Posted on 11/21/2023 6:38:46 AM PST by Drew68
Black women of African descent?..........................
3 out of the 5 African women who were in London at the time died, I suppose.
In other news, researchers expose that blacks fighting the lines during the CW were disproportionately wounded by cannon fire.
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Well, it was the Black Plague, after all.
No doubt these academics received a tax-payer funded grant with which to conduct their ‘research.’
The research concluded that higher death rates amongst people of colour and those of black African descent was a result of the “devastating effects” of “premodern structural racism” in the medieval world.
premodern structural racisim.
We are now in post modern unstructured racism.
Well duh, it was the Black Death.
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LOL. Saw something on Netflix recently about the court of Louis XVI - seems blacks were represented in his court at a rate of about 20%. Arabs and Mexicans too.
I couldn't watch it for more than 5 minutes, so couldn't tell you the name.....
The Beeb outdoes itself!
Such shoddy work...
First, no link to the study. SRSLY?!?!?
Second, no info on how many or what percentage of black people there were in the area studied.
I would be surprised if there were a lot of people we consider black (eg, Sub-Suharan) in the UK during the plague as the plague occurred more than 50 years before the age of exploration in which Europeans started sailing long distances, such as to sub-Saharan Africa, and even then, it was the Portuguese who went.
Third, no indication if actual results, such as there were 1/4th again as many black people in the plague cemeteries as would be expected from the population of black people at the time, and this was reflected in the lower number proportionately of black people in non-plague cemeteries.
Get a grip, BBC, lest you provide evidence that you are a mere propaganda machine for the extreme left.
Plagues are racist.
Just as likely they were diplomatic royalty from Africa or serfs just like virtually all of the English subjects of the Crown were at the time.
These a$$holes never stop!
The outbreak is believed to have claimed the lives of 35,000 Londoners
So, 145 bodies from 3 cemeteries out of 35,00 Londoners who succumbed to the Black Death is proposed that the Black Death affected primarily black women.
What consideration was given to the cemeteries themselves? Sorry, not enough evidence to make a sound conclusion. They found what they wanted to prove their supposition & then wrote their summary. More pseudo-science in my opinion.
There's a great "blackwashing" of European history currently taking place that attempts to convey the Orwellian lie that Europe has always been full of black and brown people.
Old man, "London sure has changed over the years."
Young man, "London has always looked like this!"
TV and movies, as you mentioned, now show blacks as part of everyday life in historical Europe, from "Bridgerton" to the "Vikings" sequel. Farcical "scientific" studies show ancient Scandinavians to have been dreadlocked blacks. And now this claptrap.
For what it's worth it hit Asia and Africa hard as well, including sub-Saharan Africa. You know the high mortality rate among slaves in transit to the Americas that we hear about all the time? Fun fact: most of the deaths occurred inland before they reached the coasts (after blacks captured blacks as slaves then was transporting them to the coasts to put onto ships). Instead of marveling in horror at the amount of slaves who died in transit, we should treat it as -- well everybody else was dying too. It would be something if the slaves didn't die from plague.
Life in the cooling periods like the Little Ice Age and the Dark Age sucks (lower crop yields, less predictable rain patterns, more deaths by plague). Life in the warming periods like our Modern Warm Period is much better. That's why the Dims hate global warming. They don't want you to enjoy the good things in life.
The research is based on 145 individuals from three cemeteries.
The research concluded that higher death rates amongst people of colour and those of black African descent was a result of the "devastating effects" of "premodern structural racism" in the medieval world.
The African slave trade with Britain was pretty much non-existent before 1554 so that chances of there being any significant number of Africans in Britain in the 1300s is nil.
Furthering the black victimhood schtick.
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