"Wokery!" Historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo Hits Out At The 'Rewriting Of British History'
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- Historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on the rewriting of British history.
The UK’s economic success is the result of “British ingenuity and industry”, not colonialism, a Cabinet minister has said.
Kemi Badenoch, the Business Secretary, made the comments in praise of a book published by the free-market Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, in which political economist Kristian Niemietz claimed Britain’s growth was not financed by the slave trade or its imperial possessions.
Ms Badenoch, seen as a leading contender for the Conservative leadership should the party lose the coming election, said the book was “a welcome counterweight to simplistic narratives that exaggerate the significance of empire and slavery to Britain’s economic development”.
Rafe says: “This is an effort by the left to demoralise and destabilise Britain and the West as part of this cultural Marxist sweeping wokery!"
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Slavery is still rife in Africa but a don’t hear people of a certain colour going on about it I wonder why.🤔🤔🤔🤔
Slavery is rife ACROSS the World!
Yet these people who shout loud without the ability to even listen to anyone else never ever speak out about.
RHM is totally right and has been all along.
People taking it upon themselves to destroy our culture and actually re-write our history are a disgrace. Who the hell gave them permission to do so.
I see a lot of my Bajan friends returning to their 'roots' with sufficient money from the sale of their UK homes to buy outright wonderful homes, ready to settle back on the island. They would argue that Britain has done something great for them!
Two sides to every story.
I am proud of our past, proud to be English and British, and proud to be white. I will never apologise for anything other than something I am responsible for!
Yep & the left on a Saturday cheer on groups that are doing that.
No grift money making opportunities - so those "black lives " are not important to them .
GoTo Mauritania or Lybia or the Congo and Chad; you can buy a African for $100.00
Terrible that the black diaspora has no real anger on this
@@guardian100 or Brexit
Rafe is spot on as always.
And he’s not even white 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oreo
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@@washingtongarden4078He IS WHITE!
It was the British inventions, trade and the industrial revolution that created Britains wealth. 🇬🇧
And what led to that cultural supremacy was having Christian foundations as Scholastic theology led rigorous studies of nature which led to the scientific revolution.
and people whining about slaves in the West Indies ignore conditions in factories in UK in the first half of the 19th century... average age for a worker was around the mid-20's...
@@coling3957Did they have a seven year lifespan
@@ashlibabbittcroakedit9108 ? What.. yeah some did. Child death rates were horrendous in Victorian Britain. Educate yourself.
Rafe is a very intelligent man, what a shame our government couldn't care less about our culture or history.
Rafe spitting facts as usual. The two words the world should be saying is "thank you".
Haha - ‘spitting’ facts - odd use of English - because the word ‘spitting’ has unpleasant connotations- like ‘vomiting’ or ‘spewing’ and yet you are with Rafe - on his side - I presume? Better words might be ‘offering’, ‘presenting’, ‘speaking’, ‘contributing’, ‘providing’, ‘advancing’… not spitting!!
Nothing odd about it. It's a phrase that has been used for years 🤷🏼♂️
Always good to listen to Rafe Heydel-Mankoo. What a pity that we don't have politicians of his mindset.
I love Rafe. He talks so much sense
What about TODAY'S slavery....that is what these so called 'activist' should focus their efforts.
If only there were more enlightened people like Rafe to spread the anti Woke message...
we stopped exports slaves but slavery is still rife in africa 9 million slaves live in slavery and in asia theres 20 million slaves today ???
Still exists in Britain too
@@edaleman2758done by foreigners
@@edaleman2758 Yeah to young girls & them coming illegally if you mean in the ways that I'm thinking, but it's definitely always been a wealth class/working class kind of issue.
@@edaleman2758 100 percent low wages for the english
The Africans exported their slaves via the British, American, and European trading companies. The slaves were already enslaved.
It's so nice to listen to Rafe without him being shouted down by some psycho with a great chip on her shoulder.
