Slavery is rife ACROSS the World! Yet these people who shout loud without the ability to even listen to anyone else never ever speak out about. RHM is totally right and has been all along. People taking it upon themselves to destroy our culture and actually re-write our history are a disgrace. Who the hell gave them permission to do so. I see a lot of my Bajan friends returning to their 'roots' with sufficient money from the sale of their UK homes to buy outright wonderful homes, ready to settle back on the island. They would argue that Britain has done something great for them! Two sides to every story. I am proud of our past, proud to be English and British, and proud to be white. I will never apologise for anything other than something I am responsible for!
and people whining about slaves in the West Indies ignore conditions in factories in UK in the first half of the 19th century... average age for a worker was around the mid-20's...
@@KemetledAfrica The workers of Manchester lived on average ten years less than a West Indian/N' American slave. Not done your research on this one have you?
@@simanothername3035 The trouble is you can vote for who you believe in, But as soon as they are in power their true money/power grabbing colours come out...
Haha - ‘spitting’ facts - odd use of English - because the word ‘spitting’ has unpleasant connotations- like ‘vomiting’ or ‘spewing’ and yet you are with Rafe - on his side - I presume? Better words might be ‘offering’, ‘presenting’, ‘speaking’, ‘contributing’, ‘providing’, ‘advancing’… not spitting!!
The Universities must be charged with the grooming of young minds for their own purposes. They are not teaching our youth how to think, but rather telling them what to think.
In 1833 when the Abolition of Slavery Act was instigated there was another act which was supposed to put and end to children under the age of 9 working in the mills and factories and pits under appalling conditions, as did some of my child ancestors. They were also not supposed to work more than nine hours a day. These are the people that built Britain as well. None of these people seem to know any social history. At this time there were also thousands of homeless children on the streets, ragged and no shoes. And always the bitter cold winters. Draconian Poor Laws. No white privilege for them.I'd like to see some recognition of these people of Britain.
Even in 1920 my mother was sleeping 4 in a bed in a house with no heating, no bathroom, no indoor toilet and 2 bedrooms for 10 people! No benefits or free healthcare! Her father killed in WW1 and her mother raised 8 kids on her own but all were always fed and the rent always paid! Unlike today where we have so many benefits but parents rather spend money on takeaways, mobile phones, tvs, tattoos, Netflix, clothes they wear once, having hair and nails done but not feeding their kids or paying their rent.
Rafe is pure gold to listen to, he is a Historian, who knows what everyone should know, and unfortunately most don't because they are changing history to help others out??? Let's just stick with real history.
@@edaleman2758 Yeah to young girls & them coming illegally if you mean in the ways that I'm thinking, but it's definitely always been a wealth class/working class kind of issue.
I really like and respect Rafe , he speaks so much sense and I bet it really annoys the woke left because of his Asian ancestry. They can't call him racist. Please keep up the good work
I have the same ethnic background as Rafe, Born and bred in London to a European (English) mother / Indian father. I also share the exact same beliefs as Rafe when it comes Britain. I can tell you first hand that this infuriates the woke liberal brigade who love to play the racist card by reminding me that I have an Indian father. However when I remind them that I can trace my English ancestry back 800 years they explode with anger and frustration much to my amusement.
But Stephen, the black kings of Africa on the West Coast in particular (it was the Arabs on the East Coast), did get heavily involved in slavery. It was they who caught the slaves for the white Europeans. To suggest Britain's wealth is only because of the slave trade is utterly ludicrous and our education system should be putting this right. Most definitely, talk about the slave trade in schools but give the other side of the argument too, which most of these left wing teachers do not.
Many of the African former colonies went backwards in all major ecconomic metrics after their freedom. Most British overseas territories fared far better than the colonies of any other nation.
From the perspective of psychology, woke people feeling sorry and powerless due to fault of themselves, but it's always easier to blame someone else for everything.
According to Will Storr it is a variation on the status game. Instead of seeking status through competency, they do it through dominating the narrative. Just say no to woke. It's not like they can fight back with anything but lies.
@@aalan4296 That we did do. Foot binding was outlawed by the Nationalist Chinese Government of Sun-Yat-Sen after the fall of the Imperial Chinese Government.
