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  • @babyamy3884
    @babyamy3884 7 months ago +150

    Every year bamber bridge holds remembrance for the black soldiers so nobody will forget what they did 💜

  • @juicylouisey
    @juicylouisey 7 months ago +27

    The first black person I ever saw in the flesh was an American man who came over during the war.
    He fell for a white English girl and they married here. They lived here to avoid segregation.

  • @user-yv2qr4xt9
    @user-yv2qr4xt9 7 months ago +136

    I'm not white, but I was born and raised in England (still resident here) and I need the world to understand this: the British are a beautiful people. Always have been.
    Name me one country whose history doesn't include unspeakable evil. Name me one country that is above censure. You can't.
    But here's what's incredible about the Brits: they will do a thing until they don't do it anymore. And when they don't do it anymore, they TRY TO MAKE IT RIGHT. When today's pudding-headed youth talk about the "evils of empire", they don't talk about the Islamic empire (though they should) or the Mongol empire (ditto). No one demands reparations from Rome.
    It's the British Empire they want to trash. It's the British people they want to clown on.
    Yet it was also the British who gave the world technical innovation; industry and transport; vaccines and medical breakthroughs; built infrastructure in the same countries they colonised; ended barbaric practices in those countries, was the first nation SINCE THE DAWN OF HUMAN HISTORY to make slavery illegal!
    On top of this, it was the British who catalogued the natural world, who invented weather-forecasting, whose writers and poets and musicians have given us stories and verses and songs that set our souls on fire with possibility, creativity, magic. That mirror the best and worst of ourselves and capture our attention and shape who we choose to be.
    And let's not play: British humour is the best humour in the world.
    I have a feeling RUclips will delete or shadow-ban this comment. I have noticed Big Tech also has an anti-British bias; the algorithm continues to push anti-British sentiment across all popular platforms. But if any white British do see and read this comment; one very grateful and proud citizen would like you to come and get your flowers. I see you and I thank you.

    • @PaulHeath-j2f
      @PaulHeath-j2f 7 months ago +29

      Mate i wish i could put this better. But you make me proud to be British . I dont care what colour your skin is . Anyone who can write about the country of my ancestors like that . Can only be one of us . Thank you 🇬🇧

    • @WilliamDickson-g1q
      @WilliamDickson-g1q 7 months ago +1

      Thank you my friend, I feel the youth of today cherry pick history and they are importing American problems as their own . They also talk about the empire as if it was the normal working man was plundering the world but the reality was child labour poor living and working conditions.

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 7 months ago +2

      You need to look more closely at who were the first in history to outlaw slavery.

    • @tanyatonner5158
      @tanyatonner5158 7 months ago +11

      Ohhh my goodness how you articulated your thoughts & words will always stay with me Godbless you & I stand with you just fabulous!!! 🙏💞💞💞

    • @melwhiteside9369
      @melwhiteside9369 7 months ago +5

      👍🇬🇧

  • @newblackdog7827
    @newblackdog7827 7 months ago +66

    The US Army tried to insist that there should be a colour bar to the 3 pubs in the town. In the response the pubs put up signs “Black US troops ONLY”. The locals and British 🇬🇧 soldiers and women fought against the U.S. Military police for over 3 hours.
    These are MY people in Lancashire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @paulgreen758
    @paulgreen758 8 months ago +159

    we Brits dont get told what to do, we do as is right

    • @R3ED3R
      @R3ED3R 8 months ago +7

      a select few seem to ruin this each year but yeah pretty much

    • @StewedFishProductions
      @StewedFishProductions 8 months ago

      @R3ED3R
      Such is life..! You always get a few with NO 'common sense' or 'ability to do the right thing'- Unfortunately (sadly), the US seems to have a MUCH HIGHER percentage than other countries... 😒😒😒

    • @damiannutting482
      @damiannutting482 7 months ago +9

      Most brits do what is right, unfortunately a lot of brits are doing as they are told

    • @christinemctaggart7869
      @christinemctaggart7869 7 months ago +5

      That's why I love you guys. Been in the UK since 1962, 7yrs old.

    • @paulgreen758
      @paulgreen758 7 months ago +1

      @christinemctaggart7869 I was born in 62

  • @adrianparry8018
    @adrianparry8018 7 months ago +35

    Yes so true it breaks my heart how black American soldiers were treated during ww2

  • @BertyBassett69
    @BertyBassett69 7 months ago +25

    Britain was never a segregated country and we weren't going to start, no matter what the yankies wanted. We have a Commonwealth of countries around the world and all people where and still are accepted because the UK was used to different cultures in the UK.
    We thank the black American soldiers for all their help in liberating Europe.

