Heroes Among Us: Incident at Bamber Bridge
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- As a part of our "Heroes Among Us" series, Go For Broke National Education Center is honoring our Black American veterans of World War II. As our nation currently finds itself struggling with a crisis of conscience, we acknowledge that despite the promise of America, not all people have been embraced by America’s value of equality. In recognition and support of our Black brothers and sisters, Go For Broke National Education Center will be sharing stories of Black veterans of World War II. Of their courage, patriotism, and sacrifice. Despite the great discrimination they faced, they upheld America’s promise and provide us today with a sense of moral direction.
In this video, we share about the incident of Bamber Bridge, where racial tensions spilled over into a night of violence in a small town in England.
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US Army: Tries to enforce segregation.
People of Great Britain: *WE DON'T DO THAT HERE!*
and Meghan Markle still called the British racist? Good grief.
@@wonjubhoy It would be wrong to state that there isn't a problem with racism in the UK...... I mean it's lower than most parts of Europe but it does happen.
That said of the four most important politicians in the UK, two are the children of Indian immigrants and the ministe rin charge of our highly successful vaccine programme was born in Iraq so it's getting better.... and note that's our Conservative party.
@@wonjubhoyMeghan has been proven to be a liar since the interview, so I wouldn’t believe a word she says to be honest.
US Army: can anyone remind us what we came over here to fight for?
That why your country has more terrorist attacks
Brits not putting up with this shit makes me feel good.
I know mate, the Americans never fail to mention how they overthrew us but never seem to mention this...
Thank you, from England.
@@jgalindo5087 Britain abolished slavery long before the yanks did as well.
@@wonjubhoy exactly mate, but they always want to mention that they beat us in the revolutionary war and that they beat us 1812 (even tho that was a draw as they never gained any of Canada which is what they wanted to do)
@@jgalindo5087 Oh my god...they don’t still believe they won the war of 1812, do they? 😂
Every historian says it was a stalemate, and it was when the British were fighting the Napoleonic Wars at the same time yet they still didn’t beat us! 🏛🔥
The French, Spanish and Dutch won their independence for them as well...
I am proud to be British and a veteran. Racism has never been part of my life. I've had close friends, colleagues and neighbours of different nationality, religion or colour. I know the UK has done wrongs and made mistakes in the past, but that doesn't change who I am and how I respect all others.
My mum told me about the story, people from bamber bridge were mostly poor at the time, and didn't like how they treated the black gi s they couldn't understand why they would treat them in that way ,I still live near by today
my guess is shame, insecurity, guilt or feelings of internal superiority. So much history covered up like black wall street, tuskegee experiments. And they are not done, they want to change all the history books so future gens can be malleated into whatever they want them to be. I admire brits who stand up to that.
We still are poor pal
Yes!!!!! I live near Bamber Bridge and know that pub, good for us up north watching this video makes me proud that my forefathers stuck up for these soldiers we all own them a debt of gratitude
Well said!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The British said 'The yanks are fine but it's a shame they took those white fellas over with them.' Apparently the USA created a lot of aggro by trying to introduce racial segregation into Australia, New Zealand as well as the UK. The Aussies, the Kiwis and the Britons all resisted this.
The town of Bamber Bridge is in Lancashire, my home County in England. Lancashire has a long tradition of anti-racism. The Lancashire cotton industry was the most powerful producer of cotton goods in the World during Victorian times, buying most of its raw cotton from the USA. During the American civil war, Lancashire cotton workers took a powerful stand against slavery and boycotted all cotton from the Confederate States. This severely restricted the income of the Confederate government throughout the war years. In Manchester, my home city, there stands a twice life size statue of Abraham Lincoln, presented by his Government in recognition of the solidarity shown to the Union by the people of Lancashire in banning Confederate cotton in opposition to slavery. I am in no way surprised that my fellow Lancastrians in Bamber Bridge took a stand in solidarity with those young black soldiers against the racist policies of the segregationist military during WW2. Shoulder to shoulder against racism going back to the Civil War years.
Wow, I drove past Bamber Bridge yesterday. Next time I'll call in at the pub and raise a glass to these people.
Lots of Italian prisoners of war that were held in Britain chose to settle in Britain after the war was over . Many settled in Scotland and opened up ice- cream Parlours ! We have some fantastic ice- cream shops to this very day . Nardini's are my favourite
Bert Trautmann; German Stormtrooper (then prisoner of war) during the war, and celebrated Manchester City goalkeeper after the war.
