Sugar & Slavery: The Building Blocks of Bristol’s 1% | Empires of Dirt
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- Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2020
- Sugar was once so lucrative they called it ‘white gold’. For centuries our love of the sweet stuff drove the world economy and helped Britain develop into a global colonial superpower.
But the nation’s sweet tooth came at the expense of millions of slaves who were shipped from Africa and forced to work on plantations in the West Indies and America. At the centre of the sugar trade was the city of Bristol, where men like Edward Colston grew rich from investments. VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng travels there to tell the not-so-sweet story of the human cost that lurks behind our addiction to sugar.
Empires of Dirt is a show about Europeans getting rich at the expense of everyone else. We uncover the ugly history of the European colonial empires that they don’t teach us in school.
Countries around the world were looted for their treasures, people were oppressed and exploited while European powers relentlessly profited. The far-reaching repercussions of colonialism are all around us; from our financial institutions to the way we travel to the food we have in our cupboards at home - and it’s about time we took notice.
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Wait until people find out who makes all their products today.
Here's a hint: it's not free folk.
@Just In credible So are you saying that you shouldn't care at all because people are hypocritical? Unless you grow your own food its practically impossible to be perfect about the products you buy, a lot of us know that and acknowledge that. The device you are using to be on RUclips was probably not made in good conditions, nor was mine. It is fucked but it isn't a reason to not care about other issues. I had an all or nothing attitude for a while and my life has been far better since getting rid of it. I try the best I can everyday but I am not going to give up on everything because some aspects of my life are fucked up.
@@secondjar very well said
Electro Tech America with the 13 Amendment
You're saying that slaves make most of the products we use?! No, most of them are made by regular employees. Many are low-paid & work in poor conditions, but the large majority aren't slaves.
Chaching! Exactly
I like how history is making some people so angry. People really don't like learning their brutal past huh
Learning that would make them confront the reality of privilege they've had for generations literally built on the backs and heritage of others.
@@OjaysReel Lol you do realize that the black slave trade wouldn't have existed if the African royalty didnt view their people as chattel to be sold in the first place right? Learn a little more about your heritage and the privilege you have not living in the third world.
@@jamesbeebe2870 that doesn’t change anything that @ojay is ojay is saying. That doesn’t mean that white people exploit these people
@@jamesbeebe2870 That doesn't counter anything he said though. Did you think it was some intelligent point?
Lol. White people didnt invent slavery. It was already happening to humans of all races for thousands of years. In fact, white people were the ones to mainly put an end to slavery.
While you have North Africans & Asians that still practice it today.
This series is absolute fire! Huge shout out to Tsjeng, Vice, and everyone else working behind the scenes for putting this together.
This series is absolutely leftist propoganda.
Is there a dwarf operator?
Yes, clearly ate too much sugar and was raised in bristol
No, its a slave child
He was crawling to make her look taller
This comment made my day.
Shooting from below give a sense of scale, grandeur & authority. Also, I think they wanted to frame the buildings better.
Talking about colonialism and sugar to make Brit's tea sweeter... how do you think they got the tea too??
From portugal
@@skatingfreak1670 No from India after murdering millions
@@blznft9513 tea was introduced to England from their ally the Portuguese.
Queen Catherine (from Portugal married to the English King)introduced the English to tea drinking.(Drinking tea was already popular among the nobility of Portugal).
This happened in the 1600s.
When England was defeated in the American revolutionary war they went to India.
From there they imported tea from China and introduced it to India.
It fell from the sky in big sacks with "Fairtrade" logos
Dog eat dog!
GG Bristol you mad lads
Touché
thanks
Those that took down the slave statue in Bristol are fucking lads
@@AM-mv6ro They're vandals.
@@andrewjones575 stay salty mate, there is absolutely no need to have statues of slave owners in the 21st century
I thought everyone knew about this...
Lot of the younger don't know or tend to forget. Good to remind them
The Brits aren’t like America they censor and hide all the bad things they’ve in history especially slavery lol
considering that there is a lot of dislikes i get some people are even willfully ignorant
@@joyboy6535 they teach this stuff in school in the UK, so history doesn't repeat.
because its a world of deception
Not even 2 seconds into the video and I’m already getting called “suga”
SOAD
“Our love of the white stuff”... sooo many possible other meanings 😂
I’ve been snorting sugar for years
Proper charlie
The others meaning are just as addictive
Hey I have a lot of white stuff
System of the down: has entered the chat 💭
" Vice your being messy" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 lmfaoo 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Does anyone get the impression that this Vice reporter visited England and got a speeding ticket on the M1 or something?
