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Post by flatandy on Oct 6, 2020 12:05:32 GMT
You don't need to ask me! That's a part of black history you've already learned. Well done to both you and Black History Month.
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Post by mids on Oct 6, 2020 12:13:22 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' That's moderately interesting. Better than dragging out poor old Mary and flogging her yet again. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 6, 2020 13:36:36 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. "Whip round" <snigger> |
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Post by voice on Oct 6, 2020 15:31:32 GMT
The best thing by far about BHM is how it unfailingly triggers impotent puce faced rage in the right year in year out, without fail. Almost as much as International Womans Day, the trigger of all triggers.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 6, 2020 15:46:06 GMT
"his his Rosetta Stone - the documentary fragment that led researchers to interpret isolated facts about his life"
Hmmmmmm ..... I smell bullshit and BBC series in the offing. Idris Elba is standing by.
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Post by mids on Oct 6, 2020 17:27:39 GMT
They've not been and gone and seacoled him, have they?
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 6, 2020 17:40:44 GMT
Hahaha! Very good.
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Post by mids on Oct 6, 2020 18:20:06 GMT
Of course, the best thing about bhm is the witless shrieking of the left as they realise that not everyone hates whitey like they do.
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Post by voice on Oct 6, 2020 18:53:02 GMT
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Post by mids on Oct 6, 2020 19:16:49 GMT
Etc...
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 6, 2020 22:48:10 GMT
The best thing by far about BHM is how it unfailingly triggers impotent puce faced rage in the right year in year out, without fail. Almost as much as International Womans Day, the trigger of all triggers. Yes! Similar to Pride. It’s fantastic for just how much they wail about it 😁 Edit: yes of course and IWD. And what makes the wailing about the latter more delicious is when they complain “why is there no IMD!!11!” There is, nimrod. |
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Post by mids on Oct 6, 2020 23:02:29 GMT
Yup wailing and gnashing from the left. Of course, it was we rational centrists that invented it to troll the left.
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Post by mids on Oct 7, 2020 10:16:46 GMT
By the way, I know all I know about Mary Seacole from reading Sir Rod Liddle.
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Post by flatandy on Oct 7, 2020 12:16:28 GMT
Wow! Even Liddle's been benefiting from BHM?
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Oct 7, 2020 12:26:19 GMT
You seem to assume black history is only available in BHM. It doesn't work like that BH is available all the time from many sources. BHM just promotes it for that month.
It's like gay pride. People aren't just gay at gay pride. It's an all year round thing.
Just so you're clear.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 7, 2020 17:09:39 GMT
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Post by flatandy on Oct 7, 2020 17:16:56 GMT
She's right, though, isn't she? In the context of what she's saying. (Not sure what this has to do with Black History).
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 7, 2020 17:42:09 GMT
In what way is she right?
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Post by mids on Oct 7, 2020 17:47:59 GMT
Christ she's thick as pigshit.
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Post by mids on Oct 7, 2020 17:48:39 GMT
(Not sure what this has to do with Black History). She's black and she's history. |
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