustus_ Could very easily say the same about those who support the opposite direction, you know, like those that seem to think Churchill was nothing but a racist.
I think we’re all getting tired of this nonsense. Poor me. That was then this is now. Get over it and move on nobody’s got time for this whining. Good lord!
Those who were colonized said the same thing.
Too bad they couldn't move on even if they wanted to.
YodaGrammar l - Don’t talk cr@p. Most of the countries that were colonised are far better for it. Roads, infrastructure, morality, healthcare, etc. Even India was a morass of peoples all fighting each other. When the Europeans left Africa much of it simply degenerated back into the violent bushland it was before. I’ve walked across most of Africa, north to south. Most of the older people I met regret the end of colonial times, and saw it as a golden age. The whining has started recently and always comes complete with begging bowl.
Tell that to the Holocaust victims that the United States gave $12M
@@sirrathersplendid4825 - You really need to speak to people who were at the receiving of being colonized (or their ancestors) to get both a balanced and realistic view of British colonisation. Your comments clearly show that you have not spoken to enough people, but only to an appropriate selection. And bravo for alluding to have walked across Africa, but please take off your rose tinted specs and don't post crap like '"Even India was a morass of peoples all fighting each other" without having done your homework properly. Don't mix or try to compare the historical colonisation of Africa (a huge continent) with that of India.
Do you even know how/why the infrastructure that you have cited was (really) built in India ? People like you think that British colonisation left India a better place, because that is what you have had showered upon you by the 'older people' who 'regret the end of colonial times'.
So, don't come onto a forum like this and speak for another country or culture if (like I said before) you haven't done your homework and if you are not part of that country/culture that was on the receiving end of any colonisation !!
All empires were built off the backs of slavery. the British one isn't special. the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians... all of them had slavery and not all of them were black. we need to accept and remember but let it the fuck go.
this is honestly ridiculous and quite frankly asking, no expecting people to kneel and prostrate themselves in front of others in this day an age for something that their ancestors did is disturbing.
BlackLivesMatter was an understandable and important message but I lost all respect for it the moment they chose to propagate and condone violence and vandalism.
then they started tearing down statues? Fuck that. People aren't saints and are often a product of their time. we need to acknowledge the good and the bad. (never mind that some of the statues they're wrecking have nothing to do with slavery). What next, are we going to dismiss and revile Nelson Mandela for being a terrorist? or is that not the same because he was black?
This movement has gotten out of hand and the BBC needs to stop with their pandering propaganda bullshit
U forgot to mention ottoman empire and other Muslim empires. They only atack whit history.
@@iamkinginmycastle2018 I probably missed a lot of empires but you're not wrong in noting that they seem to only focus on the 1 that is obviously white
Nelson Mandela was not a terrorist.
It is pathetic to use Nelson Mandela to defend Britain's wrongdoing.
Race baiting.
Gollum Cummings , You’re so scared of the truth that you want to band the messenger.
If I am not allowed to take pride in the accomplishments of my ancestors, then I am also not to be held accountable for their mistakes and sins. Much like how Britain's language and culture was French for centuries, your ancestors should've fought harder.
"your ancestors should have fought harder"
we are the ancestors of tomorrow, and we're not fighting hard enough
As a white Englishman where are my reparations from Italy, turkey, Scandinavia, Denmark, france most countries have practiced slavery and many still do but the uk as far as I am aware doesn't we ended slavery in the civilised world.
Italy? I take it you mean the romans? Turkey - Ottomans? Scandinavia - Viking’s? Those kingdoms are long gone, those people nothing like their modern inhabitants. We English are still here, our royal line unbroken. Reparations is a complex issue, and I don’t think it’s the answer. Partly because just throwing money at the problem is glib and shallow, partly because we could never pay it back. But some compassion and respect for the generations of trauma endured would be a start
everybody from that time is dead and burried. Who should you show compassion in relation to those times?
James Hunt what?
@@nedbarton9868 I'm sorry but i don't see your point. All I'm trying to say that it is impossible to play the reparations game because every civilisation has suffered at the hands of another.
