Life Under British Colonialism In The West Indies Lest We Forget Timeline
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Resologist
Knew one of the Royal Navy's intelligence men in the Caribbean, during the Second World War, (who kept tabs on enemy activities there. He had no qualms about the loyalties of the people in the British colonies, there, and never showed any sign of prejudice regarding anyone's color nor their class. He was a role model to me, (far more than the racist attitudes I had observed in my family and among many in the United States. These racist attitudes still exist today, and need to be extinguished. It's great to see the segment from the 1943 film A Welcome To Britain that sums up the problem, (even if it only tolerates it, at home.
Now look men - you heard that conversation. It's not unusual here. That happens quite a lot. Now let's be frank about it. There are coloured soldiers as well as white here and there are less social restrictions in this country. Just what you heard - an English woman asking a coloured boy to tea - she was polite about it and he was polite about it. Now, look - that might not happen at home, but the point is, we are not at home.
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Knew one of the Royal Navy's intelligence men in the Caribbean, during the Second World War, (who kept tabs on enemy activities there. He had no qualms about the loyalties of the people in the British colonies, there, and never showed any sign of prejudice regarding anyone's color nor their class. He was a role model to me, (far more than the racist attitudes I had observed in my family and among many in the United States. These racist attitudes still exist today, and need to be extinguished. It's great to see the segment from the 1943 film A Welcome To Britain that sums up the problem, (even if it only tolerates it, at home.
Now look men - you heard that conversation. It's not unusual here. That happens quite a lot. Now let's be frank about it. There are coloured soldiers as well as white here and there are less social restrictions in this country. Just what you heard - an English woman asking a coloured boy to tea - she was polite about it and he was polite about it. Now, look - that might not happen at home, but the point is, we are not at home.
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Phyllis
Black people are the most forgiving people on planet earth and I just don't get it. These people were recruited, left their home, family and friends behind to go to an alien country only to be used, abused and rejected by the host country. Politicians and well as the general public had a problem with blacks in this country and yet here we are talking about pride in a country and it's people, who to all intents and purposes still regard us as alien after all this time. The way in which they treated the Windrush generation is an excellent example of how blacks are still seen and regarded. Please, let us not be blinded by sentiment!
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Black people are the most forgiving people on planet earth and I just don't get it. These people were recruited, left their home, family and friends behind to go to an alien country only to be used, abused and rejected by the host country. Politicians and well as the general public had a problem with blacks in this country and yet here we are talking about pride in a country and it's people, who to all intents and purposes still regard us as alien after all this time. The way in which they treated the Windrush generation is an excellent example of how blacks are still seen and regarded. Please, let us not be blinded by sentiment!
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Christine
How sad people who came here to help us, were treated in this awful way. We are just humans and what always makes me smile is we all rush to go on holiday to get a tan and look darker. I'm proud to know my grandma treated coloured people with the same respect as anyone else. We were brought up as to know racism was a wicked thing. All the peeps who came and helped us during the war what ever there skin colour are our heroes.
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How sad people who came here to help us, were treated in this awful way. We are just humans and what always makes me smile is we all rush to go on holiday to get a tan and look darker. I'm proud to know my grandma treated coloured people with the same respect as anyone else. We were brought up as to know racism was a wicked thing. All the peeps who came and helped us during the war what ever there skin colour are our heroes.
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Ant
For white people killing other white people. Recruiting whoever. Where are the graves to the all fallen? Black's proud for reason of fighting a European war. They reside in mass graves, unseen or celebrated. That is very sad. The mental conditioning is something. Memories were fantastic, am sure. Reminds me of a slave instinctively saving his master's house.
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For white people killing other white people. Recruiting whoever. Where are the graves to the all fallen? Black's proud for reason of fighting a European war. They reside in mass graves, unseen or celebrated. That is very sad. The mental conditioning is something. Memories were fantastic, am sure. Reminds me of a slave instinctively saving his master's house.
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Thomas
A person might have a fine education, be highly skilled, or come from a good home, and have many great qualifications, but if that person judges a person based solely on the color of a persons skin, then they should be removed from any decision making responsibilities. And as a little extra perk have their lips sewn together.
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A person might have a fine education, be highly skilled, or come from a good home, and have many great qualifications, but if that person judges a person based solely on the color of a persons skin, then they should be removed from any decision making responsibilities. And as a little extra perk have their lips sewn together.
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draen
for me both WWs were white men wars and i feel it was not fair to drag people of other races to fight for us. i think most other races fought not because they wanted to bring fascism down, but they felt they had to, they were drafted, or they saw military service as an opportunity to escape from poverty,
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for me both WWs were white men wars and i feel it was not fair to drag people of other races to fight for us. i think most other races fought not because they wanted to bring fascism down, but they felt they had to, they were drafted, or they saw military service as an opportunity to escape from poverty,
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Del
Don't you just hate the irony of what the narrator said and westerners genuinely believed that black people are lazy by nature F U, they were worked to death for nothing no pay, no benefits, because they themselves was actually the lazy people,
The Cheek of it makes me mad
FFS
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Don't you just hate the irony of what the narrator said and westerners genuinely believed that black people are lazy by nature F U, they were worked to death for nothing no pay, no benefits, because they themselves was actually the lazy people,
The Cheek of it makes me mad
FFS
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STEEL
My grandfather served with the 452nd Anti Aircraft Artillery Battalion. US Army. He was stationed in southern England just prior to the D-Day invasion. And told me about the many fights him and his friends got into with white soldiers. Usually over women.
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My grandfather served with the 452nd Anti Aircraft Artillery Battalion. US Army. He was stationed in southern England just prior to the D-Day invasion. And told me about the many fights him and his friends got into with white soldiers. Usually over women.
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Becky
How embarassing, To hijack rememberance day to peddle a race-baiting film. Lest we forget one day all that we will remember will be that 'England is bad and the English are racist' it's all we ever hear about them after all. Shame really.
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How embarassing, To hijack rememberance day to peddle a race-baiting film. Lest we forget one day all that we will remember will be that 'England is bad and the English are racist' it's all we ever hear about them after all. Shame really.
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Vierotchka
My father fought heroically in both WWI and WWII, my eldest brother fought in WWII, my sister fought in WWII, and my second eldest brother was a pilot in the RAF and was killed in 1942.
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My father fought heroically in both WWI and WWII, my eldest brother fought in WWII, my sister fought in WWII, and my second eldest brother was a pilot in the RAF and was killed in 1942.
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Dalvk
Just need to make a video reminding people about the black soldiers only two days before remembrance havent we?
Its not like its rubbed in everywhere you see.
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Just need to make a video reminding people about the black soldiers only two days before remembrance havent we?
Its not like its rubbed in everywhere you see.
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Drakaus
Gob bless all the human men of the world that were victims of the deep state elite RH- blood lines and their evil schemes.
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Gob bless all the human men of the world that were victims of the deep state elite RH- blood lines and their evil schemes.
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Ant
These ignored warriors, black and white human beings. Are fighting a rich man's war. Would rather set my own pace.
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These ignored warriors, black and white human beings. Are fighting a rich man's war. Would rather set my own pace.
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