Heroes Among Us: Incident at Bamber Bridge (REACTION) 

Or British..

i cant tell if yo think this is a bad thing or a good thing, but i see it as a good thing.. anyone can call themselves what they want as that is their genetic line. but born here you are one of us regardless of your skin, so you are British! but when it comes to america if youre born their, your not just American but they have to throw the African in there too...why? is it just to make minority's stand out? would you class them as just american if they are born and raised in your country

I agree with the sentiment, but they are British not English though. The English are the native peoples of England, just like the Welsh are native to wales, the Scots Scotland and the Irish Ireland, but all are British. You don't call white Australians aborigines or white New Zealanders Maori do you? I'm not having a go at you pal, I'm just sitting the record straight and giving an explanation so any who read this understand the difference between English and British so don't any offence chum.

@@unionjackjackson4352 i know the difference as im scottish 😂😂😂

@@JakesAquaticAddiction are you sure? Never can tell with you Jocks!🤔😁

Now this is a story that deserves to be adapted into a movie. The shame here needs to be witnessed so the truth can come out that America has been wanting to forget for so long that continues to this day.

Was this in Cardiff, Wales. There was a similar sounding incident, the Chief Constable got involved and banned the MPs carrying guns.

@@christineaustin1397 No it was near Blackpool.

@@christineaustin1397 Lancashire UK

I love that, so typically British and it makes me proud and really happy for some reason!

@@draxbak is it because she was simultaneously not racist and mildly xenophobic at the same?

@@totallybored5526 I think there might be something in that! I do like that type of humour.

British humour is the best :D

@@totallybored5526 Welcome to Britain.

I Why not. Black Lives do not Matter? Are you saying that you are so fucking thick that you are in disagreement with facts? Way to be proud, you dumb fuck. Get out of the country I fought for. The one my grandad died for, you ignorant cunt.

@crushthevicar so because I disagree with the policies and organisation of BLM that makes me a bad person...right? No. Try reading my full comment and actually comprehending what I said.

Skin colour should not come in to the way you think of someone. We All are people at the end of the day

100% agree my fellow Brit 🇬🇧

You may not agree with BLM and their policies but everybody must understand that it's very different in the US. It's been nearly a hundred years since Bamber Bridge and this is still going on in the US. I guess sometimes it's time to stop asking nicely! And their Police? To say they're not like ours is an understatement. We've had property equality for centuries. They have lip service

As a Brit, we love ya cos we love ya! There's no reason to explain.

People are people, love to all! There are always people with extreme views in the minority. Media pushes these cases for ratings and it’s hurting our culture

Absolutely correct. We British never really had the same race-based viewpoint that America is afflicted with. There were never slaves in the mainland UK and free productive people of all kinds from across the empire were productive members of society in the UK. What *matters* to us is your VALUES. If you're from a culture that hates individual freedom, or that thinks they're superior and others inferior.. That's where the problem lies.

@@etherealhawk Yep. Also we forcibly ended slavery through military force with our Navy because it was against British values.

@Debra Charles how is america the least racist xd

We had a really black American friend, for years, over time we also had a Jamaican one the two were total opposites but friends too..and that's how it rolls!

My grandad told me a story of when he was in the war. He was a medic and at the time attached to a Gurkha regiment. Long story short, one of the Gurkha soldiers was at the bar getting in a round when a couple (3 or 4) white US soldiers came in and tried to intimidate the Gurkha. Needless to say, my grandad spent the rest of the night patching up the US servicemen.

@@paulbanks8727 The Brits love the Gurkha's.

@@ClodiusP hmm ,so why has it taken so long for Britain to give those that fought for the commonwealth the same recognition as others ...

@@cherrymcgregor535 The Brits hate the Gurkha's!

I think we British believe in fairness above all and any rule or authority that enforces blantant UNfairness is given short shrift in the UK. Had I been a serviceman in WW2 and heard white American troops disrespecting their black comrades in that way, I would have given them one hell of a tongue lashing.