James Hunt sorry it’s prob not coming across very well. Im just saying that we are the still same country that enslaved those people, you can’t say that Italy owes the uk for the Roman subjugation of Celtic Briton because both those civilisations are long gone. Reparations aside we could at least have the heart to acknowledge the multigenerational trauma that is still being played out today.
The Slave Traders left us a
NIGHTMARE LEGACY.
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We were never asked
This is tiring us out by now... to sickness
Victoria good hope you get really sick
Media satire I hope you come down a shitty path in life
Media Satire the only sick shit here is you
Meanwhile 3 million Chinese are being given citizenship ....
Really??
Dosnt mean 3 mil are coming over
@@singlecell2498 yea it will be more cause most have families you're right
@@bdale5231 Its people from Hong Kong . I doubt it will be all three million though . Probably a few hundred thousand at the end of the day . Many will probably go to Australia as well .
@Mr Blobby! Subscribers with no videos Are *you* awake? See what was actually offered
The coloured people that came to this country worked hard and took a lot of abuse from white British people, Thay held there heads high and fought for their right to be treated as equals in Society . The grandchildren of these brave people has now put racism back 50 years and created a society that have made more people become racist. the white British people won't forget how's the black lives matter has treated them it will be interesting to see if the diversity policies and laws are still in force in the next few years. White people won't be put down for long before they start fighting back
kenneth mcmurray the mere fact you say coloured shows you are racist. We are not coloured haven’t you ever read the poem you got the cheek to call me coloured . What do you want wp ?? You stole everything we got made brought saved for . What more do you want wp ?? A vessel with our blood ?? If a Blackman did what Derek did to George l would be hanging my head in shame .. but NOPE WP are more triggered by the burning of buildings, lotting not the lynching of a black man on the streets of America in the 21st century my God have some remorse.
@@blackempressxempressdevine5658 Tell BLM to stop saying white privilege. There are more blacks than white people in the world.
Yeah the past is bad..... I am a non-english person living in Bristol and there are a lot of people from different cultures/countries which makes it great here and makes us a diverse and cultural rich city #ProudBristolian
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Mr Blobby! Subscribers with no videos you are RUDE and RACIST!!!
@Mr Blobby! Subscribers with no videos Nonsense statistic... what is your source??
Mr Blobby! Subscribers with no videos You should get a life you loser. VIR&&N.
A’s story ignore that idiot Blobby. He has no life and no one wants him. Why were people like him born?
I thought Windrush was a boat load of economic migrants seeking a better life. Didn’t realise it was a boatload of angels come to save Britain.
When the Berlin Wall came down the former eastern bloc countries had two options:
1) prosecute the former communists and secret police in a public mud-flinging match that would have gone on for decades, or
2) call an amnesty on their crimes, and get on with rebuilding their countries.
So, BBC. I see you’d have gone for option 1. You’ve got nothing productive to do but to waste all your efforts trawling up dirt about the supposed evils of the past. You are condemning hundreds of thousands of people to waste their intellects on revenge for past sins instead of working constructively to create a brighter future.
It’s retrograde, unprogressive, and it’s just wrong.
I mean in Germany today being a ex stasi informant means you often lose a job
I’m from an “Eastern Bloc country”. Don’t you DARE use our trauma to try and justify your unwillingness to acknowledge the past. We have suffered a lot at the hands of our oppressors and the psychological, social, economical repercussions are still visible today. We didn’t just “forget”. We have thousands of memorials around the country commemorating the brave people and soldiers that stood up to the occupying forces. We acknowledge our past. We don’t have Nazi or Communist statues. So don’t you dare bring us up in your defence of your ignorance.
BloopyBlobBob not just ignorance, wilful, contrived revisionist history. Britain has persecuted dark skinned immigrants INVITED to the _’mother’_ - land and the recent ‘hostile environment,’ deportation flights, not to mention prison demographics all back this up.
These types are the sort of empire building wannabes for whom no stretch is too far to justify their delusions of grandeur or faux victimhood. Britain has a nasty past, a nasty present and always seems to be involved somehow when darker hued people are being disenfranchised around the world.
