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In 1944 a black American GI boarded a bus in Cardiff, UK. A white American Sargent stood up and told the guy he couldn't travel on a bus with white folks. My father and his friend, who were both British soldiers in uniform, threw the Sargent off the bus to the applause and cheers of everyone on board including the driver. My father got in trouble for it but it was dismissed. I'm so proud of him.
Ditto. My granddad told me from a baby how he hated this discrimination. My granddad was someone I fundamentally disagree with politically. But he was also a bally hero. He only told me of his horridness. And it was just months before he died. He hid his utter turmoil. I wish I could give Reg the biggest kiss right now.
👏👏👏👏
LOVE IT! My mum and her three sisters were young single women at the outbreak of war, and she had many stories to tell like this.
Let them Yanks know that their rules don’t apply to other countries they land or visit on.
@@vebesese5632He lives on. Good people live forever. Your story is now on my mind and Reggie is the name of my mates little boy. I will tell him this story when he is abit older. X
Nobody ever tells a British landlord what to do in their own pub
Unless you are the brewery!
Not if it's a free house such as the pub I ran.
... didn't Starmer have his bully boys push that landlord around?
The real power is the “Landlady” ! A truly formidable force 😍😍😍😍🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@dannystubbs2061 you’re right there, nobody wants to be barred from the pub that is their local and where all their mates drink. Absolute power 🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, I didn’t Barr many but I didn’t stand for any s💩
🙏 for all those Black soldiers , British people are forever grateful for all you service . Segregation should never be tolerated,we are all human beings😢
It came from the top that the UK would not be allowing segregation. What ever people say about Churchill, he wasn't going to allow it. But he had been in South Africa, so he might have been repaying a debt for help escaping the Boer.
That what is happening in us. We use to be all Australian, now we are indigenous victims and guilty colonialist decedents, who are pushed into paying for the “sins of our fathers “. Locally to me the indigenous were given back the rights to farm abalone, they indigenous sold the licenses on, it was just a commodity nothing to do with look after the land.
@@suedynamicYep because it isn't as though Aboriginals havent and aren't being treated differently now! SMH..
And yet the British government wants to segregate certain parts of society today.
Here Here 👌 👍
I remember my mum (who would now be 102) telling me as a kid with such disgust that I'd never seen before or since, how the first Black troops to arrive would step off the pavements for the Whites, and how they were quickly educated by the Brits that 'We don't do these things here.'
Yeah, I’m sure that happened.
Probably just decent men. Moving to the side. Nothing to do with colour. You'd get pushed into road now 😂
@@DerekLangdon Troll Harder 🤡
@@DerekLangdon You're a bundle of fun aren't you? You have no way to know whether these accounts are real or otherwise.
@@nikkijayne4451 So you were there?
In 1943 American soldiers went to a dance in our local dance hall. The white American officer told the black soldiers that they couldn't dance with the white girls. My auntie, all 5ft 1 of her walked across the room, asked a black GI if he would like to dance, others then followed and on the way past the white soldiers she told the officer in charge that this was Britain and she and her friends will dance with whoever they choose and if he didnt like it he could take his white soldiers somewhere else.
I love it! Good for her, you must be so proud. ❤️
That's the sort of thing my mum and my aunties told me.
Fist fights outside the village hall on a Saturday evening, when the newly-arrived white GIs realised that the girls were waiting, not for them, but for the black GIs, who were already friends, boyfriends and dance partners - and who were not being allowed in by the white Americans.
There was a sizeable contingent of Land and Timber Corps girls in the area, who would be transported to various village dances at weekends from their often-remote hostels. Apparently these girls partied _hard,_ danced til everyone was on their knees and DEMANDED good band music. All of which was laid on thickly by the black logistics regt nearby ... No one else could compete!
My grandad told me a story they were having a drink with black American soldiers and Gurkhas when white soldiers come in told all the blacks and Gurkhas to get out needless to say they lost and was evicted from the pub
What happened next the Gurkhas went into the camp and put red paint marks on the throats of the white GI signifying that they had had their throat cut
It was my grandads mob that actually stopped the Gurkhas from actually slitting the throats
@@lesbrierley5648 Yeah, trying to push Gurkhas around... that's going to end well.
My great aunt did exactly the same thing! She relished telling the story and how all the local girls ignored the white American Soldiers and made a point of dancing with the black soldiers
Years later in the 1960's Otis Redding the singer went to the UK with other black and white musicians. They were used to segregation laws still in America so they were surprised when they went to the UK and one day driving through the North of the UK and stopped at a store how welcome they found the locals who were white people and happy for them to come and visit the country and spoke about how they remembered the black GI's in the war and how they were all polite, respectful brave young men who came to help them fight the fascists. Otis said after that he always had a warm place in his heart for the British people.
Jimi Hendrix was ostracized and got nowhere in the USA, and it was coming to Britain, and the acceptance he got here, that allowed his career to start. Sadly enough, many decades later, Prince specifically named his backing band The New Power Generation after his UK fans, whom he too had counted as critically supportive when he'd needed support.
The American Military severely underestimated the downright petty nature of the British public. Absolutely love it. Makes me proud to be British.
Petty is the wrong word. Petty means small-minded.
We are a stubborn lot sometimes especially when being told what to do😂
I am disgusted that the American military thought that they could come to Britain and ‘Demand’, that the Brits comply with their segregation laws. If you are a visitor in another country, you abide by the laws of that country. It just shows how arrogant some Americans can be. We had been standing up to Hitler for three years, on our own and taken all he had thrown at us, before American joined the war, and we certainly were not going to be told by anyone else, what we could or couldn’t do.
Yes, the American demanded segregation. If only to prevent trouble between black and white G.I’s. And yes, the Brits did comply with US demands. As for arrogance it’s coming from you, thinking Britain had the final say in the British/American alliance. It did not!! It was the US that supplied the means to defeat Germany….By 1944 Britain was a spent force, and nothing more than a junior partner to the US.
@@DerekLangdon Don't talk about arrogance pal because you seem to have plenty to go around. Who the hell are you to accuse someone of Arrogance, just because he made a very valid point.
A.H. had soldiers of all colours and creeds, including Africans, and Jews, serve in his army. And it wasn't segregated.
There is so much about that conflict we are either not told about or just outright lied to about.
Just like all their other wars.
The yanks tried it in Australia too and got their asses kicked
@DerekLangdon my god you need to do some reading, perhaps not just what you were shovel-fed in yank schools.
It was very noticeable that when white GIs married a British girl they went back to the US. If it it was a black GI they stayed in the UK. Says it all really.
Excellent point.
Britain was 99% White. A lot of British did not like the GIs black or white
@@Notwokeeverjust a smidge of common sense?