Rafe speaks with facts & figures. Thank you. Ive had so many people looking at me as if im mad when Ive spoken up, pointing out the brilliant things the British people & civilization have given to the world we live in & take for granted ...with ethnic white, black & brown. My fascination started from hearing casual conversations at home about 'back home' v life in England & hearing dad discussing the politics of Partition with his friends & then the totally different take outside ,at school & in my primary history & general reading & newspapers, radio programmes. It was rare for Post war schools to have any brown/black children & everyone was very patriotic, Eurocentric. I am still addicted to reading widely. History is very complicated & needs to be taught & debated so people search for more information & understand its relevance to their own life as I happened to realise very early on. The extremist agendas need to be countered very vigorously, honestly, with facts, debates & education.
If one were to list what Britain has exported to the rest of the world in manufacturing, science, medicine, education, hygiene, law and order, democracy, technology etc the list is amazingly long. From the world's first police force to the toothbrush. From the steam engine to the telephone. Won't list anymore, the point is the rest of the world would be scratching around in the dirt fighting for their own survival were in not for Britain. My how we've fallen now.
The Enlightenment, the industrial revolution, shipbuilding, engineering, literature, music, fighting and winning two world wars & then rebuilding our nations population/infrastructure/resources and public services. Our families built this nation for centuries & we need to stop apologising for anything & we need to prevent more people coming in & destroying our economy and culture.
Our Universities were once the most important hall,s of education, where the ruling classes sent their heirs. I had a Kuwaiti student living with my family for a couple of years who told us that even American education, Harvard and others was seen as a second class to English Education. Mind this was fifty years ago before wokeism and communism took over our institutions. I think this is a shame to the thinking intelligent from all countries being educated to think how to solve problems, instead of just being sheep with no debate or true inquiry into subjects.
Cultural Marxism or Maoism has become strong in the global west and it is due to the continued reduction in education standards that started, maybe, in the 1970s. It's been a long slow progression to devolve education and society but it has, hopefully, reached its zenith and will will recover.
'Bibi' Netanyahu said the other day that the modern generation sense of history does go further than what they had for breakfast this morning. In most cases, even shorter. And we see the proof of this virtually everywhere nowadays.
The 3 cultures which persisted in the institution of slavery after the advent of the Industrial Revolution (Antebellum South, the Iberians, Muslim dominated areas of North Africa and the Middle East) suffered identical fates: stagnation, decline, and ultimate collapse from which they have yet to fully recover. They paid a heavy price for obstinantly clinging to an archaic, barbaric, and notoriously inefficient economic system which couldn't possibly compete with industrialized nations. The British Empire reached its zenith in the 19th Century after it abolished the slave trade and slavery itself. The US didn't emerge on the world stage as an industrial giant until the late 19th and early 20th Centuries after slavery was abolished with the passage of the 13th Amendment. Western wealth was built on industrialization and technological advancements which proceeded with breakneck speed as the 20th Century began. It was NOT built on slavery.
We had recent slavery in Britain, it was called the Magdeline laundries, thanks to the Catholic Church. Young girls and women who became pregnant and had no sex education were imprisoned in these nunneries for life, their babies sold, the unsold mainly ended up in cesspits. The Catholic Church has still not apologised.there are still victims around today as the last laundry closed in the 1980s Also the Portuguese and other nations began buying slaves as they saw opportunities for wealth. Slavery is still very active in Africa today.
Wasn't that Ireland not Britain. Southern Ireland is a different country and Catholic. Britain is not but part of the British Isles. It's totally different.
@@toastedsandwich1 My ancestors had alot of Irish history, moved throughout when famine was often an issue! Yet we ended up North of England in later times, it was so different back in the 1600s before GB was a thing, you had white peasants! Which is basically what we'd call the working class now.