@@eddiegaltek
Paratrooper.
I met an old German guy in Canada in the 80s. He had been a PoW in Scotland during the war. He recognised my accent and told me stories of his time there. The prisoners would build roads, mend fences, etc. Local peoe would bring them soup and bread. He would never forget how well he was treated by ordinary poor people.
I knew a German guy who married a local girl he met while he was held as a prisoner of war. He was a 15 year old conscript drafted into the German Army in the closing years of the war when Germany was so desperate for troops that they enlisted old men and young boys.
Paul felt betrayed by his fatherland and lived the rest of his life in a quiet Worcestershire town.
is that why scottish ice cream is so good? explains a lot.
Imagine being so arrogant you try to enforce segregation in someone else's country. Especially the UK. You'll get a lot of angry Brits telling you to piss off. And if that doesn't work, prepare for the fight of your life.
Brits don't back down. They're kinda famous for that 🇬🇧
I wish those brave soldiers had been allowed to stay here. Shame on you America.
Just like how Jesse Owens the African American 1936 4x Olympic gold medalist said “Hitler didn’t snub me-it was [Roosevelt] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”
Which is shocking since FDR is one of my fave pres and helped save the country. But the strife is internally built. Watch The 13th or 1619 project for more
With more context Jesse was saying the US was just as bad as Germany and Roosevelt snubbing him was the proof.
Remember too that two Jewish athletes were dropped from the 4x100m relay squad to appease the Nazis. Losing to blacks was tolererable. Jews not so,
America was hitlers inspiration and main financier
@Yo Bo Don't use my ancestors' bravery to peddle your racist CRT tripe.
Neville Shute, the author, reported a conversation with a white Englishman living in an rural area near where a new airfield was being built by the black US Pioneer troops. Shute asked the Englishman what he thought of the Americans. The local said, "Oh; I like them fine!: but I'm not keen on these white ones that have been brought over to work on the 'planes.". Apparently, the black troops were polite, well-mannered, generous, and liked mending things: a local only had to mention in passing that their electric iron, doorbell, window sash-cord, or whatever, was broken, and one of the black soldiers would fix it, or polish it, or build a new one.
I have visited the u.s. several times in the past. My background is Irish and I was brought up to be polite, respectful at all times. White americans did not impress me; always trying (sic) to be smart.
African-Americans were more polite, helpful and decent.
Slante!
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I see that same comment but its from a Englishman now..Lols
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Well it would be wouldn't it!
They pay homage to this in the film “Yanks.” The love interest of Richard Gere in that film says, “This is not Alabama.” The people of Lancashire knew the difference between right and wrong.
I know if that was me, I wouldn’t come back to the US after the war. I would make my home where I was wanted. And many blacks decided to live in France or England after the war. Like they were saying, mom I’ll come and visit you every Thanksgiving and Christmas but I am an ex pat now!
Yes I rember a GI who stayed behind in Germany and became very successful & a celebrity at that
I believe a couple of black GIs stationed near Bamber Bridge did return to England after the war, and married their Lancashire lasses.
@@annalieff-saxby568 That's nice to know, I was wondering if any had come back.
Apparently many black GI's were surprised at how they were accepted by the average german citizen they met.
They expected germany to be a hotbed of racism but found it to be the exact opposite, as it was the few in charge who dictated germany's actions.
Many settled in germany.
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The history guy Eugene Bullard
The first Black American fighter pilot WW1 A hero of France.
It seems that equality is only a reality if enough people of conscience demand it. This is a great video.
mugwump20061 I’m from this local area and went to high school in Bamber Bridge, and yet this is the first I’ve ever heard of this story. I’ve been in that Hobb Inn pub.
@@christopherflux6254 Good people!
The latest attack on equality comes in the forms of Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Sustainability.
The more people that are taught about the debunked 15th century theory of so called "race" the more people of conscience there will be. That's what opponents of Critical Race Theory are afraid of. It's hard to look down on other "races" once you learn that race is just a social construct rather than a biological fact.
Isn't the race car driver Dario Franchitti Scottish?
The Land of Freedom & Democracy, of Equality for All, regardless of ethnicity .. The UK! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Yea... Ok baha
During the war, Britain relied on over seas soldiers ( from the Empire ) who fought and died for this nation. My great grand-dad with his proud Turban (Sikh ) died in Europe fighting the Nazis. The battle of Britain defeating the luffewaffe , we did not have pilots but many 'foreigners' came to our shores to fly our planes. I am an Indo-Brit born here. Nowadays hardly get any racism, if I did I would smash the bigot(s) , ain't taking that shit.