Mine also

He was a great guitar player but his singing was a bit bad though😁

Suzi Quatro also became famous in the UK before returning to the USA. The same with the Australian group the Seakers who were a minor Melbourne act before achieving fame in Britain then returning home as hero's .

Otis Reading loved the UK

The events that took place at Bamber bridge are shocking and still to till this day some 81 years later are disturbing. Why on earth would you waste time by sending military police to arrest someone for not wearing the correct uniform, some jumped up charge that could be handled the next day even if had merit. It was clearly done to create a disturbance and set up a dangerous confrontation. Now I have spent a lot of time in the West Indies and I married a woman from St.Vincent that’s nearly 50 years ago most of friends are black and I have always had the greatest times being amongst them.

British Sarcasm too: "You said impose Segregation and we did. The White Yanks will be nowhere near near the black troops because they aren't allowed in. You should have been more specific." LOL

There should be so many more like you on this earth, but sadly not. Respect to you 👏

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No one should be proud of where they come from its irrelevant.

@@garibaldi54 Weird thing to say. It hurts no one to say they're proud of where they're from, whether its irrelevant or not.

@@cockneycharm3970 Where you come from is an accident of birth, why would that be something to be proud of? You might as well say you're proud of having blue eyes.

Thank you, I will look that up. Hope you have a great upcoming weekend.

@@MrGiant You might also enjoy watching BBC's 1993 'Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles' dramatisation (here on RU-vid) which tells a true story. In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visited the Hebrides Islands, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him were his friend, the Scots diarist James Boswell, and his black Scots servant Francis Barber. They enjoyed hospitality at several castles on Skye, and in one, Francis met a black servant brought back from America as a slave by a Scottish Laird. The encounter provides an interesting look at the way attitudes were changing as regards slavery.

There's a quote from that sort of era. "England's air is too pure for a slave to breathe." Or something along those lines. It means that anyone who breathes the air of England is free. It's correct, even in law. There was *never* a legal status of 'slave' in the UK. People here have only ever been free, as soon as the law was first created.

@@etherealhawk Slavery was prevalent and legal in England in Roman and Anglo Saxon times. The Normans discouraged it and their successors banned it while, at the same time, effectively making everyone, except the clergy, more or less the property of someone from the king down - but not quite slaves. Wikipedia has a few paragraphs on this. I think there was a brief period in the middle ages when slavery was legalised in English law but it went against all post Conquest legal history and tradition, was extremely unpopular, and repealed very quickly. Of course, the Welsh and Scots captured and enslaved English people and the Corsairs from North Africa used to raid Ireland, Western France, Cornwall, Wales, etc for slaves right up to the 17th Century - they even had a base on Lundy Island from which the carried out raids and transfers to ocean-going ships. Even West Indian and North American slavery included people from the British Isles, as described in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. Slavery in the Americas was not really legal in English terms. It was fudged through by the wealthy profiteering classes who usually had relatives with landed estates in England and held positions in Parliament - money and desire for more of it defeated and distorted legality.

William the Conqueror (1066-1087) : "No man is allowed to sell another man. Anyone breaking this law will pay a fine to the king." Nearly a thousand years ago!

Bridgwater in Somerset stood up to racial segregation in WWII, refusing to have white GI’s billeted on townsfolk unless black GI’s, bivouacked in tents, were billeted too. When the black soldiers arrived, they marched through the town to cheering crowds, and in homes were apparently treated like royalty.

@@catherinerobilliard7662 that is interesting I didn't know that I'm a Bristol boy. Well done Bridgwater.

also live in somerset, home of every British rebellion :)

@@johickey3158 South West England has indeed a long history of rebellion; the Duke of Monmouth a case in point. I’m a Geordie so claim no bias.

A soldier is a soldier. the only colour there is green.

South West Britain...!!, even today there are several descendants of black USA servicemen with broad Cornish accents. Their fathers /grandfathers fitted in better than the white gum chewing ones 👍.

True..that...

On another reaction to this i did see a comment from a descendant of a black service man saying that their relative said it was their first good experience of a White person. Let's hope the world continues to learn from history.

Hope so!

