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Things the last few weeks have taught me
Jun. 9th, 2020 11:14 pmSo I have learned a few depressing things in all of this:
- The Scottish Police have more protections than English/Welsh - and don't actually have to release much information when they...kill people (Sheku Bayoh - 2015 - there was an enquiry....but who knows what the result was, or what actually happened that morning)
In England and Wales - they rarely do anything besides a statement and investigation through the oversight committee, court cases are rare and they tend to end with lots of shrugs and hand waving - it's always depressing, but at least details get released. Information is known.
- SO many people have no idea about British History. SO MANY. Urgh.
(An official statement had slavery being a Victorian era thing....Slavery was abolished in the Georgian Period, slavery was a Georgian crime - Victorian era, you are talking about indentures. Indentures are this thing we strangely do not talk about, 80% was slavery with a different name, 20% were apprentices (some of the 80% were considered apprentices, but their terms were.....less 'free' shall we say).)
It is extremely unlikely that there was ever a time that the UK didn't have a mixed population. Things have been traded internationally since the Neolithic, people moved around the world.
You can take your 'this is a recent change' thing and shove it. (I mean The Book of Kells has black monks in it! The 'Romans' who came to the UK came from North Africa and the edges of Asia. SO MUCH EVIDENCE. (this is a common argument with Ma, she has now given up, because I keep finding new examples))
( this got long, so saving you all from it )
- The Scottish Police have more protections than English/Welsh - and don't actually have to release much information when they...kill people (Sheku Bayoh - 2015 - there was an enquiry....but who knows what the result was, or what actually happened that morning)
In England and Wales - they rarely do anything besides a statement and investigation through the oversight committee, court cases are rare and they tend to end with lots of shrugs and hand waving - it's always depressing, but at least details get released. Information is known.
- SO many people have no idea about British History. SO MANY. Urgh.
(An official statement had slavery being a Victorian era thing....Slavery was abolished in the Georgian Period, slavery was a Georgian crime - Victorian era, you are talking about indentures. Indentures are this thing we strangely do not talk about, 80% was slavery with a different name, 20% were apprentices (some of the 80% were considered apprentices, but their terms were.....less 'free' shall we say).)
It is extremely unlikely that there was ever a time that the UK didn't have a mixed population. Things have been traded internationally since the Neolithic, people moved around the world.
You can take your 'this is a recent change' thing and shove it. (I mean The Book of Kells has black monks in it! The 'Romans' who came to the UK came from North Africa and the edges of Asia. SO MUCH EVIDENCE. (this is a common argument with Ma, she has now given up, because I keep finding new examples))
( this got long, so saving you all from it )
