"Racism Is as British as a Cup of Tea": Kehinde Andrews Says Many Black Brits Don't Mourn the Queen
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- As Monday's state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of a national period of mourning in Britain, we speak with the U.K.'s first professor of Black studies, Kehinde Andrews, about the generational difference in perceptions of the queen within his Jamaican family, which he lays out in his recent essay, "I Don't Mourn the Queen." He also describes the brutal legacy of the British slave trade and the British Empire, which makes the monarchy a symbol of white supremacy that should not be mourned, but rather abolished. "This is an old institution - deeply racist, deeply classist, deeply patriarchal. It just needs to go. And this is the perfect time to discuss when it should end," says Andrews.
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Those who never owned slaves owe nothing to those who never wore chains.
THANK YOU!! It's really getting rediculous..
9:04 ALL Black/Brown people continue to be chained (systematic racism). And if you are not Black/Brown you will NEVER understand. If you are Black/Brown you are lost and contribute to the genocide of your own people. Repent. Praise Jehovah!
Said the one who benefits from systemic racism!
@airscrew46: So why are Jews still being financially compensated for the Holocaust by those BORN AFTER the Holocaust???
There's a beginning and an end. Your ancestors started slavery and you inherited the wealth ( ETC) from your ancestors who took wealth from the poor slaves. What goes around comes around, so the sins of the parents 💯 follows the 3rd and the 4th generations.
Common thieves...living in abundance of stolen goods from their colonies
Everybody was robbing and stealing when defeating their enemies and conquering lands, are you salty because history didn't go in your favor and you was the conquered instead of being the conqueror ?
@@negroantonio28 "Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt"
-Mark Twain
@@negroantonio28 same tired excuse. No everyone was not stfu
@@negroantonio28 The slaughters of the 2 World Wars was about who gets to rob the most from the third world but the cost to the combatants was also an obscenity.
@@doilyhead civilisations were created from conquering and Invasions other realms and tribes, the stronger Tribe defeating the weaker hence the weaker getting assimulated into the strongers culture, there Will always be a winner or loser, that's human nature, always has been and always will be, get over yourselves and accept the fact that we are all a deeply flawed species, you would of done it to someone else if it wasn't done to yourselves first... facts... LET THAT SINK IN.
When the British attempted to abolish slavery in 1807 many African kings protested as human trafficking was the source of their wealth for many centuries.. and many white British men died in the Navy intercepting slave ships
That’s true . We have horrific racism here particularly against working class white people .
The same applies to all the EU member states - including those with monarchies. As a Black Dutch citizen who has experienced naked racism from those who spread colonialism across the globe, I can attest to the fact. I am in my twilight years - living in the belly of the whale and I know whereof I speak. The daily experiences of institutionalized racism fills libraries and more bookshelves than I dare to mention. Racism is worse than cancer because it is OMNIPRESENT and CENTURIES OLD - longer than any individual Black Man, Woman or Child will exist. It permeates my cells and the perpetrators just won't let up! I write this comment not because it is 'fashionable' and the "right thing to do" but because it comes from my aching bones and my soul which - despite all the injustice - yearns for a breath of fresh air! Thank you for reading my comment.
👏🏾Well said‼️👍🏾
Thank you for commenting Mr. Pieterse.
As a Canadian of Indian decent, born in the 70's, I can empathize.
@@cassiusdhami9215 : Cassius, thanks for the affirmation. Keep well and Stay Strong.
so poetic
@@JP-br4mx : Not really. It is authentic; it came from my heart and my mind. Thank you for responding.
Thank you for speaking your truth.
If Britain is so racist, perhaps Mr Andrews should explore becoming a professor of 'Black Studies' in Jamaica.
Or maybe all the racist can go live in a cave
They was rasict when Elizabeth's, mother was around!...
Racist...
I think Nigeria would be better where they would put his professorship to bed and give him a dosage of reality.
Oh he should go back to "his country" huh?
Racist
I'm biracial and from a commonwealth nation that gained independence in 1975. In the last 47 years, my country has sadly only gone backwards, we were better off before we gained independence, everything was run better, we had better schools, better roads, better hospitals. I understand everyone's experience is different, which is exactly why I wanted to comment. The atrocities mentioned in this interview happened before the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, I believe she was a symbol of a modern Britain, to lump her in with her predecessors is an act of prejudice, she herself didn't colonise anything, in fact she oversaw the end of the British empire during her reign.
Exactly, we would have been better off and have higher standards of living if we had delayed independence 🇵🇬
Queen Elizabeth benefited from the slavery which her family were involve in supplying ship to bring the slaves to the UK by force and brutally majority of her wealth is from the backs of slavery I think u should look into the royals part in slavery and how they made they money I think u need to educated yourself first
@@janetkomba4639what about the ones who didn't gain their independence, NOTHING changed for them🤷🏽♀️YoU are aware OF some atrocities that happened on HER WATCH. PLEASE RESEARCH!!!
Thank you for your comment. I have asked why Germans, for example, are not persecuted for the deeds of Hitler, and the answer is because they are judged, correctly, by whio ruled at a specific time, in history. I also want to add that a lit of us Africans rush to the UJ, for example, because of the untenable conditions in our countries Yet when we get to our historic countries, we start making demands we cannot make in our own countries. History defines the various leaders' reigns according to their time and performance. The Queen stepped in and stepped up during a time when it was still a man's world. Something we all forget, conveniently.
@@queenshaasiabeautifulearth2223 your own people sold you to the white man. When the British tried to stop slavery it was your own people that were trying to prevent it from happening. PLEASE RESEARCH!!
I am not a royalist by any stretch of the imagination. Although we must look before the Europeans came to Africa, slavery was alive and kicking why do you not talk about the genocide of the young African boys who bled to death through mutilation in order to become eunuchs in the Arabian harems, or the thousands of young African women traffic to Arabia to become sex slaves for the Arabian kings? : colonisation and slavery, is the dark side of the human condition. African kings sold their own people. If you look at history closely, you will see the crews of the ships from Europe refused to step onto the shores of the African slave markets. of fear of picking up any diseases. There was a market trade long before the Europeans, but you don’t like to talk about that do you? Neither do you like to talk about the Eastern European people who were stolen from their lands and enslaved, nor do you recognise the Irish who were enslaved. Or even the whole villages that were taken as slaves from the British shores of Cornwall and the lower part of the British Isles ? If we Could all look back on our ancestry we would find that we have either been oppressed or enslaved at some point in our history. Sometimes the truth doesn’t taste that nice does it? Today slavery is alive and kicking just look at Libya where they hold slave market every day but no one likes to recognise that because you’re all too busy going on about the past, what about the poor children that are being traffic now? No it’s much more comfortable to carry on screaming about the past than to take action to eradicate modern day slavery. FYI it was the British, who fought to abolished slavery. You call this channel democracy now do me a favour. You need to rename it hypocrisy now.
Everything you say here does not excuse what the British have done! We talk about the queen and what her country has done in Africa! Do you also know who is behind all these atrocities that continue until today? It's the system! Do some more research and you will be surprised! Let England accept its wrongs and talk about them instead of talking about those of others! For the other culprits, we will also tell them about it, but here it is about the United Kingdom, ok?
Let us not forget the Arabs every time this is spoken about there seems to be a silence about the Arabs
@Holy Jones we have to talk about the sellouts too we must call out those that was selling our people
They dare not speak against them. I guess they choose their battles wisely.
Like we say down here in Africa - if you are so dissatisfied and unhappy, go back to where you come from...
Exactly
Considering so many people hate Britain, I wonder why thousands are risking their lives to get here?
Spoken like typical racist white South Africans. You better open your ears and listen to truths. You don't want to hear the truth because you are products of Britain. Heartless and merciless
He is on his mission telling the world the truth about British slave trade sins.
Because your grandmother made that decision to move to Britain is the reason you’ve had the opportunity to do well in life instead of living a poor life in Jamaica.
"my own country, Jamaica"! he lives in London and isn't going to leave.
I hope, that bothers you.
How does a lifetime of grotesque opulence qualify as selfless service?
Being selfless despite the prison of the monarchy that you have banged up in. Who would want to be queen?
Of course do you think the Fighting and killing of the Nazis was "grotesque opulence?" Learn history.