@@Notwokeever Yes we have a Black former USAF soldier living at the end of our terrace houses..He married a white woman, he also became a Pastor at the Anglican church in the village, and is highly thought of by us..The house I'm in was originally for coloured soldiers, who were the first, here along with the Polish, my neighbour is Polish. and a Muslim family also lives in our circle, along with a a new, foreign family, not sure where they're from..Point being, you treat others as you would like to be treated, so cut the cynical comment...
Shame the Muslims don't do that and we're all forced to pretend they're benevolent when they're anything but @@margaretflounders8510
The reality is that we brits just saw Americans, come to help. We didn't see colour as being anything other than skin pigmentation, just brave young men and women who were going to give the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you all, God bless you..
You made that up though
I am British, and I thank you for this video. Because the British people have always been colour blind, we see the person, not the colour. I am white and my grandson is black, he is my world, it is impossible to love him anymore than I do, and I'm so proud he is growing up to be a fine young man. My heart hurts to see those American soldiers being treated like that. I hope and pray the sacrifice they gave when leaving England to die on the beaches of France is never forgotten. To their families, you are deep in our hearts, that your sons left their homes so far away, some to die on French soil, and the last bit of love and respect they received was in England. God bless them all....John ( UK) 🇬🇧
Exactly. My husband is Japanese and has lived here for over 40 years, the only cases of racism he has had in over 4 decades was from non white people! An Indian kid and a guy from Africa! He then studied in America for only 2 months and experienced over 10 times where an America said racist things to him. He said no way would he ever, ever live in America.
I grew up a few miles from Bamber Bridge, never underestimate the people of Lancashire. We do it our way!
aint that the truth
Well said, from a Lancashire lad 👍🏼
Us Northerners are a different breed!
Very true! And don't forget that the Lancashire mill workers boycotted confederate cotton during the civil war, to their own cost.
Otis Redding used to say he loved coming to Britain to play music. Because he was treated like a human being & he dreaded going home to a country where he couldn't frequent most establishments
Why didn’t he stay then?
@@DerekLangdon Not sure. Family, friends & that no place like home feeling probably
I think it was Joe Louis who said something similar, "I like it here, people call me 'Sir' not 'boy.'"
Sidney Poitier was a Bahaman, but British. How the racist in the US took him being called Sir I don't know. So good they made a film about it 😁 Sir Sidney Poitier
Black Knight 🤣
Same with all the Mowtown artists
To all the black GIs in WW2, thank you for your service. Britain owes you a debt.
The world
Indeed.
Amen, Thank you,
@stevebettany8778. Exactly, well stated. It was a world war.
Thank you to ALL the GIs - we’re all family on the same side 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Brother I am a white British man and I live in a multi cultural society. I have always lived with the attitude that I couldn't care less what your colour or creed is, if you are a good man then you are my friend and that is the same attitude of all true Englishmen and women today as it was during WWs 1 and 2. We don't like prejudice in any form and would still react the same way as the folk of Bamber Bridge if the same events occured today. Peace and love to you Brother.
Agreed. 1 colour & 1 colour alone matters. Is your blood red?
Unfortunately there's still plenty of prejudice in the UK, and I hate that comments regarding this video try and paint the UK as some kind of multicultural utopia, which is a little insulting to all people that still get racially abused in this country. I liked up your comment because I completely respect your point of view, but despite our country being more accepting that the US and many other countries, we still have a long way to go.
@@SirHilaryManfat Yes I have to agree with you unfortunately. I don't profess to have an answer to this problem but at least we can try to lead by example ourselves and if that only rubs off on one xenophobe at least we have achieved a small victory for racial harmony. Peace to you.
@@user-cj1sg8uj3k 100% mate.
I went to school in Bamber Bridge in the fifties and sixties. ' Briggers' had no timefor racial segregation. It wasn't part of northern culture and they weren't going to be told what to do by a bunch of racists with mad ideas. They and we are and were grateful for what the lads did for us all. Thank you.
Yes! Not northern culture!!! We judge you on your personality and actions
I would like to go to Bamber Bridge. Are there any memorials to what happened there?
@@weejackrussell There's a memorial garden oposite Ye Olde Hob Inn, where the trouble started. I'm not sure, but there might also be a plaque on a bank, or former bank, building - when some renovation was being done in the 1980s/90s, a workman found a load of bullet holes from the shootout! The bloke who was killed was shot _in the back_ by a Yank MP who never faced any consequences.
@@weejackrussell you can find some of the bullet holes in some of the buildings at bamber bridge
Like true Brit fashion, willingly fight for freedom. ❤.
Imagine the shock when guns was used . It's just not British to bring a gun to a fist fight .
It's damn right cowardly. 😢
We Brits take that as a compliment when other countries have to use extreme measures just to defeat our fists. Bit like Isis. Or Russians in Marseille 2016
Haha, a man with a gun will always win a fist fight…What’s cowardly about it??
@@DerekLangdonvery true, and because of that an innocent soldier lost his life because of skin colour!
@@DerekLangdon Have you ever heard of a fair fight or as we say in Scotland, a square go? It's pretty cowardly needing a weapon cos you're not man enough to fight it out fairly.
@@DerekLangdon You wonder why yanks often get a bad wrap in Britain and you summed up why very nicely, you`re absolutely clueless son. By the way the yanks have never won a war on their own ever.
Absolute disgrace...these men were not only brave, but they were known to be respectful, polite and friendly. RIP Eugene Nunn
There are times when the sheer bloody-mindedness of the British makes me truly proud! "You want us to have a colour bar? OK then - we'll ban you lot of racists!"
Then you are feeling good about yourself for no good reason….It’s truly pathetic.
@@DerekLangdontwat troll that you are.
@@DerekLangdon You sound like a sad and miserable person. I hope you get the care you clearly need.
@@DerekLangdon Don't know what s wrong with you. But it's no small thing (as they say )
@@DerekLangdon No you're pathetic !!
The pub in question, is still open for business today. Outside the Pub there is a plaque explaining what happened on that day.
Are they not still having the roof repaired? I can't stand up straight in there. People back then must've averaged 4 foot 5'
@@PresidentHotdog .. Do you mean the _ceiling?_
@@Aotearoa_Kiwi nope. It's old so the ceilings are very low, but on top of that they had a fire. It's a thatch roof so there was extensive damage.
The British care about character, work ethic and loyalty above all else.
But the world hates the uk its crazy
Northern British, yes. Lots of them in the south (and especially London) are snobbish and shallow.
@@Jabberstax🙄
@@Jabberstax Yeah but we're snobbish to everyone, not based on colour of skin, I'm a poor Chav so I'm looked down upon by some people
You can be snobish and shallow and still have these traits.
even today Black people are called African-Americans in the USA. where as a Black person born in the UK is just British.