@@toastedsandwich1Magdalene institutions were in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Sweden, Canada and Australia. They had different degrees of harshness depending who they were run by and the social attitudes of the society of the time and where they were located. None of then were a picnic, conditions were not intended to be an encouragement to continued 'vice' or 'immorality', but they were intended to make life better in future by providing some degree of skill, to help get employment, at a time when prostitution was common to survive, or that opportunity was denied once you were 'a fallen woman's because the man you thought was your beau and intended to get married ran off and left you pregnant and alone. Some of the institutions however were downright pernicious. In Ireland they took on a particular brutality, and worked in cooperation with the state, with girls admitted and kept confined, sometimes for life, babies dying, the women and childrens bodies who died from brutality, neglect, disease were buried in the grounds, unmarked. These 'homes' were still running in Ireland under these kinds of regimes until 1998, whereas elsewhere in the world they were wound down between the 1900s and finally all had closed by the 1950s in Britain. That said, there were still institutions and social services taking children from their mothers, having them adopted, and many were sent to Canada and Australia. The film Sunshine and Oranges tells the story of children sent to Australia. So, there were institutions that treated many badly and in a way that is utterly unacceptable today compared to when they began in the late 18th century. Ireland however was particularly bad and some of the worst of it after independence in 1922, because the state did not intervene in the religious excess and serious work exploitation and abuse, but endorsed it.
It’s not the education system- or at least not just that. It’s social media and TikTok. The amount of my friends in their 30s getting their information from social media is astounding.
What a brilliant lecture by Rafe. My school stopped history lessons when I was 14 but I took interest even through novels and the many educational TV programmes. One in particular recently was "Maps of Great Britain" on how Britain developed.
Can we have more Rafe Heydel please? Educated (in the true sense of the word), thinking brains who value history & are able to weigh up the pros and cons. Our education system appears to have cultivated stupidity and this will destroy our countr(ies) and culture(s).
Simple thought experiment. How bad was the British Empire compared to all the others, Egyption, Greek, Roman, Persian, Ottoman? And given the choice, which would you prefer to live under if there was no other option?
"He talked a lot of sense IF YOU ASK ME", Kevin finished - why the "if you ask me"? It makes his statement so insecure! Rafe is a brillant erudite who understands to use his knowledge.
All those British styled buildings over the world ,I'm sure their government in those buildings will want to knock them down ..they must be such a terrible reminder of the colonies 😂
Hej, we've splitted the atom, we've found Ultima Thule ("New Horizon" probe) beyond the Pluto. Not with emotions and protesting and screaming. With hard work, with testing the ideas on reality ... and so on. Are we not allowed to be proud?
All students at high school should be shown graphic films of the NAZI concentration camps and then films of the D/Day landings and the small boat rescue from Dunquirk...
Empire bad? Colonialism bad? You must be kidding me. I am GRATEFUL for colonialism. I am a Nigerian. My only anger is that Britain left. The fan's cord was pulled from power and the fan has ever so slowly moved towards stoppage. What a shame
britiain has the greatest history a country could have, had the biggest empire ever created, a lasting cultural, economic, industrial and legal legacy. Only empire in history to declare war on slavery and its influence enabled slavery to be defeated. We fought against the Nazis when we could have abandoned Europe with our empire intact but we didnt and history is fukl of us standing up for other nations- see the napoleonic wars or the crimean war. To look at the success of the countries that used to be part of the empire confirms you were lucky if you were part of the great Empire
Gazzillions in foreign aid, and 50% of Sub-Saharan Africa, still doesn't have safe drinking water. But, they do still have slaves. Maybe, some cultures are different after all.
All u have to do is look at video's from early 1900's to see the truth. We weren't always multi-cultural. The whole world was in slaving each other at the time. Our intelligence was why we owned 3/4 of the world. We really are a shadow of our former selfs.
Wokery is not irreversibly destructive for the nation. We could cope with that but mass immigration leads to irreversible demographic change, transformation of our nation.
This narrative is used by less successful countries because they have an inferiority complex with regards to the United Kingdom. I have experienced this first hand after living in a European country and having much prejudice against me just because I am British, and hearing that all the woes of the world can be put at our feet, (by people who have no knowledge of history I might add and also have no wish to know the truth about history because it suits their agenda). I won't mention the name of the country but let's just say I jokingly put it down to the fact that we've never been forgiven for having won the Battle of Trafalgar against two other European countries. The fact that such a small island has had such economical success, attracts negative feelings towards it, and is due to the oldest and most destructive (in my opinion) emotion in the world: Envy. This is why they have been trying for decades to bring us down and they're finally achieving it, both by mass illegal immigration and by turning the narrative on its head by rewriting history.
British colonialism civilised many countries and brought them out of poverty. Check out how many modern day inventions came from this island. Nobody can rival that. We should be proud of our nation.