@@lionsingh18 You are totally correct, Britain & empire fought side by side for freedom, against a fascist regime that would have murdered all people not "Aryan race" or would have put them into harsh slavery.
@@Paul-hl8yg Yes indian was a 'colony' but believed in Freedom.....Sikhs have an honourable service in WWI and WWII ...70,000 served In Europe with distinction. proud of my heritage mate
@@lionsingh18 You should be proud. Certainly proud that we together defeated such tyranny of nazi Germany 👍
I was raised in the 80s in Lostock Hall very close to Bamber Bridge (within walking distance) and I found out about this only 5 years ago. I went to school with kids from Bamber Bridge and this was never mentioned.
The locals in Bamber Bridge stood up to the racist American army and it makes me proud to be from that area; the people or Preston, Lostock Hall, Bamber Bridge may not have been on the surface the friendliest people on Earth but when you got to know them they were loyal friends and I tell you something they would not stand for injustice on the streets back in the 80s in whatever form, it was quickly nipped in the bud if it ever reared its' ugly head.
Apparently there is now a plaque outside The Old Hob Inn.
As an aside I was in Lostock Hall last week on way to Preston, people there are nice, but I do know that Lancashire people are not to be trifled with, as the US MPs found out to their cost.
@@Steve14ps I think that the entire inccident would make an interesting made for TV movie. It would cost a bit to make though and using the same shooting locations to shoot would be impossible without some heavy CGI to redo the buildings / backdrop and then there's the filming permit from the local council ...
@@davedogge2280 There was a report on North West Tonight on BBC1 after the main news.
Replied with "black troops only" 😂😂 i love that!
Love-15 to our sense of humour :-)
Wow fascinating story,, what a shame that they were not treated with respect but was interesting to hear the contrast to usa and how uk welcomed them
I was 2 years old when this occured and me and my 2 older brothers (Ian & Derick) and Mum were living on Station Road next to the Police Station, father was overseas in the RN. Apparently when mother heard the guns being fired we were all bundled under the bed and she believed we were safe because of the Police being next door. As we grew up in the "Brig" we were aware of what happened that night and we believed that the shot GI was buried in St Mary's, Brownage Churchyard. We went to the Methodist School near the "Yanky Camp" in Mounsey Road and have happy memories of the GIs visiting the school at playtime and giving us treats like chocolate powder and chewing gum. I joined the Royal Navy when I was 17 so didn't see much of "Brig" after 1959.
Was it your mother that ran the toy shop?
Over 40 years ago I met a Black WWII vet named Hebert who served in Australia. He and his wife were both retired from Los Angeles City Schools. He told me of an incident where Black GI's were segregated from white locals by the Army. This lead to several confrontations. I wish I could remember more of the details. He said it turned into a riot that involved hand-grenades being tossed from moving vehicles. Not sure if this was poetic license or not, but it made for a great story. His point was that none of this was reported outside of Australia and that the Army kept it suppressed.
I have lived close to Bamber Bridge for 20 years and was unaware of this incident. We should do more to publicise all of our history, both good and bad. Oh, and Ye Old Hob Inn is still in the village as a pub!
Yes I agree, I had heard on a documentary many years ago, sorry I forgot which one, this contributed in some way to the start of the civil rights movement in the USA. UPon their return to the they saw the contrast between the way they were treated here and at home. BTW, a relative of mine who lives in Barnsbury had never heard of it either.
How embarrassing for the US
Yeah, racism is and always has been deep rooted into their society since the beginning. It’s a real shame :(
@J Galindo Compared to Britain? Yes.
But not nearly as much as the black supremacists want to peddle.
I wasted 28 years of my life amongst these ignorant ass holes and I want to get out.
Crazy thing is Nazi Germany was more welcoming to blacks than America 😂.
they won’t stop being racist it’s sad
THERE WAS ALSO CIVILIAN VILLAGES AND BRITISH SOLDIERS IN THAT STREET BATTLE, HELPING THE BLACK TROOPS. THE BATTLE LASTED 5 HOURS WITH THE MPS FORCED BACK TO THE BASE. AND THEN THEY CALL US RACIST.
just a footnote; the US military Police were also arrested by UK police for using firearms in public
Electric Beard Reactions channel deserves a mention for bringing me here.!
