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Post by mids on Oct 5, 2020 16:18:35 GMT
Believe.  |
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Post by jimboky on Oct 5, 2020 17:15:36 GMT
I want a White History Month, a White Lives Matters, hell I want equal rights!!!
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Post by flatandy on Oct 5, 2020 17:18:13 GMT
I was about to make that joke.
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Post by mids on Oct 5, 2020 17:59:35 GMT
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Oct 5, 2020 18:29:46 GMT
F+cking excellent.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 5, 2020 19:27:26 GMT
I thought it was in February - do you have a different month for it in the UK?
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Post by mids on Oct 5, 2020 19:46:47 GMT
It's been in October here since at least the 1500s.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 5, 2020 23:10:49 GMT
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Post by Marshall on Oct 5, 2020 23:31:30 GMT
Since the 1500s - not bad, we were still lynching them over here for another 450 years.
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 6, 2020 3:44:14 GMT
Since the 1500s - not bad, we were still lynching them over here for another 450 years. :D |
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Post by unclejunior on Oct 6, 2020 10:14:23 GMT
Believe. Undoubtedly the best “landlady” in the Crimean War . Not sure about her nursing credentials though. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 6, 2020 10:42:16 GMT
She turned those beds down in the face of whithering indifference from the enemy. The bloody racist, mysogenist bastards.
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Post by whitewine on Oct 6, 2020 11:04:05 GMT
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Post by mids on Oct 6, 2020 11:12:13 GMT
Mary Seacole was a landlady who ran for profit boarding houses for officers and gentlemen. I'm sure she did it very well because there was a big whip round among ex officers and gentlemen when it was later discovered she was destitute in London. I'm just not convinced that makes her the Centrepiece of British History.
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Post by flatandy on Oct 6, 2020 11:14:58 GMT
Isn’t this great. You’ve been learning some black history already.
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Post by mids on Oct 6, 2020 11:16:45 GMT
She was a Nice Lady.
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Post by mids on Oct 6, 2020 11:17:20 GMT
Isn’t this great. You’ve been learning some black history already. To be fair, I availed myself of the facts years ago. |
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Post by whitewine on Oct 6, 2020 11:35:44 GMT
Among the hundreds of thousands of patriots that Poland celebrates for serving in the resistance movement in World War Two there is one black, Nigeria-born man. Jazz musician August Agboola Browne was in his forties, and had been in Poland for 17 years, when he joined the struggle against Nazi occupation in 1939 - thought to be the only black person in the country to do so. Under the code name "Ali", he fought for his adopted country during the Siege of Warsaw when Germany invaded, and later in the Warsaw Uprising, which ended 76 years ago this month. Astoundingly, he survived the war in which 94% of the residents of Poland's capital were either killed or displaced, and continued living in the ravaged city until 1956 when he emigrated with his second wife to Britain. A small stone monument in Warsaw now commemorates Browne's life. But the scant details that there are may never have been known were it not for an application he made to join a veterans' association in 1949. The document was filed away for six decades, until 2009, when Zbigniew Osinski from the Warsaw Rising Museum came across it. This form, filled out in beautiful cursive handwriting and with a passport-style photo attached to one corner, is his Rosetta Stone - the documentary fragment that led researchers to interpret isolated facts about his life and locate living descendants. In the picture, Browne, dressed in a jacket and a snugly fitting jumper, looks lively and youthful with a hint of a smile on his face. All who met Browne described him as a handsome man and a sharp dresser. By this time he was in his fifties, as the form reveals that he was born on 22 July 1895 to Wallace and Jozefina in Lagos - then part of the British Empire. He arrived in England aboard a British merchant ship with his longshoreman father. From there, he joined a theatre troupe touring Europe and ended up in Poland via Germany. 'Sheltered ghetto refugees' |
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Post by flatandy on Oct 6, 2020 11:48:31 GMT
Isn’t this great. You’ve been learning some black history already. To be fair, I availed myself of the facts years ago. Even better. Black history month had you learning black history longer ago! Goes to show what an effective, brilliant thing it is. |
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Post by mids on Oct 6, 2020 12:02:02 GMT
Well it shows what a bunch of pish it is. Mary Seacole and Stormy. I ask you.
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