Posted on 12/06/2015 5:02:49 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
This was no ordinary Saturday night punch-up outside a pub.
At the height of World War Two, with the country gripped in a life or death fight for freedom against fascism and dictatorship, dozens of local drinkers fought alongside black soldiers against white Military Police officers harassing them outside a Lancashire pub.
It was just one extraordinary example of the active support shown by ordinary Britons for the thousands of black American troops stationed amongst them during the war - in stark contrast to the vicious racist abuse they received from their fellow countrymen.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Vicious racial abuse = one drunk MP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom
There was plenty of racism by the Brits, but rationing was so severe families were welcoming any gi that could help put food on the table.
Passing out spam and cigarettes would make anyone popular in a pub regardless of skin color.
You make it sound like you think it was an isolated incident. It was a different period and racial bigotry was common in both the North and the South, so why should the army be any different than the civilian world. The services were segregated they did try to maintain that segregation on base and off it.
America sucks so bad, it is a wonder we can live with ourselves. //sarc
What the Brits really said:
“Americans are Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here.”
They didn’t think very much of American soldiers who were stealing their women.
Let’s not forget that the Yanks hit back that the Brits were “underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower”.
The beef is with the Brits trying to act all better-than-us on the issue of race. Their history is no better.
England also sent the half black children of unmarried women to Australia.
Good one. Thanks. lol
Still waiting for the first black Prime Minister.
My dad wasn’t black but he thought MPs were Aholes.
This is great. Its not too late to invite the descendents of these abused GIs to come back to live in England.
this only happened because that racist democrat Wilson re-segregated the US military.
My Father would probably be considered racist now but was probably mild by 1940s standards.
Not sure why, but he hated MPs and paratroopers.
Always victims, never perps is a white “journ-O-lists” dream article and bookseller
Beggers! who never saw the war and still carping about our American friends. I remember my old WW1 veteran grandfather and him bringing in a huge plate of scrambled eggs. Yes, reconstituted eggs, in a carton with two hands shaking each other. We all cheered. Eggs a luxury. This after an "all clear" had sounded. On the cuffs were the United States flag on one and the Union Jack on the other.
I am proud of my own country for helping defeat Hitler. I do not kid myself, if America did not help with Lend Lease things would have been different. Once starvation set in there would have been riots and probably started by the British communists. They were already fomenting trouble.
Those that never saw that war are the "experts". Few know how close Britain came to disaster.
A rant by me. I do remember. Thanks America!
Many “racists GI’s” saved a lot of the limeys’ asses & gave up theirs
Great Britain was directly responsible for slavery in the American colonies and they were the premiere slave traders from the 1600s until the very early 1800s.
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