Oh, you’ve gained a subscriber from Blighty 🇬🇧
There was a documentary a while back containing interviews with a number of the famous British musicians from the 60s&70s. They all had the same story of growing up in 40s and 50s post war Britain, listening to the blues music that had been introduced en masse by these American servicemen. Very interesting!
Seems like everyday I learn a little more about how much America hated us. Just learned about the sunken black towns yesterday.
Thats why america hates education so much. The more i learned history, the more i fully hate the existence of the usa. And i grew up a flag waving lemming.
Great video. I've been listening to the audiobook of "Facing The Mountain" by Daniel James Brown, about the couragous 442nd Independent Combat Regiment, the Japanese Americans interred in US concentration camps, and the (also courageous) concentious objectors who refused to go along with the racist government policies. A very good book. I reccomend it to anyone who cares about democracy and the difference between how it is and how much better it should be and can be.
When the motown groups came to perform in the uk in the 60's they were dumbfounded how free it was here.
Same with the soviet union
When I saw this, I got tears in my eyes. This video also shows how prejudices are built up during a certain time since many of them who emigrated from Britain ended up as racists. All is based on the crazy idea that we can sell and buy people, and those ideas should be left behind us for long. But the fact of how we treat indigenous people still speaks for itself. It seems that we still have a long way to go, sorry to say!
Britain’s ways been than America when it comes to morals and living standards. It is what it is.
Nothing moral about blk supremacy in a European country
@@doomerboi7582 You're not British, are you?
Sadly, it's not that way now in UK and most of Europe!
@@doomerboi7582 How is drinking in pubs and dancing with ladies is black supremacy??? You definitely got a low IQ saying such idiotic things. Nothing moral about bringing American racism to another mans country 🖕🏿🖕🏿🖕🏿
@@sparksessence thats what happens when you have the usa dictate your governments through neoliberal capitalism
As I recall it was our Marines that stormed the Slavers' Fortress at Lomboko thereby ending the transatlantic slave trade
The US government was outraged and declared war on Britain but when President Martin van Buren told them that they would have to impose an Income Tax to pay for it they immediately withdrew the declaration.
Yes, Britain sacrificed Royal Navy sailors and spent a fortune enforcing its ban on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
I lived in Bamber Bridge and my old home is in one of the photos. I have taken part in a number of historic walks telling the story of that event. To find out more you should contact the local museum in Leyland near to Bamber Bridge. There are a number of untold stories to be told about the camp and that night. I was not there (to young), but my family hear the shooting all night and told me the stories. One of a little boy playing in the hallway in his home about 1/2 a mile away, his mother bent down to pick him up for some food and a bullet smashed trough the front door window, just missing his mother and hit the stair rail and then the wall.
@Ewan Williams Thanks for your reply. Just to let you know another interesting thing about the camp. After the war it was turned into a training college for teachers and one of the colleges lecturers was Anthony Burgess the writer of the film THE CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1972). Two months ago, I bought a large college photo taken at the end of training, it is two feet long with Anthony in it.
Regards Steve
@Ewan Williams Hi Ewan, The camp was off Station Road, the guard house which is still standing, is now the RAF cadets club house, the only building left, it is on the right 1/2 way down Mounsey Road, but if you go onto to google maps and look at Wesley Street, then onto Weaver Road the blue section of the map used to be a lodge (pond), I was told by my father that at the end of the war the US army dumped all the guns and ammunition into it, rather than take it back to the USA.
Would not want to buy a house built on that spot, which is just about to happen. I went and had a look last month and the lodge is now empty ready to be built on!
If you contact Dr David Hunt at the Leyland Museum next to the Eagle and Child near the Leyland cross, he can tell you more. We both lived in Bamber Bridge as young boys. There are many stories about Bamber Bridge and station Road that need to be told before they are lost in time.
Regards Steve
I was at Ye Olde Hobs Inn. One local resident told about the incident. A stray bullet hit the second house from the pub to the upper floor ceiling.
If this is true, I am stunned. Unbelievable. An absolute disgrace, and this story makes me proud to be British (considering much negative press lately - the British, not me!)
It is true a memorial garden was opened opposite the pub in 2022.
...And not much have changed since then in the US. Too sad.
Yep gotten worse. Very sad that is this day and age you would think people are educated but nope.
Id have to disagree, a lot has improved but when it comes to racial issues, the U.S is still so far behind. The Trump presidency has proven that.
Yes, the US is still segregated and there are still lynchings. Very sad.
