Life Under British Colonialism In The West Indies
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2019
- A Channel 4 film about West Indian ex-servicemen and women who served in the British forces in both world wars. The personalities include a soldier who fought for the English regiment in WWII, a pilot who joined the ATS, plus other individuals who were in the ground crew in the RAF.
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Black people are the most forgiving people on planet earth and I just don't get it. These people were recruited, left their home, family and friends behind to go to an alien country only to be used, abused and rejected by the host country. Politicians and well as the general public had a problem with blacks in this country and yet here we are talking about pride in a country and it's people, who to all intents and purposes still regard us as alien after all this time. The way in which they treated the Windrush generation is an excellent example of how blacks are still seen and regarded. Please, let us not be blinded by sentiment!!!
It is called resilience... Africans having resilience of a neutron star continue to exist despite all that is
Ala Meghan Markle. What exactly did she do to incur the rath of the Brits and their press, not to mention the monarchy? Yet they scream thiere is NO racism in Britain, the nation of slave-ships and slave holders.
The relationship between the UK and the empire is complex. The UK built schools, hospitals, roads, railways, medicines, Christianity, modern ideas of national identity and modern ways of living. Sports like cricket are now embedded into their cultures. The empire also exploited these countries for their treasures and raw materials. After the British left countries like Nigeria were modern democracies but they quickly collapsed into civil war, partly because the British forced tribes and different religions and ethnic groups together into 1 country and told them they were all citizens of the same country.
In some respects things haven't changed, after the empire left during the cold War America and the USSR divided up Africa into factions. If the US didn't like a government they could just arrange a coup. Now Western companies still exploit Africa for its raw materials.
You paved the way for the people of Caribbean heritage today, grateful for everything you did for us
My father fought heroically in both WWI and WWII, my eldest brother fought in WWII, my sister fought in WWII, and my second eldest brother was a pilot in the RAF and was killed in 1942.
Gpapa USMC CAPTAIN KOREA
Janese Johnsen Semper Fi!!!
@@BitcoinPitbull I went legal. Besides gpapa...sis, and a niece Navy. Other niece USMC. One married in SEAL. Hawaiian uncles Army. Sis husband Navy Vietnam...died of Agent Orange but got home.
@@BitcoinPitbull did you?
Absolute hero's. All of you. Thank you and God bless you and your family.
It's funny how what came out of each WWI and WWII was England gradually losing influence over its many (former) "colonies" due to how it treated those hundreds of thousands that still volunteered to fight with them.
A person might have a fine education, be highly skilled, or come from a good home, and have many great qualifications, but if that person judges a person based solely on the color of a persons skin, then they should be removed from any decision making responsibilities. And as a little extra perk have their lips sewn together.
@@Fafner8888 um yes racist
@@Fafner8888 I'd happily swap your miserable existence for that of a, cockroach say.
@BikermikeEb. Lips sewn together.you are joking of course.otherwise how did they eat.?
To all soldiers who fought,
thank you from generation z and so many others.
My father, his father and father. Thanku dad, grand and grand grand father.
umairah The way you phrased that brought a tear to my eye. Thank you.
I'm confused, you must not understand why blacks fought. FYI Jamaica has never left the Commonwealth,
He's dad was black, just because white ppl want to call biracial as blacks.
@@feliciawright1750 the word commonwealth makes me laugh it implies EVERYONE is rich when most people in the commonwealth past and present are poor ....
We will always remember and appreciate the great sacrifices they all made for us! ❤🌹
That who made for us?
Imagine dealing with Teddy Boyz Enoch Powell and Rivers of blood speech. Our Parents West Indians went through so much in England my mother studied in Glasgow midwifery for NHS. Worked in London at Hammersmith hospital for many years God bless her. My father also has the same story. Ladbroke Grove like many places in London mostly Caribbeans moved to because we weren't wanted anywhere else. Shepherd's Bush and Latimer Road etc Notting Hill Portobello road now it's gentrification issues like the whole of London.
"At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. "
24:23 My grandfather was one of those who cut timber in the forests of Scotland during WWII from Belize.
How sad people who came here to help us, were treated in this awful way. We are just humans and what always makes me smile is we all rush to go on holiday to get a tan and look darker. I'm proud to know my grandma treated coloured people with the same respect as anyone else. We were brought up as to know racism was a wicked thing. All the peeps who came and helped us during the war what ever there skin colour are our heroes.