In 1833 when the Abolition of Slavery Act was instigated there was another act which was supposed to put and end to children under the age of 9 working in the mills and factories and pits under appalling conditions, as did some of my child ancestors. They were also not supposed to work more than nine hours a day. These are the people that built Britain as well. None of these people seem to know any social history. At this time there were also thousands of homeless children on the streets, ragged and no shoes. And always the bitter cold winters. Draconian Poor Laws. No white privilege for them.I'd like to see some recognition of these people of Britain.
Even in 1920 my mother was sleeping 4 in a bed in a house with no heating, no bathroom, no indoor toilet and 2 bedrooms for 10 people! No benefits or free healthcare! Her father killed in WW1 and her mother raised 8 kids on her own but all were always fed and the rent always paid! Unlike today where we have so many benefits but parents rather spend money on takeaways, mobile phones, tvs, tattoos, Netflix, clothes they wear once, having hair and nails done but not feeding their kids or paying their rent.
No reparations for them then
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It was down to industry, Ingenuity and damned hard work.
Destroying or lying about history should be a criminal offence.
I really like and respect Rafe , he speaks so much sense and I bet it really annoys the woke left because of his Asian ancestry. They can't call him racist.
Please keep up the good work
Oh I'm sure they'll find a way! Totally agree with Rafe by the way, a very knowledgeable and perceptive historian.
I have the same ethnic background as Rafe, Born and bred in London to a European (English) mother / Indian father. I also share the exact same beliefs as Rafe when it comes Britain. I can tell you first hand that this infuriates the woke liberal brigade who love to play the racist card by reminding me that I have an Indian father. However when I remind them that I can trace my English ancestry back 800 years they explode with anger and frustration much to my amusement.
They don’t think the British Empire was “bad” they’re just jealous it wasn’t black people who did it.
100% and ABSOLUTELY. Jealousy and resentment.
Kevin, These are Just a minority of a minority and should just be IGNORED.
Britain created a worldwide system of trade that benefited all.
The Universities must be charged with the grooming of young minds for their own purposes.
They are not teaching our youth how to think, but rather telling them what to think.
Rafe is pure gold to listen to, he is a Historian, who knows what everyone should know, and unfortunately most don't because they are changing history to help others out??? Let's just stick with real history.
The Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman empire etc but only the British empire is deemed as bad in the current world?
From the perspective of psychology, woke people feeling sorry and powerless due to fault of themselves, but it's always easier to blame someone else for everything.
Yes and it "manifests " itself in envy which turns to spite and then to hatred . Never underestimate the green of envy : the real "colour " problem .
Some people are not happy unless they get to play the victim.
We were so succesful because its so bloody cold & miserable that the best way to pass the time was to stay home & invent things
Many of the African former colonies went backwards in all major ecconomic metrics after their freedom.
Most British overseas territories fared far better than the colonies of any other nation.
Really?. a tax paradise only this territories.
I adore Rafe …… this guy is a scholar and a chief…. Love it when you have incredibly smart people on. Can you do this more often please 🙏🏽
Rafe, as always takes with facts.
If one were to list what Britain has exported to the rest of the world in manufacturing, science, medicine, education, hygiene, law and order, democracy, technology etc the list is amazingly long. From the world's first police force to the toothbrush. From the steam engine to the telephone. Won't list anymore, the point is the rest of the world would be scratching around in the dirt fighting for their own survival were in not for Britain. My how we've fallen now.
Just thank the blk Egyptians for giving greece civilisation
The Enlightenment, the industrial revolution, shipbuilding, engineering, literature, music, fighting and winning two world wars & then rebuilding our nations population/infrastructure/resources and public services. Our families built this nation for centuries & we need to stop apologising for anything & we need to prevent more people coming in & destroying our economy and culture.
He's great
Rafe speaks with facts & figures. Thank you.
Ive had so many people looking at me as if im mad when Ive spoken up, pointing out the brilliant things the British people & civilization have given to the world we live in & take for granted ...with ethnic white, black & brown. My fascination started from hearing casual conversations at home about 'back home' v life in England & hearing dad discussing the politics of Partition with his friends & then the totally different take outside ,at school & in my primary history & general reading & newspapers, radio programmes. It was rare for Post war schools to have any brown/black children & everyone was very patriotic, Eurocentric.
