Our Jamaican problem - 17/01/1955
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- SV Emigrants from West Indies disembarking at Plymouth from the S.S. Colobie, onto tender. CU West Indian man disembarking. CU Another man disembarking. CU Pan, woman with floral dress on, disembarking. SCU Long haired West Indian man vaulting gangway. SCU A French sailor carrying child down gangway. SV Piled up luggage on deck. SCU Pan, West Indian people on tender as it approaches shore. LV Tender as it approaches shore, with English coastline in background.
CU Road sign: "Somerleyton Road" in Brixton. GV Pan, Somerleyton Road in Brixton. SV Interior, Walter Austin (8 years here) post office worker, joined by his wife on easy chair. CU The Austin children - twin girls. SV Interior, Mrs Dorothy Morgan (2 years here) husband on night work, and woman on right Miss Edna Young (2 years here) nurse in the South & General Hospital. CU Miss Young, pan to Mrs Morgan. SV & CU Mr and Mrs Samuel Davis, a commercial teacher, at present working as display machinist (been over here for four months). CU Mr and Mrs Samuel Davis.
LV Brixton labour exchange. SV Notice board outside exchange. GV Loughborough Park building site. SV Black workers on site. SCU Workers receiving instructions. SV Men at work. CU Man working on scaffolding. CU Another man working on scaffolding.
SV Interior, black children in nursery at Coldharbour Lane. CU Mixed children in care of attendants. SCU black child and white child together on rocking horse. CU black child in swing. SCU Attendant feeling black girl's hair.
Angle shot, Colonial Office. SV. Deputation led by Mayor of Lambeth, Councillor White outside. CU Mayor of Lambeth. SV Deputation entering, pan up to Colonial Office. SV John Parsons, Pathe reporter interviewing Mayor of Lambeth. lead for voice. SCU Mayor saying: "...First is long term policy which will have to be adopted... ...development of West Indies themselves... ...only answer to this problem."
GV Pan, sugar plantation in West Indies. SV & CU Man cutting down sugar cane. GV Line of people carrying cane to barges. SV people dumping cane in barge. GV & SV Pan, houses in the West Indies. SCU Small boy being bathed in bucket. SCU & CU Woman washing clothes on side of river. CU Woman beating washing with stick. GV A West Indian market street. SV Vendors sitting in road with their goods. SCU Bunches of bananas. SV Pan, black women walking over to fruit market in Brixton. CU Woman pointing. SCU Woman's purchase being handed to her. CU Woman receiving purchase. SV Sequence of black people walking about Brixton.
SV John Parsons walking with Bill Strachan from Jamaica. He was commissioned bomber pilot in R.A.F. during world war two and now a council office worker. Lead for voice - CU Bill Strachan being interviewed (natural sound). Parsons asks about his views on Jamaican emigrants. Strachan replies: "...our people from West Indies here have no enmity to any British people... ...will be a strength to them... ...are ambitious... ...will not under cut trade unionists... ...will help in the cultural life... ...co-operative with the British people... ...no special privileges or anything more than other British worker."
SV Another load of emigrants arriving in bitter weather. LV Emigrants aboard ship lining to see emigration officer. SV Official checking their papers. SCU Well wrapped people on ship. SV & SCU People with children being helped down gangway. SV Emigrant families down gangway. SCU Two heavily clothed but frozen looking emigrants.
Our parents came to better there life's, they came and work hard my mother was a nurse, my father worked for the underground repairing tracks at night. Brought a home, and wanted their children to have a good education. They never came to lay up on the system, we work hard for what we have we are a proud people.
For those who don't know, the British government went to the West Indies & told Black people to come to the UK for jobs. Many of their people had died during WW2 or emigrated/evacuated abroad so they had a massive labour shortage. The Nazi's had bombed the cities so houses needed to be rebuilt, the NHS had just been created which needed nurses & Public transport needed staff. There weren't enough locals to fill the positions.
Problem is they failed to communicate this to the natives, so when Caribbeans turned up they experienced a lot of racism.
Great footage btw, thanks for the upload 😉, this is an important part of British history.