😂😂😂
She has a partial British accent so I think she is a longtime resident or naturalized citizen.
i get the impression that a lot of fragile white men, who after this video have turned pink, are having their feelings hurt because of historical facts.
@@hotto5150 Everyone is jealous of Europeans. It's as simple as that
Do a show on the Ottoman, Persian, and Mongol empires.
No that would be racist. Only allowed to bash white cultures on Vice.
And how the queen divided the land after causing major conflicts
@@OutdoorLiving93 The way they've left the world from since the beginning - maybe they need some humble bashing-in.
Out of all those the Ottomans are the only ones you could say still affect the present. There's no point in hyping up Islamic slavery because it doesn't explain anything about the modern world. Spain doesn't have a smaller economy now because Muslims occupied it for 700 years. Ukraine isn't poor now because of Turkish slave raids. The fact Genghis Khan committed mass murder in China is irrelevant now that they have over a billion people. People can prove the transatlantic slave trade explains things about race and economics in the modern world, you're just throwing out irrelevant facts cause you're racist.
@@OutdoorLiving93 ew
You forgot to mention that, regardless of the abolition, up to today sugar workers are employed in a semi slavery agreement.
as well as many corporate workers around the world. Fucking capitalism
I dont know.. We grow Sugar in Louisiana and they do ok.
Well If you think locally only, you won't be able to understand the how the world really works. "Think globally, act locally"!
@@fresatx Shame we stopped
0:04 - " ....... gross Western diet."
🐾 burger
they dont even hide their hatred of the western way of life while enjoing the benefits of it
so many western health problems today
@@2glockzberetamac119 half of Indians have diabetes. Mediterranean diet excellent as is Japan's, so it's a mixed bag really
@@dm8dd ignorance is peace i guess you dont get the benefit of the doubt bcz ur mum probably has health problems bcz of all that palm oil from her macaroni and cheese
Its stange how people are so shocked to hear the brutal facts about history like they were just born yesterday and thinks that the world is such a lovely and a friendly place.
Why do so many give thumbs down to Vice videos, is it because they are not happy with the topic? Its always good to thumbs up if the material is well presented, factual and you learn something.
Sensitive White men of the internet 🎻😭💦
Possibly the lack of sources for the data they provided
Its mostly rubbish that why.
Please add this video to the rest of the Empires of Dirt playlist. I almost missed this video :(
How about you try reading history instead on trawling through RUclips looking for content that fits into your ignorant racist narrative.
Why does this ignore where sugar comes from... India? The very word "sugar" is from sanskrit, and probably the main reason it was so expensive. You know because of the outrageous distance it had to travel.
Doesn't fit the narrative srry
@@Gregg-gw8vt ... And where did the British get sugar in the first place? 🤔
@@Gregg-gw8vt Because... The Indian farmers who traditionally grew sugar in India were enslaved and shipped around the world like cattle. I feel like that's an important part of the story... you know about slaves.
@@Gregg-gw8vt not slaves indentured labour to be accurate
Until slavery and later more colonialism and later sugar beet now back to sugar cane
Longer videos on this series please, so much more to learn
Glad to see Colston is finally getting the representation he deserves. I was there when the statue fell, it was a sight to behold.
How about a documentary detailing how slavery from East Africa to Arabian continued long after the trade to Europe and the US ceased?
Shhhhhh....thats against the narrative
@@AyatollahS9430 No, all history of slavery is relevant. You're right that most, if not all, modern day nations have somehow benefited from, or were subjected to the slave trade. It's just that at the present, white males tend to have control of the overall narrative, and have for quite some time now. And in that span, they/we have accumulated the majority of the earth's wealth and power, and maybe now would be a good time to remind everybody just how that consolidation of wealth and power was attained.
It offers us a chance to reevaluate our current circumstances, see where the woven strands originate from, and then, possibly question why the institution of slavery is still very much alive and well around the globe today.
I'm somali and we enslaved people for thousands of years. We sold them as far as Indonesia Maldives etc
Lol they were "kidnapped" no they were enslaved by there own people for wepons and wealth.. how else were do you think African slave empires built? Basically the same thing happening in African nations today
@@AyatollahS9430 This is what matters since we aren't Arabs or East Africans. There are plenty of videos about that. You are correct but disingenuous.
