Writer and historian David Olusoga presents a series of short films exploring critical moments in Black British history from 1919 that have been forgotten or rarely discussed.
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He makes many assumptions about what other people think. Fed up of this rhetoric. Black british people are very well known. They used to just be british and happened to be black. I’m not sure why the BBC take this attitude. He is lying so much it’s annoying. Let’s hear about black history but all of it. Including St Augustine and the beginning of the slave trade of Britain. Perhaps there is a reason why we don’t learn everything as let’s be honest there is a lot the African’s also have to be ashamed of too. I don’t find it threatening at all….what a dick.
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I took this piece to be addressing other historians in public, so we the public could place what they’ve accepted as tacit in another context. I’ve seen other pieces he did for the BBC where he began with the Romans and brought things up to the present day, everything (as here) backed up by artefact and records (he is an academic after all).
I also assumed life in the UK was much the same as I’d seen in the towns and cities I’d seen – until I spent a few years touring… I still meet many people for whom a dark skin means you’can never really be British.
I posted this because I found it interesting and unfamiliar, even though I’ve been here a while.
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