Have you never had to fill out one of those ethnicity forms you get, normally when dealing with the NHS or Government department, not just black, Asian or white options.
@@medler2110 I was talking about how we categorize people by their birth place, not their heritage.
@@jeanlongsden1696 I think you'll find, Black British and British Asian are terms often used by people who see themselves in those groups its also common in the media.
They are one us, you don't need to be white to be British 😁 even our language is mixed with words and phrases from across the world. Cup of cha anyone? ☕ Bungalow...
@@ndr8469 even us white Brits have mixed blood, Viking, Roman and Norman.
My grandad told me that locals welcomed American soldiers,but could the white ones stay away please as the black GI’s were so polite and friendly.
These incidents happened up and down England .
Bamber Bridge incident got more coverage because of the death of one of the soldiers but we weren’t having it.
The American authorities were slammed by the Brits and were told there is no segregation in the UK.
Years later,Motown did a tour of Britain and all their stars said they’d never felt such a welcome.
Edwin Starr was so impressed he moved here.
The Royal Air Force recruited men and women from the Carribbean. There was no segregation and discrimination.
In a documentary about these airmen, one told of his experience in a pub full of both British and American Black Servicemen. Some white American soldiers entered the pub and ordered all the Blacks out, saying it was now a white pub.
The black American soldiers meekly obliged. When the Americans noticed the British Blacks were still there, one went up to the narrator and, using the N word told him to leave. The black RAF airman just punched him in the face.
The narrator smiled and continued, "The Americans soon learned you don't mess about with the British blacks".
My mum (white) emigrated to America with my stepdad (blk) in 1973. 4 of my siblings went too. They lasted 18months. Apparently, the discrimination they both suffered, was vile. They soon came running back (🇬🇧)
In 1973? That’s awful. ❤️
As an old Brit what makes me so proud is it was the local population that did this not some polotician it was the working class men and women of Bamber Bridge who took the side of Ù.S. soldiers over in the UK to fight the Nazi's.
As Reginald D. Hunter has pointed out, the British do have racism, but they are not very good at it.
I literally have quoted this line on Twitter, several times, and tagged Mr Hunter, and he’s “liked” it every time. 😊
How true!
Sammy Davis Junior served in WWII and was horribly racially abused; he was beaten, urinated on by other GI's, painted white and had his beer urinated in.
Later in life he still had to enter venues he was headlining in through the kitchen because he wasn't allowed to enter by the front door.
It was a sickening and shameful period of US history.
I remember reading about the abuse and threats that Kim Novak received for dating Sammy Davis.
That echoes down the timeline until today.
That heartbreaking
America fought a war to end slavery, but then had segregation for 100 years...
This was not an isolated incident.
There was a battle between black and white US troops in Launceston Cornwall and the Park St riots in Bristol where a black gi was shot.
The British absolutely refused to segregate troops.
This led to friction especially if black troops were seen fraternising with white women.
Britain was long accostomed to empire troops of every race colour and creed, and all imperial troops served alongside each other for many years.
It wasnt totally egalitarian by any means, for example a black officer in command would be virtually unheard of.
But outright segregation was totally a foreign concept.
Did you know that England's 1st anti slavery law was added in 1107? And that another law stated there are no slaves in England because the moment a slave sets foot on English land they are free! You can imagine that American slave owners who brought their slaves to England 🇬🇧 were not very happy 🇬🇧this flag terrified slave traders because they knew it was baring down on them to free the slaves they held captive! Be proud of this flag because it stands for freedom!
You're thinking of a series of cases culminating in 1706where Lord Justice Holt stated that English Common Law didn't recognise slavery, and it was reiterated in the Mansfield case later in the century.
It didn't enter the statute books until the 19th C
Even in the Napoleonic War, if a slave set foot on a Royal Navy warship, he was no longer a slave.
if his 'owner' wanted him back, he had to take on the ship. Not a fight you'd choose to pick!
You can see black sailors and their part in the Battle of Trafalgar depicted on Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square.
It was 1102. The Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury codified it into law. He was later made a saint. He was taught by Lanfranc, who was anti-slavery. Lanfranc also taught William the Conqueror back in Bec Normandy. Lanfranc was made Archbishop of Canterbury and was succeeded by Anselm.
@@user-xz6qk9wf9j it wasn't codified into law
Britain contributed to the slave trade too.
We don't grow up like that in the UK. Funnily enough I'm from Preston which is near Bamber Bridge, we all grow up together. I can imagine how bizzare it would sound for someone to say I couldn't associate with someone because of their skin colour. We have more of a class system problem here, it doesn't matter what your skin colour is, especially in the north where this happened.
I used to have a girlfriend who lived on Cable Street and there's an beautiful HUGE mural about the riot on one of the walls there, and red and blue plaques too.
I think we as British people cop a lot of shit for our nation's past, but we working class every day British folk seem to do alright.
Really, So you love your black neighbour. Bet he’s a so called Christian though?
We don’t really have a class ‘problem’, it’s not the 19th century any more. Rich fraternise with rich, because of the circles they work and socialise in. It’s the same the world over. If you empty bins for a living, your opportunities to hobnob with royalty, famous celebrities, or just about any professional person, are going to be pretty limited! C’est la vie!
@@Essemm52 Say that to private schools who pay no tax and churn out politicians. Just one example. And how infastructure projects such as HS2 was promised to connect the north to London via high speed railway, and wouldn't you know it, it ended up going from London to Birmingham before getting its northern leg cancelled, even though the poorer working class areas are predominantly in the north. Even though those cities and towns in the north spent money on expanding train stations already. There is absolutely a class problem. The 'elites' get dragged through private schools, thrown into political and potisions of power.
@@4BCJesusYeah, I’m an immigrant to the UK and I did happily note the many mixed race couples and relative acceptance of people who might not be so accepted where I came from due to skin colour. I had a bit of a rose tinted view of things. Because my accent wasn’t easy to pin down I never really had problems with the class system. But the last 14 years has had the class system flare back into high visibility, and I can now see how toxic it is. People are judged much more for their accent (I mean northern or working class rather than foreign) than I first realised. The ruling class is very subtle with it but I’ve seen people be hired or promoted over better candidates when they had a posh or middle class accent. It’s not as evil as some of the stuff that happened during Jim Crow and seems to be rearing up again with Trump et al. But it’s not all sweetness and light, either. And there are certain politicians, posh politicians who fake an ease with working class folk they wouldn’t sit next to if they didn’t want their vote who are in their ascendency. Also many black British people would take issue with the idea that Britain has no racial problems but from what I see, most Brits are pretty darn good in that respect and as a new Brit, I’m proud of them.
It is really strange that so many Americans claimed their rights under the US Constitution (including amendments), but the whole concept of equality was disregarded at government level. All who put their lives on the line for freedom in WW2 and other conflicts are heroes. They deserve and have my respect.