My children should give been taught this in school, but no. Proud to be Jamaican
Well said!
@@camealb2292 I went to school in Jamaica and I was told this but I also heard my parents talking about it. Too many Jamaicans in the UK expect schools to do the work or teaching that parents should know and teach them. That's why the damn Tories thought it was ok to destroy the Windrusher's landing slips as they thought no-one would remember or bother and they were right, it took journalists to dig and find out.
Too many Jamaicans came here and spoke badly about Jamaica and didnt teach their children and grandchildren the good, bad and in-between, so Jamaican descendants now dont know their history and have white historians telling them everything over here, most of which is redacted and/or 'whitewashed'.
If we carry on like this they will soon tell us the Jamaican national heroes were 'terrroeists' and/or white men. PICK UP BOOKS AND SART TO LEARN TO LOVE READING AND STOP LETTING THE COLONIZERS TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE!!
@@BritishJamaican777 👏👏👏👏
@@BritishJamaican777 very valid point 👏
Miss Edna Young is my Mum.. Caroline Young
Caroline Young Thats awesome
Mo Zaic Manchester bless her soul! She is/ was a beautiful woman.
Hello Caroline. Samuel Davis (the 'qualified commercial teacher' is my grandfather. I imagine that your mother and my grandfather knew each other. Sadly, he died twenty years ago. Is your mother still with us?
"True, his music is gay and his homeland sunny...."
cracked me up for some reason.
because your 9yrs old mentally
Especially because they ain't too fond of gays and their homeland is Africa!
TrueLies 50years later bun out a batty boy lol
@@cjldn5966 Yes, Buju Banton made it clear in his song lol.
TrueLies You know that the word gay was a reference to Happy not sexual orientation.
Lets have it right, having jamaicans in our country is NOT a problem, without our jamaican brothers and sisters coming over to england in the 50's where would we be, no reggae, no jerk chicken or rice and peas, no patties, no lambs bread, no blues parties, no sound systems, no bling, and no appletons rum, the list is endless so i for one dont have a problem with jamaicans !!!
Some very good looking guys coming off those boats.
Ggchb Gig ghb 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ggchb Gig ghb that’s not nice why you people are like that. Your such a bother soul who needs help
@@ggchbgigghb7699 a piece of shit is what you are
@@ggchbgigghb7699 and you sound like a jealous ape, you piece of shit
You perv samantha
I love Jamaica it have so much history 🇯🇲❤💛💚🦁👑💪
Immigrants to all countries during that time were different. They were grateful for the opportunity and worked hard for everything they had. They integrated into society and became proud citizens of the country. The same thing happened in the States during the same time from all parts of the world. My mother immigrated to America from the Philippines. She and my Uncle retired as a Lt. Coronel and Major respectively from the Army and Air Force. Most immigrants in the US today just want a hand out and want to turn this country into the place they left.
I went to school in Jamaica and I was told this but I also heard my parents talking about it. Too many Jamaicans in the UK expect schools to do the work or teaching that parents should know and teach them. That's why the damn Tories thought it was ok to destroy the Windrusher's landing slips as they thought no-one would remember or bother and they were right, it took journalists to dig and find out.
Too many Jamaicans came here and spoke badly about Jamaica and didnt teach their children and grandchildren the good, bad and in-between, so Jamaican descendants now dont know their history and have white historians telling them everything over here, most of which is redacted and/or 'whitewashed'.
If we carry on like this they will soon tell us the Jamaican national heroes were 'terrorists' and/or white men. PICK UP BOOKS AND SART TO LEARN TO LOVE READING AND STOP LETTING THE COLONIZERS TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE!!
Jamaica ain't no paradise either 🌚I'll admit many were naive, too optimistic and i'm confused? What history haven't we been taught? it's nothing to do with britain and everything to do with certain aspects of Jamaican culture. Something many Jamaicans are quick to abandon actually🌚
A valuable piece of History lesson.
Life is good for some ppl, can u dig serving the same ppl that hate u ,slave ur ancestors, held down by design ,dam ..