  • @VivienneHodson
    @VivienneHodson 7 months ago +91

    It goes further than that! During the civil war in the USA our cotton industry in the UK refused to use cotton from the slave trade. Please look it up!

    • @GeordieCorpse
      @GeordieCorpse 7 months ago

      UK spent a lot of money fighting the slave trade and shockingly only paid it off in 2015😤, was one go the main reasons they lost most the colonies too.

    • @beatnikstrict
      @beatnikstrict 7 months ago +9

      I have to add this to your comment.. It was Manchester that refused to work with American cotton.
      Other towns around here carried on using it.
      The Mancs made massive sacrifice for the movement.

    • @VivienneHodson
      @VivienneHodson 7 months ago +7

      ⁠@beatnikstrictI did say the UK! There were many mills who refused not just Manchester.

    • @mrblue193
      @mrblue193 7 months ago +6

      @beatnikstrict It wasn't just Manchester. Cotton workers all over Lancashire refused to handle cotton picked by slaves. Liverpool on the other hand supported the Confederacy. A newspaper report at the time said "more Confederate flags can be seen flying along the banks of the Mersey than in Richmond, Virginia.

    • @hayleywilliams5076
      @hayleywilliams5076 7 months ago +2

      The average UK person have nothing to do with this. This was instructed by the elite, as it always has been and still is today.
      The divide wasn’t between black-and-white in the UK . It was between rich and poor and if you take a little look into British history, you’ll find out is way more complicated than that

  • @Gizatron1
    @Gizatron1 7 months ago +5

    People try to forget we were the ones who stopped Slavery.

  • @GraemeShaw-km4zk
    @GraemeShaw-km4zk 7 months ago +44

    As Churchill once said, America will try everything before doing what's right

  • @FORRAVERsound
    @FORRAVERsound 7 months ago +51

    The British government has done evil things but the British people have done so many amazing things. It’s time to differentiate the two sides. 🇬🇧

    • @liverbird20
      @liverbird20 7 months ago

      It's the British people who put the government in power.

    • @jacksprat9172
      @jacksprat9172 7 months ago

      Aye, for sure. The Super Socialists will replace us for cheap labour. Expect their grandparents were foiled by General Smedley Butler when he foiled the takeover of the US Government in the 30's.......................conveniently forgotten about. As is how Soros became wealthy playing hide and seek with the SS(he knew all the hiding places and yes, it is as bad as it sounds).

  • @vincentfernandez7135
    @vincentfernandez7135 7 months ago +11

    It’s true, it happened. Let’s not forget also the Black GI’s were equally as respectful to their counterparts 🇬🇧🙏👍

  • @bobnudd
    @bobnudd 7 months ago +13

    Mate I live 2 miles away from Bamber and it was the villagers that stood up for them, also it happened in Chorley when coloured yanks walked into a pub with white yanks and a big fight broke out, the lads in the pub fought for the coloured lads , we don't have racism here everyone is the same and it's the same today .

  • @renagenic
    @renagenic 7 months ago +42

    The English town was not segregated.....
    NONE of the UK was segregated!
    Saying this specific town didn't have it, implies that, that wasn't the case in all of the UK.

    • @jackiegoodsman6796
      @jackiegoodsman6796 7 months ago +7

      I was just about to post the same ,it wouldn't have mattered what town they were in there was and never will be segregation in the uk

    • @Louise-Greenaway
      @Louise-Greenaway 7 months ago

      ​@jackiegoodsman6796I'd love to believe your comment but Britain is hugely segregated,, not so much black/white it's a wealth gap too but Britain does seem to have a nasty racist movement brewing.

  • @IanHopkinson-lu8xo
    @IanHopkinson-lu8xo 8 months ago +98

    You’ll be glad to know that some Americans still visit Bamber bridge to this day, they visit a peace garden dedicated to the soldier that died and it has the story of what happened there, i wonder if any of the three "Black troops only" pub signs still exist, they should be in a war museum to help carry the stoy of what happened so it cant be forgotten

    • @davidstruggnell7296
      @davidstruggnell7296 8 months ago +16

      Men are men and English were right to stand with there black fellow soldiers

    • @AnthonyValentine-vm1yc
      @AnthonyValentine-vm1yc 8 months ago +8

      Probably not, just ad hoc cardboard signs. But it would be great if they erected a huge slab in the town centre simply engraved 'Black Troops Only'.

    • @AlunDavies-tm2lt
      @AlunDavies-tm2lt 7 months ago +7

      The black soldiers were fighting the same enemy and their bullets didn’t discriminate either so why would the English not want to drink with them?