Bamber Bridge has a garden and monument dedicated to the soldier that died, the memorial is across from the Ye Olde Hob Inn where the battle started, I do Hope the Black troops only signs still exist, they should be in a museum telling the story of what happened so future generations can see the bad as well as the good parts of history, they are important to show progression
I'm almost certain Simon of History Debunked has covered this incident too. You'd think if they really wanted to foster 'inclusion' in modern Britain this kind of thing - as well as the details of the Abolitionist movement - would be front and centre stage. But anything that makes the British look good is generally ignored.
@cargumdeu As a Brit, I've noticed that whenever someone does anything good like save a cat we tend not like the attention drawn to it and just get on with it and mind set to some degree seeps into how history since we don't enjoy the attention it brings.
There's a full rundown of the battle on an information board in the garden. I see it everyday but never took the time to read it until recently.
I learned it in the Yew Tree pub just at the bottom of London Road hill in Walton Le Dale, very close to where you are describing. As long as the pub is there in sure people will be able to learn about this incident. I still live in Preston. Beautiful place with a rich, vibrant history.
I, as a British born woman, am so glad that you have highlighted this event in Bamber Bridge, and it seems many other British towns and villages. Most thinking people of a certain age (I'm 58) are aware of this particular event, and are very proud that our people, and in particular, our pub landlords, stood up for our own laws and treating the black service men with friendship and respect.
We are also disgusted with the appalling arrogance of the white supremacy of the American officers and soldiers. We find this sort of behaviour completely amoral, racist, and abhorrent. How dare they even think to suggest that they only are the first class citizens, above the brave black servicemen, above the laws outside of their racist country of America, and above the people of our great Britain, locally and nationally. To even think for a moment that they could tell the shopkeepers and especially our great Pub Landlords, who they can or cannot serve a well deserved beer, incredible.
We, the British people, will always stand with you, the very brave black service men and women, who came to Britain to help us defeat the evil fascist Hitler. You should never have been treated this way by your own American forces, its disgusting to our British people.
I always find it rather baffling when I often hear American people constantly say 'We are the land of the free' when to the eyes and ears of us, and indeed most of the world, they are definitely not anywhere near to the freedom that they cling to the notion of, for many reasons.
I have been to America several times and encountered some lovely people, who would be just as appalled as we are, so I'm certainly not painting the entire country with this harsh brush.
However, it might be a good idea for these historical events to be aired much more in America, to even learn from the actual world events of our wars in history. ❤
I live in Bamber-bridge....and we know about this story...and the soldiers are painted in a good way and got respect they deserved..🇬🇧🇬🇧....
I once new a lady who came from Jamica who said to me there is only one race the human race I totaly agree.
I am British. Just after the war, my Dad was in Egypt with the British army. His regiment organised a football match against a team of black soldiers from South Africa. Both teams used the same changing rooms and showers and had a meal together in the same mess room.
As the black soldiers were from apartheid South Africa it wasn't what they were used to.
Bless you, and bless your great dad!
Wow! I’m impressed with your dad. Did he get a medal for sharing a shower room with a blackman? Racism still persists in the British army to this day contrary to anything your dad may have experienced.
Please!!! My Dad viewed the sharing of showers and a meal with a visiting team as perfectly normal, no medal required. The black guys were the ones who thought it was abnormal, simply because, in coming from apartheid South Africa, they were coming from a very abnormal situation.
@@DerekLangdon Your historic bias and the allegiance you show pulls the reputation of your Country down Worldwide .
Can you not see that?
Or is it USA right and the Universe wrong?
@@DerekLangdon Oh give it a rest. It's getting embarrassing.
This is why black and Asians support the patriots. We know the difference in racism and patriotism.
UK has given many of us jobs and a home from home. Many of us are not going back to where we came from and those of us born here are even more proud to be British and as a London born, Londoner living person, we say no to anyone who wants to destroy peace here.
Wellsaid God bless you ✝ ❤🙏🙏🙏❤
I served in the British infantry in the 80s. The men I served with are my brothers from another mother that included and still to this day, including the black men I served with who I'm proud to call my brothers.
I have never been able to understand how racism is still so prevalent in anyone other than the intellectually challenged who can't distinguish from unfounded stereotypes and superstition. Quite frankly it astounds me that people feel they have any right to feel superior simply because of their skin colour. I'm white and grew up in a pretty monoethic area of the UK, with university being one of the first chances I'd had to properly interact with people of different cultures and ethnicities. 15 years later and they are still some of the best people I have ever met, and I'm proud to be able to still call many of them my close friends. Our strength is in unity, embracing peoples differences, and accepting what our world has to offer.
@@AdmiralDonkey lucky you with your zero personal cost luxury opinions on mass immigration and it's effects on those communities who actually have to suffer the consequences for that virtue signalling self catering ideology....I grew up in an area where endless streams of uninvited unwanted Pakistani Muslim immigrants completely changed my home beyond recognition and personally witnessed multiple incidences of the most horrific violent unbelievable ethnoreligious racist hate crimes imaginable....always against the white population at the hands of their new neighbours. How bigoted of me to notice that and allow it to inform my opinion on the basis of my own eyes....It's most likely down to that challenged intellect and stereotypical superstition you talk about🙄
Though it isn’t wrong to be upset, angry or disgusted by the actions of others, you shouldn’t let it overcloud your day too much. Just bear in mind that for some of these black US troops, the treatment that they receive from the locals when in UK helped to kickstart them into action for the Civil Rights Movement when they returned home (I can’t remember the name of the show but I did watch something years back that discussed how many of the black troops that had been stationed in the UK during WWII went on to join or start Calvin Rights Organisations). They realised that the laws holding them back in life weren’t universal and that they could use their experience to fight for better lives for everyone back home. It took a while and it may not be perfect yet but those young men and women who caught a glimpse of the possible would likely find great comfort in many of the changes made.
It’s genuinely amazing how small acts of kindness given at the right time (especially when they don’t feel like an act of kindness by the one bestowing them, just that you are treating a human being how they should be treated) can inspire hope for the future.
You saved me writing this, so many black troops had never been out of their State, never mind the Country. It opened their eyes as to how life could really be lived ...
We British wee thankful for the help from Our American Allies but we weren’t playing segregation. That’s not how we say thanks 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🙏
But they did pal, they truly did!
