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2016-05-06 19:13:32 Post No. 73203574
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2016-05-06 19:13:32
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Just finished reading a modern textbook about history, it doesn't matter which one. It literally blew my mind. I had no idea that Britain's population was 20% black in the middle ages.
I was about to call my schooling out as racist (we heard nothing about people of colour in our lessons about English history, in my classes 15 years ago), but then I noticed a footnote saying that the diversity of mediæval Britain was only recently discovered. It's because skeletons don't have a skin colour, you see. Handel's mother was of African descent; Byron was mixed race; Edward VI is rumoured to have been of a significantly dusty complexion, born of a scheme to save Jane Seymour from her husband's wrath should she birth him a daughter by giving her a more masculine semen sample.
So, that's that. I don't really have a leg to stand on: black people have always been here. There's no such thing as a purely white country. So let's stop whitewashing our history.