    • @cececox6399
      @cececox6399 7 months ago +3

      Yes. I can’t remember if it was all three. Definitely still up in at least one of the pubs. Honestly many old British pubs tend to have old signs that are significant to their history. I bet many pubs will still have Covid signs in a century or two. Signs are rarely changed and often up for years. ☠️🤣

    • @AlunDavies-tm2lt
      @AlunDavies-tm2lt 7 months ago +1

      @cececox6399I think that being normal for English people is abnormal to other peoples who don’t judge a man by his works but by skin colour/ race it doesn’t make fly here innit by the way although I don’t drink alcohol I would drink a Coca-Cola in one of those pubs if they’re still going

  • @Patrick-vi8js
    @Patrick-vi8js 7 months ago +7

    Every nation on earth has committed atrocities, none come close to helping the world as much as we have.

  • @benwheeldon9055
    @benwheeldon9055 8 months ago +24

    We love you too bud!! Hope you’re well

  • @kevanwillis4571
    @kevanwillis4571 7 months ago +21

    In their heydays in the early Sixties, The Beatles refused to play to segregated crowds.

    • @jjc5407
      @jjc5407 7 months ago +1

      Brits have a long-standing tradition of opposing such racism. A lot of big British bands and artists in the '60s were greatly inspired by music created by black Americans. They didn't care about their skin colour; they just loved the music.
      After her escape from Ike Turner, Tina Turner came to the UK and Europe to rebuild her career. She was embraced and beloved over here for who she was, the Queen of Rock n' Roll. A lot British artists contributed songs and played on her albums.
      Many bands also opposed apartheid in South Africa and wouldn't play there or were banned by the government. Dire Straits were banned when they donated all the royalties from the sales of their debut album in South Africa to Amnesty International. A decade later they headlined the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, which was seen by over 600m people worldwide and helped hasten the end of that appalling racial segregation.
      Brits don't always get everything right, but as a nation we do try to do the right thing.

  • @anthonybarwick2094
    @anthonybarwick2094 7 months ago +3

    Remember the reason we are called great Britain 🇬🇧 is because of the PEOPLE

  • @mmckenzie8085
    @mmckenzie8085 7 months ago +8

    It was disgusting that they carried out this illegal act in our country. The arrogance of thinking they can do what they want because they are American.

  • @anjistandrin7511
    @anjistandrin7511 7 months ago +8

    Before the US troops came over to the UK we didn't have segregation and we didn't have it when you left.

    • @jjc5407
      @jjc5407 7 months ago

      Although there were places that put up signs saying "No blacks, no Irish" so lest not pretend the UK was racism-free and nor is it today. Overall it's a much more tolerant nation than many others and it's come a long way in recent decades, which is why it's such a shame that US influence has been allowed to negatively affect it. It felt like there was less racism, sexism and homophobia 20 years ago than there is today. We seem to have regressed.

  • @jackmason4374
    @jackmason4374 7 months ago +8

    Just after the war My old man was in the navy and while in Portsmouth in a pub two white American military police came in told the black sailors they had too leave , my old man and his mates told the MPs to F off and when they started giving it the big I am they got a good hiding 😂

  • @maggiemay6625
    @maggiemay6625 7 months ago +4

    My county don’t tell Lancashire people what do do we will NEVER be told to hate a black soldier who is here to help us they were renound for their happy and kind ways that’s why they fitted in so well with us love and respect to them soldiers 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸

  • @MrBracey1970
    @MrBracey1970 7 months ago +28

    One thing that isn’t mentioned here,the brits standing up for the black soldiers where miners and steel workers who weren’t allowed to fight,so they stood up for the guys who were fighting for there country when they had to stay home,also black solders from the US treated the UK people with respect and respect goes both ways.😊

    • @FC-PeakVersatility
      @FC-PeakVersatility 7 months ago +3

      Simply saying 'who weren't allowed to fight' is a disservice to those miners and steel workers. They were essential workers. They were still doing their bit for the war by keeping the country running. If women and children could have been trained overnight to go dig coal, those men would have been 'over there!'. My grandad hasn't able to 'join up' either because his was an essential trade - he repaired the houses that the German bombs knocked holes in. His eldest daughter was in the land army and his sister in law an officer in the ATS.