Spain and Portugal dropped massively between the 16th and 19th centuries... the Spanish had splurged their wealth from looting the Aztec and Inca gold on wars in the Netherlands .. by the time their colonies were breaking away in the 19th century, they were virtually broke.. Portugal gave up their remaining colonies in 1975 when a far-left govt came to power - leaving a power vacuum in Angola and Mozambique. .
We ended the bulk of the worlds slavery! Pull the other leg. I vow to thee my country, rule Britannia, land of hope and glory, our green and pleasant lands, Britons will NEVER EVER be slaves!
As a member of a Commonwealth nation,I am very proud of its legacy past and present. S Africa was booted out of the Commonwealth until apartheid was dumped.Nelson Mandela thanked the people of NZ for insisting that rugby was a racially mixed game as it is today.
Slavery is still rife in Africa but a don’t hear people of a certain colour going on about it I wonder why.🤔🤔🤔🤔
Slavery is rife ACROSS the World!
Yet these people who shout loud without the ability to even listen to anyone else never ever speak out about.
RHM is totally right and has been all along.
People taking it upon themselves to destroy our culture and actually re-write our history are a disgrace. Who the hell gave them permission to do so.
I see a lot of my Bajan friends returning to their 'roots' with sufficient money from the sale of their UK homes to buy outright wonderful homes, ready to settle back on the island. They would argue that Britain has done something great for them!
Two sides to every story.
I am proud of our past, proud to be English and British, and proud to be white. I will never apologise for anything other than something I am responsible for!
Yep & the left on a Saturday cheer on groups that are doing that.
No grift money making opportunities - so those "black lives " are not important to them .
@@guardian100 or Brexit
@guardian100 actually the Arab world has been buying and selling slaves for 2000 years.
It was the British inventions, trade and the industrial revolution that created Britains wealth. 🇬🇧
and people whining about slaves in the West Indies ignore conditions in factories in UK in the first half of the 19th century... average age for a worker was around the mid-20's...
@@coling3957Did they have a seven year lifespan
@@KemetledAfrica ? What.. yeah some did. Child death rates were horrendous in Victorian Britain. Educate yourself.
@Native_Man123 Parts of Africa were Christian before Europe and were doing very well indeed, then they were colonized.
By Islam.
@@KemetledAfrica The workers of Manchester lived on average ten years less than a West Indian/N' American slave. Not done your research on this one have you?
Rafe is spot on as always.
And he’s not even white 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@@washingtongarden4078He IS WHITE!
Destroying or lying about history should be a criminal offence.
absolutely agree.
The Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman empire etc but only the British empire is deemed as bad in the current world?
Rafe is a very intelligent man, what a shame our government couldn't care less about our culture or history.
Don't vote for people to represent you who hate your country. Nothing good can come of it.
@@simanothername3035 The trouble is you can vote for who you believe in, But as soon as they are in power their true money/power grabbing colours come out...
What about TODAY'S slavery....that is what these so called 'activist' should focus their efforts.
There are more slaves today than there were before the 1833 Act. So we didn't do such a good job after all. Read Section 1 of the 13th Amendment.
Rafe spitting facts as usual. The two words the world should be saying is "thank you".
Haha - ‘spitting’ facts - odd use of English - because the word ‘spitting’ has unpleasant connotations- like ‘vomiting’ or ‘spewing’ and yet you are with Rafe - on his side - I presume? Better words might be ‘offering’, ‘presenting’, ‘speaking’, ‘contributing’, ‘providing’, ‘advancing’… not spitting!!
Nothing odd about it. It's a phrase that has been used for years 🤷🏼♂️
Sense of humour and irony, PLEASE!
There are more slaves today than there were before the 1833 Act. So we didn't do such a good job after all. Read Section 1 of the 13th Amendment.
The Universities must be charged with the grooming of young minds for their own purposes.
They are not teaching our youth how to think, but rather telling them what to think.
It's so nice to listen to Rafe without him being shouted down by some psycho with a great chip on her shoulder.
If only there were more enlightened people like Rafe to spread the anti Woke message...
I love Rafe. He talks so much sense
Always good to listen to Rafe Heydel-Mankoo. What a pity that we don't have politicians of his mindset.