Only ones who had a Jamaican problem was the older generation back then. during the 60s they integrated well with the white youth of the 60s, mixed well,same schools, same big estates, unlike the many other varieties we get these days. plus they brought some damned good music with them ,as many Mods at the time and then later Skinheads adopted for themselves,
the same mods and skinheads that went around beating up black men in the 70-80's sparking load of race riots
West Indian people need to join arms and stand together.
Yes, in their own indigenous homelands in Africa.
Sigh but the politicians didn't want to from the start. Too much corruption and they just want to rob our money. The right people need to become government officials and not these shameless robbers. The Caribbean and Africa too would be so prosperous with the right ppl
unlockthepower our home land is America 🏹
@Black Sparrow You don't believe that African people have a homeland?
we came because,you were too,good to do the jobs we,came here to do,remember what you put us through,and still,putting us through,look at what england has done to all nations,but we suffered,the worst,windrush controversy,you can see how we have been treated,reparations to so called jews ,but not us,you distroyed us in the first place!! we love all people we were never brought up that way!!!!
I think it was a good thing they came to England, I like that we have lots of different people about, it makes us stronger in many ways, plus its more interesting.
"I think it was a good thing they came to England, I like that we have lots of different people about"
So do you also think it's a good thing that white people went Africa, Australia and America? Now they have different people about.
"it makes us stronger in many ways"
Name one.
Samantha Pateman ..I take it you eat dark meat.
Sam. how can 100s of 1000s of black people in a white society make it stronger?
I'm fine with it in moderation, I think it's probably a good thing in moderation, but I feel in the last 10 years or so immigration to Britain has gotten really out of had.
I think there's a limit to everything...
The Mahammedan traders are one of the same as the British Slave tradersr,birds of the same feather flock together.To this very day the Arabs are still profiting through slavery of African peoples,but because of the arms trade with the British,the government is keeping stom!!
Its all about economical cheap labour and minerals.
My dad came to UK in 1955
Carol Jones Cool, my dad came to New York in the 80's from MoBay
+ASwept&GarnishedLife Can you all fuck off now? England should be English.
My Dad arrived in the early 60s and tadaa here i am xD
Oh lord no, it's much more fun to stay and annoy the likes of you.
I am so glad my mum and dad came to London it's the best city in the world.
My Grandfather was 46 years old then!!
They were on the invitation of the British Government and asked those from the English Speaking Caribbean primarily Jamaicans and others followed to help Britain after the Second World War . I love Brixton know it well and know I always will feel mostly safe there .
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So ppl forgot that the king's n Queens of Europe were once darkskin ,like the Stuart family and francs n more,a lot of the dark skin ppl were shipped to west Afrika and parts of Caribbean in 1700s, certain history they miss out..so these xymaca ppl coming over already been here
bull shit! LMAO
Enigma it’s true no bullshit go study
but u get caught up in this dark skin thing..y skin color matters to u so much
does the word colonise mean kidnapped,murdered,rape,torture,forced labour because in all the colonised country they were all given these treatment
It was the Barbadian Governor who suggested to England to send Barbadian to work in England. Barbados was the first island to send people to work in England 🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧
this is so cute and innocent.
Glad those stupid hairstyles are done away with.
interesting, thanks for posting
I was shocked to hear my cousins in England saying England is better than Ja. They r black. They said Ja. had nothing so their parents had to leave. I had to give them a history lesson. Yes sir narrator they would have e ramshackled homes as everything was drained out of Jamaica by then. England was built with the sweat blood tears of our forefathers. Jamaica was the highest producing colony of sugar. When they abolished slavery they turned them out without a cent to their names. Even the farm tools they.could not touch. They worked them for close to 300 years then colonized them fully after slavery. They could barely feed themselves with the starvation wages being paid and long hours in the fields. They now had to clothe themselves feed themselves pay lease/rent with next to nothing. The saying as rich as a West Indian planter was no joke. These planters and other occupations that benefited from slavery paid for libraries theatres universities museums etc. They bought large estates and homes and accumulated generational wealth for hundreds of years to come for their children grandchildren great grand. Reparation for all the poor and needy in the Caribbean. Britain used taxpayers dollars 300,000 million pounds to pay off planters of their property snd not a cent given to those who were in bondage.