It is an historically and institutionally racist country where black opinion, advancement or inclusion is usually stifled by ‘people’ like this. Fact. They’d rather sweep the whole thing under the carpet and convince themselves that that nothing but good happened or is happening - cognitive dissonance of the most irrefutable.
Look at Meghan Markle, apart from marrying into royalty why exactly is she _still_ being hated on even after throwing in the towel and leaving!? Contrast that with Kate Middleton as yet another example of the typical Britishness people are trying to highlight.
Just wait for the inevitable - _”if you don’t like it, why don’t you leave”_ reaction from this post.I’ll almost lay money on it!
BURYING A PROBLEM OR DENYING ITS EXISTENCE NEVER SOLVES IT.
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Why take down statues when slavery is still a big problem today? Shouldn't you focus on destroying that?
Nah, there are no whiteys to blame.
KALERGI PLAN
The BBC' s obsession with womens football, black lives matter and token diversity is bordering on cringe factor 10.
"The marginalised have had enough"
Looked to be a lot of white people in that protest however.
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Make Racists Afraid Again ooOoooOOooo scary. Help theirs a bad man saying F.U. to me.
#BLM
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That was Britains treatment of West Africans and Jamaicans. Imperial history would include the fact that we used our own children as slaves, how we treated the Irish, what we did to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, India etc.
west africa was not under british rule its under french rule
@@Debarghaya_Mukherjee thats where all of the swap deals happened i thought
People who say that we have to keep statues because history can't be changed are actually less critical of slavery and racism.
I will not be made to feel guilty for who I am. I will not be made to feel guilty for the sins of my forefathers. I’m proud of who I am, proud of this country’s fine history and proud of my family’s achievements.
I have no self-loathing or ‘white guilt’.
Windrush only affected about 80 people, you'd think it was 6 million people the amount they talk about it
Dan Dank 80 British citizens being treated like nothing is enough for me to get angry. Imagine if you were suddenly deported today, it would be an incredibly traumatic experience.
Why don't they ever talk about the black that owned people owned Europe a few hundred years ago?
I think you are referring to the Arab and then Turkish empire that conquered the middle east and south east Europe, massacred villages and enslaved the people. That unfortunately does not fit the agenda of modern RAP history or the BLM Agenda!!.
@@dlougha nope that's not what I'm talking about
@@tribejudahjudah6289 So what are you talking about? I'm curious!!
Leave the past in the past. It’s not helping anyone bringing this shit up now!
If you don’t like how our country treats you, GO AWAY.
(Except if you are white)
Shut up Mossad bot.
Lemony Snicket oh I’m a Jew? Jeeze
Ned Barton Shut up, Mr Mossad.
Well times are changing and if you dont like you can go away.
Don't like it? Leave.
We would not have to leave if your ancestors stayed away from invading many lands TYRANTLY !! and displacing innocent peaceful people to and from lands that they did not wish to go to but nevertheless have settled and live in now. SO YOU LOT ARE THE ONE'S THAT SHOULD HAVE LEFT...........LONG LONG BEFORE YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE ARRIVED !!!!!🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ ????????????
Just for some perspective, every country in the world had slaves in the 18th century and Britian abolished it in 1807.
It's 2020
@@michellephillips3655 do you have any idea about the history of slavery? It was only stuck up wealthy people that owned slaves. Not everyone from the UK. People like me were the ones who fought to free them. The UK was the first country to abolish it, your history teacher never told you that? Look how angry you are with your false beliefs. Black people were sold by black people as well so Africa can't of been that peaceful. You all act like the UK is the big bad wolf. Yes, it has a dark history. Name one country that hasn't. Bottom line, don't blame people living today for things that happened long before that were born. You all believe in white privilege, which is something that doesn't exist too. Every person in this world struggles at some point in their life. What about the white families in Africa too.. Do they have privilege? Being murdered in they own homes. Africa is beyond saving. The government endorse the killing of whites over there. Honestly you don't even know how lucky you are if you live in the UK. Good luck trying to destroy this country with your BLM movement though, such a sound and honest movement that no way will be rejected by peaceful non racists like myself.