In 1833 when the Abolition of Slavery Act was instigated there was another act which was supposed to put and end to children under the age of 9 working in the mills and factories and pits under appalling conditions, as did some of my child ancestors. They were also not supposed to work more than nine hours a day. These are the people that built Britain as well. None of these people seem to know any social history. At this time there were also thousands of homeless children on the streets, ragged and no shoes. And always the bitter cold winters. Draconian Poor Laws. No white privilege for them.I'd like to see some recognition of these people of Britain.
Even in 1920 my mother was sleeping 4 in a bed in a house with no heating, no bathroom, no indoor toilet and 2 bedrooms for 10 people! No benefits or free healthcare! Her father killed in WW1 and her mother raised 8 kids on her own but all were always fed and the rent always paid! Unlike today where we have so many benefits but parents rather spend money on takeaways, mobile phones, tvs, tattoos, Netflix, clothes they wear once, having hair and nails done but not feeding their kids or paying their rent.
No reparations for them then
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Rafe is pure gold to listen to, he is a Historian, who knows what everyone should know, and unfortunately most don't because they are changing history to help others out??? Let's just stick with real history.
we stopped exports slaves but slavery is still rife in africa 9 million slaves live in slavery and in asia theres 20 million slaves today ???
Still exists in Britain too
@@edaleman2758done by foreigners
@@edaleman2758 Yeah to young girls & them coming illegally if you mean in the ways that I'm thinking, but it's definitely always been a wealth class/working class kind of issue.
@@edaleman2758 100 percent low wages for the english
@@edaleman2758 Sure if you know of it, report it to the police. Now, about those slave markets in Libya?
I really like and respect Rafe , he speaks so much sense and I bet it really annoys the woke left because of his Asian ancestry. They can't call him racist.
Please keep up the good work
Oh I'm sure they'll find a way! Totally agree with Rafe by the way, a very knowledgeable and perceptive historian.
I have the same ethnic background as Rafe, Born and bred in London to a European (English) mother / Indian father. I also share the exact same beliefs as Rafe when it comes Britain. I can tell you first hand that this infuriates the woke liberal brigade who love to play the racist card by reminding me that I have an Indian father. However when I remind them that I can trace my English ancestry back 800 years they explode with anger and frustration much to my amusement.
They will pick the "self-hating" tag to pin on him.
It was down to industry, Ingenuity and damned hard work.
They don’t think the British Empire was “bad” they’re just jealous it wasn’t black people who did it.
100% and ABSOLUTELY. Jealousy and resentment.
But Stephen, the black kings of Africa on the West Coast in particular (it was the Arabs on the East Coast), did get heavily involved in slavery. It was they who caught the slaves for the white Europeans. To suggest Britain's wealth is only because of the slave trade is utterly ludicrous and our education system should be putting this right. Most definitely, talk about the slave trade in schools but give the other side of the argument too, which most of these left wing teachers do not.
Spot on, Stephen.
Abso-bloody- lutely. I wonder how they would have treated us were the tables turned?
Many of the African former colonies went backwards in all major ecconomic metrics after their freedom.
Most British overseas territories fared far better than the colonies of any other nation.
Really?. a tax paradise only this territories.
Rafe, as always takes with facts.
We were so succesful because its so bloody cold & miserable that the best way to pass the time was to stay home & invent things
I adore Rafe …… this guy is a scholar and a chief…. Love it when you have incredibly smart people on. Can you do this more often please 🙏🏽
Bravo Rafe
Britain created a worldwide system of trade that benefited all.
Brilliant. Thank you Rafe.
This should be taught in schools.
Yes, worries me what they're teaching in schools. Don't promote critical thinking, heaven forbid the populous should question anything, sad and scary.
From the perspective of psychology, woke people feeling sorry and powerless due to fault of themselves, but it's always easier to blame someone else for everything.
Yes and it "manifests " itself in envy which turns to spite and then to hatred . Never underestimate the green of envy : the real "colour " problem .
Some people are not happy unless they get to play the victim.
According to Will Storr it is a variation on the status game. Instead of seeking status through competency, they do it through dominating the narrative. Just say no to woke. It's not like they can fight back with anything but lies.
Also banned foot binding of baby girls in China.
Also the practice of Sati in India
@@aalan4296 That we did do. Foot binding was outlawed by the Nationalist Chinese Government of Sun-Yat-Sen after the fall of the Imperial Chinese Government.