No wonder why their teeth messed up
Lmoo
www.orchardscottsdental.com/10-countries-whose-citizens-have-healthy-teeth/
Unlike the British stereotype of their teeth the American stereotypes are true😂
racist
this lady would make a great general on the death star with that accent lol
FIY: Brazil only abolish slavery due to British political pressure and that triggered a monarchy crises over there...
This is what dutch also did in Indonesia
yes, and mongols to Easter Europe
You forgot to mention the church's involvement
Great, informative and insightful video.
Excellent content! Thank you 🙏🏽
Do a report on current slavery in the middle East!
They arent about that life 😂😂
I guess you like to embrace slavery 😂
@@serial334 the point is they won’t report on it
North Korean and Chinese work camps too
They won’t bc they won’t have any white men to blame
Please do something about the ‘Irish famine’, and how it was actually genocide not famine. Ireland had enough food to feed its starving population but yet the British continued to ship food out of Ireland. Leaving people to starve to death, people literally having nothing but grass to eat. The effects of British colonialism on Ireland is not nearly talked about enough.
Absolutely agree
In reality the sh*t way they treated the poor Irish was the same sh*t way they treated the poor everywhere else at the time. Plenty of wealthy Irish who were land owners who did the exact same thing to their own people . Its merely a comfortable mythology to claim all Ireland was in it together against the English .
@@keithrobinson5752
There weren't plenty of wealthy Catholic Irish who made up the bulk of the population.
They had their lands taken away and were banished to areas with very poor soil.
A policy of plantations was pursued ie bringing over planters from Britain who took ownership of Irish lands
Laois Offaly
Munster
Ulster
Cromwellian
Re the penal laws, Irish Catholics weren't allowed to own land, own a horse, vote, practice their religion, be educated etc.
Famine was enabled by Britain and one million died and millions emigrated. The vast majority of the Catholic Irish were reliant on one crop as it was all that could sustain them on the poor land.
A Protestant Ascendancy owned the vast majority of Irish land, many of them were absentee landlords, they didn't even live in Ireland.
There were mass evictions and people and families died in the most horrific of circumstances.
Likewise emigrating many died also.
I agree there were poor everywhere but that's not what happened in Ireland.
@@roisinmalone3015 Sorry its was 'all the English ' is just a comfort blanket , the wealthy who would be considered Irish by even today's standard took the same approach to the poor, there were 'old Irish families ' with lots of land .
And the cause of the famine was poor practice and bad weather , such events where not unknown in history indeed plenty occurred in England prior to this some of which resulted in uprisings.
The difference was two fold , the scale and public awareness and the fact it acted as a driving force to mass movement of people to other countries.
It was not 'planned ' in any way and oddly meant a lose of income to those who you could say only cared about money .
@@keithrobinson5752
The vast majority of land was not owned by Irish people and I have lots of shocking quotes of what the British in power said at the time of the famine, if you want me to post them. Charles Trevellyan, in charge of famine relief, Charles Wood, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, British Prime Minister, plus newspaper articles from that time.
I would rather not because it's not pleasant but I can if you want.
It is disrespectful to the memory of the Irish famine victims and those who suffered greatly to try and change and rewrite history.
"Died at an old ripe age", didn't learn that one in my english class haha
excellent, these are so well made
Thank you Vice for making these videos. I come from Mauritius where our dark past isn't really talked about for what it truly was. Really appreciate the real history lessons!🙏🙏🙏
“Your descendants will despise you, and your ancestors won’t even be able to comprehend you.”
@ric Gikonyo Why do you despise the British, it was the British who’s wages were undercut by slavery and it was the British who paid for the ending of slavery. Or are you another moron that thinks because a tiny number of wealthy merchants used British ports and owned houses in Britain that British people are somehow culpable.
Great video... What about the sugar companies as they still exist today? Tate and Lyle, etc... How are they connected to the old plantations?
This is jokes I love the unforgiving style of docu factual to the point. 🙌
So do I
They say Caribbean people are lazy I swear they deserve holidays for generations
They ? That's their masters speaking.
No they need to get on with their lives like everyone else
Vice has high praise on its subscribers to comprehend the nuance of history.
Sugar, the oil of yesteryear.
I take two oils in my tea.
@@Johnycum 2 oils don’t make a right
Hasnt ended
That would be whale oil.
Famously non-European empires never committed violence on any scale
most non european empires aren't still keeping the profits of their invasions, that's the point
@@nachoroman2001 Maybe they should have been better at empiring?