@@bmotion7648 aaaww that's fine then, that sure cancels out the actions of the slave owners. I guess we should all excuse them for their bbrbaric behaviour
@@michellephillips3655 the people who owned slaves are long dead. Get over it. My ancestors were enslaved by the Romans. You don't see us crying out for reparations to Italy. Stop being a victim your whole life.
It’s history you can’t change , bring the statues back shows that we moved on and that the world isn’t like that anymore they aren’t known for slave trading there there for another reason
If you are doing so well and making a good living. Go back to your home place educate the young people there. Stand straight walk tall and make a difference.
How are we ever gonna move forward when you keep bringing up the past !!!
It’s so important to remember the past so that it’s not forgotten. You can move forward no ones stopping that
frost1129 , because your version of history is based on lies which is constantly used to beat people of colour down.
Exactly, constantly focusing on guilt and past ain't helping. Its manipulation to keep people in low state for control. Good at least someone realise it. All these stay alert virus, feel guilty BLM all created for that reason. And media just promoting it ruclips.net/video/Fi_x090LGO8/видео.html
Evgenia Mukhtarova easy for you to say when you haven’t gone through the impact or the after affects of its cause. Look into what dehumanising treatment they had gone through such that they lost their names, their identity, their religion, their homeland and their rights. When you have been subjugated under that treatment then let’s hear you say let’s forget -
You never could. Believe me forgetting and moving on isn’t the solution. Recalling and remembering puts into perspective the atrocities that had occurred and helps us recall those who had sacrificed their lives for the struggle to be free. You will only understand this if you study the subject matter openly and with a pure heart. Peace
@@CEO786 with pure heart and peace you would forgive. Forgiving is only way to freedom. Otherwise people in Russia would moan and cry everyday like you how Germans dared to start Ww2, distroy country and due to that to protect country, 25mln people within 5 years was gone, cause whoever went to fight back knew they might never come back. Or starvation after collapse of USSR cause trator Gorbachev was doing everything possible to realise that. But people still managed to find way to survive. And we remember this time with good laugh, сalliing it dashing 90s. Its always a choice to be victim and have weak mindset, or to be fighter with strong mindset and move on and learning on past mistakes. Russia would be another English colony if we thought like you.
You are lucky if you live in Britain so be great full .... also remember Britain played a leading role in stoping slavery .. also remember that you should be trying to stop modern day slavery instead of whining about slavery from hundreds of years ago
For god sake drop this now
I fear they simply cannot. The BBC, who have a mandate to be unbiased, have utterly failed, and have capitilated to narratives and click-bait which will be their own undoing. Its a shame but they really do need defunding as they are part of the problem is so many ways.
I feel sorry for what decent journalists it still has trapped within it. But it has to go.
I’ll tell you where we are all from, the Earth.
Without the history of slavery there wouldn’t be any black people today calling the U.K. their Home. I thing we all just need to accept the history just the way it is and get on with each other.
So why are countries in Europe, with no history of African slavery, taking in African migrants?
JAMES WHITELEY i guess its because Africans dont like Africa. Black flight i guess you could call it
Well that's not true actually there are plenty of black people in the UK descended from recent African immigrants with no link to slavery. My grandfather on my father's side came over from Nigeria in the 60s for instance. All that aside however, I agree with the sentiment, that in any society it's important for mutual understanding, respect and good will to take precedence.
When are we going to get an apology for the BBC, Matt Lucas and David Walliams doing disabled face and disabled carers face?
Stfu snowflake
@@bobobobobo4 LGBT like Matt Lucas,, David Walliams and the BBC are the snowflakes, they ridicule mock and degrade everything around them, but can't tolerate valid criticism. LGBT fragility#, like you.
I think we should build statues of things that diversity and multiculturalism has helped accomplish, for example, Bandokay, Anjem Choudary, Zone 2, NPK, Usman Khan, Mohammad Sidique Khan, Hasib Hussain, Germaine Lindsay, Salman Abedi, Khalid Masood, Khairi Saadallah, Sadiq Khan, Diane Abbott. They should all get their own statue
I agree, that would totally end racism
If people need statues, then i WANT statues of evil doers, with plaques of explanation. A useful teaching focus.
A Diane Abbot statue
Dedicated to the mathematically troubled in the UK.