Hear hear. Spot on. Absolutely correct. This mourn porn is making many of us sick to the back teeth.
@@shamsheerg7519 I have pictures of the whole family giving the Nazi salute!
@@wildalbalass4867 Mourn porn is a new one for me! I suppose porn is just being self indulgent in something. It could apply to sick-to-the-back-teeth porn. Haha
I'm not mourning a racist colonizer. Let's stop pretending, we didn't know what this family stands for.
@PhantomS those so called black people in the UK. That crown doesn't belong to her. Miss me with that trash. That's not the Caucasus Mountains
No one will remember you Magic World. You are not Saint and have done nothing to help no one.
Thank you yes their families, kingdom will go straight to hell
They say she gave some countries independence but she really didn’t because she still owned all the lands and remained head of state! 🥴
a lot of people dont thats the issue
As an African living in Nigeria, I have done my own due diligence on the slave history after which I stopped lobbing blame at the white man. The role we played may have been even more heinous. Some years back, I even visited a small settlement near Calabar called Obio-oko (aka Creek-Town) where I saw a row of Napoleon-era cannons lined up facing the Calabar river looking at first almost ornamental; except when I enquired about them I was told they were used by our chiefs to fight off the anti-slavers. My word, that really blew me. Or about the King of Dahomey imploring the English to lay off pressuring him to stop slavery. Even in this modern times, there's been a surge in kidnapping, human trafficking and illegal sale of human organs to almost epidemic levels. Feels almost like a throwback to a primordial instinct to trade through sale of one another.
Reparations were paid to slave owners upon abolishing slavery but the slaves were almost exclusively bought in the first place by Europeans from Africa, not captured. As such, it is the African leaders of the time who profited from those sales, and should be paying reparations to descendants of slaves, if anything.
Well that will be a conversation stopper! Unfortunately Sally, the audience here doesn't want to hear anything that goes against their narrative. All they know is that the Queen was rich so everything that's wrong with their lives must be her fault.
@@daleviker5884 @Sally
I can’t seem to reply to sally directly but I hope she sees this. I agree with Sally and know some of what she said. However we must not look at isolated cases like this in order to assume that all the slaves were sold by Africans to Europeans. Europeans had the means (guns, traps etc…) to capture slaves themselves and multitudes if not the majority must have been captured by them as well
@@forward_ever_backward_neve3006 Actually they didn't. They didn't have the man power or the natural immunity to disease to enter the interior.
we know from the receipts that 96% of slaves taken to Americas by the British were bought and paid for. There is a reason why tribes and countries like the Asante and Benin grew empires. They traded slaves for guns. Giving them power over their neighbours.
You may not like the truth but Africa had a trans oceanic slave trade for 1000 years before Europeans arrived. Ethiopians were selling slaves to Asia and the middle east for a millennia before the trans atlantic trade.
What a stupid comment. Most of us Nigerians white lovers and just silly.
@@butchfils9464 i think the original commenter is white. Whenever they start a statement "As an African living in Nigeria" ,which by the way makes no sense, is a dead giveaway.
Jah bless all Caribbean people what’s in the dark will come to light so Jah said. Bless up righteous and non-righteous . African black people Jah wise love everyone
There's more revelations to come out and those people who don't believe Meghan and her experiences will 'bite' their fingers!
Everything's not as were presented; plenty of 'dark' secrets; patience is the word.
Am Kenyan and I cannot mourn the Queen, she presided over the murdering of 90, 000 MAUMAU fighters in Kenya. It's a shame that African leaders went to attend her funeral.
Am crying 😢
That's a damn shame. African leaders never protect its people.
It baffles me too,this leaders seem to be stuck in the slavery mentality,still sucking up to the yt man😏
You should know African leaders are puppets to their masters.
Many more Boers died from the British concentration camps.
There Should Never Be Any Queens or kings.😤🤬💯
European Royalty had been sanctified by the Pope. Except this one which separated from Rome. And they’re all somewhat related. It’s the masses , the serfs, who crave if not tolerate these socio-political structures . Otherwise they’d all be massacred like the line of Tsar Nicholas. Right now Charles3 is imposing tight fascistic measures in an effort to maintain tenuous control.
Who are you to decide whether or not a group of people can appoint an individual as King? Sit down, snowflake.
Yes it's perverse and outdated
@@capturedflame lol I bet you pay taxes and bow down to your government..
O ffs. Americans can quit the supercilious bs. Americans are more racist, more imperialist and with a less stable democracy (not to mention zero health care and responsibility for taxes) than Britain.
I said that damn box was empty. Glad I'm not the only one that believes that 😅
What box
@@klopcodez They're talking about the coffin.
I'm sorry but use your brain cells. Please 🙏
What does ETERNITY represent? IT'S FOREVER!! IT'S A LONG TIME!!
THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION of your life: Where will you go after you die and enter ETERNITY? Have you ever lied? Hated someone? Did you steal something? If you have committed any of these acts, in God's eyes you are a liar, a murderer and a thief! Under these conditions, you will spend ETERNITY IN HELL!!! But this is not God's desire for you. JESUS CHRIST died for you and rose on the third day. HE did this so that you would be forgiven of your sins and have a relationship with God. If you REPENT of your sins (turn away from them) receive and trust in JESUS CHRIST, you will be forgiven by Him and be assured of ETERNAL LIFE!!! The Bible says that God will make you BORN AGAIN. He will give you a NEW heart and NEW desires. THAT'S THE TRUTH!!! Do this today, before you enter ETERNITY!!! Tomorrow can be too late!!!
"Jesus answered him, I am the WAY, and the TRUTH, and the LIFE: no man cometh unto the Father, BUT THROUGH ME." (John 14:
@@klopcodez you can't be serious
🤣🤣 yass
The Professor is wrong when he said slavery did not exist on the African continent before the Europeans arrived. It did exist. Various villages and towns captured their fellow Africans and sold to to other Africans and they were very happy to sell some of them to Europeans. In fact slavery was rife in Africa for 100 years before Europeans got involved. I will also point out a comment he made about the Queens coffin being empty. That remark shows such cynicism.
Slavery was also perpetuated upon the European peoples for centuries. Whole villages of younger people could be carted off to the slave markets of North Africa by the barbary corsairs. St. Patrick of Ireland was originally an English slave before he escaped. Does this mean that England can now ask the Algierians for reparations for their part in the slave trade? What Kehinde does not mention is that it is Britain that started to end slavery.
The Egyptian pharaohs had slaves, The Chinese dynasties had slaves, Vikings, Anglo Saxons all had slaves - Slavery is as old as history - it was world wide but the British (at their cost) tried to end it. Slavery still exists and while the world might think it abhorrent and amoral there will always be people who try to profit from it.
Worse thing is that they think that they're actually the good Folks
The worst thing is these people grew up with the best of everything. and what did they do with it? The best education, privilege,money and power and what did you do with it!
So who are the good.folks, are you ???
No, you think you’re high and mighty.
As apposed to who?
If your dad commits a crime, will you go to jail?
Not just Black Brits don't mourn the Queen. As a Scot, I find this all grossly offensive as these people, royalty, are not just irrelevant as far as I am concerned but something of which to be ashamed, as Professor Andrews said, with all the countless horrors of colonisation. Add to that the continued class system perpetrated through the monarchy, the sense of entitlement exemplified presently by the Tories and it is a nightmare for the average "man." We are all equals, or should be, and if this is not the case, then the whole system is wrong.
👍🏾💯🎯🧠👏🏾
True
Ⓐ 👊👍f*ck the monarchy !!
I'm thinking about taking up Scots Gelic and Welsh in protest at English lol! Peaceful protest is always the best... problem is i am sooooo fukin lazy.. xD
Declare independence man! You Scots have all the oil and missle silos! Sell your oil to the US and EU.
Imagine we had to work for 4yrs for 75% of the day to prove that we were fit to free.. these ppl are wicked...
What does ETERNITY represent? IT'S FOREVER!! IT'S A LONG TIME!!
THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION of your life: Where will you go after you die and enter ETERNITY? Have you ever lied? Hated someone? Did you steal something? If you have committed any of these acts, in God's eyes you are a liar, a murderer and a thief! Under these conditions, you will spend ETERNITY IN HELL!!! But this is not God's desire for you. JESUS CHRIST died for you and rose on the third day. HE did this so that you would be forgiven of your sins and have a relationship with God. If you REPENT of your sins (turn away from them) receive and trust in JESUS CHRIST, you will be forgiven by Him and be assured of ETERNAL LIFE!!! The Bible says that God will make you BORN AGAIN. He will give you a NEW heart and NEW desires. THAT'S THE TRUTH!!! Do this today, before you enter ETERNITY!!! Tomorrow can be too late!!!
"Jesus answered him, I am the WAY, and the TRUTH, and the LIFE: no man cometh unto the Father, BUT THROUGH ME." (John 14:
There dead now move on
As an African man listening to this older woman balance her journalistic abilities to help balance the facts in our society got me in tears to see this white woman talking about subjects that we don’t easily hear on the mainstream media platforms 😎😢
Goodness…it’s Democracy Now! She’s a real journalist 🤷🏾♀️
She is a fraud 🤥 she is also targeting a divisive subject for profit and political gain...
The Islamic prophet Muhammad was a white man who had African slaves and said bad things about Ethiopians. But she ignores it and ignores the extreme amount of racism by POC on other POC and even whites...
She knowingly ignores the racist Arabic media who still do black face in the 21st century and ignores China doing black face and even white face
@@solochica81
Preventing R-cism by learning about Haiti thx to 'Some More News'
and about Cuba from 'Second Thought' is totally possible.
The Third GOP-video also literally goes into how, when and why
History-Classes, especially on Race-and-Racism are so divisive.
Cube, Haiti and the MLK Vidoes of Both help.
She was white that was good enough for him to make her Superior
Some people despite their race will always talk about the past and present stigma of racism. I appreciate applaud her platform for bringing out and discussing those sensitive topics.
I love it when some of the British want to portray themselves as this great utopia. I guess that's where America gets that from.
When you say british, I think you mean english! There are many millions of us who do not and have never identified with being british.
Source, please.
As a Black person in Virginia, I agree. Since Elizabeth's death, I've seen double the amount of Union Jacks alongside Stars and Stripes on the streets of Richmond.
@@wildalbalass4867 British refers to anything from Great Britain. If your from Great Britain your British because that's where your from.
Joseph C. Great point.
The blacks in Africa and carribean, the red indians in America(USA and Canada), people of different colour from all around the world..they all know what a horrible memory the kingdom of England brings to them.
THEIR LEADERS SELL THE PEOPLE OUT TO THE AMERICAS
I really love this Amy .her interviews are always real.she searches for truth,digging through the lies that America has taught for decades 💯 excellent job Amy
Truth my bum 😂😂😂😂
Give any other man a pile of bricks he will create a beautiful city. Give a black man a beautiful city he will create a pile of bricks...
As a matter of fact a cup of tea is more Asian than British
As a matter of fact you are at least 300 years out of date
@@fbenbow2197 And you need to learn history and culture
He said by the time Europeans enslaved Africans in the dark ages, Africa ‘had never had slavery’. This guy needs to be introduced to things like the pyramids and so many prehistoric events not just dark ages Europe (14th cen). Blimey. There were even white slaves in Africa last century. Slavery is the motto of our species and he narrows everything to (blacks good,Uk bad) the very country he’s leaching off of, he has no other job than moaning and blaming others. What does this old lady has to do with anything, her job was to shake hands, smile, knight and welcome people. 0 else. Tea is the mildest thing he’s totally wrong about my friend.
@@qataribananahamock1495 he was including barbaric which he described europe being unique for so he wasn’t talking about slavery in totality. Nothing has existed on the level of what europe has done to the world. Nothing.
@@Taylordessalines that’s just not true 🐂💩
France paid slave owners in Haiti reparations for the "loss" of their slaves, and the newly "free" Black Haiti was charged an amount that they have not finished paying in 230 years.
Because only White lives mattered at that time.
Is that why Haiti resembles Detroit?
It was the same in the US. The owners of slaves were paid off by the government because the Civil War ended slavery. The slave owners lost their income.
@@thisisprogress6817 Its because you're colonisers.
That’s an oxymoron “Black Haiti”.
"Racism Is as British as a Cup of Tea": Kehinde Andrews Says Many Black Brits Don't Mourn the Queen. Absolutely agree!!!!!!!!
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Making it out at a young age is quite difficult. I started a side hustle at 17, saved up and made some good investments. l'm 28,live on my own and having a good life for myself. Big ups to you and everyone out there trying
Sounds like plan, how do you put money to work?
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“Racism is ……… cup of teeth”. I dispute this in the UK today. It is interesting your comment about segregated housing in the U.K. Where was the segregated housing, as I am not of aware of any of it? I note too that you have become a university professor within the UK - it doesn’t seem that you have been ‘oppressed ’ . As regards the slave trade in Africa, wasn’t it Africans themselves who rounded up their fellow Africans? Many African nations have been independent of ‘British rule’ for at least 2 generations, yet seem to have regressed despite receiving international aid. Why is that? India on the other hand, another ex British colony, has just surpassed the UK economically. Why is that? Pakistan, another ex colony, has had to go to the IMF? Why is that? The UK monarchy is a constitutional monarchy, it only has ‘soft power’. It also acts as a buffer against the seizing of power by a second party, which a Republic cannot possibly do.
"A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest"
The darker hue lost his/her position in Europe, the pale holds the power for over 500 years. Those with lighter hue went Whiter and sold his darker hue brother down the river!
Exactly, a light needs to be shone on who was doing the selling of the slaves. American tobacco farmers weren't sailing over to Africa and rounding people up. It was their own people who were selling them. Yet when did you last hear a single descendant complaining about their former countrymen? You don't hear that aside of it, because it's all about looking for a handout.
This entire thing is sickening was she a deity so disappointed in humanity were not evolving at all seems like were regressing . All the money wasted on this macabre carnival would be better served helping the poor .
Education Garvin. Those who would rule us do everything in their power to keep us uneducated. This is a story as long as society's existence.
you speak like a poet
Pagans only
The Brits abolished slavery and fought slave traders on the seas for 100 years... Black africans and Muslims created the modern slave trade, it was not the Europeans. Learn history. The Islamic slave trade exists today. Do something about that rather than shitting on a dead old woman.
They would rather burn the money than give it too the poor because then plebs wouldn't be poor anymore and wouldn't need a monarchy. But you would not understand the nuances and exquisite intricacies of royal monarchy because you were not properly brainwashed. Did I say properly brainwashed? I meant to say properly educated.
Most Australians and New Zealanders also don't 'mourn' the queen. Talk of becoming a republic is now being discussed in both countries. We have no need of or interest in Charles as our head of state.
The IMF sanctions took what was left of Jamaican progress. RIP 🇯🇲
They need to apologise give back the wealth Harry and Megan for king and queen
Only the heavens knows how much this whole stuff cost. In a time when millions of families are going through financial hardship.
I'm in the bracket of "struggling families" of which you speak. This funeral cost £9m, a drop in the ocean compared to the aid we've sent to Africa in the past, and only a fraction of what woke idiots are demanding we devote to drippy hippy "current thing" causes like Climate Change and Ukraine. I felt proud for my country today, I wouldn't begrudge other countries feeling the same for their national moments either but for some reason we are ALWAYS being smeared for ours! I'm so sick of this ungrateful anti-Western sentiment being spewed out by woke, over-privileged, professional victims who are probably better off than I am. Shut up and deal with it, we're not going to apologise for who we are and what we're proud of. EVER.
Billions
Friendly old Brit. Do not worry, from tourism alone London will take over two Billion pounds.
Just over 5 million paid for by the crown estate. Not cost the taxpayer a penny.
Hahaha comedian
This is not a defence of the colonialism or royalty. I'm a working class, life long British socialist, from Manchester, not from London.
Britain has a right wing and a media that panders to them, they are vile. Despite Tory dominance as a party where they got 46% in the last election this was mainly about the disastrous Brexit, they have never won a popular vote. Their extreme right remains a minority within that party. Their extreme right is where the active racism thrives, it also spills over into their party generally or at least there are people in the mainstream of the party who are OK with having racists and bigots as fellow travelers. Think how comfortable the GOP with MAGA. It's the same thing.