Rafe speaks with facts & figures. Thank you.
Ive had so many people looking at me as if im mad when Ive spoken up, pointing out the brilliant things the British people & civilization have given to the world we live in & take for granted ...with ethnic white, black & brown. My fascination started from hearing casual conversations at home about 'back home' v life in England & hearing dad discussing the politics of Partition with his friends & then the totally different take outside ,at school & in my primary history & general reading & newspapers, radio programmes. It was rare for Post war schools to have any brown/black children & everyone was very patriotic, Eurocentric.
I am still addicted to reading widely. History is very complicated & needs to be taught & debated so people search for more information & understand its relevance to their own life as I happened to realise very early on.
The extremist agendas need to be countered very vigorously, honestly, with facts, debates & education.
I could listen to Rafe for hours….,
So I do!
The British really were great
They still are.
😂 not any more
@@Aceface007😂
Rafe, a national treasure.
A very good summing up of the parlous state we have now been intentionally enveloped. No wonder Blairdom insisted on deranged education.
The English Thomas Sowell. Love this man
If one were to list what Britain has exported to the rest of the world in manufacturing, science, medicine, education, hygiene, law and order, democracy, technology etc the list is amazingly long. From the world's first police force to the toothbrush. From the steam engine to the telephone. Won't list anymore, the point is the rest of the world would be scratching around in the dirt fighting for their own survival were in not for Britain. My how we've fallen now.
Just thank the blk Egyptians for giving greece civilisation
The Enlightenment, the industrial revolution, shipbuilding, engineering, literature, music, fighting and winning two world wars & then rebuilding our nations population/infrastructure/resources and public services. Our families built this nation for centuries & we need to stop apologising for anything & we need to prevent more people coming in & destroying our economy and culture.
No such thing as black Egyptians. Govt of Egypt actually sued Netflix over that bs
@claudiameier666 Unfortunately you have been lied too. And they sued over Cleopatra not a blk Egypt. How can they, when they are still there lol 😆
Kevin, These are Just a minority of a minority and should just be IGNORED.
Our Universities were once the most important hall,s of education, where the ruling classes sent their heirs. I had a Kuwaiti student living with my family for a couple of years who told us that even American education, Harvard and others was seen as a second class to English Education. Mind this was fifty years ago before wokeism and communism took over our institutions. I think this is a shame to the thinking intelligent from all countries being educated to think how to solve problems, instead of just being sheep with no debate or true inquiry into subjects.
Well done Rafe
Call rafe whatever you like, it doesn't detract from his truth. Saying it loud, saying it clear. Keep up the good work mate
Good on Kemi!
Spot on chaps
The best history I have heard - truth
Thank you Rafe
EVERY ONE STILL LOVES TO LIVE HERE BUT HATE THEMSELVES FOR IT , JUST GO BACK AND BUILD YOUR OWN COUNTRY UP
Cultural Marxism or Maoism has become strong in the global west and it is due to the continued reduction in education standards that started, maybe, in the 1970s. It's been a long slow progression to devolve education and society but it has, hopefully, reached its zenith and will will recover.
Will it?
'Bibi' Netanyahu said the other day that the modern generation sense of history does go further than what they had for breakfast this morning. In most cases, even shorter.
And we see the proof of this virtually everywhere nowadays.
Talking more than a lot of sense, with a lot of truth too!!
The 3 cultures which persisted in the institution of slavery after the advent of the Industrial Revolution (Antebellum South, the Iberians, Muslim dominated areas of North Africa and the Middle East) suffered identical fates: stagnation, decline, and ultimate collapse from which they have yet to fully recover. They paid a heavy price for obstinantly clinging to an archaic, barbaric, and notoriously inefficient economic system which couldn't possibly compete with industrialized nations.
The British Empire reached its zenith in the 19th Century after it abolished the slave trade and slavery itself. The US didn't emerge on the world stage as an industrial giant until the late 19th and early 20th Centuries after slavery was abolished with the passage of the 13th Amendment. Western wealth was built on industrialization and technological advancements which proceeded with breakneck speed as the 20th Century began. It was NOT built on slavery.