@DerekLangdon meaning what Derek?? As a Brit, I was disgusted by segregation during WW2, the black American soldiers were good enough to fight and die for a country that treated them like sub humans!! And, I'm proud of the stance the Brits took!! Is your comment positive, cos it doesn't sound like it. Imagine fighting the Nazis, and your own country hates you so much, they won't allow you to mix with them. Didn't Abraham Lincoln say in the Gettysburg address words to the effect of 'we bring forth a new nation dedicated to the proposition that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL UNDER GOD'. Even worse, after waiting for 2 years watching us struggle and fight on our own, we were faced with white American soldiers demanding we impose the same barbarous, ignorant and cruel segregation, on our soil. We tried telling you what to do, and got kicked out, rightly so. I love the British people with all my heart, and thank the decent white Americans who fought with us and didn't like segregation either!! Shame!😢 you have heard of the Gettysburg address I presume, and what the American civil war was about?? You dishonour everyone with your poisonous prejudice
@@DerekLangdon Repeating a lie doesn't make it any more true.
@@stewartjohnson5053 WHAT LIE?
G.I.s in UK contained RACISTS
Bamber Bridge was ONE of Dozens IF NOT Hundreds of incidents that DISGISTED UK by USA Racism.
WHAT IS THE LIE/
US ARE STILL RACIST?
Love starved white British women were verrrrry welcoming to the black soldiers.
The idea that the American Army thought they could tell a British pub owner whom he could serve showed a complete lack of understanding of the British and particularly English temperament. They thought of the men as Americans first, there to help.
That's because they thought, as White Americans, they were above every other people on earth.
The true British Rebellious nature "oh, You don't want them drinking with you? Alrighty then, only they can come in"
Also "nobody tells me what to do in my own pub".
Lucky no Gurkhas in there having a drink with them...
I don't think they expected our sarcasm 🤣
They wanted segregation & I don't think they were expecting our version 😁
No white GIs, Black GIs only.
This was a gun battle in our villages and towns, the American Military police was a lynch mob. They forgot where they were.
@@graemerose1616 oh yes 😂 that would have been interesting to see 😁
The Taliban don't mess with them. You know where you are with them. Pretty safe.
God help the opposition 😂
@@ndr8469 yep, make the rules, get upset when they put into force and do not like it when it does not apply to UK forces and civvies.
Ten years in the Royal Navy we had black sailors who watched my back and I watched theirs in South atlantic.good men every one of them what I don't understand they call them African American. Here we just call them British.
Amazing how the yanks thought they could come to our country and tell us what to do.
isnt that where the phrase came from "overpaid oversexed and over here"
Ironic that we weren't going to let a nasty little corporal from Germany come over here and tell us what to do, but the Americans thought they could do exactly that!
They still do.
But they did. You better believe that!!
The white ones though.
Well done for reacting to this, sadly totally true historical event which I know a number of us recommended. And there were plenty of similar events across the country, not least near the numerous USAF bases in East Anglia. My Grandad, who was in the police in the East Midlands during the war, told me of a couple he was aware of, including one where the local pubs put up "Black US servicemen only" signs after the local US base brass hats told the local village they expected them to segregate black and white US servicemen.
Mind you, we do still have segregation in the British Army. The Brigade of Gurkhas, with the troops and NCOs from Nepal. One of the finest infantry forces in the world, and absolutely loved and admired by most Brits including me. And feared by most others! We don't see them as "second class"; quite the opposite - we see them as "elite" and "bloody good," and we are proud that they are part of our army.
I would say, we are humbled that they want to be!
Nepal is still a relatively poor country, so signing up to the Gurkhas is attractive to many. The brigade is a hangover from the British Raj, having been founded in the years after the war with Nepal, circa 1814-16.
@@ShanghaiRooster a hangover or a priceless inheritance?
@@ShanghaiRooster Irrelevant to my point. And anyway, Nepal was never part of the British Raj - indeed, it has never been controlled by any colonial power or indeed by India or China or any other nation. Unlike, say, neighbouring Tibet, which was an independent country until it was annexed by China - rather like Russia did and is again currently seeking to do with Ukraine, in fact.
@@adriangoodrich4306 It's not irrelevant at all. For the first point, those unaware of the history might wonder why soldiers from a small country in the Himalayan region form an honoured corps of the British Army. Second, you should perhaps do a bit of background reading to acquaint yourself with how the Gorkhali regime which ruled Nepal embarked upon a period of aggressive expansion in the decades previous, starting with the invasion and annexing of the Katmandu Valley (which at the time was the only area then called Nepal), raiding into Tibet and provoking a Chinese counter-strike, and the rest. A clash between the Gorkhalis and the British East India Company became an inevitability. There was never any intention to establish direct rule over Nepal, as it acted as a useful break between the British and Chinese spheres of influence.
I love this story, those villagers and British soldiers weren't having any of it. We dont view "race" here, like in the U.S, they were not "black" American soldiers, they were simply American soldiers, and welcome here. These men came to fight alongside us, to die with us if necessary, how could we then show inhospitality? the U.S soldiers on both sides of the coin learned a valuable lesson about the British that day.
Exactly, whereas black soldiers in the British army were British soldiers. Gurkhas were British soldiers. Air force, Navy.
No, we didn't see it then because none of them lived here. No we've had 50+ years of 'diversity' our attitudes are changing very dramatically.....
Lookup the crime rates and prison pop in the UK by race..
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@@ndr8469please don't ever, ever compare black soldiers to Gurkhas. Gurkhas are pound for pound the best warriors on the planet. Blacks are generally absolutely terrible.
Look at the makeup of SF units; there are few if any blacks
@@BeBe-vh4rycrime rate is a function of poverty everywhere.
Look up the statistics relating to "race" and poverty.
Alternatively you could come up with a scientifically plausible hypothesis explaining why melanin leads to crime.
@@DanBeech-ht7sw keep telling yourself that, fam.
Hint: criminality is linked to IQ...😬
They weren't just fighting for America, they were fighting for us too. I'll have a pint in a pub with any of them. Top lads 👏👏👏
There is a WW11 film made in USA with Burgess Meredith. It is a film for GI's coming to Briton, in the film which like a docu-drama it shows a white British lady inviting a Black GI home for Tea with her family, during this Burgess M speaks over saying "don't be surprised if you see this in Briton, they are not like us", You should try and find that film to see. Can I just say, USA may not have given a toss about them but we the British people were and are very grateful for their contribution!
"How To Behave In Britain"
i heard they also handed out leaflets to black american soldiers so they would know what to expect when they came to britain
I am a British woman of the working class and I love that you are speaking on this. The working class, in large numbers, were appalled by the treatment of black GIs and they said so,!loudly.
How do you know? Can you verify it.. The British working class were just as vociferous in their racist views as anyone else! Though not all I must admit!
@@DerekLangdon bet you have never been to England or even outside of the US, how many English working class have you met?
You made that up
There are lots of stories from all over WW2 England where white British citizens and servicemen & women stood up for the black US GI's. My grandfather told us that ordinary people were genuinely angry at the unequal treatment given to black soldiers. Fairness is an inbuilt part of being British, that's why the Pubs did what they did. If you wear the uniform, then everyone gets the same respect and dignity.