Why are people angry about criticising bad parts of British history? Why blindly be proud of bad things? Why hide from the truth (in any matter, not just this one). Acknowledging it doesn't make modern Brits any worse, so why are they scared?
If all you can complain about is the past well you probably have it quite good dont you
So if you shit sandwich yesterday and ate nothing today does that mean you gave it good? Or would you say damn that shit sandwich I ate yesterday was terrible
Bugatti Bezzy okay, so where are the solutions exactly? I mean, this is the media showing us that we ate a shit sandwich...but what do we do about that? Do we just cry to ourselves about how terrible we are until we get better?
Anthony Burke who is trying to rewrite our history and in what way?
Anthony Burke oh so this isn’t about helping people to understand your point of view, but rather an ego boost for you to prance around about how much you “know”...you going to answer the question or not, even if it’s a summary at least you could show that you have some sort of insight aye?
@Anthony Burke Where is the history being rewritten? And how was the original comment wrong?
I have nothing against the British Empire but all modern day conflicts can be traced back to some British dude who drew a random line on a random map
Now there is an open declaration of historical ignorance if ever I saw one.
Ask any of them if they had preferred to remain in Africa or be given the chance of a greater new life in Britain?
I THINK THE ANSWER IS OVERWHELMINGLY CLEAR!
So count your blessings and be grateful FOR what this country has offered you, a much better, albeit imperfect, life!
If life in Britain was so much better as you put it, why on heck did your ancestors go and ambush and settle in Alkebulan? That's the original name of Africa, but I guess you already knew that since your so clued up on your history. If we should be so grateful for what your ancestors have to offer and Britain was the best thing since slice bread, then please do tell me why are so many white people still living in Africa, the Caribbean islands and Australia? Why do they continue to exploit these places of their rich resources?
@@2stepnaturally774 I am not going to apologize for history, Africans invaded and enslaved each other centuries before Europeans even arrived. If you are weak, you get exploited, either it's between tribes or races.
Humans (allegedly all Africans) invaded and eradicated Neanderthals (native Europeans) thousands of years ago, should Africans now apologize to the real Europeans? Give me a break!
If you are weak and dumb, you get eliminated and die off, natural selection is not the most politically correct universal truth! Stop blaming and shaming the winners, work on yourself instead!
So what that was then..... times are different now , all lives matter
Legacy ? You serious???
How anyone can defend slavery is just... Unbelievable.
Who is doing so?
could we have BBC subscription only. It is too bias to report now.
ITV news I find is much better
God damn, BBC. You make me sick.
Y'ALL DON'T WANT THE TRUTH SO I SEE WHY THE DISLIKE.
The UK essentially went bankrupt in the late 1970’s. Were the 'benefits of a colonial past' what paid to get us out of that position? Or have we reinvented ourselves since then and worked really hard while still paying (a lot of) aid to the commonwealth nations?
As a trans black man I salute my ancestors for enduring enslavement in the past.
I would not have been so fortune to live in the west today if it wasn’t for their sacrifice.
Don't you just love the BBC. Didn't they employ Jimmy savile !!!!
Black history: migration from war zones, slavery.. bit boring compared to ours world wide dominance bringing medicine, school and technology around the world, alot of fighting in our history but no country in Europe is any worse or better.
You sound like my home..... America
Ethiopia, Mali, City of Congo go read about those for starters. I bet you've never actually tried to educate yourself on the history of other places, so of course you'll think only Europe has history.
@@dannyzee4 yeah your right Ethiopian history is amazing and Egyptian and most north Africa. But not on par with the success of Europe.
I’m sick of this. We have problems today to be busy rewriting history.
Why not shine a light on what you did to Hong Kong?!
Edit I’m talking about Britain
What do you mean?
hypercatjohn stealing it from China during the opium wars and forcing the locals to toe heroin and then only giving it back in 97 and still behaving like it’s theirs
There's always one?
If black are so oppressed in US or UK, why don't they leave to Africa? Or Jamaica or Haiti?
The thing is, I've always been aware of the dark side of Britain's colonial past. Mine and my parent's generation weren't subject to a focused propaganda campaign like my grandparent's generation was.