I am still addicted to reading widely. History is very complicated & needs to be taught & debated so people search for more information & understand its relevance to their own life as I happened to realise very early on.
The extremist agendas need to be countered very vigorously, honestly, with facts, debates & education.
Well done Rafe- it made some unscrupulous people wealthy. It absolutely didn’t affect the majority of the population. My family was really poor. Custard for dinner as no food in cupboard. Ice on inside of windows in winter (although I guess we were lucky to have windows). The people that spread this stuff are hurting the vast public of UK and theirselves to boot. I call it lunacy.
there are plenty of virtue signalling millionaires with huge stocks in companies that exploit child labour around the world ., Corporations like NIKE finance every BLM grifter athlete or celeb while paying children pennies a day in their Asian factories.
Also banned foot binding of baby girls in China.
Thank you Rafe
We had recent slavery in Britain, it was called the Magdeline laundries, thanks to the Catholic Church. Young girls and women who became pregnant and had no sex education were imprisoned in these nunneries for life, their babies sold, the unsold mainly ended up in cesspits. The Catholic Church has still not apologised.there are still victims around today as the last laundry closed in the 1980s Also the Portuguese and other nations began buying slaves as they saw opportunities for wealth. Slavery is still very active in Africa today.
The Church is still a bastion of ignorance and repression.
Wasn't that Ireland not Britain. Southern Ireland is a different country and Catholic. Britain is not but part of the British Isles. It's totally different.
@@toastedsandwich1 My ancestors had alot of Irish history, moved throughout when famine was often an issue! Yet we ended up North of England in later times, it was so different back in the 1600s before GB was a thing, you had white peasants! Which is basically what we'd call the working class now.
@@toastedsandwich1Magdalene institutions were in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Sweden, Canada and Australia. They had different degrees of harshness depending who they were run by and the social attitudes of the society of the time and where they were located. None of then were a picnic, conditions were not intended to be an encouragement to continued 'vice' or 'immorality', but they were intended to make life better in future by providing some degree of skill, to help get employment, at a time when prostitution was common to survive, or that opportunity was denied once you were 'a fallen woman's because the man you thought was your beau and intended to get married ran off and left you pregnant and alone. Some of the institutions however were downright pernicious. In Ireland they took on a particular brutality, and worked in cooperation with the state, with girls admitted and kept confined, sometimes for life, babies dying, the women and childrens bodies who died from brutality, neglect, disease were buried in the grounds, unmarked. These 'homes' were still running in Ireland under these kinds of regimes until 1998, whereas elsewhere in the world they were wound down between the 1900s and finally all had closed by the 1950s in Britain. That said, there were still institutions and social services taking children from their mothers, having them adopted, and many were sent to Canada and Australia. The film Sunshine and Oranges tells the story of children sent to Australia.
So, there were institutions that treated many badly and in a way that is utterly unacceptable today compared to when they began in the late 18th century. Ireland however was particularly bad and some of the worst of it after independence in 1922, because the state did not intervene in the religious excess and serious work exploitation and abuse, but endorsed it.
Irish people were also forced into the slave trade. The Irish have suffered for centuries, sadly.
A very good summing up of the parlous state we have now been intentionally enveloped. No wonder Blairdom insisted on deranged education.
Good on Kemi!
Kemi should be the next Prime Minister of GB, certainly not Sir Leggo Head
Spot on chaps
We did become comparatively wealthy in the face of slavery. We got on with the enlightenment and the industrial revolution while africa and other regions held on to their slaves…..😊
That’s why the world is changing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Simple thought experiment. How bad was the British Empire compared to all the others, Egyption, Greek, Roman, Persian, Ottoman? And given the choice, which would you prefer to live under if there was no other option?
Cultural Marxism or Maoism has become strong in the global west and it is due to the continued reduction in education standards that started, maybe, in the 1970s. It's been a long slow progression to devolve education and society but it has, hopefully, reached its zenith and will will recover.
Will it?
@@audreyblack8629it will eventually, but not for a long time.
It’s not the education system- or at least not just that. It’s social media and TikTok. The amount of my friends in their 30s getting their information from social media is astounding.