We had recent slavery in Britain, it was called the Magdeline laundries, thanks to the Catholic Church. Young girls and women who became pregnant and had no sex education were imprisoned in these nunneries for life, their babies sold, the unsold mainly ended up in cesspits. The Catholic Church has still not apologised.there are still victims around today as the last laundry closed in the 1980s Also the Portuguese and other nations began buying slaves as they saw opportunities for wealth. Slavery is still very active in Africa today.
The Church is still a bastion of ignorance and repression.
Wasn't that Ireland not Britain. Southern Ireland is a different country and Catholic. Britain is not but part of the British Isles. It's totally different.
@@toastedsandwich1 My ancestors had alot of Irish history, moved throughout when famine was often an issue! Yet we ended up North of England in later times, it was so different back in the 1600s before GB was a thing, you had white peasants! Which is basically what we'd call the working class now.
@@toastedsandwich1Magdalene institutions were in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Sweden, Canada and Australia. They had different degrees of harshness depending who they were run by and the social attitudes of the society of the time and where they were located. None of then were a picnic, conditions were not intended to be an encouragement to continued 'vice' or 'immorality', but they were intended to make life better in future by providing some degree of skill, to help get employment, at a time when prostitution was common to survive, or that opportunity was denied once you were 'a fallen woman's because the man you thought was your beau and intended to get married ran off and left you pregnant and alone. Some of the institutions however were downright pernicious. In Ireland they took on a particular brutality, and worked in cooperation with the state, with girls admitted and kept confined, sometimes for life, babies dying, the women and childrens bodies who died from brutality, neglect, disease were buried in the grounds, unmarked. These 'homes' were still running in Ireland under these kinds of regimes until 1998, whereas elsewhere in the world they were wound down between the 1900s and finally all had closed by the 1950s in Britain. That said, there were still institutions and social services taking children from their mothers, having them adopted, and many were sent to Canada and Australia. The film Sunshine and Oranges tells the story of children sent to Australia.
So, there were institutions that treated many badly and in a way that is utterly unacceptable today compared to when they began in the late 18th century. Ireland however was particularly bad and some of the worst of it after independence in 1922, because the state did not intervene in the religious excess and serious work exploitation and abuse, but endorsed it.
Irish people were also forced into the slave trade. The Irish have suffered for centuries, sadly.
"Britain invented the modern world." Nails it.
It’s not the education system- or at least not just that. It’s social media and TikTok. The amount of my friends in their 30s getting their information from social media is astounding.
Education! Education! Education!
Africa had slavery (still does), why isn't Africa developed then?
Without Western tuition nothing would have progressive throughout the world
If that’s the case, Africa should be a leader as it was the centre of the slave trade! Some might say, still is!
What a load of bullocks it's Industrial revolution and trading you can not make it up jeez
HISTORY NEEDS TO BE A MANDATORY SUBJECT AND NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT THOROUGHLY AND CORRECTLY!!
Excellent!
We better not vote any of them in office and keep that Kimi out.
Where is ingenuity and industry now.?
What a brilliant lecture by Rafe. My school stopped history lessons when I was 14 but I took interest even through novels and the many educational TV programmes. One in particular recently was "Maps of Great Britain" on how Britain developed.
Can we have more Rafe Heydel please? Educated (in the true sense of the word), thinking brains who value history & are able to weigh up the pros and cons. Our education system appears to have cultivated stupidity and this will destroy our countr(ies) and culture(s).
Britain was ahead of human rights
Funny how all these critics are so keen to invade Britain
Well done.
I love Rafe because he spits historical facts and he makes leftists heads explode.
Good discussion. Slavery running today.
Simple thought experiment. How bad was the British Empire compared to all the others, Egyption, Greek, Roman, Persian, Ottoman? And given the choice, which would you prefer to live under if there was no other option?
Rafe always talks sense :)
"He talked a lot of sense IF YOU ASK ME", Kevin finished - why the "if you ask me"? It makes his statement so insecure!
Rafe is a brillant erudite who understands to use his knowledge.
All those British styled buildings over the world ,I'm sure their government in those buildings will want to knock them down ..they must be such a terrible reminder of the colonies 😂
Hej, we've splitted the atom, we've found Ultima Thule ("New Horizon" probe) beyond the Pluto. Not with emotions and protesting and screaming. With hard work, with testing the ideas on reality ... and so on. Are we not allowed to be proud?