It is not a semantic argument to dispute this this headline and characterisation. Racism is not as British as a cup of tea, nor is it as American as apple pie nor as French as baguette. This is a lazy and vulgar analogy.
Like much of the opportunistic Brit bashing this week, all are based on the premise that exploitation and cruelty was export only.
All are by either ignorance or design utterly silent about what was happening domestically in the UK at the same time .
If they were better informed they'd know about the horrific dark satanic mills of the north of England, children who were sent down pits, up chimneys or to die under the Spinning Jennies that spun the cotton, the workhouses and debtors prisons and indentured servitude in the houses of the wealthy or later the cannon fodder Pals Battalions of WW1.
Few of those serving in the Empire were returning home with pockets of emeralds and buying mansions for orphans and for many the military was the only work there was.
If they were genuinely interested in presenting any sort of informed opinion they might have heard of the mill workers of Manchester who risked destitution, violence and slaughter from the British army (see the Peterloo Massacre) and retribution by unilaterally refusing to spin cotton picked by slaves in the US.
It's embarrassing that my own countrymen aren't taught this, it can be overlooked in Americans where the school history textbooks have titles like 'Triumph of the American Nation' and ' We're awesome and everyone else is shit thank you Jesus' (kidding on the last one, but not on the first).
Leaders of the American civil rights movement including brother Fred, Brother Martin, Sister Harriet and Sister Rosa all understood that the oppression of black people was one heinous strand of an all encompassing system of oppression and that poor white people had much in common with poor black people and that race was one tool that the rulers used to keep them apart and even at each others throats.
That system prevails today, benefitting the same people, the same families even. Characterising an entire, diverse nation by saying racism is as British as a cup of tea helps those who need to divide us, who must divide us for if we had any solidarity their timeless, perpetual colonisation of the working classes worldwide will continue uninterrupted.
Completely Agree. Race has always been used to divide us. The LGBT debate has now been added to the mixer.. Wealth suppression should be the primary concern, one we hopefully unite on sooner rather than later
The brave do not die, they live in our hearts forever.
Hate and jealousy are taking over at the moment because nearly everyone worldwide can't afford to live any more. I am not exaggerating, I have traveled a lot in my life.
People who own houses in Soweto South Africa and in India, although small, think that people paying a mortgage or renting a flat in Britain are much richer.
The information flow is bad and luxury is a question of having something worthwhile to live for.
My father is from Liverpool and my mother from Shrewsbury.
I am proud of the good humour and patience and the hearts of the British.
Don't let the bastards grind you down and all the best to you
@@danjp1987 Thanks Dan I hovered over the enter button with this. I'm glad at least one person took what I was saying at face value. The phrases 'divide ac regulae' and 'panem et circenses' (divide and rule and bread and circuses') predate us by 2,000 + years and yet they remain the most effective methods of all ruling elites as a means of population domination and monopolising resources and surplus.
This is the most balanced view I've read so far in all of these remarks. The real problem is this little concept called "race" and it's twin brother "class". Poor working class whites on both sides of the pond have suffered just as much as blacks but the powers that be have more of a vested interest in keeping the enmity going. You only have to look at British literature to see how the average British citizen lived. Dickens comes greatly to mind.
I do relate to his description of his grandmothers experience
My family is Canadian ( black slaves granted land and “freedom”in the east coast of Canada for in the war of independence . We also see ourselves as similar to southern Americans… our culture, our food , our values, our religious bent, systems are very similar .
We still experienced oppression and discrimination Until the late 20th century and beyond!!
My grandmother if alive would have mourned the late Queen
I’m glad I never had to have this argument with my beloved Matriarch.. MY QUEEN
Sad you don’t live in the UK and experience the truth of life for the black communities , but instead listen to a man in the UK who is privileged yet chooses to spread racial division and a distorted vision of Britain and British society .
@@simpaticaism ,what is the truth the he did not tell.
@@simpaticaism i am from Jamaica and I find what she said as so so sad. No respect for the queen none i have. In fact for ne its bye Felicia.
@@jacquelinegrayden4706 what the Fuck? Queen of slavery and colonialism? You must be an obedient house ... and subject.
So you know better than your late Grandmother.. ok.
Britain didn’t have many resources, the industrial revolution was made with coal and iron, from the UK for fuel and construction.
For "King and Country" was the clarion call during the atrocities meted out by the British. The oppressed will never forget the carnage.
Yes true but once the monarchy formed parliament and a government they lost almost all there power they are nothing more than figureheads and a glorified tourist attraction so yes the monarchy are partly to blame but the rest is on the British government who did all these things in the name of the monarchy deflecting the blame
How were you personally oppressed?
East Indian Indentures who know their true history from colonize India to the Caribbean, South Africa and European Countries feels the same. Thank you for your honest assessment.
yep the only country that went to war and took the spoils of victory
I’m pretty sure the “oppressed” you are referring to are long dead and wouldn’t feel much anger toward the Crown.
He’s not my king either. Unfortunately, as a Brit, he’s forced upon me.
He’s right: it is definitely time to end this.
Have a referendum like australia did. 🇦🇺 chose to keep the monarchy.
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB, FRS (29 September 1725 - 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India,[1][2][3] was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. Clive has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company
Well what a surprise! He is, after all a professor in Black studies isn't he. Some one go and tell him who's really to blame for all of the Arican's that were enslaved . Those African slaves were caught by their victors during inter tribal wars and it was the kings who sold their slaves from these wars, first the Arabs who by the way used to castrate their African slaves, and then the Portuguese followed by other europeans powers. All the world for millennia have participated in the act of slavery. This is not a British thing and if he says it is then he is a racist.
I'm white and from the UK. This interview was a breath of fresh air. At the moment nobody can say these views out loud. We need to learn from the past in order to grow.. There are a lot of people in the UK who disagree with the crown.
I thought it was a dreadful interview. She asked no probing questions about his absurd claims. He lives in England, speaks English and is employed by the tax payer at a rather 3rd rate institution. Professor of Black studies. How useful is that to society? Actually quite divisive. He is totally one-sided in his interpretation of what are well known historical facts. The UK crown goes back hundred of years before transatlantic slavery. The UK also suffered from slavery itself. Barbary pirates etc. Even St Patrick back in the 6th century was a freed slave. Dublin was the centre of the Viking slave trade. You won't here any of this from this pair. No mention of the Ottoman empire. Why are slavs called slavs? He is an ignoramus of the first order. What a surprise.
I wish more white people in the US had your mindset... they're so scared to visit the passed so much so that they pass bills to stop it..
Probably taking your information from one source is neither wise nor intelligent. Don't judge history from the safety and comfort of 2022.
I think Kehinde Andrews is a Marxist. He is a revisionist which means he rewrites history. Britain and America represent what he hates.
And if he is a Marxist and he believes in critical race theory then according to Hitler, He's a Nazi. So before you throw your country under the bus think in context.
I ve yet to speak to anyone that shows racism during my life living in Britain. I don’t think many people care, to me if your black white orange pink, whatever you’re human at the end of the day .!!!!!!
Mary Mary quite contrary, how DOES your garden grow?... Obviously the people who disagree with you dont share their trangressions with you. Or are you dismissing reported transgressions because the person committing the transgression did not come and tell about it.
People are not pink or orange your sentiment is good but ignorant no offence just because your experience is not of racism doesn’t mean it’s not others experience and as a black Brit I can certainly say it’s been my experience. Remember racism is not just an individual saying something racist it’s a systemic institutional thing also it’s not always in your face, if you are not a person of colour then you might not be aware of the less obvious forms of racism doesn’t mean it’s not real I don’t know what race you are usually white people talk as you have and not always but more often then not my question for you would be do you have to experience something for it to be real I’m talking in general think about that then apply that question specifically to racism.
@@jermaine4552 literally
@@jermaine4552 I imagine you can always find racism, real or imagined, if you are looking for it. People all over the world can experience racism to some degree, yes, even white people.
It’s easy to deny racism if you are not the target of it
Great interview. Kehinde is always on point. As for Candice Owens, she's just a lost cause.