I never harboured any great illusions regarding the benevolence of the British empire. It's just now people in the common sphere are catching up and listening to what's been said all along.
Thank you so much for having the courage to actually admit this.
The white people feeling triggered in the comments just proves the reporters point.
This isn't news; it's the past.
Sha Smithie do you say that when they’re talking about Britain winning world was 2 as well?
Our history is our present
@@MM-og3qz Yes, I do. Britain has an obsession with World War 2. It's time to move on.
@@sjfoster12 The news should be about current affairs.
@@shasmithie4630 if the past had been different, current affairs would not be the same. The present is the present because of the past. OUR HISTORY IS OUR PRESENT
came here looking like filmstars with a smaller suitcase than my work bag
Let's apologies for something that happened when none of us were alive, that our great great grandparents did, good job main stream media in creating more division in society.
Today BBC discriminates against white males.
We should learn what the lives of our ancestors were like about 2 or 300 years ago, and learn about their sacrifices, twists of history both good and bad. Then we should look at the privileges we all take for granted today, thanks to our ancestors who have brought us here today to enjoy the the harvest of their sweat and tears, their inventiveness and innovation. That is the history that our modern "RAP" generation are demanding that Britain and Western Europe should apologize for!!
@Astrah Cat If it is Traditional elegant British culture, then our RAP generation demands that we apologize for it!!
@@DrJams According to the new guidelines of modern day RAP culture, It is racist and sexist to use "white males". since using gender to describe a group of people could offend the transgender community, and "white" could offend the black lives matter community!!.
@@dlougha what's a RAP?
And we don’t need this shit in the UK just look at how badly it’s effecting America. Leave the past in the past and focus on the future.
Britain abolished slavery in 1833 ,way ahead of its time. Despite this and many others, the positive side of the empire is often neglected.
@Tovey Churchill . Please could you elaborate on what you believe was the “positive side “ of the British Empire?
@@purpleprince4386 What was positive about the Roman Empire?
Purple Prince - The industrial revolution? Quite a significant occurrence.
Do you hear yourself? 'Way ahead of its time', 'the positive side of the empire'.... You are laughable.
grytlappar - Considering the fact that slavery still exists today, that alone would make William Wilberforce amongst others trailblazers you imbecile.
my mother said: lots of Bristolians got rich off slaves, only Colston also spent it on other people not just himself, so why should he be attacked? (I know that's not the point, but she also has a point)
I am not apologising for our great history. We have one of the most colourful and rich histories of any nation. We were better than the rest at the game of Empire. We have nothing to apologise for. Britain abolished the slave trade and the Royal Navy enforced the Abolishment across much of the globe. We paid for it financially (in taxes) for 200 years.
our top athletes, sports people, celebrities etc...are black.
This movement is 50 years too late.
LOL
Can't wait for YAH to put his hands on creatures like you.
50 years too late is EXACTLY why it is necessary. We cannot keep walking around like our shit doesn't stink. No one, and I mean no one, is asking for you to personally apologise for Britain's colonial past. We need to re-learn historical truths through an objective platform in order to understand why many groups feel marginalised. The tokenism of an elite few doesn't make up for the statistical disadvantages many POC experience. We can always do our best to learn, to keep learning and to change our attitudes to show that Britain is the forward-thinking nation that you purport.
@@TopTechTrendsX who now?
@@user-tr2pr1sd1u why did you report my comment? it was a fair point of discussion? how can we debate or discuss in a civil manner if genuine comments are removed?
the whole point of the past is to learn form it not to get rid of it, or change it
Now there’s a thing ( GAMAL ABDEL NASSER was the the 2 president of EGYPT on 1956 he went on national tv and said “ THE ISRAELITES LEFT BLACK AND RETURNED WHITE?
Yes Paul.....I remember that.....Good man..
*"These Jews """ ????
Their ancestors were just East European many centuries ago....Converted to the Hebrew faith.. Ashkenazi... Much later Rothschild brought the Coburg's over to England to take up "" royal "" status , to use this counterfeit lot to conquer nations , device and rule.....
So they are too white.....but they call themselves Semites ????? They can't be white and be Semitic.....
