"Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, "cause there's bugger all down here on Earth".
In a f##ked up world!! ๐ข
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White slaves. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง
For three hundred years, pirates from Algiers sailed to Britain and Ireland, came ashore at night, and took people from their beds.
Baltimore, 1631. A hundred and seven people gone in one night. At most three ever came home.
Over a million Europeans ended up in chains in North Africa. Nobody bought them. They were stolen.
The kings of Europe paid ransom. For centuries.
In 1816, Britain stopped paying.
Lord Exmouth. Twenty British ships, six Dutch, against one of the strongest fortresses on earth. 27 August 1816. Nine hours. Fifty thousand cannonballs. 128 British sailors killed.
The next day the Dey signed. Every Christian slave freed. 1,083 people walked out of Algiers in one afternoon.
Nobody came for them... Until we did. โ๐ฌ๐ง๐ช
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Slavery was normal everywhere. โ๏ธ
Pharaohs. Romans. Vikings. ๐
Then one country's people said no. ๐ฌ๐ง
No army. No vote. โ
300,000 stopped buying sugar. ๐ฌ
Nearly a million signed. One in every seventeen people in Britain. โ๏ธ
Then the Navy went to sea. โ
1,600 slave ships taken. 150,000 people freed. ๐๏ธ
It cost a century and a fortune. Barely taught at all. ๐
That's why we're here. ๐
Be part of us. โ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ง
Be Proud Of Us. ๐๐ฌ๐ง
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This clip sums up the net zero climate scam...๐
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When men burn women alive, we hang them. ๐ชข
India, 1829. Widows burned on their husbands' pyres. ๐ฅ
An Indian reformer, Ram Mohan Roy, asked Britain to stop it. ๐
Britain banned it. ๐ฌ๐ง
The priests said it was their custom. ๐ฟ
General Napier: "Be it so. My nation also has a custom." โ๏ธ
"When men burn women alive, we hang them." ๐ชข
"Let us all act according to our customs." ๐ค
The burning stopped. ๐๏ธ
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Be Proud Of Us. ๐๐ฌ๐ง
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Britain once threatened war with its oldest friend. ๐ฌ๐ง
A friendship sealed at Windsor in 1386. Still in force today. ๐ค
In 1839 Britain told Portugal: stop shipping human beings. Or the Royal Navy will stop you. โ
Off East Africa, HMS Modeste chased a slave ship for nearly nine hours. 695 people stepped onto a jetty at Cape Town. Never sold. ๐๏ธ
They teach you the ships that carried people. Not the ones that stopped them.
Watch the full story. ๐ฅ
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โEngland expects that every man will do his duty.โ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
On the 21st October 1805, Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson led the Royal Navy to one of the greatest victories in British history at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Off the coast of Spain, 27 British ships faced a combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships. Nelson divided his fleet into two columns, breaking through the enemy lines and engaging them at close quarters.
The fighting was ferocious, with cannon fire tearing through ships and crews. There was also brutal hand-to-hand combat, as British and enemy sailors fought at close quarters with cutlasses, boarding pikes and other weapons. Men fought and died on the decks of their ships, sometimes just feet from one another.
Nelson was mortally wounded aboard HMS Victory, dying at the age of 47.
By the end of the battle, 22 enemy ships had been captured or destroyed, while Britain had lost none.
The victory secured British naval supremacy, crushed Napoleon's naval ambitions and helped protect Britain from the threat of invasion.
Nelson gave his life, but his victory ensured his place among Britain's greatest heroes.
221 years ago today. Remember Trafalgar ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
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The bottom line is this:
Slavery existed for 5,000 years. Every where
The pyramids were not built by volunteers
In the Eighteen century a group of British people set about making slavery illegal
Eventually they won
๐จJOG ON LENNY
Sir Lenny Henry has renewed calls for a national conversation about slavery reparations, arguing that the issue cannot be measured solely in financial terms.
Speaking about the long-term impact of Britainโs role in the transatlantic slave trade, the comedian and campaigner said reparations should be viewed as part of a wider process of acknowledgement, justice and healing.
Reflecting on the subject, he said that addressing the legacy of slavery could bring a โnationwide sigh of reliefโ over an issue that had โgone unspokenโ for generations.
Referencing findings from the Brattle Report, which estimated the economic cost of Britainโs involvement in slavery at around ยฃ18.6 trillion, Sir Lenny suggested that discussions about reparations are often avoided because of the scale of the figures involved.
He said: โOnce you start to break it down, it goes beyond getting a cash refund for slavery. It becomes about social engineering, and โ itโs going to sound really touchy-feely โ but it becomes about healing, and about spiritual healing, rather than just cash. Itโs hundreds of years of being oppressed and downtrodden.โ
He also argued that the financial implications can make people reluctant to engage with the debate, saying: โItโs so huge theyโre frightened, because actual reparations would cost trillions of pounds.โ
While acknowledging that meaningful change would take time, Sir Lenny said the discussion itself is important and could help shape future generationsโ understanding of Britainโs history and its lasting consequences.
He added: โThese things take time. Look how long it took to abolish slavery โ and to pay for slave ownersโ loss of work and earnings. This is to try and push the dial so that the conversation might lead to something. That might take another 100 years, another 150 years.โ
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One of the best I've seen so far ๐
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