@@nachoroman2001 Japan and Turkey fly under the radar? Considering the majority of Britain’s population lived below the poverty line well into the 1960s, I think it’d be more intelligent to focus the debate specifically on those elites who have benefited from colonialism, rather than enforcing national guilt on a population that sweated down mines and lost limbs in cotton mills
@@totallynotsnrub6570 damn bro you really owned me with that response
@@mathuinh What are you on about? Just because you address one evil, it means you ignore the other?
This girl is war on britian😂
Probably not a girl tbh.
@@zyzor probably more of a girl than your ogre looking mother
@@hotto5150 ogres are related to orcs buddy, don’t insult your cousin wife
You mean by describing british history
Yeah but you know she won't mention tje 800 year occupation of Ireland because they are also white which goes against the whole wypipo oppressors narrative
One thing I found incredible is that skulls found prior to the sugar expansion had incredibly healthy teeth (almost perfect) despite more primitive oral care! 🤯
Thats utter bollox
@@daftwod ruclips.net/video/NpJI3fHOj78/видео.html
The skulls are shown at 4:30
its more than that
They may have looked perfect on skeletons but in real life their was probably a couple of layers of green algae
Most didn’t eat sugar frequently
Look up a doc named The Price of Sugar to find a similar plight in the DR. You will stop taking sugar with your coffee right away.
I realllllyyy like the way you explain things. This helped with my paper so much. I love the ties to modern day as well
I love the series empires of dirt
We will take EVERYTHING hahahaha thanks dude
i look forward to the next countries that will be covered in this series
Wonderful work!!!
Damn this was both very insightful and disturbing - kidnap somebody so they can work up to 18 hours/day in the brutal heat...and if they die? Kidnap more people to replace them like you discard a used battery. History is evil.
In a nutshell
It is misleading to say European slave traders "kidnapped" people. What I am about to say is not an endorsement. Slave trading is a morally corrupt and reprehensible offence. But saying Europeans kidnapped indigenous people although I am sure it happened is not the main modus operandi for slave traders. European slave traders tapped into existing slave trade networks in Africa to acquire their slaves. They bought slaves from African vendors. Saying the British kidnapped people seeks to portray a biased imperfect view of things when the African rulers that sold their own people friend or foe are as complicit.
Tl:Dr. Africans traders sold their own people to Europeans. They were enslaving each other long before the Europeans got there.
@@genetix7173
I think it was a mix tbh. I mean if what you say is correct then that means there were even more dickheads in the world.
Genetix
Yes you are right, the slaves where most of the time prisoners of war from another african tribe. This happens everywhere, even in Europe, most notably in the Viking age where Viking raiders would sell their slaves to other European kingdoms.
Yeaaaa, they actually sold each other into slavery, and take a good look at which religion ran the slave trade.
Britain gained their immense wealth through the suffering of others, like many other countries that did the same thing. It is what it is mate.
It is what it is, if that's not a cop out I don't know what is, it's like saying people got robbed enslaved and raped to enrich others but it is what it is ... let me save my breath and time
Thats why is important to recognize your privileges
@@PETROVICGAMES Who are you saying is privileged?
@@andrewjones575 If you dont know, maybe you need to watch the video again...
People also used to feed people to lions, chop off their heads and mount them on spikes and burn witches. Things have moved on fortunately. We should be grateful!
There's an older movie that is very eye opening about sugar plantations. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. Watched it many years ago.
It should be mentioned that sugar was also highly valued as a preservative
This is pretty good, but the tone could be more sanctimonious.
But thats the way of the liberal
Wow don't I wish I could go back 300 years and say, "Now stop it! You naughty bunch!"
Theres plenty of slavery in the middle east, china, Africa and india.
So....
Off you pop, if you really care.
That’s a white excuse! If you want to fix it, give the wealth created back to its people. We know you won’t so stfu and sit down
I was being sarcastic.
@@EliteExpat you are actually the worst kind of person. You embody one of the most evil aspects of human nature. I can't believe someone who is so blunted and irresponsible would call themselves a coach.
@@Lvl18Meep say wallah?
Great Video!!
man, i just love to watch her documentary.
Words can’t even describe what these people went through.
Pain, suffering, tragedy.....I’m not having difficult finding descriptive words 🤷♂️
@@MatthewFrazierr you sound like a privileged white person
i wouldn't use the term privileged. Educated and practical maybe. i also use an emoji with a "white person". you should be a detective. Detective Racista Retardado. usted está utilizando una computadora por lo que debe ser privilegiado, así.
Statues are the social media of the past
books darling books x
@@geeksworkshop no...