What a brilliant lecture by Rafe. My school stopped history lessons when I was 14 but I took interest even through novels and the many educational TV programmes. One in particular recently was "Maps of Great Britain" on how Britain developed.
Excellent!
What a load of bullocks it's Industrial revolution and trading you can not make it up jeez
We ended the bulk of the worlds slavery! Pull the other leg.
I vow to thee my country, rule Britannia, land of hope and glory, our green and pleasant lands, Britons will NEVER EVER be slaves!
Lets be yhe first in history to abolsh woke the world would be a far better place
As a member of a Commonwealth nation,I am very proud of its legacy past and present.
S Africa was booted out of the Commonwealth until apartheid was dumped.Nelson Mandela thanked the people of NZ for insisting that rugby was a racially mixed game as it is today.
We abolished slavery in 1805, stop getting it wrong by such a massive margin!
Who in the right mind would vote conservative after the previous 13 years? It's OK to take a revisionist view of history but the lack of tory voters is down to the Conservatives themselves.
Well done.
The British were better crooks with the best bravest navy men
In that case Liverpool should definitely be docked points in the Premiership. Reparations!
David Lammy says the term 'cultural Marxism' is anti-Semitic in addition to word 'Hag'.
Badenoch is a Saviour and Messiah to the right Wingers😊
Wokery is not irreversibly destructive for the nation. We could cope with that but mass immigration leads to irreversible demographic change, transformation of our nation.
i will always desdain those that want to rewrith history because of political ideologies.
Our Universities were once the most important hall,s of education, where the ruling classes sent their heirs. I had a Kuwaiti student living with my family for a couple of years who told us that even American education, Harvard and others was seen as a second class to English Education. Mind this was fifty years ago before wokeism and communism took over our institutions. I think this is a shame to the thinking intelligent from all countries being educated to think how to solve problems, instead of just being sheep with no debate or true inquiry into subjects.
Surely our wealth came from the Steam Engine - not only travel but pumps to drain the coal mines which enabled steel production - we also created Capitalist Society:-
We 'compulsorily purchased the slaves in Jamaca in 1833 - set them free - borrowed forward on the debt(capitalized it) and used my taxes to pay back ending in 2015
In the 150 years up to the abolishment of slavery in 1833 British GDP doubled. In the next 60 years during the height of the industrial revolution it increased 21 fold.
Rafe, a national treasure.
And there was I thinking that saying was from the Jesuits ! Thank you guys ! ❤
Rafe always talks sense :)
Spain and Portugal are not G7 or G20?!?!
Spain and Portugal dropped massively between the 16th and 19th centuries... the Spanish had splurged their wealth from looting the Aztec and Inca gold on wars in the Netherlands .. by the time their colonies were breaking away in the 19th century, they were virtually broke.. Portugal gave up their remaining colonies in 1975 when a far-left govt came to power - leaving a power vacuum in Angola and Mozambique. .
a lot of history (period) is wrong - sadly!!
The people raging about "slavery" only do so because they want "reparations" - GRIFTING ... in USA its a slightly different story, but there they fought a civil war in which 400 000 Americans died ending slavery.. the British led the world and ended a lot of brutal and oppressive practises in Africa and Asia. and when the British left those places in the 20th century, many of them went back to their old habits.
Britain spent over 2 centuries benefiting from the slave trade
I would like to see the wilful misrepresentation of history being made a criminal offence in the same way that the slander and libel laws apply. Rewriting of history is of course fine when new verifiable evidence comes to light, as of course it sometimes does, or expounding a theory of the meaning or consequences of events so long as its not presented as proven fact. But anything else is nothing more than propaganda and should have no place in the education system. In my dealings with young people these days I find many seem to be reluctant to find things for themselves. Many older people are no different of course, but tend to be a bit more cynical and therefore less likely to believe what they see on tv or what appears on social media.
Also, many people in Britain today regardless of their age group have little or no interest in history anyway. The fact is many get their history lessons by watching period dramas, adventure and war movies, which to be honest usually use the disclaimer that they are only based on actual events.