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 7 months ago +3

      ​​​​@FC-PeakVersatility
      Hence - they WERE NOT ALLOWED TO ENLIST for 'active service'.
      There's no suggestion they were not willing to enlist for active service.
      There's NO suggestion they weren't contributing.
      EVERYONE was contributing.
      "They also serve ...".
      What's your problem with stating FACTS?! 🤔
      Why are you so sensitive?! 🤔

    • @FC-PeakVersatility
      @FC-PeakVersatility 7 months ago +1

      ​ words matter. Men with flat feet or heart murmers, men over 41, boys under 18 'weren't allowed to fight' 🤷There was a blanket ban on workers in reserved occupations being conscripted, actively preventing them from fighting - for some the prohibition ran so deep that they were forbidden from resigning and signing up of their own volition. They couldn't even sign up for a non-fighting role that the others could. Although many did join the home guard and protect our borders that way.

  • @chimpanzoib
    @chimpanzoib 8 months ago +52

    The pub is still there. I live about ten miles away.

    • @StewedFishProductions
      @StewedFishProductions 8 months ago +5

      Great food... I'm in Loindon and often drive up to Scotland. It doesn't matter where in Scotland I'm heading, I always go VIA _(sometimes miles out of my way)_ the 'Tebay Services' _(to stop at my favourite break place)_ and also 'Ye Olde Hob Inn' too for lunch or dinner. I do the the same on the return journey... BOTH places are highly recommended. 👍 😊
      EDIT: Neal, FYI: I should point out that THIS is a very 'skewed' explanation of what happend and MUCH better videos are out there which tell the WHOLE STORY... 🤔

    • @kidcreole9421
      @kidcreole9421 8 months ago +4

      I was there having a few pints last week.

  • @lewistaylor1965
    @lewistaylor1965 8 months ago +21

    In 1942 when Roosevelt put pressure on Churchill to enforce segregation in Britain while his US troops were stationed there Churchill told him that that couldn't happen on British soil...Roosevelt had to concede and sent the troops anyway...with no segregation

    • @mmckenzie8085
      @mmckenzie8085 7 months ago +4

      I mean the nerve of the man trying to tell us in the first place. Audacious to say the least.

  • @R3ED3R
    @R3ED3R 8 months ago +9

    that guy started the video of right with 'But before i began' 🤔
    I love that we stood up for black people trying to chill out in a pub.... i would be ashamed if we didn't they were here to help us. (royal we as in English i clearly was not there)

  • @janinebutcher1593
    @janinebutcher1593 7 months ago +4

    The British working-class soldiers and the community stood up for American black soldiers, because both were the underdogs in their own countrys..

  • @spikethomas7783
    @spikethomas7783 4 months ago +1

    Don't tell anyone from any corner of Britain, who we can or can't drink with, if we drink together we stand together.♥️

  • @lilmisssandi
    @lilmisssandi 7 months ago +5

    im proud of what my country has done

  • @abstinentalcoholic
    @abstinentalcoholic 7 months ago +21

    I grew up around Bamber Bridge, and lived there until a few years ago. You can still see the bullet holes in many of the buildings along the main street.

  • @nataliet8881
    @nataliet8881 7 months ago +10

    There has NEVER been segregation in UK...... Segregation was in USA.

    • @elinstar6034
      @elinstar6034 7 months ago

      Well, that's cause our plantations were way out in the Caribbean mainly

  • @AndrewAHayes
    @AndrewAHayes 7 months ago +3

    The British people will always back an underdog, or whats right.
    We had a similar situation in my area during WWII, we had an RAF base that had US airmen stationed there, there were also some black GI's stationed and billeted in the town.
    They tried the segragation game with our locals, and were very quickly told where to get off.
    There were signs outside saying NO BIGOTS!

  • @merlynsfire1275
    @merlynsfire1275 7 months ago +5

    and they told JD to do one as well... don't mess with the PUB 🤣

  • @liamstrange4939
    @liamstrange4939 8 months ago +8

    Ali was a true man that is coming from a Brit 🫡 he could see beyond the colour of your skin

  • @MrJools70
    @MrJools70 7 months ago +5

    `Colored Waiting Room` That`s f*cking bonkers,I can`t believe this actually went on,I know it did but when you see the actual footage of back then it`s nuts

  • @Doogoir
    @Doogoir 8 months ago +11

    Ty History and Knowledge is power

  • @shellie6936
    @shellie6936 7 months ago +3

    My father told me a story about his war days about Two high ranking American soldiers joining them in a billet house. It was freezing cold and they were all in one room with a fire plus food. The British soldiers realised that two Black American soldier drivers were outside in the jeep. So invited them in to get warm and eat a meal with them. The two high ranking soldiers were disgusted and refused to have them in the billet So they were told they could stay WITH them or sleep in the jeep they chose the jeep. and the drivers were given food and warmth . Very sad that their ignorance left them cold and hungry all for the sake of the colour of someone's skin who after all were fighting for the same cause

  • @pdevs1966
    @pdevs1966 8 months ago +44

    I'm Welsh we all bleed red colour of skin means nothing, your a good guy I'll shake your hand , xx

    • @user-TonyUK
      @user-TonyUK 8 months ago +3

      And will buy you a Pint if you are in a Pub

    • @liamstrange4939
      @liamstrange4939 8 months ago +2

      Well said 🫡

    • @DaveScreen-n1i
      @DaveScreen-n1i 7 months ago +2

      There are only nice, good people or nasty, evil people.
      The colour of their skin, their gender, their religious beliefs are irrelevant in my personal opinion. So, if this makes me discrimatory, I'll just have to live with that.