I wonder how our Yiddish mama queen thinks she could explain her way out of getting caught in her local Synagogue ???
THANKS PAUL FOR THAT REMINDER....
Remember when S S Windrush was a Nazi cruise ship.
#ALLLIVESMATTER
Mr Blobby! Subscribers with no videos white lives matter
That's like saying all jobs matter when clapping for NHS
Abzinoo all jobs do matter... are you trying to say black people get paid risk their lives trying to save people? You cant compare the NHS to black people thats so silly
Abzinoo but all jobs do matter
How many people have nostalgia for imperialism, and how shameful it is, the British must conscientiously answer.
I’m proud of all our history 👌🏻
There are things in our history, like all countries, that are not worthy of celebration.
The point is, now, today, Britain is far, far better than most of them for rights and equality and tolerance, hands down. We can *all* be proud of that.
Lol, a Colonial Power who Fed on Ruiling Killing 56 million Indians, Slavery, Torture.. Yessh.. PrOUUd of our Looters, Whining, B'Riissh Eempiire..!!
@@sasmalprasanjit2764 you got ghonti up your nose .
Thanks BBC. As a Jamaican American I am very interested in this issue. My dad fought in WW2 and I know that the existing economic problems in the Caribbean are a direct result of the triangular slave trade, colonialism and neo-colonialism.
I had to go an wash my face and eyes after watching this... A BBC article I could actually get behind and was truly neutral.
It is our History, all history (good and bad parts) belong to us all. We need to preserve it to understand where we went right, where we went wrong and so we can see how much we've moved forward.
Those seeking to remove history and re-write history miss its purpose. History shows us both the great accomplishments and the great tyranies we, humans in general are capable of and gives us chance to reflect.
To tear down slaver traders' statues and remove their memory does a disservice to all those that wouldn't be here and wouldn't be enjoying the country we share without.
Though a sordid, sorry time... The ancestors that suffered under slavery should also be fondly remembered for their suffering which bought people to one of the greatest countries on Earth. We don't have to give thanks to the slave traders on display if we don't want to but if you wouldn't be here without them.... Choose to honour your ancestors that we're bought here because of them.
Whats the point in recognising history when its only going to be used as a weapon against you by people who manipulate it and refuse to see it any other way? isnt about time we actually moved forward?
@@mrc3014 because looking for the truth is important. It's not hurt Germany to recognise their 20th Century history or Belgium to recognise their history in the Congo, why should it hurt Britain.
And at the moment, racism is partly fueled by ignorance of history. When people talk badly about foreign countries and people, a lot of it is ignorance that comes from colonial ideas (that places were backwaters before British rule). When people tell kids to go back home, they probably wouldn't say that so easily if they knew about colonialism and overall had more awareness of history.
@@dannyzee4 Mate how do you propose to change peoples minds, how do you convince a BLM supporter that Britain were the ones who did more to end slavery than anyone else in the world for example. people will just cherry pick what they want to support their narrative regards of what version of history really happened, and the journey you embark on to prove yourself right or others wrong is the road to hell. please dont be so naive. sure we do need to understand history but not right now and not when it is being weaponised.
@@mrc3014 You have it totally wrong.
It is exactly now, when misinterpretations of our history are spreading like wildfire to challenge and educate these BLM goons before more useful idiots destroy what they don't understand.
@Max Larsen What?
Who's that aimed at?
No longer News at Ten. Now Clive’s personal opinion at Ten.
Each life matters
But that's the problem in reality it doesn't, white lives only matter now.
People in these comments should be ashamed of yourself. How you can look in the mirror, after all this hate you bleed online is beyond my comprehension.
Sadie Robinson - A lot of it is a counter-reaction to the hate sown by the BBC in slots like this. Preaching to people about something they had no part in, indeed which happened centuries before they were born, and then asserting they are tainted and have some kind of original sin. It is so un-christian, so un-British and it’s tearing the country apart.
My conscience is clear Sadie, enough of your bleeding heart bullshit.
Guy being interviewed: "i felt like a lepper" ooo, should not have said that! See, where do we stop being offended?
We will never have an honest discussion about slavery until everyone learns who started it.