Upper Canada legislated against slavery in the early 1790s, even though it didn't have a culture of slavery. There were maybe a handful of 'slaves' in a few upper class households in Toronto and Montreal. It was in response to Loyalists coming up from the 13 American colonies after the War of Independence, bringing their slaves. Canadians didn't like it.
EVERY ONE STILL LOVES TO LIVE HERE BUT HATE THEMSELVES FOR IT , JUST GO BACK AND BUILD YOUR OWN COUNTRY UP
Gazzillions in foreign aid, and 50% of Sub-Saharan Africa, still doesn't have safe drinking water. But, they do still have slaves. Maybe, some cultures are different after all.
There's Africans in ireland now telling us how rhey built ireland, its like rhey have basis in really probably n rhe slightest, ir even think anyone wlse has
Africa had slavery (still does), why isn't Africa developed then?
Haiti never experienced slavery. Hmmm...
Both my grandparents worked in the Durham (UK) coal mines, their homes were owned by the mine owners they were underpaid and overworked. It wasn't slavery but it wasn't much better. My great grandfather was killed in a mine, his wife was evicted from her tied home because she no longer had a relative that worked in the mine! Blackhall Co Durham
This narrative is used by less successful countries because they have an inferiority complex with regards to the United Kingdom. I have experienced this first hand after living in a European country and having much prejudice against me just because I am British, and hearing that all the woes of the world can be put at our feet, (by people who have no knowledge of history I might add and also have no wish to know the truth about history because it suits their agenda). I won't mention the name of the country but let's just say I jokingly put it down to the fact that we've never been forgiven for having won the Battle of Trafalgar against two other European countries. The fact that such a small island has had such economical success, attracts negative feelings towards it, and is due to the oldest and most destructive (in my opinion) emotion in the world: Envy. This is why they have been trying for decades to bring us down and they're finally achieving it, both by mass illegal immigration and by turning the narrative on its head by rewriting history.
England was the biggest and most influential empire in world history. The Roman Empire is 2nd.
Well, is there a place for facts and logic, when somebody is full of hate? Can the brain work if it's overruled by strong, yes, incredible strong, emotions?
The 3 cultures which persisted in the institution of slavery after the advent of the Industrial Revolution (Antebellum South, the Iberians, Muslim dominated areas of North Africa and the Middle East) suffered identical fates: stagnation, decline, and ultimate collapse from which they have yet to fully recover. They paid a heavy price for obstinantly clinging to an archaic, barbaric, and notoriously inefficient economic system which couldn't possibly compete with industrialized nations.
The British Empire reached its zenith in the 19th Century after it abolished the slave trade and slavery itself. The US didn't emerge on the world stage as an industrial giant until the late 19th and early 20th Centuries after slavery was abolished with the passage of the 13th Amendment. Western wealth was built on industrialization and technological advancements which proceeded with breakneck speed as the 20th Century began. It was NOT built on slavery.
Britain has forgotten its Catholic roots
1534.....?
Some would say even its Christian roots.
Jesuits quote the same line 'give me a child to the age of seven.'....etc.
Turkish muslim caliphate practised the same with the conversion of the sons of non muslim kings held in thrall...Vlad Tepes (Dracula) and his brother are one example of this. His younger brother became a 'janisary' to the Caliph and was an officer in the invading army sent against Vlad.
britiain has the greatest history a country could have, had the biggest empire ever created, a lasting cultural, economic, industrial and legal legacy. Only empire in history to declare war on slavery and its influence enabled slavery to be defeated. We fought against the Nazis when we could have abandoned Europe with our empire intact but we didnt and history is fukl of us standing up for other nations- see the napoleonic wars or the crimean war. To look at the success of the countries that used to be part of the empire confirms you were lucky if you were part of the great Empire
University instructors
Where's Imarn Ayton? I miss her....NOT!
What we learnt in history when i was in school between 95-05 was: in primary school it was a tiny bit about the names of roman gods, a tiny bit about glnames of greek gods, a very very tiny bit(1 or 2 lessons) about henry VII and elizabeth I he had seven wives and created the church of england she fought the spanish armada thats it. Secondary school was just 5 years of studying ww1 and ww2 all mixed up in order so you get confused over which is which and the timeline etc. and about 6 months of muhammed ali for the final gcse exam. Absolutely brilliant and enlightening i know sooooo much about the history of the world or britain ...... Education is a joke in this country
Have you ever watched The World at War"? Comes on TV occasionally. Also the channel Yesterday with Abandoned Engineering is interesting.