    • @armchairpundit1638
      @armchairpundit1638 7 months ago

      Britain is a shit holeUSA is great.

    • @jjc5407
      @jjc5407 7 months ago

      There's nothing more irritating than people, usually American, saying British people "don't look British" because of the colour of their skin as if all British folk look the same! It's not like their own country isn't multi-ethnic, so why this bizarre notion the British are all white?

  • @victoriaodonoghue4985
    @victoriaodonoghue4985 7 months ago +7

    Im from Lancashire, my nanna said she loved going out dancing with the American GI's as they were really sweet and well mannered to all the girls.

  • @lewistaylor1965
    @lewistaylor1965 7 months ago +7

    The other sad thing is that he didn't get to go home after his life was taken by those who should have been his own...He instead rests near Cambridge on Englands soil...A brave man who came to England to fight along side his brave brothers of all race for the right of freedom...So if you ever visit the Cambridge American Cemetery on Madingley Rd (A1301) 4 miles west of Cambridge, England...go and pay your respects to William Crossland...He deserves at least that..doesn't he...

  • @BryanHunter-y4p
    @BryanHunter-y4p 7 months ago +2

    It must be remembered that Britain was used to working with coloured people from the Commonwealth. Many British families had served in the Empire and had fought along side of them and they had a lot of respect for them

  • @niklegion48
    @niklegion48 7 months ago +17

    Check out and review how the British fought to end world slavery, you might find it interesting.
    We racked up so much debt doing so that we only finally paid back in 2019.

    • @dorothyblair6741
      @dorothyblair6741 7 months ago +4

      @niklegion
      And nearly 2000 British sailors lost their lives enforcing the British ban on the transatlantic slave trade

  • @ea1615
    @ea1615 7 months ago +1

    My best friend is American. I was amazed how much she didnt know about Black History in the UK and America.
    Also amazed how much she didnt know about the Founding Fathers and how the Crown actually lost America.
    This is a good video.

  • @slytheringingerwitch
    @slytheringingerwitch 7 months ago +2

    The irony of the fact that the soldiers were supposed to be fighting against Hitler and yet seemed to think that it was okay to say such stuff. It's not lost on me. Good for us, we did good.

  • @NoGods-NoProphets
    @NoGods-NoProphets 3 months ago +1

    I was born in UK in the 40’s, and I am proud to say that I have NEVER seen a black person discriminated against. In fact about ten years ago I was in cake shop and saw the assistants attitude change when she served an Asian woman. The Asian lady couldn’t quite grasp what the assistant was saying forcing her to repeat it. The assistant looked at the whites in the shop and said ‘Jesus Christ!’. I don’t object to that name being used because it means nothing to me, I am atheist, but I reported her because of her rudeness and racism to head office ~ and was told that it had already been reported!

  • @NoGods-NoProphets
    @NoGods-NoProphets 3 months ago +1

    See, we are not all racist, just ReformUK supporters.

  • @victoriaodonoghue4985
    @victoriaodonoghue4985 7 months ago +2

    Quite a few local lads fought alongside the black American GI's too.

  • @ChrisStrider-m5r
    @ChrisStrider-m5r 7 months ago +6

    My mother met Americans before DDay when she was a child in Cornwall on the south coast of England.
    She saw black men for the first time and they were very kind and generous.
    One morning they were all gone 6/6/44

  • @garethross4271
    @garethross4271 7 months ago +2

    All soldiers bleed the same colour. If people fight and die alongside each other regardless of race, skin colour, or religion, there are family. There's a reason they call it brothers in arms.

  • @lesleynicholls5677
    @lesleynicholls5677 7 months ago +1

    I live close to there and I know the story. It was absolutely right what we British did.

  • @MONKeEeYboi
    @MONKeEeYboi 7 months ago +1

    6:31 we love you too bro 👊

  • @alistairgoodwin4472
    @alistairgoodwin4472 8 months ago +5

    UK , Scottish we will stick up for anyone . i find it horrific , for example the Red Tails.. every pilot said as soon as they turned up we knew were safe.. then when they landed they treated them worse than .........