@@geeksworkshop imagine writing like this
I’m a history buff so I personally like keeping statues of sick fucks around. It’s a lot easier to point at a statue and say that’s the man that killed thousands of Africans in the congo then pointing in a textbook.
@@ZivineYT yeah, it’s not safe to rewrite history.
You have a gift , your fluent in speech and easy to understand ,
This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
Why do my comments disappear.
Edit Interesting. This one, that doesn't criticize the video, is left up. Censoring now, are we, Vice?
right is right, left is whats left
@m f Maybe they needed to be censored. You don't even know what they said.
And the rich can no gloss over history...her facts are spot-on...unless you prefer faux news... in which case visit: www.orangefacefacts.com.
You were never censored, Karen.
@chrismacsims, my profile name has nothing to do with gender but, okay 😂 You don’t have to know what it’s referencing but just know you’re grasping at straws, Karen 😭
I really fail to understand what's the vice in it.
Slaves in one sugar production in Zanzibar had to literally work from 2 am to 9 pm
We raped and pillaged and any one who put up resistance got hit so hard they never did it again. We enslaved hundreds of thousands and reaped the benefits. Thats Gangster!!! Big up Bristol.
0:07 - Only old, white men?!
They seem to forget they were also enslaved and sold by there own. Blame the white man and ignore other historical facts.
You gonna melt snowflake.
Why don’t you go cry about in your safe space?
@@xaviercockerton6989 Where do you get the ridiculous idea that me pointing out that the presenter is wrong makes me a snowflake?
White men are so sensitive.
@@binaryvoid0101 or everybody else pisses their pants about old white men.
Please do a video on the British oppression of Ireland !
It's not gonna happen. To this people atrocities are atrocities only when it's done white on other color humans not white on white or Asian on Asian or black on black. Just look at the beginning of the video. She said that black slaves were kidnapped from Africa while in reality they were sold by African leaders in exchange for weapons and gold.
@@ocsecnarfnabetse5971 I dont know. I think it's unfair that they're recognizing all the crimes of British imperialism but conveniently skipped Ireland: Britain's First Colony.
Can't wait till 2155 when Vice will make a video about how people got rich by exploiting robot labor to mine lithium on Mars.
Yup lots of forts, ports, harbors, beaches, banks, shops, markets, stores, and swap meets all over
"People like me who came to England in the 1950s have been there for centuries; symbolically, we have been there for centuries. I was coming home. I am the sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea.I am the sweet tooth, the sugar plantations that rotted generations of English children's teeth. There are thousands of others beside me that are, you know, the cup of tea itself. Because they don't grow it in Lancashire, you know. Not a single tea plantation exists within the United Kingdom. This is the symbolization of English identity - mean, what does anybody in the world know about an English person except that they can't get through the day without a cup of tea? Where does it come from? Ceylon - Sri Lanka, India. That is the outside history that is inside the history of the English. There is no English history without that other history" - Stuart Hall
"there is no English history without that other history" utter nonsense, English history predates Imperialism by thousands of years.
@@igelbeatz Quit acting like Britain didn’t gain their immense wealth through the suffering of others, like many other countries that did the same thing. It is what it is mate.
International trade has happened for thousands of years across the world. Arguing that tea proves the non-existence of English identity is like saying Islamic cultures don't exist because people there like to buy European cars.
@@LeftLaneDreams I never said that, the only person that said that is you, just now. Poor attempt at a strawman.
“around here, Colston’s name is dirt” as it should be.
Such a short video with such a strong emotional impact on our understanding of slavery! 👍👍👍👍
Gotta love the Brits that spread love and money to the world.
Talking about empires, do a video about the Chinese one. Moreover, if we are talking about colonisation, do a video about China's neo colonisation in Africa
It’s not the same.
And she’s british so why can’t she talk about where she’s from
You know America, Britain and France do more neo colonization in Africa than China does right. Like France has been linked to the assassinations of 22 African presidents since the sixties.
Or American invading countless countries since the Korean war in the 50s
@@leboyneski5464 Ah yes, neo-colonization in the sixties. Debt trap diplomacy is a thing now that China is using to trap poor nations under debt burdens they know cannot be paid back for their own strategic interests.
Please Make an series on Ottomon Mongol Mughals Persian Chinese empire
This aint the history channel, they have a narrative to keep
@@AyatollahS9430 Exactly. If this channel was really about history, than Vice would not have restricted themselves to only talk about cases of slavery where white people where the oppressors. They would also have mentioned the Arab Slave Trade, The Barbary Slave Trade, The Ottoman Slave Trade, Slavery in Southeast Asia etc; because slavery is not something unique to white people, but is something that has been practised all around the world. But Vice won't mention this, because they have a anti-White bias.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Muslim_world#Slavery_in_Sultanates_of_Southeast_Asia
Love the title... how apropos.
