10/11/2023
Meanwhile in Britain, the U.S.A.’s cultural colony across the Atlantic, October is Black History Month. The Brits are going nuts over it. The general belief over there nowadays seems to be: However loud those Yanks shout, we have to shout louder.
Where race is concerned the Brits are at a disadvantage in that shouting match, in that blacks have played only a very insignificant role in British history — no role at all, really. Until the middle 20th century there were never more than a handful of blacks in Britain, and race slavery was never legal there.
Race slavery was legal in some of Britain’s transatlantic colonies, although on nothing like the scale it was practiced in the colonies of Spain and Portugal. It was there in Britain’s colonies, though, up to the 1830s; so present-day Brits can feel pleasantly guilty about that.
So how can today’s Brits prove their moral worthiness to be subjects of the great imperial power across the sea? Well, they can make stuff up. That’s what they’re doing.
The BBC, Britain’s state broadcasting system, has taken the lead. Two years ago they put out a music video titled “Been Here from the Start,” which you can watch on YouTube.
The thing is two minutes long, if you don’t mind sacrificing that much of your time to ignorant idiocy.
And then there’s a best-selling book for kids, title Brilliant Black History, telling the little Britkids that “Britain has been a mostly white country for a lot less time than it has been a mostly black country.”
A favorite of all these anti-white propaganda productions is Cheddar Man, the oldest human fossil yet found in Britain. DNA analysis has found that Cheddar Man had dark or darkish skin. This is a reconstruction:
”See?” crow the anti-white crowd, “We’ve been here from the very beginning!” (You can see Cheddar Man around twenty seconds into the BBC YouTube production I mentioned.)
That’s just scientifically illiterate. All the nonwhite people singing along in that BBC video plainly have some, at least, sub-Saharan black ancestry. There’s no evidence that Cheddar Man did. So far as we can tell, he or his ancestors walked into Britain from Northern Europe, across land that has since been submerged by the North Sea. He was no more related genetically to today’s sub-Saharan Africans than I am, or Joe Biden is, or Vladimir Putin is, or Xi Jinping, or the President of India…
Cheddar Man lived around 8000 B.C. His people were hunter-gatherers; in fact paleoanthropologists refer to them and their relatives in Europe as “WHG” for “Western Hunter-Gatherers.” The men went out hunting fauna; the women stayed home gathering fruit and nuts.
The single greatest revolution in human history took place in the Neolithic, the New Stone Age, when mankind went from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle to settled farming. That revolution was brought to Britain from Europe around 4000 B.C. It seems not to have been kind to the WHG descendants of Cheddar Man. The genetic evidence suggests a Great Replacement, if not a genocide; the European farmers just annihilated the hunter-gatherers, or near enough.
These Neolithic farmers, by the way, had lighter skin than the WHG and often blonde hair. One and a half thousand years later they suffered their own Great Replacement when the so-called Bell Beaker people arrived, again from Europe, bringing the Bronze Age with them, and another genocide.
It’s fascinating stuff, but sub-Saharan Africans played no part in it.
All this Black History Month propaganda is as bogus as that. It either finds some insignificant black person in British history and inflates them to a figure of tremendous importance, or it seizes on some casual witness remark and inflates it to mean something it couldn’t possibly have meant.
Example of the first: Mary Seacole, a free black entrepreneur from Jamaica who ran a British officers’ mess in the Crimean War.
Example of the second: Philippa of Hainault, who was the wife of King Edward III of England back in the 14th century. As well as being Queen of England, she was a great-granddaughter of the King of France. Her genealogy can be traced back for centuries; none of it is sub-Saharan African.
However, the marriage with Edward was arranged before he was King, when he and Philippa were in their early teens. Edward’s father thought an alliance with Hainault, sealed with a marriage, would be a good move in the chess game of medieval alliances. He sent a bishop over to Hainault (in present-day Belgium) to check out the daughters of the ruling family there. The bishop reported of Philippa that “she is brown of skin all over, much like her father.”
So now they’re telling us she was a negress. If you scoff, they play their trump card: “Don’t you know she was the mother of the Black Prince”? For goodness’ sake!
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