Exactly my thoughts , glad you made the point

So stubborn that we obediently behave like sheep in the face of the worst authoritarinism this country has faced in peacetime. Happy to obey lockdowns. Cowering if anyone walks within a few feet of them without a mask. Happy to see people not get NHS appts.Happy to be propagandised by fear. Happy to see businesses ruined. Oh yes, we are just so stubborn and won't be told what to do. Right, that said, the way we treated the Black GIs was exemplorary and we should be proud of ourselves on that front.

@@spanishpeaches2930 im not talking about the current covid situation i was talking about in general, however i do t believe anyone is happy about the lockdown and trust me im deffo not happy about people not being able to recieve treatments desperately needed, but at the same time its a global situation and had we had done nothing wed still be lossing thousands of people a day that didnt need to die. Im a homecare worker so ive seen it all first had and still had to try and carry on as normal. Its not ideal for anyone

@@mummywilford Well your original posts states that we are a stubborn people who don't like being told what to do....well it appears we do like being told what to do. The govt have behaved atrociously and incompetently, but all I see is sheep complying. This has been no worse than a very bad flu season. Did we shut the country down when Hong Kong flu killed more? Oh, and where has flu dissappeared to this season? People die, it's a fact of life. It's sad...my uncle died from covid. This is a seasonal illness we have to manage, just like old school flu.

@@spanishpeaches2930 When it's for your own good, then just do as you're told..and btw your ignorance of a Pandemic being like Flu..is staggering!

It was only right that the Brits stood their ground in the context of Bamber Bridge riot. A foreign power demanding the local pubs who not to serve and how to serve another human is wrong in the first place 👌👌

Yeah, my dad was on leave from the army and got into fisticuffs with a white GI after buying a black soldier a pint.

There were similar incidents across the country. The only difference was in size. The American culture was very different, and had developed that way over hundreds of years.

@@wessexdruid5290 America has not existed long.

@@wessexdruid5290 the US was only about 170 years old when this happened; the pub it happened in at the time was 170 years older than that

@@catherinerobilliard7662 But the slaves had been there for centuries before that.

Yes, that's right. Hendrix was discovered by a British manager - Chas Chandler of The Animals.

Hendrix first played in the US but failed to make it big. In 1966 he travelled to London, meeting his idol Eric Clapton, and soon became hugely popular in the UK, before achieving international fame. He settled in London and called it home.

Pretty much true for all the African American blues musicians. Even African Americans weren't listening to blues music. They had to come to Europe to be feted and treated like stars with respect and, more importantly for them personally, to be paid. Even younger artists on Stax and Motown labels were appreciated widely more in UK than in USA at least up to the mid-1960s. The Rolling Stones asked for Muddy Waters to start their show on, I think Ed Sullivan, and deliberately moved back to take the limelight off themselves.

The beatles did the right thing when touring america there refused to play in any venue that had segragation . Respect .

Perfectly put

No other empire gets the grief the British Empire gets. All we did was create an Empire of Trade, we where rich, and every other country we went to their leaders wanted what we had. Our only problem was we where to good at it. Never forgot your history, especially if your working class, we've had 2000 years of being controlled by elites, our elites only took that misery to the rest of the world for 200 years. No matter what others cry, we're stronger than anyone could imagine.

Keep in mind that Britain was instrumental in ending the slave trade.

I was with you till the "Ginger". 🤣 (If there's any left wing type Gingers out there who just crumbled to the ground in tears while screaming "Why Lord Whhhhhhhy"!?, grow up buttercup, I was joking.) 🙄🤣

@@gregw1973 I’ve a good friend whose excuse for doing anything really stupid is “I can’t help it, I’m ginger.” We decided her hair isn’t a more normal colour because the strange thoughts in her head have affected the roots. I’ll be vilified for use of the term normal. 😁

@@darrenjones5885 😁 We all know theres nothing at all bad about em... but they're all we have left, apart from the Welsh and the sheep... 🤣 (Joking... saw you're called Jones) Hehe