What about the Muslim
Empire? Bad too then.
I think he got it wrong, Spain never involved itself in large scale slave trade, not at the levels of the British and the Portuguese, i.e. There are not large African American communities in the ex-Spanish territories. The Spanish kingdoms and colonies in the Americas opposed it.
It’s simple if you don’t like England please just leave it’s easy I lived in USA don’t like it at the moment so I left
Why has rafe got a foreign name, is he an immigrant.
Hej, we've splitted the atom, we've found Ultima Thule ("New Horizon" probe) beyond the Pluto. Not with emotions and protesting and screaming. With hard work, with testing the ideas on reality ... and so on. Are we not allowed to be proud?
Why dont you ignore these people. It seems to me its your channel that seeks attention and audience. The past is yesterday focus on the future.
HOOOLD on there Bruv'nah,....Jefferson and the US taking on the Barbary Pirates in the early 1800's tilted the scales. IF it wasn't for that and Napoleon, you guys would probably have tzkenb more time
Britain became great after ww2 when the British people rebuilt their country after it was bomb to the ground the British people worked hard to contribute to the country including the Industrial Revolution it’s taught in the university
Marshall plan helped a little ?
I thought it was Thomas Aquinas who said that and henceforth he Jesuits adopted that saying ad their motto. Or maybe they stole it from Aristotle!!
why do the gammon hate their own country.
One of each & some Buttons?
Text u when I leave them outside.
I am not woke and totally against those morons, but the Empire dissolved because of people rebelling against it, and more importantly it was to expensive to maintain. Giving up slavery was not a British innovation, and the Nation did not become rich, but rather certain sections of society became rich,
We should not be held accountable for the sins of the past, but at least acknowledge actual history, otherwise these one sided debates will always continue.
Britain was the first country to bannslavery and it cost us a great many lives and a lot of money to do it. So it was a British innovation! Learn tge facts!
@@audreyblack8629 Please learn your history, because they were not, and is well documented.
Slavery is very much an everyday fact of life in Britain today.
Who cares about fact?
You mean lies
I have the greatest respect for Rafe but i cannot believe that he has been taken in by the lefty maritime museums rants that 80% of slaves passed through Liverpool on the way to the American colonys it seems a very round about rout not following the trade winds instead of using the trade triangle Britain.riches for the traders. Africa.slaves. America sugar cotton back to Britain
Why break the circuit comming back home with (lets be honest) a perishable cargo
I am sure as a historian he knows about the trade triangle as they never bought slaves to England but took them to places where they were needed to work on plantations, exchanged them for goods we needed like sugar, tobacco and tea and then sailed the goods back to England. We had no use for black slaves here, only white poor 'slaves!' Hence the name 'slave triangle'. I think he meant that the ships involved in slavery passed through those ports with the goods they traded for slaves, not that they actually took slaves there! It is obvious that we didn't bring Black slaves here because where did they all disapoear to after the abolition? Never saw a black person until I was in my teens around mid-ñate 60s and I lived in outer London! Explains why USA and other countries with plantations have so many indigenous black people from abolition era as they were freed slaves. None such thing here! All immigrants who arrived post WW2 and since!
@audreyblack8629 yes he is a brilliant historian, I was disappointed to hear him say that bit straight from the lefty tourist guide to make us self flagelate
Many people who came from the West Indies have made great successes of their lives. What would have been their lives if their ancestors had not been carried forcibly from their homelands. Slavery is abhorrent but don't say that everybody was in favour of it or even in the poor working classes were even aware of it.
Removing the pilfered Indian and African gems out of the Royal's headgear might help your case. 🤔🙄😆
I think it's yourself that's rewriting history
Stating that colonialism and slavery were inherently good things that in the colonies. Why did millions of people starve to death then. We have first hand experience in this country of divesting famine when half the population perished