That "ITCH" had to say something due to her connection with a brit(husband) she 's the farmer's wife!...
hy - Walter Mitty is a real character living in Birmingham....appears in J.Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty",
He is a professor of Black Studies of Grime, Crime, Drillz Rap music & Kn!fe_Crime& Narcotic$ $ales!
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Candice is a lost soul. She's has identity issues. "A black mouth piece for white racism"....yep
Kehinde Andrews is a race baiter. It's the only way he can make money.
Both are race grifters
Very good information from Professor Andrews, people were not only colonized physically, but also were fed propaganda to colonize their minds.
it's 2022 now! wake up!
The latter has turned out to be more damaging.
you do realise that there are 10million slaves today have you an opinion about what should happen to them
@@richardlewis7498 Slavery should be eradicated wherever it exists, it leads to unwanted migration. However, slavery exists because of unregulated capitalism and weak governments
@@richardlewis7498 where do you get your lies from, well ignorance is not an excuse.
I notice that all the grifting complainers never move either to or back to the countries that themselves or their ancestors came from.
Go back home 😂 - typical comment from a racist. This is there home,
Besides - they probably would, if their was something to go back to - most of the wealth was taxed years ago. All that is left is tourism and hotels taking up most of the beaches. Don’t get me wrong - I have been to such beaches all over the Caribbean and they are beautiful, but when you go in land - this is when you open your eyes, to the reality of years of oppression.
Now tell me something - the Windrush generation were promised wealth and prosperity from the mother land, but when they arrived, they were rejected? (Windrush scandal is another story).
Things are slowly moving forward, but we still have institutional racism.
Imagine if we spent this kind of ridiculous energy and resources on the living…
Pro Andrews never shuts up with his hate of Britain in Britain but would never leave Britain and live anywhere else. Enough said.
Colonials systems and institutions are still present today. Europeans ended their presence in the colonies but installed corrupt and oppressive regimes who are loyal to their colonial masters.
Yes, but I think you'll find that the new colonial masters are the big multi-national conglomerates as opposed to governments although the two often work hand in hand. They will soon be gone sooner or later as the Chinese will take over.
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@@KillerWhale99 I agree with you and the multi-nationals are the new colonials who employ the oppressive and corrupt regimes in the former colonies to their advantage.
In 300 years will you still be blaming Europeans for all your problems?
@@tortozza Nothing has changed since the early days of colonialism. Only the faces changed. The problems will continue as long as EU and USA sells weapons and accept stolen money and give refuge/support/protection to oppressive corrupt regimes. EU and USA don't care about human rights, freedoms, justice unless the perpetrators are not their allies such as Iran, China, Russia or N Korea.
Tortozza is that what he said?
We can feel it in USA 🇺🇸. The rent is so expensive that you cannot afford a bedroom. So sad!
So that’s racism lol? You all wake up racism more from 2016-2020with all the hate that was spread and so many black persons lost thier lives, between those times some people who came out and show thier true colors it was ashamed
@Frook Zimmers stop complaining that average people can't afford a safe place to live? You buggin lmao
So that's because of the British Royal Family?
In London only.
@@richmrstonestone didn’t the colonizers in America gain independence from the British. So they’re all the same, come from the same place and share the same corrupt history of murder and rape etc…
Why do I get the feeling that sooner or later someone is going to start saying "Kick them off the island"
Indians are the the most color obsessed in the world. They have the biggest market for skin-whitening creams, lotions, soaps, etc.
If you are of obvious African ancestry, including African-American, you can find life really, really tough in India if you are going to be in India for a while. Indians are in your face racists.
Not before the Native Americans kick them off America.
@@Petal4822 Not innacurate but hm,..poor prhasing in that regard, its more
US: Ware going to enact a major deportation of these foreigner!
Native Americans: Cool I'll help you pack
Funny thing is : Tea Drinking originally was not an English thing .
It was Catherine of Braganza , a Portuguese Queen-Consort, who introduced Tea to the English .
And fullyishly they ate the leaves and threw the tea away. The irony of this statement is that it is not known to most if not all of the British population. So the Portuguese themselves were not doing it right
Very cool.
So glad that' His/Herstory is being told around the world. Now why dont the truth come out about illegitimate henry IV, which line charles and the queen (his mother) before him came from.
Thank you! The British always like to pretend that they don't know that.
Possibly a Chinese / Japanese drink originally?
When Africans were building pyramids the Europeans were living in cave.
When Africans were writing the Bible, the Europeans were worshiping the Mithras and Baal gods!
Yup! and Sudan has more pyramids than anywhere in the world.
The Brits abolished slavery and fought slave traders on the seas for 100 years... Black africans and Muslims created the modern slave trade, it was not the Europeans. Learn history. The Islamic slave trade exists today. Do something about that rather than shitting on a dead old woman.
And yet we still run the whole world.
Look at that.
Don't forget them being conquered by the Romans, and the Moors. Then came the Dark Ages from which they emerged, then creating the evil Medevil period which saw depravity, death and destruction, oppression of its people, and much more crazy stuff.
Yet, without us... there would only be MORE starving Africans. No rap.... no clothing line... no mlk... no black history month.... just more Africans.
Candace Owens is a House Nanny
Isn't that the woman who was complaining about Disney portraying a mermaid with a black actress?
The Brits abolished slavery and fought slave traders on the seas for 100 years... Black africans and Muslims created the modern slave trade, it was not the Europeans. Learn history. The Islamic slave trade exists today. Do something about that rather than shitting on a dead old woman.
@@shamsheerg7519 So. your take is that although the brits started transatlantic slavery, that they are not culpable because they stopped slavery? You step-n-fetch it, British Handmaids will do and say anything to protect your massa''s
@@shamsheerg7519 So we will just forget about the genocide, rape of Africa, grand theft , mass murder, and global colonialism.
I think it is fitting for a Black Girl to protray a Mermaid. As many Black Babies that were thrown in the Atlantic Ocean ( for insurance profit) having a Black Girl as a Mermaid is the best choice.
The Welshman was right to say 'You're not my King'! and as an African Man I approve this.
Welsh ,Scots and Irish have all been colonized by the same Group and when you hear United Kingdom ,it underlines that England is centralized and that the other nations are just kind of provinces.Its abnormal.
As far as Africa ,India are concerned,they suffured a lot of attrocities ,the Queen didnt react whilst she could have but somehow its difficult because Institutions are behind but she could have reacted all those decades
❝ lovin' a curry and hating an Indian❞ It's a bwitish ting - we all laughed loudly in our Black Student Society meeting.
So said a Racial Equality Officer who spoke at our college in south London (aka mouth London).
Like a lot of island boys he had family in NY/Miami.
Unlike a lot of us island boys he pushed the painful truth to us
By telling us how deep rooted our own self hate/colonial commonwealth colonial is, he asked 'how many of all yuh grew up wid she picture on da wall, next to dem white jesus' - we all fell stone cold silent.
Then he said 'at least in flatbush, yuh cousins grew up seeing Martin, maybe even Malcom' - we laughed, but got his message, massa is doing what he's suppose to and begging him not to really is madness (repeating the action expecting different outcome)
I am so happy about the true history is coming out
The Brits abolished slavery and fought slave traders on the seas for 100 years... Black africans and Muslims created the modern slave trade, it was not the Europeans. Learn history. The Islamic slave trade exists today. Do something about that rather than shitting on a dead old woman.
You don't want the true story to come out it'll blow the narrative wide open. Would probably mute the followers tho 😂
How do you know it’s a true story just because somebody says it’s true doesn’t mean it is true so how do you know it’s true are you true
@@vinnydepasquale3207 I felt it on my skin
So sad that many are still stuck in it.
Honoring "racism", colonialism and stupid people living in the medieval times and mindset
What makes monarchy a medieval time? Monarchy is just a system of government just like democracy is. There are still monarchy in all over the Middle East. Have you not heard of the kind of Saudi Arabia? Etc
You just gave an example of an extremely, objectively medieval regime@@justicearibiegbe1. 🙄
Monarchy existed long before the medieval age and will continue exist long after this modern age we find ourselves in
If you are using the internet and have the freedom to speak your mind it’s thanks to the colonialism for providing this to you. Ungrateful.