@@butelezi00roman explain to me how it's gotten wrost for blks since 1960s give me a break you dumb a
@@WJS774 lol we are not segregated nor are their lyching. You wannabe be oppressed so bad
We are still striving to rule out racism in the UK and that’s why I’m a member of the WAWi project here in Birmingham UK 🇬🇧
What's WAWI?
Must be a different UK to the one I know, because in my UK they're fringe lunatics. There are probably more piano tuners than racists in the UK
That sounds like some Critical Race Theory crap.
You're not stamping out racism, you're redefining it so that these brave Lancashire men would be racist for defying the segregationists.
its been said many times, when Americas around friendly fire always gets higher :/ its a shame. a great people and nation yet so very blind then and now
Yes read the story of Pat Tillman and so many others. It reminds me of starship troopers at times
America isnt a great nation nor are the majority of its citizens. We built and inspired the nazis. We caused desth and destruction all over the globe.
Amerikkka is a cancer that needs to be destroyed for the benefit of mankind.
I say this as an american. Glass this place.
My grandfather knew a German veteran who told him, "When we fired, the British took cover, when the British fired, we took cover, when the Americans fired, everyone took cover"
I live in Brig, yet this is news to me. Thanks!
What I find amazing is the fact that US MPs had the authority (I am assuming) to use firearms on British Sovereign territory. Couldn't happen now but shouldn't have happened then either. Also, would be interesting to hear about the resident British Serviceman who stood up for them. I doubt their evidence was even considered or allowed by the court marshal. A story I will endeavour to do more research on. It was common knowledge in Great Britain that Black Troops were welcome, after all, our empire was involved fully in the war effort, troops of differing races and creeds were common in certain areas. It is interesting to note that more than a million Sikh's fought for the British Empire in two world wars. They along with all who share our true democracy, are welcome here.
US MPs had this authority or rather ridiculous demand in the UK because well, we did need their help in terms of foot soldiers on the ground. Im told the US military also tried to impose segregation in France as well.
The racism thing has been pressed upon the uk lately and some Brits think they have to say sorry about it. Inherent racism has never been a big thing here, it’s all about sticking with the underdog and not being told what to do by outsiders..this is why the uk has won wars and are proud people. Never tell a true Brit what to do.
My Grandmother told me " When the yanks arrived they were so polite and respectful , just a shame their white friends weren't "
In her area black US servicemen arrived months before any white GI's
Never heard of this before. Yet Bamber bridge is close to me. I've even stayed at a friends there and never heard of this. Shock.
lots of stuff people havent heard of, one has to really search for the truth such as black wall street or the tuskegee experiments
I lived in Preston, not far from Bamber Bridge, and this is just Lancashire for you
Learie Constantine the black cricketer lived in Nelson in Lancashire for over 20 years, eventually getting a peerage and using the town within his title. Lancastrians have the best sense of humour in Britain.
Very appreciative of this.
and this nation want to teach. the humanity whats good and what's bad
I thought you might be interested in the details of my latest play:
The Battle of Bamber Bridge
This is a dramatic retelling of the events that occurred on the evening of 24th June 1943 when in the sleepy village of Bamber Bridge just outside Preston in NW England, a battle raged for several hours between White American Military Police and Black American soldiers. By the end, Private William Crossland lay fatally wounded, shot in the back and 17 other Black American soldiers were injured. At the court-martial, the Black soldiers were accused of mutiny and 27 were sentenced to up to 10 years of hard labour. The battle was hushed up for fear it would weaken morale.
The locals welcomed the Black Soldiers and accepted them as ordinary human beings whereas the deeply racist Military Police...that's what the story is all about!
As part of the official commemoration, we performed a shortened version of a new play which portrays the events leading up to the Battle as well as the Battle itself. This commemoration took place in Bamber Bridge last Saturday, 80 years to the day after it happened.
We all know how expensive putting on a theatre show can be, even though this was for one performance only it cost around £4,900 because of our insane insistence that actors and crew should be paid for their work!
We got audience reaction to the show and will use that as well as visual and audio recordings to secure Arts Council funding for a full run of the show later this year. We also collected £230 in donations which have been paid into the Kickstarter but that still leaves us at less than 50% of the £2,000 we hope to raise and we only have 5 days left for it to run!
if you could spare a moment to take a look, help publicise the Kickstarter or even make a small donation, then I'd be very grateful!
There are more details on our Kickstarter campaign site:
kck.st/3NtlOD5
Thanks!
Never knew this... definitely a movie topic!
This is amazing.