Rafe is truly a great man. 👍🏼👍🏼🇬🇧💪🏼❤️
All students at high school should be shown graphic films of the NAZI concentration camps and then films of the D/Day landings and the small boat rescue from Dunquirk...
Empire bad? Colonialism bad? You must be kidding me. I am GRATEFUL for colonialism. I am a Nigerian. My only anger is that Britain left. The fan's cord was pulled from power and the fan has ever so slowly moved towards stoppage. What a shame
Lots of Empires came and went
But only The British one was built on more than just slavery
Hence that's why it could abolish it
David Lammy says the term 'cultural Marxism' is anti-Semitic in addition to word 'Hag'.
britiain has the greatest history a country could have, had the biggest empire ever created, a lasting cultural, economic, industrial and legal legacy. Only empire in history to declare war on slavery and its influence enabled slavery to be defeated. We fought against the Nazis when we could have abandoned Europe with our empire intact but we didnt and history is fukl of us standing up for other nations- see the napoleonic wars or the crimean war. To look at the success of the countries that used to be part of the empire confirms you were lucky if you were part of the great Empire
i will always desdain those that want to rewrith history because of political ideologies.
Africa had Irish slaves look it up
Could compensation be behind slavery cries
Money and power are always behind disruption
The British were better crooks with the best bravest navy men
Keme Badenoch is right.
Lets be yhe first in history to abolsh woke the world would be a far better place
Gazzillions in foreign aid, and 50% of Sub-Saharan Africa, still doesn't have safe drinking water. But, they do still have slaves. Maybe, some cultures are different after all.
All u have to do is look at video's from early 1900's to see the truth. We weren't always multi-cultural. The whole world was in slaving each other at the time. Our intelligence was why we owned 3/4 of the world. We really are a shadow of our former selfs.
Wokery is not irreversibly destructive for the nation. We could cope with that but mass immigration leads to irreversible demographic change, transformation of our nation.
Wokery is what caused the mass immigration.
Remember it's whit Sunday.. 🌹🏴
And there was I thinking that saying was from the Jesuits ! Thank you guys ! ❤
It's getting so bad I'm tempted to start rooting for the Brits while watching 'Zulu' & 'Zulu Dawn' . . . .
Isnt it interesting how other empires who exploited slaves didnt modernize the planet and improve everything for everyone
Who is truly behind this?
Antiwhitism must end.
This narrative is used by less successful countries because they have an inferiority complex with regards to the United Kingdom. I have experienced this first hand after living in a European country and having much prejudice against me just because I am British, and hearing that all the woes of the world can be put at our feet, (by people who have no knowledge of history I might add and also have no wish to know the truth about history because it suits their agenda). I won't mention the name of the country but let's just say I jokingly put it down to the fact that we've never been forgiven for having won the Battle of Trafalgar against two other European countries. The fact that such a small island has had such economical success, attracts negative feelings towards it, and is due to the oldest and most destructive (in my opinion) emotion in the world: Envy. This is why they have been trying for decades to bring us down and they're finally achieving it, both by mass illegal immigration and by turning the narrative on its head by rewriting history.
British colonialism civilised many countries and brought them out of poverty. Check out how many modern day inventions came from this island. Nobody can rival that. We should be proud of our nation.
Rafe should be in the new year honours list.
Spain and Portugal are not G7 or G20?!?!
Spain and Portugal dropped massively between the 16th and 19th centuries... the Spanish had splurged their wealth from looting the Aztec and Inca gold on wars in the Netherlands .. by the time their colonies were breaking away in the 19th century, they were virtually broke.. Portugal gave up their remaining colonies in 1975 when a far-left govt came to power - leaving a power vacuum in Angola and Mozambique. .
We ended the bulk of the worlds slavery! Pull the other leg.
I vow to thee my country, rule Britannia, land of hope and glory, our green and pleasant lands, Britons will NEVER EVER be slaves!
As a member of a Commonwealth nation,I am very proud of its legacy past and present.
S Africa was booted out of the Commonwealth until apartheid was dumped.Nelson Mandela thanked the people of NZ for insisting that rugby was a racially mixed game as it is today.
Badenoch is a Saviour and Messiah to the right Wingers😊
Raif is the man and so interesting and well informed and best of all a proud English man 🏴