I appreciate your comments. Thank you. PS: It's the 21st century, you can say People of Color (POC), or black people now.
We don't say colored anymore ma'am
@@TNJSRP how is Person of Color in anyway different from Coloured Person?
Respect to your grandma
@@ofimportance5458 she does
Title (Life .. in the West Indies) and description on the content (West Indian ex-servicemen having served in British Forces) do not match; false advertising.
These ignored warriors, black and white human beings. Are fighting a rich man's war. Would rather set my own pace.
Can't hear it turn up the volume
Knew one of the Royal Navy's intelligence men in the Caribbean, during the Second World War, (who kept tabs on enemy activities there). He had no qualms about the loyalties of the people in the British colonies, there, and never showed any sign of prejudice regarding anyone's color nor their class. He was a role model to me, (far more than the racist attitudes I had observed in my family and among many in the United States). These racist attitudes still exist today, and need to be extinguished. It's great to see the segment from the 1943 film "A Welcome To Britain" that sums up the problem, (even if it only tolerates it, "at home").
"Now look men - you heard that conversation. It's not unusual here. That happens quite a lot. Now let's be frank about it. There are coloured soldiers as well as white here and there are less social restrictions in this country. Just what you heard - an English woman asking a coloured boy to tea - she was polite about it and he was polite about it. Now, look - that might not happen at home, but the point is, we are not at home."
@willl 88 Never heard of Jack the Ripper nor John Haigh? Such a pitiful excuse by the ignorant for not "remembering" those who served your country during wartime and deserve your respect.
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" He was a role model to me" because HE was the minority there.
Respect to all my Yardeez and All of The West Indies 🙏🏽😔🙏🏽🔥🌹🔥
What year was this documentary made?
7 miles...repeated, 7 miles, not even horses run 7 miles...that got me...🤣🤣
1:54 who are they quoting
My fave Twilight Zone actor Burgess Meredith @ 37:40 !
11:20 african people have no ethical standard
Where did the Jamaican practice of lighting up humongous ganja spliffs come from?
Thats something i came up with thanks :)
Hindus from India in Jamaica smoked for religious purposes so did rastas who were inspired by them. Idiots in the general population from neither religion thought it was cool to smoke them like cigars and shifted from tobacco smoking.
The gods .....
@@johnathandaviddunster383:45 quadrilles and what ?
Wonderful historical perspective.
Much to be learned on race relations during wartime.1940's.
And yet it boldly continues.
@@TNJSRP2:40 privilege for
No wonder this people have all that resentment against whites.
33:20-38:31 personally I think is a some many ways incorrect about the alleged aquiescence, compliance, compliancy of the African-American G.I's stationed in the United Kingdom during World War ii (1939-1945). There is an estimated recorded 300 slave revolts in what is the contemporary United States between 1619-1865. Plus any viewer interested the original television broadcast was in the year 1990.
Lest we forget , we will remember them all.
10:15 who briefed the ministry of information
British very brave fighters 👍
No, just very stubborn and egotistical. We didn't fight for the greater good. We fought to save face.
33:09 Jim Crow Miami
39:31 British Honduras
Um filme do Channel 4 sobre ex-militares e mulheres das Índias Ocidentais que serviram nas forças britânicas nas duas guerras mundiais. As personalidades incluem um soldado que lutou pelo regimento inglês na Segunda Guerra Mundial, um piloto que ingressou na ATS, além de outros indivíduos que estavam na equipe de terra da RAF.
To all the veterans who have served in various wars. Thank you for laying your life on the line for so many people, you truly are selfless. These are the people that deserve celebrity perks such as free food and free stuff wherever they go. I mean most of us would never. My uncle was a marine in vietnam and never speaks about the horrors he had to witness from both sides, it truly saddens me when you know someone went through such camaraderie but cannot look back with fondness due to the things he had to do and the things they had to do. I wish there was no more wars and war leap would learn from the past but all these old men just sit by and fondle their nuclear buttons.
The shame of this tongue is immensely depressing but all I cherish comes from it's understanding. Colonized we remain but aware of the cause we are.