As a proud Lancastrian it doesn't surprise me at all that this little village of Bamber Bridge in my county would stand by the Black American soldiers.They stood by the slaves in the south in the past as cotton town was Manchester The county got rich on the cotton trade, The southern American cotton trade was crushing ours...BUT still they stood by the black slaves to0 the detriment of their livelihoods. We did NOT have slavery in our country ,mandatory since the Norman conquest in 1066 The people wouldn't tolerate it in 1942 from a jumped up four star general in the American army. I am proud of my counties ongoing principles of justice and fairness to all
Brits stood with ALL Americans ......White, Black, Hispanic it really didn't matter .......to us they were simply all "Yanks" and made welcome. Eisenhower set the Allies tone in that he said he had no problem with troops calling eachother "bastards" but anyone specifying "American or British bastards" feet wouldn't touch ! It is always a mistake to tell Brits what to do or who they can associate with in their own country, town, village or pub. We have our own two fingered defiant salute ! Ask Obama, Von der Leyen or Macron 😘
We had similar problems in Australia with the US MPs.
You'd probably also like "the battle of Brisbane" in which Australian troops and civilians, fed up with American Military Police treatment of Australian and African American troops, stood up to the MPs. It culminated in an armed stand off between a handful of MPs and nearly 1000 Australian troops and civilians. One Australian was killed, and several Australian and American troops were injured.
Reading about that it seems the racial element was less pronounced in Brisbane. Australian servicemen were paid less and had poorer rations than did the incoming Americans, so there was a lot of resentment stemming from that, in addition to the brash behaviour of the white G.I.s seen also in Britain. On top was that American tendency to ascribe all victories as 'American' even when it was mainly their allies who had been responsible. If the Aussies defeated the Japanese in a clash in New Guinea, General MacArthur would call it an "American and allied victory".
My Grandad told me the story. He was there. American military tried to have him imprisoned for knocking out an armed American MP who had pulled out his side arm. Didn't get into any trouble :-).
This needs to be publicly known
It’s well known depends on the history you’re taught or want to learn lots of British history is now taught in a negative way shame really considering what this small island has achieved 😊
I lived in Bamber Bridge for many years and the hob inn was my local pub. The hob inn is still open today. So proud to be British.
I live about 20km from Bamber Bridge and I laid reef with the Military Cadets here in the UK at there Grave. As one Veteran to others, that gave the ultimate sacrifice.
As a child I always thought UK had slavery like USA, it's only recently I've seen they didn't.
Britain abolished slavery and is the reason the bringing slaves to America ended
@@t1281 I know that now but as a child I was led to believe African slaves once worked in The UK building things and none of it was true. Many people in The UK honestly believe Buckingham Palace was built by slaves. Too many people think this nonsense.
I recently learned that the Nuremberg laws against the Jewish people were inspired by America's Jim Crow laws...it has really stunned me just how similar those two nations were and how I never connected the dots.
Bamber Bridge is about 15 minutes drive from me, it warms my heart to see the efforts and camaraderie of the locals recognised.... 🇬🇧
It's a long tradition going back to when slavery was banned in England, if you were a black slave and set foot on English soil you were free. Same applied to an British Navy ship, if you got on board you were a free man. There are incidents of English people hiding and protecting slaves in London who had escaped from their owners ships. Unfortunately slavery was allowed in British plantations in the West Indies before that too was made illegal and the British Navy spent the next 40 years policing the high seas to capture, destroy and deter the slave ships. Its estimated that Britain spent more money enforcing its anti slavery policy than it ever made through slavery.
Us Brits, we're not racist. Thank you for telling the truth of what went on. It means a lot.
I'm glad you're learning about this story. A little background: elsewhere in Britain black soldiers were being invited for tea round peoples' houses and a letter-writing campaign to The Times took place, complaining about their treatment. Britons were most unhappy with the color bar. The girls also knew black men were great dancers. They were dazzled by the accent, everyone went to the movies back then and so these soldiers must have seemed really quite glamorous. Things like this are why I'm happy in my own English skin.
Stop the bull! The British were happy to comply with the wishes of the US military. As for white girls, black guys were a novelty! Also they had money to spend, and girls being girls, no doubt were happy to help them spend it!…
Are you American?
@@DerekLangdon You were around at that time then?
@@DerekLangdonBe quiet, Derek.
@@DerekLangdon Where exactly are you getting this information from?
Are your statements all the way through the chat to this video based in truth, or just your obvious bitterness and how you think things were?
More Americans need to see this.
"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it." - James Mansfield
EDIT: Removed Tamu
Yup. And slavery wasn't banned in the UK until 2011, something like that. We certainly liked to sound morally superior about these things but our cities were paid for on the back of slaves in the Caribbean. So long as Brits held their slaves outside the UK, we were just fine with it. Incidentally, there are more people enslaved today than ever were during the transatlantic slave trade. Nothing is ever simple. Or, pun intended, black or white.
@@jonnylumberjack6223slavery was banned in the 11th century. As for the trans Atlantic slave trade. Slavery has existed since before the written word. No nation on earth has done more to tackle and eradicate it than Britain. If you need educating on the matter, I suggest watching one of the many videos by Thomas Sowell. If the idea that it wasn't banned until 2011 is based on an official law being signed, I would say your point is purposefully misrepresentative as it seems to suggest it was legal and indeed practiced, which it hadn't been for the best part of a millennium. There is another video by Sargon of Akkad which goes through the history of slavery in the empire which I would also suggest you watch.
@@tdegrddeehjgd purposeful misrepresentation? By stating, factually, that there was not a law against slavery in the UK until very recently? Not sure how a fact can purposefully misrepresent anything but you do you. Also, Sowell is interesting but you really need more than one perspective to get to the truth of things. But again, you do you.
@@jonnylumberjack6223 misrepresentative as explained in the reasons I gave. Do I need to type those again or are you happy to just re-read the points I raised?
@@tdegrddeehjgd disagreeing with you doesn't mean I can't read pal. I have no idea why you're getting your knickers in a knot. All I'm saying is that the UK is not a paragon of virtue, we did a lot of Very Bad Things and benefitting from the transatlantic slave trade is one of those things. Quotes from dead Englishmen about how superior England was/is back in those days are not terribly helpful. In fact, by quoting this dude, one could almost accuse you of deliberately misleading people. He said that as his friends and colleagues were raking it in via the sugar and tobacco trades. Some things we did right, helping to end that trade is a good thing we did. We probably compare rather favourably to a bunch of other countries, no doubt. But we were not above abusing humans for profit. That's all.