All pagans
When I indicated on one of the YT sites that the coffin looked empty, because one of the soldiers in the back of the coffin was able to just push it up with one hand while he was standing behind the coffin on the stairs of the Chapel, I was attacked by many angry people. So, I am glad that at least one person is sharing my doubts about the Queen laying in the coffin. Also, out of practical and security reasons it wouldn't surprise me if if was.
He was making sure it could not fall back as the bearers took all the weight whilst going up the steps a helping hand if you like !
The casket is lead lined, therefore heavy.
A lot of us have thought along that line. I don't hate the Queen or the English monarchy, I don't care, I'm completely indifferent, but I know that where there's power, there's secrecy and deception and nobody is going to lay one of the greatest symbols of power in state for four straight days just like that. Never happens. When I learnt there was going to be a private internment I became more relaxed. If everything was jst as transparent up until the end then it would have been crazy and I'd have been more worried because the more the transparency the bigger the deception. I'm from a part of Africa where there's a strong monarchical presence that has existed for many many centuries and everything that concerns the burial of the monarch is done in complete secrecy even right until this day.
Wow some crazy conspiracy theories being discussed here.
Couldn’t agree more!!
If you don't like it leave what's stopping you
he also does not say that Britain had a hard time stopping black Africans from selling each other to other Europeans.
The Blockade of Africa began in 1808 after the United Kingdom outlawed the Atlantic slave trade, making it illegal for British ships to transport slaves. The Royal Navy immediately established a presence off Africa to enforce the ban, called the West Africa Squadron. Although the ban initially applied only to British ships, Britain negotiated treaties with other countries to give the Royal Navy the right to intercept and search their ships for slaves.
People have absolutely no clue about the West African Squadron, or the fact we bought the freedom of US slaves for the brain-boggling figure of £17 billion.
Western whites are encouraged to feel guilt for the sins of our fathers. We can acknowledge past atrocities, but it's about time we shook off this guilt entirely.
U have prove the African sold African to British Portuguese ect...
@@calioumarx4289it's well known.
European and American slavers exchanged goods for people with African traders along enormous stretches of West and Central Africa, even to Madagascar and southeastern Africa. But most Africans boarded slave ships in six distinct regions of the African coast: Upper Guinea, the Gold Coast, Bight of Benin, Bight of Biafra, West-Central Africa, and southeastern Africa. During the course of the transatlantic slave trade, nearly half of all African captives were taken from West-Central Africa (Congo and Angola today).The Bight of Benin (Togo, Benin, and Nigeria today) and the Bight of Biafra (covering approximately today’s Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon) accounted for a further 28 percent of embarkations on slave ships. These points of departure from Africa do not necessarily indicate the home regions of African victims, since vast networks of slave routes frequently funneled people to the coast from villages deep in the interior.
Slaves: Shewing the Method of Chaining Them portrays two men chained to one another aboard the slave ship Favourite in 1805.
As a result, those loaded onto European and American slave ships had already endured a number of passages of prolonged hardship long before their sale on the coast. After initial capture, African slavers might pass them through different African societies, through alien lands and cultures, for weeks, months, or years before confronting the most confusing of sights: European men, the Atlantic Ocean, and the slave ships. Though some were marched just a few miles to the coast, others had been forcibly marched hundreds of miles. It was a journey that took its toll on the African men, women, and children bound together by ropes, chains, or wooden yokes.
Different forms of servitude had long been a feature of many African societies, and Africa had long-established slaving systems and slave routes, such as those across the Sahara Desert and along the Nile. These systems differed markedly from the transatlantic slave trade and racialized slavery that Europeans later developed to maximize plantation production in their colonies.
There were various forms of indigenous African slavery, ranging from kinship arrangements to chattel slavery. Africans fell into slavery because of extreme poverty (as with children given away or sold by hungry families, for example), pawn slavery (which might be temporary), or violence, including warfare, slave raids, and kidnapping. Enslaved individuals could then be sold on to other communities in need of labor. There were child slaves and large holdings of enslaved people-upward of one thousand in number-by slave traders on the edge of the Sahara. There was, however, no single form of African slavery.
Even today it continues and no one seems to care because it aint European's but African's
On any given day in 2016, an estimated 9.2 million men, women, and children were living in modern slavery in Africa. The region has the highest rate of prevalence, with 7.6 people living in modern slavery for every 1,000 people in the region.
@@jimstirling8120 This audience doesn't care because they are just Marxists demanding money. No point complaining about things done by people without lots of money.
If "Racism Is as British as a Cup of Tea", why doesn't Mr. Andrews find somewhere else more suitable to live?
I love a cup of tea and the more I see of these idiots the more racist I become. There is nothing stopping any of these haters leaving the country. What would we miss if they all left tomorrow
Everytime you hear the word racism replace it with pride and patriotism
I am a "white" Jamaican and I remember my parents playing 8mm film my father took in the late 50s or early 60s of the queen and her husband's visit to Jamica. I was just a small child at the time so I did not understand, but in those films you see the queens entourage being greeted with cheers and fanfare by people who's grandparents were brutalized, murdered and enslaved in a society headed by the crown.
Of course, when Jamaica gained independence in the early 60's my parents uprooted our family and fled Jamaica along with many other "white" Jamaicans at the time and moved to Canada.
As an adult looking back it really makes me realize what a fucked up world we live in.
✅ That part
@Michael. I hope that you are an ally in regards to standing up for people that you personally experience their pain and ignorance, to your fellow White counterparts. Because it's clear that you understand, the systematic racism that continues today. Thank you, for being a witness from the outside. It is not because you are white; it is because you are a human being that knows how another human being should have freedom not only physically but mentally!
@@wildflowersun8795 - Agreed!
I am a white African and chose to move twice on account of decolonization and the reverse racism policies of the independent countries who subsequently went into extreme indigenous modes aimed at eliminating European influence on their societies and economies. I understand it, being treated as a land thieving non citizen in the land of my birth merely because I was white and brought up during British colonization. There are hundreds of thousands of people like myself who’ve had to move on. In many cases it has ruined their lives.
To read Michaels perspective of colonial Jamaica and how he chose to move to Canada which in effect is still a British colony with racist policies and practices that are entrenched from 200 years ago. To keep reading daily press about the people from ex colonial countries who complain about the monarchy, the British empire, the way of life 100 years ago and how bad it still is - defies credibility. Well the world has moved on. Jamaica was colonized and had slavery. At decolonization the island was given to the people for them to manage and operate. The Jamaica of today is not the Jamaica of the 1950s.
Our friend Michael should go back to Jamaica and see who has taken over since independence. He should ask the question as to why so many black Jamaicans chose to move to Canada and the UK. For those ex Jamaicans in Canada and the UK, who complain about racism, one can only challenge them to go home either to Jamaica or Africa, and see the level of racism and tribalism there. Then they might understand how relatively tolerant a country like Britain is towards them - if they don’t accept the system then move to where you think it’s better. From my own experience they will not find such a place.
@@mambaman9363 pay them their dues and they will gladly leave Babylon. For information UK has not paid or compensated the Jamaicans for slavery and for the windrush relocation to help build Britain after the wars.
My family is from Jamaica and some still call it the British West Indies. They love the British system.
You family have Stockholm syndrome ups, So sorry
This "professor " is just a anti white racist. Thomas Sowell would humiliate him in a debate. These types like to blame whitey for everything
Who doesn't?
Looters and rioters that's who!
England is headed back what it was 400-500 years ago.... A Backwater Place!
AGAIN!
THANKS FOR THIS CLIP
THANK YOU.
IT CONFIRMED MY THOUGHT.
As an 'English man' still residing here, I'm unsurprised yet appalled by the people I'm surrounded by. Plenty of them are nice people but there's something ingrained within the psyche. A lot of them seem to class the monarchy as members of their own family. It's like The Twilight Zone over here.
It was great to see Biden attending, and all those brits chanting “Let go Brandon” and “FJB”.
@@mehnameehjeff6325 And "FPF" too.