WOW DUDE YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING AMAZING!!! I AM CRYING AND I THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.
I first heard about this incident just a couple of years ago. I was altogether nonplussed as to what to think. At first I thought it outrageous, but later came to understand that ( wherever they are, even here in England ) US squaddies have to adhere to US Military Rules.
I still think, however, that this was pure Racism - and I`m glad the townsfolk of Bamber Bridge came to the defence of those US soldiers that were here and there defending western freedom against tyranny.
I have only recently learned of these events and i'me at a loss that it has been buried for so long, We as a nation have been tarnished as racists of late. I really hope people see that here in the uk we treat as we find . Who you are not where you are from.
It all comes down to the individual but I do believe uk is way advanced as sort or those sensibilities. I've seen bad brits here too stateside acting at home with the worst of the yanks. But at least systemically, uk seems more sensible to poc. Whereas here, just watch yt and see the GFloyd stuff that happens
Sadly we still have a long way to go. I've met many ignorant racist pricks here in England. We need to work harder. We can't be complacent just because we're a bit less racist than the USA - that's not a very high standard to reach, let's face it.
I would not say all welcomed I would say more welcomed and no segregation - I am from the UK and if you listen to stories of arriving in the UK welcome is not a word that springs to mind even without official segregation. Nonetheless this is an excellent example of how common sense overrode racism and the fact that they had signs saying "Blacks Only" is a thing that is not well known and should be taught in the history curriculum. I spoke to a friend of mine from Bamber Bridge and he had no idea of this historic event and had not been taught in his local history lessons. He is in his 50s.
There’s always one who has to trash their country when others are praising it…. All countries have faults all have pockets of racism…. Why is it people like you and others like to make Britain out to be the worst.. 😡🇬🇧
Wow, I never knew about this incident. Why hasn't there been a movie made about this?
Because Hollywood never would ...
Impossible to get a film made where white American soldiers during WW2 are the bad guys. No studio would touch it with a barge pole.
See this is the kind of stuff that white America does not want the rest of Americans to know about. The history is deep wide and hard and I feel we all should know the facts as to some of the reasons blacks have always had to fight for what we have gotten
That the Critical Race Theorists don't want you to know. Look at what Kanye West lost his bank account for. THAT is the modern-day version of this.
My pride for my my country is outstanding where we blindly followed USA until it came to their inherrent racialism we were fighting! Bamber Bridge was never taught in their education system, like it proudly was in OURS
The irony of the whole thing is fighting for a country abroad while that same country despised you.
Thanks
I know Bamber Bridge - how dare the American authorities tell us to who to let in our pubs. Cheeky bastards. Good for the pubs to say black soldiers only!
As a white British man. I'm so proud of the local people of Bamber Bridge and how they all stood up to the terrible racist bullying of the American MP's on that occasion. The locals insistence to side with those black American soldiers makes me feel so proud. I heard also, the main reason those 27 'convictions' were quashed was due to the level of outrage shown by the British people to the American diplomatic service here in the UK. There can never be any excuse for racism of any kind, anywhere in the 21st century. 🙋♂
US MP's: landlord you must enforce segregation!
Landlord: Ok, your barred their not so get out
US MP's: If you do that we will arrest one of them
Landlord: good luck with that sunshine
MP's hears someone clear their throat behind them and turn around to see an entire village stood rolling their sleeves up.
Makes you proud to be British 🙂
And Northern! 💪🍺🥧 🌹🥊
@@phoenixrose1192 I think they had a similar riot in Portsmouth the same year. More of a punch up than bullets fired though.
Love it.
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LOLLLLLL SUSSY BAKA
It's extremely sad that black Americans ( my people) do absolutely nothing to tell our own stories, our history in this country. We let the greater society tell our story which only leads to them telling the " we shall overcome story" stories.
It's all part of the same history dude, black and white, history is history, it can't be changed and shoud never be, it must be tod in all its forms, I'm British and while I'm proud of stuff like this, i'm not proud of a lot of things we did, like our treatment of India and the genocide of the Aboriginals in australia. Both are horrific and barbaric, but at the same time, without Britain, slavery would still be legal in the world.
It all needs telling, we all need to learn from it.
Black SOLDIERS in England at first found it friendly but notice that young women would always try to look at the back of them. Finally one asked one of the ladies what were they looking at and the girl said the white g.i.s told the black soldiers had tails like monkeys and they were trying to see it. The black soldier told them it ain't true the "tail" is in the front and pulled it out. There were a number of black soldiers with English wives as time went on because they didn't have the rascist views of Americans at the time and were thankful those men came to help win the war. A lot of them also married French, German,and Italian women and stayed in Europe at wars end where life was much better for them.