Appalling. I was shocked when I visited the US by how divisive it was, and the relative lack of freedom compared to the UK. Clearly I realise I’ve only seen a small proportion of a huge country, but nonetheless…..land of the free?!
This has happened in at least 2 places in England. We remember it and we are proud of our reaction to it. Like the battle of cable street, it was a sign of of our distaste for discrimination. We are not perfect, but like slavery we have fought against it. We turned against it, like we did fascism.
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As an Englishman, that's one fight I would have been proud to say I was involved in. In support of those brave black GI's.
Haha, yeah I’m sure you would have been! But it was an American military affair. No brave Englishmen came to the defence of the blacks.The English involvement went no further than a few mouthy locals at the pub, who promptly left when the US army turned up.
@@DerekLangdonoh you are definitely a twat troll.
@@DerekLangdon The business of Racism has always been an American Military affair & a shameful history it is to.
@@DerekLangdon The business of racism was always an American Military Affair.
@@DerekLangdonYou were there of course that's why you know so much. As I understand it there were some British service men there too
Bamber Bridge was not the only incident like this there were several others. These were generally covered up by US Authorities for PR reasons. The British in WW2 although not used to such large numbers of foreigners welcomed troops from across the world in the fight against the Axis. With a traditionally British support of the underdog the civilian population were friendly to all. For those who had served particularly in the British Army in WW1 and earlier, they had come across coloured Colonial Troops before and fought with and for some died with. They werent going to worry about mixing with people with different colour.
My grandad was a British soldier who got arrested by MP's for fighting white American GI's for the exact same reason but in a different location so it wasn't an isolated incident unfortunately.
My mum, in WW2 a WAAF, always said that Britain learned racism from the American army.
Hmm, all people everywhere are racist, to varying degrees. It's related to tribalism and fear of (the threat posed by) difference.
@@Bertie_AhernRacism isn't about who you are, it's about who you hate.
As Reginald D Hunter said, You British give racism a real go, but you're just not very good at it! Gingers?
Glad that you posted this, unfortunately some people still don’t believe it even with the plaque commemorating these brave soldiers.
I’m glad people are finding the battle of Bamber Bridge👍
My father was a British soldier in WW2. He was in a bar at a theatre and got talking to an American serviceman (soldier). They both loved music so struck up a conversation about it and quickly became friends. The American soldier told my father that because he was black he was not allowed to socialise with the white American soldiers! He then explained a lot of things that black soldiers had to tolerate. My father was stunned that people could be treated in such a way. He never forgot the conversation he had and what the man told him about the segregation and discrimination in the USA.
Years later, when I was a child, we were watching the television. There was a solo being played on the piano. It was the man who my father had met, my father recognised him instantly. The man my father had spoken to was, by the 1960s, a world famous jazz musician. We were glad that he had survived the war and had become a star.
My grandfather told me about Bamber Bridge he stood with the black soldiers with his friends. My father always said he couldn’t understand how anyone could be racist to any man that was fighting against the fascist Nazi regime.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Britain abolished slavery in ~1820 and the anti-slavery movement had been going for hundreds of years
1807
Not to mention the Royal Navy established patrols to actively police trade routes and free slaves from nations still profiting from it. The West Africa Squadron alone freed over 150,000 slaves. Also things like independence for Brazil being granted on the condition that they abolish slavery.
The Mansfield judgement in the1770’s re-iterated that there could be no slavery in England, followed shortly thereafter by a Canadian judgement. That’s why runaway slaves were heading for Canada.
Unfortunately the colonies, including America, were largely self-governing. The British abolished the slave trade in 1807 and set out to stamp it out using the navy.
It was abolished in the colonies in 1833 by way of purchasing all the slaves, and made illegal.
This explains why during the war of independence in the US, black slaves ran away if they could to try and join the British. The British were slow to take them up on this but got the hang of it, offering freedom and resettlement.
The West African Squadron, tasked with stamping out the slave trade, became the largest in the navy and several thousand seamen lost their lives in the struggle.
There have been no slaves allowed in Britain since the Norman invasion. It was abolished several years after 1066. Nearly 1000 years ago. That's not to say that slavery does not form part of our history. just like child labour class division and womans suffrage these are part of our and world history. We tend to fight for what is right or at least we used to. if someone stands by you then you should stand by them.
Rhys someone who knows their history the Normans abolished slavery but lots of other countries had also called for the end of slavery you can go back further still for the calls to end slavery from many different countries I would say Britain has played a major role in ending slavery racism more than any other country though 😊
Bishop Tutu and his wife came to London. I think it was around the 1950s and they asked a policeman for directions. The Bishop said it was the first time in his life as a black man he’d been called sir. Britain boycotted South African goods because of an apartheid.
Yes they did and look what happened to our country. We are o. The brink of bancruptcy. Hopefully after this year's voting we can turn things around. As for Britain, even Ireland's had enough of immigrants. There are more immigrants than Brits in your countries and you are paying the price. Sad but true. 🐝
@@amandadassonville4043What is sad is there are still people who think like you. Desmond Tutu was an absolute hero and role model for right thinking people.
@@dellaanniehughes4533Amanda is saying we have a problem with immigration, and most people agree. Don’t twist a persons words for your own agenda!
@@user-fq8rs7rz3i Who is we? I think Amanda is writing from a South African perspective . I don't think immigration is the issue there. The statement that there are more immigrants than native born Brits is laughable. I know. I live here and obviously you don't.
@@dellaanniehughes4533Give it a rest. People are allowed opinions even if they aren’t yours.
Yet in England it's negative to be patriotic.
Bamber bridge is another great example that makes me feel proud of being British.
I don't know why we have to be proud or ashamed of the country.
It is undoubtedly a great country.
We can be ashamed of some of its past and proud of many other aspects.
People seem to want a very black and white picture but the truth is always more complicated than that.
We can admit mistakes and still be patriotic.
Because unfortunately such extreme right wing racists use anything patriotic to define their narrative, which is the complete opposite of actual British values to be proud of (like this video content).
Minority should not rule the majority.
@@lucysin414 The extremes on both sides use events in our country's history and stereotypes to further their agenda, when the truth is far more complex?
These days if you say you're English, you get arrested and then thrown into jail.
Land of the Free indeed.
They still don’t treat the Native Americans with the respect due.
We are all one Nation under God and all one race in his likeness.
The human race.
Peace and love to all men from Scotland my brother 🙏🏼❤️✝️❤️🙏🏼
One nation under the groove.
I lived near Bamber Bridge , you can still see bullet holes in the stone work. There are American military information films telling their troops not to take offence at the way the British are being friendly with the coloured soldiers. After the war because of the friendly treatment of them in Britain and in European countries on their return to American they started the first beginings of the civil rights movement.
