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Post by rgs2001uk on Mar 30, 2016 11:47:18 GMT 7
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Post by Mosha on Mar 30, 2016 12:12:42 GMT 7
It's not just there. A few years ago, an Aussie turned up at my front door. He was cycling from Yorkshire to Sydney, for a cancer charity. He had been teaching English in Doncaster. The school he taught at no longer teaches about the empire. Now it's history of fashion and food. The reason was to stop the white kids telling the non white kids we were your masters.
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Post by siampolee on Mar 30, 2016 13:47:55 GMT 7
Yes it's all rather like the history of slave trading .It is conveniently forgotten that the people selling the slaves to the traders were the local tribal chiefs who strangely enough came from the same negroid background as the ''disposable assets'' they were selling. It is also conveniently forgotten and thus omitted from mainstream history that in Europe the supply of ''raw material livestock'' concerning the slave trade in the late 16th. century and certainly well into the 17th century was ''harvested'' from the locals by Barbary pirates and Corsairs''. The French certainly suffered as did the Irish too, other parts of England fared a little better but they still suffered losses too according to historical accounts that of course are kept well hidden. The impact of these kidnapping and subsequent enslavement of Europeans impacted upon the region until the late 19th century www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/white-slaves-barbary-002171 |
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Post by rgs2001uk on Mar 30, 2016 15:20:14 GMT 7
Ah, an "inconvenient truth"
Blacks selling blacks with a little help from the Muslims, oh dear oh dear.
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Post by onionluke on Mar 30, 2016 19:14:51 GMT 7
It wasn't that long ago at school,1970's, we had a big old roll out map of the world with some quarters , three or one i cant remember, land masses coloured in red informing us infants how great Britain had been.It was a nice old map on canvas that rolled up conviently and nicely .
The modern studies cirriculum, now , in Scottish schools is written by the left wing , but they tell it like it was. Glasgow was built on tobaco and slavery .
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Post by Mosha on Mar 30, 2016 20:36:25 GMT 7
If you keep looking back, you'll miss that bloody arctic heading towards you.
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Post by siampolee on Mar 30, 2016 21:00:52 GMT 7
I recall when I was at school we always celebrated Empire Day. Probably get locked up now or at least an A.S.B.O. for displaying such a poster as seen below and even mentioning let alone celebrating Empire Day now.  |
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Post by rgs2001uk on Mar 30, 2016 21:04:17 GMT 7
It wasn't that long ago at school,1970's, we had a big old roll out map of the world with some quarters , three or one i cant remember, land masses coloured in red informing us infants how great Britain had been.It was a nice old map on canvas that rolled up conviently and nicely . The modern studies cirriculum, now , in Scottish schools is written by the left wing , but they tell it like it was. Glasgow was built on tobaco and slavery . Glasgow businesses struggled to survive during the American Civil War due to the North blockading the Southern States. I wasnt taught this in school. |
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Post by siampolee on Mar 30, 2016 21:10:05 GMT 7
Alf being a bit prophetic here.
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Post by Mosha on Mar 30, 2016 21:15:00 GMT 7
Flying the flag top centre according to labour mp Huw Thomas defines you as a closet racist. The other flags of the UK mean you are proud of your country. Funny old world.
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Post by siampolee on Mar 30, 2016 21:20:19 GMT 7
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Post by rgs2001uk on Mar 30, 2016 21:31:01 GMT 7
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Post by me on Mar 30, 2016 22:30:17 GMT 7
I recall when I was at school we always celebrated Empire Day. Probably get locked up now or at least an A.S.B.O. for displaying such a poster as seen below and even mentioning let alone celebrating Empire Day now. Now about the only part of the empire left is the Cayman Islands. Have to have that as a tax free zone for the rich. |
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Post by onionluke on Mar 31, 2016 7:29:37 GMT 7
The U.N.has declared that the Falkland Islands are in Argentinian waters , after rezoning and mapping of the continental shelf. I wonder if another war is on the cards?
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Post by rubl on Mar 31, 2016 8:34:45 GMT 7
The U.N.has declared that the Falkland Islands are in Argentinian waters , after rezoning and mapping of the continental shelf. I wonder if another war is on the cards? Since Sebald de Weert while sailing for the V.O.C. was the first to accurately plot the coordinates of the Falkland Islands (or actually the Jason Islands slightly to the NorthWest) I think 'we Dutch' should claim them. Furthermore I think we have a case to reclaim New Amsterdam as it was 'honestly' bought from the locals  |
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