Man thats the quality of Shane smith and team 😁 i am from india and man i love your (vice group) journalism
Who doesn’t
If you think she has it in for the British Empire, just think of how much she resents her older brother.
😂
Or even worse her father
I don't get it
Lacrimosa always gets an upvote from me
the intro music volume is mixed too high i couldnt hear what she was saying
Hello from Trinidad and Tobago Caribbean 🇹🇹 big up!!!💯❤️
I'm jamaican and I can say british influence is still pretty strong in terms of curses arriving from slavery still being embedded deeply in our "modern" culture. Thank you vice for showing this as it's often overlooked.
@detka detka detka in some aspects that is undeniably true. At the same time England has f-ed most of the world at some point in time lol
You have created and invaluable historical service. Thank you so much.
Whats the title of the music at the start of this video?
4:58 watching you from Trinidad.
Don't hate the player hate the game.
The politics were there, and law were there, who made those up?
And who gave them the power to do so?
Hating Colston now; the last link of the chain, seem wrong... hundreds of other enabled them to do so, including the locals hunting and trading slaves. It was a different world back them.
Fix current days human trafficking first, and look forward - nothing will change the past anyway.
Else spread the hate to he parliament and the kingdom itself for enabling these people in this type of business, as it was as business operated within the laws of the day, sadly.
Dunno if your a bad knobhead and you go around the world stealing kids I don't think you get to just say well it was legal.
Look at you advocating to stop human trafficking of today but then you say it's a "game" and people shouldn't hate the people being involved in it as they are just "playing the game". 🤔 People like you always shoe your true colours. Every time.
@@Belihoney They're using game in the sense that there are individual actors operating according to rules and conventions, not in the sense of a few people having a jolly. But it's also worth mentioning that people such as Colston were powerful political actors and could've made efforts to change the game rather than capitalise on it. Just as today, oil execs capitalise on the system which enables them, rather than lobbying against it for the greater good.
@@edhaste8550 yes I know. I said my comment from that perspective in mind so it still stands.
Are you james joyce op
whats with the weird hatred of sugar at the start?
It's white! And probably male!
Yeah I mean she's right and all, it's just kind of cringe and hard to take seriously with the intense labelling
@@lm3755 actually it's not sugar that causes your teeth to decay but the bacteria that feed on the sugar that is left on your teeth and as they consume it they poop out acid that actually destroys the enamel of your teeth.
Sooo ... **tips my glasses**
She's wrong ... huhuhu
Okay I will go away now ...
She isn't lying lmao.
Worse she kinda, basically ignores where sugar comes from... India. The very word "sugar" is from sanskrit. This is kinda odd.
Information is the new sugar
No mention of William Wilberforce or Elizabeth Heyrich?
One doesn’t experience self-transcendence, the illusion of self only dissipates♥️
lol the way she makes these videos are like if the U.K. is the same as if it was 200 odd years ago
she hates us
She’s more than happy to stay here and reap the benefits though!
Get over yourself, and things aren't as different as you tell yourself
get to the bottom of these peoples arguments its always deeply evil, just a nazi but the opposite.
No, the UK isn't like it was 200 years ago. You're just happy to look the other way while benefiting from the crimes of your ancestors. You're like the person who finds out that his great grandparents murder someone and stole their house, but rather than give back the house, you say "well, I didn't do." If you want to show that you're not as bad as your ancestors were, maybe start by returning the stolen artifacts in your so called British museum.
U know this burns racists when they attack the reporter instead of the truth . 🤷
thank you for honest emotion
I'm starting to think this gal don't like England
But she’s speaking English
Facts don't care about your feelings
she can leave then ND go back to north korea or china or whatever cfountry she came from. Getting tired of these people tbh
Indeed, we Eastern Europeans really exploited "rest" to the bone,
In trinidad If you head south you can still see those factories
Plot twist... his statue dissolved in the water because it was made of sugar
I'm Irish and even I think she's going abit too heavy on Britain at this stage 😅
Mmm... delicious White tears 😭💦 History is hurting my feelings 😂
@@binaryvoid0101 what
do you want her to sugar coat it or what? if just this hurts then you’re not gonna last a while
This lady really has a thing for Great Britain
This was beautiful
This is amazing