Posted on 10/09/2018 1:38:25 PM PDT by DFG
It was also a mixed bag.
The British Empire also spread many good things, concepts of institutions (health, democracy, ...) and built infrastructure (railways, bridges, ...).
...and the USA wouldn’t be the USA without them :)
I didn’t see anything that amounted to “slamming” the obnoxious professional Negro.
BTW, a “professor” of melanin poisoning studies should be termed “notorious,” not “renowned.”
No doubt they were brutal, yet we should think the same of many less civilized societies such as Incas and Mayans and their murdering human sacrifices. India also had the Kali cults and thugies, so while the British might have been brutal so hasn’t just about every society been brutal in one way or another. Columbus helped one group of natives against another and left some men behind with a promise to return, only to return to find his men were killed and eaten by the tribe they were left with. So much for civility.
Oh, that's right...only White people can be racist.
“Controversial incidents in Churchill’s past include the famine in India that killed three million in 1943”
But the elephant in the room with Kihinde’s argument is, if 1942 India had engaged in armed revolt since 1910 and had declared independence in 1935, how was Britain responsible for a famine in 1943?
India was and is a slavery/caste-system country. The wealthy relied on a very large agarian population, who in turn, were at the mercy of disease, natural disasters and weather patterns. Descendants were locked into their caste - born poor, die poor. Born an untouchable, die an untouchable. Famine and disease were common in India.
1861 Famine in North West
1866 Famine in Bengal and Orissa – 1 million perished
1869 Intense famine in Rajasthan – 1.5 million perished
1874 Famine in Bihar
1876–78 Famine in Bombay, Madras and Mysore – 5 million perished.
1896-1914 - bubonic plague in Bombay
1896-1901 - plague-related famine
1943 - Bengal - 2 million perished
While England annexed India in 1858, and Queen Victoria was crowned Empress in 1877, it wasn’t until around the time of the formation of the Indian Congress in 1885 that governance became centralized. Twenty years later, the push for India independence was on. Although Ghandi encouraged Indians numbering some 600,000 to join British forces during WW1, the years following WW1 were filled with one assassination attempt after the other. There was also public rejection of anything foreign - from clothes, to food, to aid. Nehru celebrated the first ‘independence day’ in 1930. This was followed by the autonomy act of 1935 passed by Parliament and the Quit India act passed by India Congress in 1942. Indian leaders spoke loudly against supporting Britain’s war efforts in WW2.
What about 1943? WW2. Japan occupied Burma and kept the rice Bengal was dependent upon after a fungal disease decimated the rice crop in SW Bengal. British rules against hoarding were ignored by landowners and merchants who rejected anything smelling of British governance, driving up the price - including to the British. Shipping came to a standstill due to Japanese attacks on ships and demands on English ships elsewhere - the fight for the survival of Europe and the defeat of Japan and Germany.
put this in wikipeidia
rape of american women by british during revolutionary war
and makes sure you have HOURS of reading time :)
Why would they be so brutal in other countries and not America?
Because we like them now? :)
I read a book i think was called “daughters of the revolution” in college
One british soldier said, from what I remember, that it wasn’t safe for a woman at the time to go out the door without a chance of being “ravished” by British Soldiers
one woman was raped by 18 British soldiers while she was tied to a bed
Oh,lordy-—I wish I hadn’t read the last sentence.
For some reason I had never heard of the rapes-——thanks for that info.
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:(
You know what?
That stayed with me for YEARS.
I guess that’s why I remembered it from the book.
The only thing I STRONGLY remember.
Because it horrified me so :(
Only other thing I can’t shake besides pictures of the Turkish crucifixions.
“When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”
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