  • @MancFlowerDragon
    @MancFlowerDragon 8 months ago +5

    I’m a 63 yr old Brit’. What an interesting story. I’m proud of the way we British supported and defended these black American soldiers. This story should be made into a film. Steven Spielberg doing it Schindler’s List style.
    Thanks foe reviewing this. I came across your channel by accident but stayed for the story.

  • @grahamcrichton9177
    @grahamcrichton9177 7 months ago

    Brits by nature ,stand for the underdog in any unfair fight

  • @trevadatdonn6777
    @trevadatdonn6777 7 months ago +1

    The British men fought for the end of the slave trade ...

  • @barrygyles2211
    @barrygyles2211 8 months ago

    America has many “Inconvenient truths” in the land of the “Free”.

  • @catbevis1644
    @catbevis1644 7 months ago +1

    Bamber Bridge wasn't the only occurrence like this. At a pub near where I grew up, the African American soldiers were given a curfew that didn't apply to their white counterparts (basically so the white guys could drink more beer and get lucky with the local women). When the African Americans were ordered to leave the pub one night, they headed back to base and took some weapons, then went back to the pub. The white soldiers set up a siege outside and started shooting, ending the life of the pub's elderly lady manager. The responsible soldiers were put on a plane back to America the next day so they didn't have to face m-rder charges in the UK. The local people were FURIOUS no one was held accountable (my grandmother was still furious 70yrs later, as I heard over and over and over again lol). My grandmother had never seen someone of a different ethnicity before the War, and I think for her all she saw was people who'd grown up poor like she had, with white soldiers acting like the "lord of the manor" characters that she knew (and hated) all too well from her own life experience.
    But don't get us wrong, the UK wasn't some perfect utopia for equality. There were a lot of suspiciously tanned babies born in the local area whose mothers swore were their white husband's offspring (the husband quite literally having been in another country fighting a war at the time of conception). Those kids grew up as outsiders and were not treated well at all by the locals.

  • @alistairgoodwin4472
    @alistairgoodwin4472 8 months ago +13

    i would like to point out as a Scotland man i am whiter than , slightly pale blue. what is right is right

    • @catpainblackudder01
      @catpainblackudder01 8 months ago +1

      A " Scotland man", I've never heard that before, Scottish, Scotsman or Scot I've heard. BTW, The greatest trick in history, is how the Scottish convinced the Irish it was the English. England the last colony of Great Britain, independence now...

    • @jwi1085
      @jwi1085 8 months ago

      ​@catpainblackudder01just seems like auto correct or illiteracy😂

    • @babyamy3884
      @babyamy3884 7 months ago +1

      @catpainblackudder01 why are you trying to pick at what someone writes, then starts rant about some crap. that’s very childish

  • @MattPrice-s8b
    @MattPrice-s8b 7 months ago +2

    I live near a university in Wales that lots of Africans attend as well as asians....people from all over. Theres a huge local park nearby. Everyone gets on. Sometimes people are playing african tunes on the basketball court and its nice and adds to the ambience of the park.

  • @THA_USO
    @THA_USO 7 months ago +4

    Thank you for the education, never heard of this in history at school

  • @chrisgodfrey6353
    @chrisgodfrey6353 7 months ago

    Thing is with us if you're right you're right and we'll stand by you if you are.

  • @kareno6986
    @kareno6986 8 months ago +16

    Thanks for this Neal, it’s good to see someone reacting to something positive about us “whites” for a change. Every race has committed atrocities in the past which is why it’s really annoying when we are blamed for everything but other races aren’t held to account. As you see from this, and the fact that many white people, from many countries, fought and died to stop slavery, not all whites are the same. Remember it was predominantly people of colour that white people had to fight to try to end it because they didn’t want to stop it. Slavery still exists today but it’s not happening in “white” countries. Not all white people are the same, neither today nor back then. People should be treated as individuals and certainly shouldn’t be blamed for what their ancestors did. If we do then every person on earth is guilty of horrific crimes at some point in their ancestry.

    • @uhuglu86868
      @uhuglu86868 7 months ago +3

      England's took a bashing these past few years off everybody. We're good people. The rest of the world can live ignorance. We know the truth. ❤

    • @davidmellish3295
      @davidmellish3295 7 months ago +1

      You’re right about everything EXCEPT the fact that you say the ‘white race ‘ there is no such thing as the white race or the black race etc. There is only one race,THE HUMAN RACE. The colour of your skin doesn’t make you a different race,you’re from a different racial group but our race is the human race

  • @RAFVETUK
    @RAFVETUK 8 months ago +2

    I served in the 80s and 90s at RAF Wyton and we often did exchange BBQs with Alconbury. The Black guys often spoke of racism then 😢

  • @alextym-r4l
    @alextym-r4l 2 months ago

    My Grandad, who fought in WWI always said "Anyone who fought against Hitler was a friend." Black, brown, communist, whatever, they were friends.