You don't march into our gaff and tell us what to do, even if you're an ally.
Bamber bridge isn't a town it's a village not far from Preston.
My last name is Bamber....am i connected to the Bamber Bridge incident? Please let me know.
I can recall a short US Army information movie of the time in which a prominent white actor cautioned (presumably white) American troops to be careful about racial talk while in the UK. Apparently, he explained carefully, Brits couldn't quite grasp that black people weren't equals.
That was Burgess Meredith , many years later he was the boxing coach in Rocky (1976).
That was How to Behave in Britain at around the 25 minute mark: czcams.com/video/ltVtnCzg9xw/video.html
Burgess Meredith, he was also The Penguin to Adam West's Batman on TV in the 60's
It's not the Brits couldn't quite grasp that black people weren't equals, it's the Americans could not grasp we are all equal. Also the golden rule in Lancashire, don't tell a landlord how to run his pub, if the pub has a landlady don't even think about telling her how to run her pub
How awful
Who on earth put a thumbs down??
US Army MPs from the South, at a guess
Hating on black men all the way in England??? White Americans would try to segregate black men from Aliens on Mars if they could!
well... democrats would.
White Americans may segregate Black men on Mars, NEVER do it in Lancashire
9L where u at
Just out of interest did any black Americans stay in the UK after the war?
Go back to WW1, the US shipped over Black combat units, that command wouldn't use. The French, desperate for men took them. They ended the war with many individual awards and unit citations. Will the US ever catch up?
Turn around buffalo soldier, your enemy is behind you.
Capitalising "black" over and over is making me cringe and is just bad grammar. Remember it was treating races differently that they were fighting against and that we are all condemning here.
When the imposter is sus
Wonder how much one of those signs would be worth now?
The English didn't see skin colour they saw brave young men who had come thousands of miles to help us fight Hitler. A belated thank you to them.
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If my grandpa was alive, he would thank you for that
We do see skin colour what we don't see is a rational reason to devalue human life. I should point out the British people stood up for Africans at times but the British leadership tread on them (and everyone beneath them including English commoners), and I feel what we did to the aboriginals (black natives of Australia) with our atomic bomb testing in Australia in the 1950's was staggeringly at odds with the human rights act of 1948.
@@ganados0 Strange that the leader of the Tory party and so many members of the cabinet and other MPs are black isn't it. What happened in the PAST is the past. Have you checked out YOUR past, checked everyone of your ancestors is squeaky clean, no murderers, rapists or abusers lurking in the cupboard? If they are, it doesn't make you guilty of their crimes.
Whew! 'Merica got some esplainin to do!....
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Please teach this in schools it might go some way to stopping the lefty English hating kids that us English ain’t that bad 🏴
One good incident doesn't make up for all the bad, you fool 🤣
Also, 'lefties' don't hate Englishness. They hate moronic patriotism without accountability.
If you're going to feel pride for the good things, you have to feel shame for the bad or you're just a hypocrite.
If your attitude is that you don't have to feel guilt or shame for all the negative things because it wasn't because of you personally then you have not right to be proud of the good things that other British people achieved - that wasn't you personally EITHER. You only have the right to feel pride for your own achievements, not boost your ego over the achievements of others just because by chance you were born on the same bit of land.
Also, English is a wonderful language. Please show your appreciation by using it to form actual sentences.
People say things like "We shouldn't see skin colour" But it's stupid to say tha, of course we should, and we do, but that doesn't mean anything. Black is black and white is white, but at the end of the day we are all human. Seeing race isnot the problem, judging based on it is the issue. In the UK we never had slavery, it was outlawed in (1772?) officially, but the sale of slaves was outlawed in 1066. Because there was no segregation we are more united as a nation.
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This is a good little documentary highlighting the differences in attitude between England where the slave trade had been illegal for nearly a thousand years and the US where large sections of the population wish it was still legal. Only thing that spoiled it for me was the subtitles and the strange but common habit these days of capitalising the word black, but not white.....weirdly in a documentary pointing out shameful differences in the attitude towards races. Can anyone explain why this is OK?
Ahem - we banned slavery in the colonies in 1832 though there was never any legal basis for slavery in the UK. Indeed fears of the UKs move towards abolition wa sprobably the primary reason for the Revolution....