Martin Luther King (uk edit 🤣)"Ahhhhhh hadda dream, it was a very British dream I'll admit, those warm Brits told me a thing or two, that linger in my mind, how every race, is one mankind. Not a better country you might find. Fair, free- where ethnicities bind"
Britain: Where black lives mattered in 1943.
Similar experiences in London. My mum and her friends refused to dance with white GIs once they saw how they treated the black GIs.
The Battle of Bamber Bridge....i live there and its very well known here.
True story and some of the bullet holes are still visible and the pubs still stand
I was born and live in Bamber Bridge, my grandmother told me how she and her mother tended a wounded soldier on Station Road....
My home town Ipswich was informally segregated between black and white soldiers for pubs. The black soldiers were more popular as they were less aggressive and arrogant
All Brits were like that towards the black soldiers that came here from America during the war etc not only the English.
Hearsay or were you there?
@@JohnSmith-ei2pz No it's in the history books, oh were you there to dispute this, I'll answer for you NO you weren't either. 🤦🏻
A British novelist Neville Shute,wrote a very good book about this subject called The Chequerboard. It is well worth reading. It is about a man with cancer tracing four people he was in hospital with during the war. One was a black GI. It is written in the language of the 1940's but is well worth reading.
Ooh, I like the sound of that . Loved Town like Alice. World of Books online here I come. Wonderful way to obtain quality books at low low cost. Have never been disappointed. Recommend.
@@DawnSuttonfabfour yes Nevil Shute's books are all very readable. Some of the books have different titles in the USA and the UK.
We don't put up with that shit in the North of England. Lancashire came out in defence of Union in the American Civil War, even though it meant increased poverty and lack of work. That is why we have Lincoln Square in Manchester and Lincoln sent a statue as a thankyou.
In Yorkshire Sheffield steelworkers signed an anti-slavery petition saying they didn't want the steel they produced to be used to make shackles for slaves..
Was not just the north other areas of the country welcomed Black GIs with open arms . 😊
Yes, despite the economic benefit lost through banning slave produced cotton Lancashire millworkers were willing to make that sacrifice. It really boils my blood when Britain is accused of racism. Yes, individuals may be but the vast majority of decent Brits are not..
Yes the British went out of their way to stop the institution that was slavery worldwide.
We never get any thanks for it.
So many Brits had spent a lot of time working in the Empire and most of them had great respect for there Empire friends. Many of them had fought side by side over countless years. If we banned Black Americans then we would also have to have banned all our Empire friends, and that would not have been tolerated.
My Grandad Joseph Paul jackson was a fireman during the war and based at Bamber bridge fire station which was on the same rd as the pub.. he was the first emergency responder on scene and tried in vain to save the GI's life...the GI gave him his crucifix so the story goes.. i have seen this crucifix myself.. i only found all this out when he died about 15yrs ago as i collector wartime items..i have been to the pub a few times and seen the articles on the walls... i want to get the cross and hand it back to the family but none of our family talk and i moved away...
RIP the legend that is your Gramps. You must be very proud. We salute you JP Jackson and those like you. I doubt we will see your like again.
Brothers in arms are brothers indeed.
Us Brits just saw you all as GI's, 2 civilians were also shot fighting alongside the black GI's
I am just a voice who thanks black servicemen for all they did for us here in England. We love and respect the sacrifices you all made ❤
Things like this make me immensely proud. Every time I'm in America the segregation still astounds me. I was in a bar in Chicago while working and was having a drink at the bar and I could see people grouped together, not mixing, it's not like that where I'm from, we all drink together.
I went over to a group of black chaps and asked them a few questions about the city, where I should eat, what I should do, we all went to another bar had food and drinks and a right good laugh, I can't understand why people can't look past the 2mm thick skin we all have.
I live near Bamber Bridge..We are forever Thankful for the young men of America that came to England ❤..GODBLESS x
Brits had been bombed for years and saw Americans in uniform who were there to help and that was the only important factor.
Bollocks you have zero understanding of history especially British history and mentality.
It wasn't the bombing. We just weren't racist to begin with. I grew up in rural Wales. There was one black guy in the area. Came from Trinidad to join the RAF. He married a local white lady and was a real gentleman and a character. I also don't believe he ever received any negative comments or racism.
@@generalapathy6446as a whole the British certainly were racist. The whole British Empire was basically founded on the fact they were superior and you only have to read stuff written at the time.
Just generally a lot less racist than the US.
At that time there just wasn't many non-white people in Britain so there was not the same history and racial tensions.
@@101MantThe “ruling class” is/was racist -working class people don’t care and never had-it’s what’s in your heart that matters,I’ve drank and worked with all colours and creeds,as long as your not a dick head your welcome 😊
@@generalapathy6446 Oh yes Britain was racist as fuck at the time. We just didn't sink to the levels of the US armed forces who viewed black soldiers as little more than animals "incapable of being fathers and only capable of siring offspring". British attitudes of the time (particularly in Government and those making policy) were that anyone not British was beneath them due to racist Imperialist attitudes. Attitudes certainly shifted among the general public during the inter-war period, particularly after the Battle of Cable Street, but during the Second World War, the British Government did try to work with the American Government to limit the number of African American soldiers in Britain (attempting to send them to Italy instead) and passed legislation makingg it illegal for white women to fraternise with American black soldiers (not that it really stopped it, as after the war there were thousands of mixed-race infants as a result of such)
Dude thats so sad - good on the UK and good luck from New Zealand! And bloody bewdie on you for your informative videos...
Our culture in Britain is always welcoming people to view us as the underdog. In having that mindset we usually surprise the living FK out of our adversaries. In that same way of thinking, we also take great interest in supporting the underdog.
The pub where it kicked off is still there serving ale.
I know the pub in question very well and used to go there many years ago. What the US MPs had forgotten, or never knew, Britain had abolished slavery in 1807 and was not then, nor is now, an anti-black country. Despite what some of the race baiters may say!
You don't tell the British what to do especially in our country and in our pubs.
Well, they bud. And on the whole they complied with what the US military imposed
@DerekLangdon no they didn't. No one tells us Brits what to do
For your reference. Bamber Bridge is a small village absorbed into the southern suburbs of Preston, Lancashire. About 6 miles from where I iive.
My wife and I had our wedding breakfast at the Hob Inn 36 years ago and it is still open to this day
I believe (though I'm open to correction) that the ONLY time England experienced official racial segregation, was on American bases during this time.
It beggars belief that there was still segregation in the US in my lifetime, at the same exact time you would hear people chanting its mantra "Land of the Free".
It's worth looking into the stand the Beatles made when touring US Southern States. 1960s British blues & Rick & Roll artists liked to pay its dues to the Black artists they listened to back in the UK. Rather than segregate themselves from these artists, they actively sought them out, to work with them.