What do you mean when you says shame of this “tongue”?
@@theONE-ws8lhwatch Tongues untied
this is sad....but more interestingly......lot of Indian solders fought for British while Churchill started Bengal famine which starved 4.5 million Indians by exporting too much grain to the warehouses in England just to sit on the sidelines.
I don't see any Indentured Indians . Are they not from the West Indies also ?
Indians are from India. West Indians are from the Caribbean.
A year too late !
Mickey loves you rock 😂😂😂😂😂
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My grandfather served with the 452nd Anti Aircraft Artillery Battalion. US Army.He was stationed in southern England just prior to the D-Day invasion. And told me about the many fights him and his friends got into with white soldiers. Usually over women.
My grandfather served in the 92nd Infantry Division in Italy during 1944-45 and he used to tell me similar stories.
@@MrShaneVicious His brother was a Montford Point Marine.And when they were occupying Japan after the war there was similar incidents with them having to fight white soldiers and Marines.And the reason, because the white boys got angry whenever Japanese women took a liking to black men.
@First Last Go be frog legs on a plate.
@@grapeshot Can you tell the history of your grandfather's life in Britain?
The Britains and the indians have conditions of life?
@@join8998 I got sent to England and Wales to train. And since it was an anti-aircraft unit they were tasked with the defense of Southern England.
#Lestweforget 🌺
But what didymium do before for your own people before the British came.What was there for your people.what did you do to educate your people and give them justice in the form of laws.?😊
06:55 of pure European birth
I'm American but I love Great Britain! I live in Jersey City NJ and hang the Union Jack in front of my house. I lived in London for one year. God bless the Queen.
I'm hurtin for honary subject. But it rains too much in the UK. Tacitus wrote that there were 4 Black skinned tribes in Britainnia and I believe him.
I am so proud of all of the soldiers that fought and died for what they believe in for their on country I salute you all. No matter what race you were they were all brave men and women….🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇬🇦🇪 and all the other nations we are proud of them.
And lost the empire.
RED TAILS.!!!!!!!
Black and white human beings, my apologies.
Any guyanaes
never forgot
51:59 British Hondurans were repatriated
GOD BLESS THE QUEEN !!
QE be damned!
The Queen is an exception human being who accept other people's way of life respectfully and honourably. Hence, she is an international icon of world till today whether she is with us or not...her promise delivered "be it long or short" in her vow for once in her lifetime on a new journey...
thk you
Jesus loves you
Believe in him and repent !
People don't magically come back alive after a terminal death. Turns out, death is real and horrible and humans should cry about it instead of making up imaginary friends
British racism. I'm not very surprised.
...show me a non racist society...anywhere
Ignorant Xenophobia, I’m not very surprised.
@Jigger2361 no its colonial domination
@@hivaladeen4892
7:33 what is his name ?
Just need to make a video reminding people about the black soldiers only two days before remembrance haven’t we?
It’s not like it’s rubbed in everywhere you see.
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Perhaps, (if you find it repugnant to remember the sacrifices of "black soldiers"), you might remember that the wars against fascism were fought by many diverse races. For example, at the Battle of Hong Kong, in 1941, the Colony was defended by British, Canadian, Indian, Gurkha, Chinese, and French forces, (doubtful that anyone has recorded the exact racial background of all these units, and probably a few Yanks, too), who fought side-by-side against the an overwhelming Japanese invasion force for more than two weeks. Hollywood prefers to focus on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, but some Yanks were fighting against Japan with the Chinese, before the American government declared war against Japan and Germany.
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Resologist Just because a people of different ethnicities fought in the war, it doesn’t mean it was common to see Black soldiers in the European armies especially whilst in Europe.
In fact it would of been pretty rare since blacks were still classed as second class citizens added on to the fact that not many lived in Europe until around the 60s.
Truth hurts I suppose. Idiot
@@Original_Dalvik Could be that in the United States military, most military units were segregated, until 1948.
In Canada, some minorities were discouraged from enlisting, (the RCAF barred blacks until 1943, and the RCN until 1944), but that didn't stop many from serving in the military. www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/black-canadians-in-uniform
I'd guess that you never heard of an author named Alexander Dumas, (wrote a few adventure novels), or his father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, (a French soldier)?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas-Alexandre_Dumas