But the British were the people who instigated the Triangle trade in the first place..... there's a reason why so much of West Africa speaks English.
@@stewartjohnson5053 The slave trade was outlawed in England by William the Conqueror in the 1060's and in the colonies, not in 1832, but 1833. I never mentioned banning it in the colonies, but even that was 30 years before the US abolition and was by far the first of the major powers to do so. We even went so far as to free American slaves in England such as with James Somerset. In any case, whether the transatlantic triangle of slavery or not, slavery was not instigated by England but has been ongoing for thousands of years in various forms all over the world - it was only outlawed in Saudi Arabia in the 1960's. In fact, of the European nations, slavery was much more prevalent among the Portuguese and Spanish than England or her colonies. I also didn't mention that the Royal Navy enforced the abolition of slavery to the Americas at the cost of British blood and money. This documentary shows that contrary to some ill-informed opinions, Britain can also be considered a force for good in racial equality, civil rights and the correction of injustice. It's not all roses, but there are some among the thorns.
@@sureshot8399 Indeed, the transatlantic slave trade was instigated by the Portuguese and the Spanish, I believe.
I guess William the ********* did one good thing in his reign...
EVIL- EVIL- EVIL!
Maybe you should have a talk with the Africans and how they treat Europeans
@@doomerboi7582 We have plenty of European tourists and treat them just well. You’re looking at one situation and assuming that’s all of Africa which is very ignorant and stupid of you to do. But then again, we else can you expect from small minded racist.
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This story made me cry, both my Grandads joined-up as soon as possible and fought to oppose the racist Nazi. It's difficult for Americans to realise what us Brits went through, my Grandmothers remembered seeing the bombs being dropped from German planes, my home town still has gaps in the street where the bombs landed, the US never suffered any direct attack. Just Imagine hearing German planes flying over your house. I'm white and British, we had an awful history of sailing around the world taking what we want....but by the second world war the Labour and Liberal political parties had got a foot-hold...we realised that all men and women are created equal, unlike the current Tory Bastards lead by Boris. It's now a time for great change, my daughter is 18; she and all her friends have shifted their views on how people are "classified": Sons and daughters of rich people still living off money made years ago through violence and cruelty....balanced by normal people. Eton, St Pauls, Winchester, Cambridge, Oxford.....all awful prigs.....just pigs at the trough. Sexuality and race, colour, wealth...hopefully they won't come into it within a few years. Cheers x
What a sad individual. I do remember watching the waves of German bombers flying up the Thames to drop their loads on the docks. I also remember the doodlebugs coming over waiting for the engines to cut before running for cover. I also remember the way that the Labour Party has systematically destroyed this countries finances nearly every time it has gained power. Think yourself lucky whoever you are, that you have lived through decades of relative prosperity since WW2 and Harold MacMillan was quite right when he said that we had never had it so good.
So I’m guessing not much has changed in the good old boys home of the USA land of the free sometimes depends who you are.
I wonder how many of you have noticed that the word "black" in subtitles is written with capital letter while "white" isn't? Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that implying one group's superiority over another is an effective way to combat racism.
You're reaching
@@shabba3450 You think so? I would say that I'm looking for minor yet telling details.
It's a Critical Race Theorist's attempt to co-opt my ancestors' courage for the new, hip segregationists.
It's revolting and vile.
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And w still believe that the us helped win the war. It was the red army. They won the war. And i wish i knew which race ww the most racist in the exploration if us territory. The Anglos or the Saxons. Those are the ones who spread the hatred. Cuz all other raced right om Europe suffered racism. Italians Greeks Asians
Should have never got involved in their wars. Europe had more acceptance including France but eventually the bigotry settled in when the damm americans enforced their racial code. The british didn't want black soldiers socializing with their daughters. This is the type of history that should be a movie.
Where did you get the anti socialising nonsense?, the photographs of them all dancing says otherwise!, your perpetuation of segregation will only maintain the issues.
I hate racism/reverse racism/xenophobia or any other form of discrimination...... from all races.
"We are all jock Tampsons bairns"!
Watch the tube again mate.
the U.S army told the Bar to segregate blacks from whites, the Bar owners then put up signs saying "BLACK GI'S ONLY", they then sided with the black GI's AGAINST the U.S military police, just in case you didnt understand ,
You got involved because nazi Germany declared war on you. The aggro in Bamber Bridge happened because the Americans wanted to introduce racial segregation into the UK. The British rightly resisted this.