@Renee Johnson I've tried to understand this (I'm German) and I've come to the conclusion it's not about her as an individual, but what she represents. There's a huge weight of sentimental symbolism attached to the monarchy in this country. Royalists identify with the institution as somehow being the embodiment of the nation's 'spirit', however you wish to define this. There's that section of the population who still yearn for the 'glory days' of empire, and Elizabeth can be seen as the last link to that era, ascending to the throne only 6 years after India gained independence. For many more people it's merely the continuity - given her age, for the vast majority of the population she has just always been there. They grew up with her face on the currency, never knew another head of state all their lives, a constant background presence in public life. Especially in contrast to fickle politics, she seemed like an element of stability. We are all unsettled by change, and we all like some things to be 'just like always'. Humans are creatures of habit and right now we live in unsettling times, so for some the removal of such a familiar figure underlines a greater uncertainty about the future. They might also have come to feel a sense of ownership of her person in a sense, just through her continued being there. For still others, a reminder of human mortality so solemnly showcased will stir up memories of personal losses they might never have adequately processed in their own lives. So to sum up, people are projecting all sorts of things onto the canvas of a queen's funeral, and it's psychologically much more complex than illogical sadness over the passing of someone completely remote to oneself.
@@diarmuidkuhle8181 ¡ Well stated Diarmuid !
@@diarmuidkuhle8181 Excellent comment. I agree with and completely relate to your analysis. That's exactly how I feel as a 65 year old brit who immigrated to Australia and has been living in China for 13 years. Using an analogy; the Queen (King and royal family) is/was like a very big, grand old tree in your back garden. It's a symbol of stability, constancy and reliability in our ever changing, fast-paced urban environment. You don't really notice it until, one day someone cuts the tree down, and it's gone... forever. Psychologically, it's like losing a grandmother, and I am reminded of when I lost my elderly parents, my Dad, my Mum. Events like these are also an uncomfortable reminder of our own mortality.
How could you honestly say Europe was behind Africa in civilisation and development when they were able to defeat and plunge Africa into slavery?
Over one thousand years later.
Savagery is the reason they were able to do that.
They didn't plunge Africa into slavery. Africans did that. Africa is not a country, it's a continent
Bet this guy is fun at parties
That tea party took place back in the 1600 or 1700s. He misses it when they coated the rioters with feathers!
Some will want us to forget history. We can't. We will need to learn how to heal from the pains and hurt. And since the past can't be changed, looking into how to improve the future is essential. Colonizers might never take responsibility for what they did. We need to learn from the past and grow from it.
Sweetheart the colonizers are ancient history wake up.
Colonizers cant take responsibility since they are long dead. And you dont need to heal from teh past since you were not a slave. Youre just a professional victim.
@@Caroline.123 I am wide awake. You probably do not understand the effect history has on the present and just forgetting it would not be prudent. Rather, we learn from it.
@@olubunmiadewolebabatunde4769 but you are not learning from it. You are just simply using it to blame people in the present.
@@mr.centrist5789 it's still happening in the present is the problem.
Please let him come back to Nigeria, millions would love to take his place in the UK. We have discrimination here 100x worse than in the UK.
Change your name.. as Malcolm X would never defend Britain atrocities
@@darkstar4102 are there atrocities going on right now?
Ha ha ha, I have laughed so much from your comment. My point exactly. The likes of him do nothing for the black race yet comes to the forum and spew nonsense.
I think the strangest thing about the British Royal Family is that they are not ethnically related to the original indigenous people of the British Isles i.e. the Celtic tribes and Vikings. The RF are descendants of European royalty, most notably the German Hanoverians, who were also related to the Russian Romanovs, the last royal family in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Ordinary Britons regarding this family as the pinnacle of Britishness is about as bizarre as one could possibly imagine.
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that's why i don't...
No your wrong , all the Royal families from different countries were related and married in to each other to kp the bloodline. Dont like the Monarchy then bye bye nobody is making u stay here. Plus I pointed out abt the vikings coming here ,colonising it ,burning down villages and towns , murdering men ,women and children and taking whites back to Norway and Scandanvia to be slaves . Should us whites from Britain have so called ' generational trauma 🙄 " or hate Norwegians and scandanvains?!, nope bcos it was yrs ago. Over thousands of years countries have had name changes, countries have came and went . In yrs to come there won't be the countries there are now
So get over it !!!
Oh no!! so that means at some point the Brits were invaded and colonised themselves.😂😂seems that colonisation in them times had no preference slaves are slaves black and white.
You couldn't put it better. He's absolutely right.
If you are not happy living in the UK or any western nation then leave, instead of complaining over a history that people in this day have nothing to do with or necessarily approve or agree it was right.
Stop whinging also that you live in a western culture that does offer freedoms and choices that in decades and centuries ago did not exist if your not happy with that feel free to leave it too.
The monarch has been a constitutional monarchy for ages, they actually don't hold power to "rule" ( for people who may not know)
Head of state (monarch) is not ruling or dictating what goes on in a country and the decisions of their governments.
People and nations need take responsibility for what is now, you can't change what is past. If countries want to become a republic then do it.
The monarchy can disappear but that will not change the anger and hatred in peoples heart, the monarch in itself is not the issue.
Instead of going on and on about slavery ( slavery has been around since day dot too) in a history that we don't live or a culture or society at a time that was.
There are enough modern problems to deal with.
Why not focus on modern slavery trafficking in labour, child labour, sex trafficking and so on.
Kehinde is a Nigerian name meaning this man is a twin , his twin brother or sister will be called Taiwo as Nigerian names are always coded with meanings.
Most jamaicans are from Abeokuta in the south west of Nigeria. I guess he got Kehinde from there. Good to know the Andrews never completely cut off from their source.
What does ETERNITY represent? IT'S FOREVER!! IT'S A LONG TIME!!
THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION of your life: Where will you go after you die and enter ETERNITY? Have you ever lied? Hated someone? Did you steal something? If you have committed any of these acts, in God's eyes you are a liar, a murderer and a thief! Under these conditions, you will spend ETERNITY IN HELL!!! But this is not God's desire for you. JESUS CHRIST died for you and rose on the third day. HE did this so that you would be forgiven of your sins and have a relationship with God. If you REPENT of your sins (turn away from them) receive and trust in JESUS CHRIST, you will be forgiven by Him and be assured of ETERNAL LIFE!!! The Bible says that God will make you BORN AGAIN. He will give you a NEW heart and NEW desires. THAT'S THE TRUTH!!! Do this today, before you enter ETERNITY!!! Tomorrow can be too late!!!
"Jesus answered him, I am the WAY, and the TRUTH, and the LIFE: no man cometh unto the Father, BUT THROUGH ME." (John 14:
What is the Nigerian name for email scammer?
@@Mike--Oxmall "Capitalist".
@@paultrought267 hahaha
3:35 “Ppl standing in line w kids for 24hr just to stand and stare at what was likely an EMPTY BOX 📦”… 😮
I wonder if that’s true.
Definitely true: all so demented.🌬🕯⚰️
There was no queen in that coffin.
Of course why on earth would she be in that coffin never in a million years lol
Can’t believe people are so easily fooled, there was nobody in that ⚰️.
Of course it's true..
You think they were dragging a rotting body from location to location...
Pretty sad what happened to the native Americans and Australians and their civilizations. Africans too. Apartheid was around until the 1990s. Absolutely disgusting.
Still happening today, or have you seen f.ex. the USA giving back large swaths of fertile land to native Americans? How about USA and Canada still regularly planning construction projects on sacred ground? The truth is that humans are all terrible, and they're absolute hypocrites. Me me me, greed greed greed, literally no matter where you look in history or race, it's all always the same. Agreed, it's disgusting. However, this Queen served her country dutifully her entire life, didn't orchestrate any atrocities, didn't invade any countries, stayed humble and and worked until 2 days before her death. You can hate monarchy or history all you want, she lived her whole life for her country and brought much good to the UK as a symbol of continuity, stability and as a true tourism magnet. Respects should be paid where respects are due: the way the UK went about things here was absolutely correct. The Queen stood for the UK like no one else for 70 years straight.
@@miriamearthling4107 I disagree. She never formally apologized for or acknowledged any of the wrongdoings of her ancestors while happily inheriting their wealth and lifestyle. You can't have it both ways.
You say she worked until 2 days before her death. What kind of work did she do? It was all symbolic. The fact of the matter is that she lived a life of entitlement and luxury and didn't have to work a day of her life. She was a piece of garbage.
