Sometimes, people really need to get what they wish for.
One of the UK’s most successful children’s authors says schools should teach black history all year round.
Malorie Blackman said history lessons should tell “the whole truth” of the British Empire, such as Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Okay, fine. The transatlantic slave trade became possible because black African slavers captured people and sold them to the Europeans. Black Africans not only fed the slave trade, they profited from it. Indeed, slavery still persists in Africa. It was the British Empire that stamped out the transatlantic trade and it cost us money and lives to do it. There, is that what you want?
“My [ancestors’] history did not start with slavery. Black people have been in this country since Roman times, if not before.”
This is a lie being peddled by the charlatan David Olusoga.
Now fuck off.
…and when you get there, fuck off again.
And then fuck off some more.
And why are there no descendants of the slaves sold to the Arabs?
An inconceivable solution.
It is well documented that male white slaves taken by Barbary pirates were routinely castrated. So I’m guessing that a similar fate was dealt out to those whose skin was darker.
Another epoch making black intellectual titan I’d never heard of until five minutes ago.
Dem is de massa race an don yo fowged id muthafugga
She can always piss off to Wakanda.
A few weeks ago, in an informal conversation, I made similar points to you: Africans enslaved and sold other Africans and the Royal Navy spent lives and treasure to stop the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
I was truly surprised that no-one seemed to know this.
Nor did they fully understand that every society has had slaves: Greek, Roman, Egyptian and more.
They really seemed to believe that Britain, and only Britain, is guilty of implementing slavery.
This is worrying.
I’ve always known it. Probably because when I was taught about the transatlantic trade some fifty years ago, I was taught about the whole picture.
One wonders whether our illustrious author is like the people you chatted with, and just doesn’t know the history; or knows it full well but is just ignoring it because it doesn’t fit with her narrative. One suspects the latter…
It’s not that they’re wicked or naturally bad, it’s knowing they’re black that makes them so mad.
At least the last self styled white master race had some snazzy uniforms.
Ah, yes, Flanders and Swann. They would be banned now.
If we are going all the way back to the Roman occupation of Britain then there is a good chance that my ancestors were slaves. Can I have some reparations from Italy?
Oh there’s plenty of black history we could teach in schools. None if it I imagine, she’d want to be on the curriculum
https://mtviewmirror.com/46-million-live-in-modern-slavery/