  • @DavidLambe-f6e
    @DavidLambe-f6e 7 months ago

    The working class British the best people you can ever meet

  • @katypilkington1704
    @katypilkington1704 7 months ago +1

    I am incredibly proud to be from Preston - what they did in Bamber Bridge was amazing, and exactly what Proud Preston is all about.
    Just heard the pronunciation of Lancashire tho - Lank-a-sher is the correct way, but even southerners in Britain can't say it right, so no shade! 😂

  • @MONKeEeYboi
    @MONKeEeYboi 7 months ago

    4:28 Amen 🫶

  • @ShaunNicholson-x8m
    @ShaunNicholson-x8m 8 months ago +3

    This is great it’s how it should be together. Great video mate 🇬🇧👍🏻🇺🇸

  • @themoderntemplar1567
    @themoderntemplar1567 8 months ago +6

    💪🇬🇧👌

  • @carolkilpatrick6674
    @carolkilpatrick6674 7 months ago

    No ones perfect. Love from white lady in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @PeterBarton-e3r
    @PeterBarton-e3r 7 months ago +11

    Proud to be British

  • @Jacqueline-t5e
    @Jacqueline-t5e 7 months ago +1

    You are brothers stand together ❤❤

  • @JackNickle-fk8rq
    @JackNickle-fk8rq 7 months ago

    GOD BLESS OUR AMERICAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
    ALL THE BEST FROM THE LONEWOLF PREPPER 🇬🇧🇺🇸😎🤘

  • @Scaleyback317
    @Scaleyback317 7 months ago +3

    It's my understanding Bamber Bridge was not the only place home grown complaints/demonstration of local disagreement with US authority over the colour bar issue. There were stories of a white US officer being thrown in the harbour in Weymouth by Royal Navy sailors and locals and not being allowed out until he apologized to the black soldiers he was berating for being in a dockside pub. Hurt feelings and pride but as far as I know there were no physical injuries.

  • @johnavery3941
    @johnavery3941 7 months ago +8

    From what I have read and hope it is true one British Soldier in uniform told the USA MP's to leave the pub and after short stand off they did. Look Britain was not perfect in the treatment of blacks and the slave trade but we did stop it.

    • @Scaleyback317
      @Scaleyback317 7 months ago +4

      It has been illegal to have/hold slaves on British soil for nearly a thousand years - the start of that was covered in the Magna Carta - there the ball started rolling, it was a bumpy route but we stuck at that and eventually spread it internationally in the 1800's.

    • @meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2
      @meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2 7 months ago

      @Scaleyback317 I don't think it was illegal it just was not a legal thing. There not having been any slaves to legally regulate since about the year 1100. So there was no need for any laws mentioning slavery and as far as English law was concerned the concept just did not exist. You could not own a slave for the same reason you could not own a pink unicorn. ie. They don't exist. If you tried to own a 'slave' you were lining yourself up for assault and false imprisonment charges. But not charges for holding a slave, as legally there was no such thing just people, and you can not be guilty of an offence based on something that does not exist.

    • @Scaleyback317
      @Scaleyback317 7 months ago

      @meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2 As good a way of explaining it in simple terms as I've ever read - thanks.

  • @MONKeEeYboi
    @MONKeEeYboi 7 months ago

    You’re damned right we defended them. They fight for us we fight for them. We don’t care about colour. 🫶🤘

  • @stephaniebarker9244
    @stephaniebarker9244 7 months ago +2

    We believe in fairness. Or did until Starmer was voted in.

  • @josefschiltz2192
    @josefschiltz2192 7 months ago +5

    I call that omission from the education of Black History in the US nothing less than both bloody sinister and purposefully malevolent.

  • @nataliet8881
    @nataliet8881 7 months ago

    It was the local british people that banned white american soldiers from the pub when they were told by USA military that they had to segregate

  • @Zedness
    @Zedness 7 months ago

    I've never understood racism.
    I had heard that the Black American soldiers were treated like crap by their own countrypeople but to learn that they had actually been attacked by their fellow soldiers is utterly appalling.