@@gregw1973Well that is a kick in both balls as a Welsh person who has a ginger beard u hit two of my key features, I truly find this to be a double diss 💯😂(I don't truly actually I'm joking but anyway), back to the point but what do u propose to do about meand others like me?, catch us and forcibly sheer alongside the sheep 💇‍♂️💇‍♂️🐑 🐑 u sir are much worse than a left wing fascist ,ur a right wing stylist 😂💯 😂👍👊✌️

I'm glad you realise Ginger is a skin colour. Sick of being regarded as white when it's quite obvious my skin is a pallid blue LOL

Thank you for sharing your story. I hope some day you will find your family and is able to learn even more about you history. I hope you have a good week my friend.

@@MrGiant Thanks mate you too! Keep up the good work I'm really enjoying your content so far. I just finished watching several of your videos comparing American and British police and the history of the ottoman empire and also your geography now videos. You're pretty open minded I'll say again and I am glad to run into someone like that. We need more open minded people in the world

GamingWith Steve Have you tried finding the Regt. in UK?

@@davidhoward2487 I believe he may of been in the 392nd Engineer General Service Regiment as they were a segregated african American stationed near where my great grandmother lived but I can't find a list of the men who was in that regiment at the time

@@AidanC850 get in touch with some American military guys and ask them who to get in touch with? I'm sure they will have lists of names of every American that came here during the war.

I think the hob inn is still going strong. Had a beer there a few years back.

@@bengarstang3520 I think I've driven past it before. Never been in though

They had to make films to teach them how to behave. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ltVtnCzg9xw.html

Us brits do love a queue, no matter who you are, get in line!

Thank you.

There are documented cases of black G.I's being pulled off buses with their kit bags on their way home from Europe. One man was attacked for requesting the use of the toilet. The driver reported him to police. He was beaten and blinded. Orson Welles the actor tried to highlight this terrible attack and the treatment of men fresh from the theatre of war. His films were banned in some states after. Some of these soldiers never reached home after setting foot back in the USA. RIP.

Hence the saying 'over-sexed, overpaid and over here' that was said at the time. At least it was said in Nottingham.

It's here at 25mins 20 secs = ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ltVtnCzg9xw.html

@@BigAlCapwn ty for finding

It was called something skin to "know your ally", the main charachter/narrator is the guy who played Rockies trainer in the films (I think).

@@stephenelliott1135 Correct on both counts, it was Burgess Meredith, he also played the Penguin in the Batman telly series in the '60s.

Up the North😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💪🏻🐎🥊🍻👑

It's literally the most British thing to do though isn't it 🤣

One of the wonderful things about being British - tell us to do something we don't agree with, we'll do it but in a way that you wont like.

@@dannycostello no it’s northern,nice try

That was amazing..but also look what happened to Luther King!!

But at least it was a start, and as we all know there are casualties along the way, including you and I. 👍

William Wilberforce---Yorkshire Lad.

Yes Mark - a wonderful film and I bought the book years ago to get the full story; well worth reading.

I will have to put The Hob Inn pub on my bucket list.

Sorry mate but "Americans" the most racist country on the planet. Not like you and me,,,... Let's make things different but without the woke shite that's currently going on?

I remember as a kid, my father having to go to America for 6 months. He came back shaken by much he encountered but mostly this: he was a friend of the great Satchmo (Louis Armstrong!) and one night, after dinner, suggested they go back to his hotel for a nightcap. It was a 5 star International hotel . (Even in South Africa, at the height of Apartheid, International Hotels didn't ban black Africans!) But they were told that Satchmo would have to go around the building and enter through the back Delivery entrance!! My father immediately went upstairs, packed up and checked out....and booked into Armstrong's hotel.

My father liked Paul Robeson

I’m a few miles from Brig and never heard of this, I’m not surprised northerners didn’t take that crap back in the day 👍

I’m sorry I have to disagree, as much as I like the guy, I think “sadly” he totally missed the point in the British crusade against slavery video. He was simply too indoctrinated to grasp it, but he’s entitled to his opinion … although obviously he redeemed himself in this one 😂