@@sundarchip 🤦🏽♂ You just said her work was symbolic and then blame her for not apologising.... She has no authority to do so on her own accord, the government decides, not her!
@@tk-6967 Rubbish. She could have apologized if she wanted to.
Apartheid was the Afrikaners, not the British.
What's stopping this guy from returning to his country of origin then? I'm not even British but this question begs to be asked.
If the Black were for some time under Asian rule they would never complain about British colonialism.
If I suffered as much as the prof says he does, I wouldn't stay a minute more in Britain, especially not in Birimingham. 😂
Money issues
U stole what we had so let us do same
Africa waits for you lololol
He’s got a platform to spread the truth where he’s at. The 1st Black history Prof!!! 2022!!! Let that sink in!
@@ciscodealmeida8541 love Africa been there many many times places like Ghana beautiful wish I owned land there I would go in heartbeat. Mind you I didn’t steal anything so we are welcome
The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English mercantile (trading) company set up in 1660 by the royal Stuart family and City of London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa.[1] It was led by the Duke of York, who was the brother of King Charles II and in 1685, York took the throne as James II. The RAC shipped more African slaves to the Americas than any other company in the history of the Atlantic slave trade, and was owned entirely by the British Crown.
I think more slaves actually went to South America than North America ( by the Portuguese). Also all the slaves were sold by other African tribes. The British merchants did not raid villages. The victorious African tribes sold the conquered tribes to the traders for goods. Maybe their descendants should be made to pay reparations as without their involvement there would have been no slaves to sell. And of course the Barbary pirates raided Europe including the UK and Ireland for centuries. The local African slave traders tried and succeeded in slave trading long after the UK had abolished slavery. I actually saw some Sudanese women in Riyadh around 1985 who had been slaves in Saudia Arabia where it was abolished in the 1960's. I don't think the RAC was owned entirely by the British Crown as there were dozens of shareholders and officers. It was joint ownership. This is using history as politics in a form of Black nationalism. But I think Kehinde Andrews is a 3rd rate academic who is a danger to a multicultural society by his endless race-baiting.
@@richcory7945 Nonsense!, what about British colonization?, where the British stole resources, artifacts and more lands?!. How come the so called "Advanced countries" were those who were involved in the colonization? - is that a coincidence?!!!.
@@richcory7945 The African nations that were involved in the slave trade no longer exist because they too were colonized. America and Europe need to pay reparations.
@@richcory7945 No matter, kidnapping is kidnapping, they didn't volunteer to be enslaved. Both European countries involved and African countries involved should pay reparations
This whole debate is a non starter. First of all “black” does describe ethnicity. Secondly Africans (Hamites) sold Hebrew Israelites (Shemites) into slavery.
Those who know the truth of the Holy Bible are not looking for financial reparations. We are going to get ours by enslaving all 17 nations for 1000 years (millennial kingdom).
The Heavenly Father Yahawah through his son Yahawashi is bringing the rule of the e-domites to a close as we speak. All the weather phenomena, wars rumours of wars, lock down cost of living crises are all preparation for the bitter end that will arrive.
Daniel 7:18
“But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.”
WW3 THEN ARMAGEDDON 🔜
Racism is everywhere not just British
My grand uncle Huffman Donaldson was recruited and migrated from Jamaica to England to rebuild mother country after the second World War. He faced unfathomable torture with notices such as "No blacks, No Dogs". He returned to Jamaica to die and is now of blessed memory. Of course, his only son needs a visa to travel to England.
It wasnt just no blacks no dogs it was also no Irish and also no single mothers too. That was in the 60s. Still to say in 2022 that Racism in Britain is as British as a cup of tea is hysterical. As for current Jamaica its riddled with wholesale state corruption from within. Guns and high crime rates are rife and poor human rights records for their own people. In Africa The Arabs and Africans had both been slave trading from ancient times long before the Europeans showed up.
Out of interest, who was he recruited by and why did he come?
If he hates his country so much why does he stay
gallow glass2. Don't be silly!! He doesn't have a country, certainly not this one.
Well who are to question him ..
@@deepalakshmi5890 Who is he that he is above being questioned
People like Candace are just liars. It's been a long perpetuated myth that Africa has "always been backwards". Many African societies were basically level pegging with Europe around the beginning of the colonial period. Dahomey, Benin, Egypt, Ethiopia and others.
Colonialism brought things like railways and guns but it's a catch 22. Who says those things would have been invented without colonialism. As if your subjugation is necessary to global advancement. If it is can we say that advancement is worth it? And if it isn't why the need for subjugation in the first place?
No, the kind of explosives development seen in the modern period can only really be explained by hyper exploitation of land and resources, especially human resources.
She's married to a brit.
Benin and Dahomey level pegging with Europe ? what twaddle .
Egypt and Ethiopia maybe ,but benin and dahomey nowhere near late iron age at best
The kingdom of Benin was great before the evil came so I won't morn.
ENGLAND DID NOT WANT TO GO IN THE ICEAGE AGAIN THAT WHY SHE PLUNDER AFRICA
The Soap Opera moves into a new groove. Get it we are all born naked, and all leave in abox.
Oh dear stop giveing these numpties air time....Can't be bothered anymore These people ae so represive....
Jamaica 🇯🇲 to the world 🌎
Wa gwan? Mi luv mi highgrade from Suriname 🇸🇷 South America 🙂🙏🇯🇲Jah Bless 😂
Jaimacans crying for the queen
@@okthen5566 🤣😂🤣💯👍🏽
Hurt people hurt people period you can have 10 billion discussions but that's the bottom line hurt begets hurt. The discussions are just for fun get to the root HURT🤕🤢
@Visitor I feel hurt if my great great great grandparents were evil and I have already spent more than half a year treating patients in South Africa, paid for by my own savings.
There is no way you can do anything to make up for what happened.
People I met laughed at me because they had property and I didn't, so basically all you can do is what you want to do and because you want to give and can give.
Thank you for that! I am grateful for the courage you all have to create the space on RUclips. This upload was very powerful and eye-opening! Thank you once again! 🇨🇦🇹🇹
Funny how only one group of people " sub Saharan Africans" think everyone hates them , why doesn't any other former empires think it did them good , why do Africans alone say that the rest of the world hates them eh ? I think they are the racists if they don't like it here go back to Africa.
Why did you stay in Britain? You should gone back to Africa! Your life would’ve been much better!
@@alisonhilll4317 you are a hateful person. I hope your comment is removed!
@@seanalexander1984 imagine calling someone hateful as you hold on to grudges from people who died before you were even born (!)
For an Academic, I found his analysis of the late queen to be rather unfair.
Half of me wants a
cold beer. The other half does too.
Every african nation was at her funeral and not one had a bad word to say about her
As an Indian, I only liked late Princess Diana. One day India will become too strong which will force to return looted Kohinoor diamonds and indian valuables from British museum as a gesture of good will. BRICS countries should stand together
What is your proposition? You think returning diamonds will go to a museum, or to help fund the Indian nation. It will go in the greedy pockets of its leaders. India has nerve to talk about stolen diamonds when it’s the centre point of worldwide scams.
These Gems were gifts, they were not stolen but given freely by your Indian country, and now you have Diamonds in your eyes and you believe that returning these Gems will somehow raise your country out of poverty and enrich your life? Pathetic!
These gems are considered the Crown Jewels because they were gifted to the Monarchy, not stolen, and remain Crown Jewels regardless of who sits on the throne, which makes them British property not the Monarchs.
Do a little bit of research on the Crown Jewels, you might be surprised.
Really why just princess Diana she was from one of the most powerful families in the country.also good luck with that,India won't look after them so no
@@atomant451 lol no it was not a gift it was transferred in the treaty of Lahore, a peace treaty to end the first Anglo-Sikh war. It was a concession, not a gift.
I ONLY LIKE HARRY AND HIS MOTHER PRINCESS DIANA
And then Britain went full steam ahead to end the slave trade.
People are racist all over the world... We can't blame the Monarchy for that...
Event if King or Queen demands not to be racist...
Hahahahah! An "empty box" it was indeed!!
were you granted special dispensation to look onside?