  • @victoriaharvey1151
    @victoriaharvey1151 7 months ago +7

    I'm from Lancashire, my uncle lives in Bamber Bridge and I've never heard this story!! Makes me proud 😁

    • @josefschiltz2192
      @josefschiltz2192 7 months ago +3

      That's extraordinary. We knew it in Suffolk. My mother was stationed all over the country when she was in the ATS.

  • @luborrelli8966
    @luborrelli8966 7 months ago

    The Brits were the ones who went on an anti slavery crusade from the early 1800s. Their attitude was one of the reasons that they didn't support the Confederacy during the American Civil War. So the British have an history.

  • @elizabethlovell9997
    @elizabethlovell9997 7 months ago

    US segregation was despicable. How did they think they were going to force segregation in another country?

  • @adamwood4343
    @adamwood4343 7 months ago

    Bamber Bridge is a suburb of the city of Preston in lancashire, I have live here all my life and this is a well known thing round here, one thing we folk from Preston are known for is our hospitality regardless of colour, creed, or nationality, if an injustice is seen to be done. as was the case here, you can bet your bottom dollar someone will take a stand a say this is wrong.

  • @Sniper-steve
    @Sniper-steve 7 months ago +4

    We all bleed the same colour on the battle fields and in life I don’t care name colour or religion it’s who you are as a person

    • @DavidRope-l3v
      @DavidRope-l3v 7 months ago

      Come up same colour from pits also. Charlie williams. One of bernard mannings good freinds. Bless

  • @_eclipz_
    @_eclipz_ 7 months ago +1

    Can't remember where but I've read about this somewhere before.

  • @armchairpundit1638
    @armchairpundit1638 7 months ago +1

    Not all of us

  • @MouseGuardian
    @MouseGuardian 6 months ago

    There is this old PSA directed at american soldiers stationed in Brittain, warning them that blacks are treated more equally in Brittain, even showing a clip of an old white English lady inviting both a black and a white American soldier she met on the train, over for tea later, with the narrator saying “this wouldn’t happen in America, but it’s different here”. It’s on RUclips, I’ll see if I can find it and post it later!

  • @scottrowlands874
    @scottrowlands874 7 months ago +1

    I live not far from bamber bridge 👍👍

  • @philiusfogg5719
    @philiusfogg5719 Month ago

    Give a country, what have you done. Just division and war...land of.. .

  • @barrymccargo7961
    @barrymccargo7961 7 months ago +1

    i am Scottish Loving your videos and well done lol i cannot understand a word you are talking in true respect i am Glaswegian but i will pull through bro loving your Content amazing ty for the Share x

  • @hels316
    @hels316 7 months ago

    We ❤you too

  • @JovianR
    @JovianR 7 months ago

    I once read a booklet issued to American soldiers being posted to the UK during WWII that had a section warning the US soldiers that they would see "colored" people riding with white people on buses and otherwise being treated equally and that they (the US soldiers) must not intervene.

  • @Jill-mh2wn
    @Jill-mh2wn 8 months ago +33

    Because of the UK`s history with people of many races you can see why ,when an accusation was made that our Royal Family is racist it was very firmly shouted down .

    • @sarahpagett9191
      @sarahpagett9191 8 months ago +5

      But it doesnt make its people racist

    • @DannyHerd-x5h
      @DannyHerd-x5h 7 months ago +7

      The funny thing about that Harry and Meghan made the claim and when Harry was in the army he was actually racist to a fellow soldier

    • @babyamy3884
      @babyamy3884 7 months ago +1

      @DannyHerd-x5h have you ever heard of the word LIES

    • @DannyHerd-x5h
      @DannyHerd-x5h 7 months ago +6

      @babyamy3884 yes something Harry and Meghan are good at

    • @armchairpundit1638
      @armchairpundit1638 7 months ago

      Why

  • @uhuglu86868
    @uhuglu86868 7 months ago

    Im glad your finding this info out. England is not a racist country. Ignore the media. Its corrupt and my comment will be deleted 😂

  • @gristlybillow7050
    @gristlybillow7050 7 months ago +1

    Only Americans could think they could impose their barbaric laws in a foreign territory 🤣🤣🤣 of the arrogance of the US there seems no end"

  • @JohnTandy74
    @JohnTandy74 8 months ago +3

    What would your reaction be if I reacted to your reaction of this reaction? Hehe!!
    I’m proud our reaction

  • @trevordonohoe3712
    @trevordonohoe3712 7 months ago +1

    check out the" battle of brisbane" americans again

  • @AlunDavies-tm2lt
    @AlunDavies-tm2lt 7 months ago +1

    We are descended from the same people who fought against the Nazis so why would he ( the American soldier be treated like he was not in the same fight) lesser than anyone else involved?