@LadyDamnedFaith long term policy which has to be adopted, in fact, the development of West Indies themselves is the only answer to this particular problem.
All that money that the UK stole from the West Indies tell them to send it back
whole heap a rasta tun rascal. dress like european, hair like european, soul like european.
Why do you nasty people come with your nasty comments about peoples skin colour we all are human the only difference is our skin has a different colour we are not here to judge who are we to judge think where white black whatever colour u are every body comes from africa every body xtk
Your delusional radical left wing extremist ideology is a joke.
Race is far more than just a paint job and you're an idiot for not recognizing that.
@@catphuckers You're an idiot for judging people by the color of their skin. I bet you won't be this stupid in public
@@catphuckers do tell
@@catphuckers I would like to believe you but the plentiful chavs I see does not support the idea
@Kuneko1106 enregistrement 1955 merci la qualité sonore monsieur le C2
Now we are having a Nurserush generation...
Davis, notice the Surnames!!!
quelqu'un peut il nous traduire la video ? please help!!!!!!
zafira ruby le homme parle sur le voyage des personnes de Jamaica pendant les 1950s.
This has an element of Western Propaganda to it , many people in the Caribbean lived very well and still do I am from the UK bred not born and we lived very well in the UK I was two months old when I came to the UK April twenty fourth 1976 and we lived very well in the Caribbean also in Jamaica where I was delivered . SO this video gives the impression that we are very primitive people who learned to wear clothes , live in houses , drive cars , eat with utensils , used bathrooms and indoor plumbing and wear shoes only when we came to the UK , Canada , US and other developed nations which is not only discriminatory but also stereotype and as said purely propaganda
17/01/1955. My father arrived in the UK one week after this from Jamaica.
How to spot a modern day Jamaican in any country....they always say uumm in their sentence.
My thing is why we black people's have it so hard it doze not matters where we go others race don't like us can someone say why hi need to know
Well, I'm British. My two beautiful granddaughters have Asian and Portuguese blood and skin tone. Hate is a very strong emotion that is born of fear and misunderstanding. You also probably hate yourself.
oldproji Then your granddaughters are not British like you. There's nothing hateful about wanting your children and grandchildren to be the same race as you and wanting your people, your culture, your indigenous homeland etc to survive and thrive. It is an act of love not hate. If you desire to mix out and genocide the indigenous people of any land *that* is hatred! If you are glad to have your unique traits wiped out then you probably *hate* yourself. It's really a ridiculous thing to say. Would you argue that the native Americans were hateful and full of fear and misunderstanding for not wanting to be genocided by Europeans and for not wanting their children and grandchildren to be mixed with Europeans? Should the various African people happily be wiped out by Europeans because to not be would mean they are scared racist bigots that just don't understand and secretly hate themselves? Complete nonsense.
Your historical reference is not quite coherent with your argument. Native Americans were significantly violently imposed upon, and in some instances, appropriated interbreeding. This is not the case with caucasian Brits who are deciding to appropriate a multi-ethnic identity. It's really a seeming inevitability at this point but for those who espouse your purist views, respect should be shown, especially where the totality of this situation is merely impending.
Asian and Portuguese?
bro we're talkin about black West Indian people
We're talking about oranges and you're talking about apples
Colored & white. White is not a color?
171TITO neither is black
Pity the ignorance of RACISM...
Now we got a Polish problem and BREXIT. Same story different times.
i've never had any Poles give me a problem
No problem with the Polish, a lot of them are top lads and lass`s, and many work hard, although a lot of other east Europeans can be a bloody nuisance .
indy 56
*_"No problem with the Polish"_*
The only problem I have with the Polish is that too many off them have been allowed to come and live in Britain. They are the biggest immigrant population in Britain.
@Kuneko1106 Oh vraiment ? c'est étrange alors, j'ai demander à une correspondante anglaise, born and raised in UK, ravie de m'aider, les 3/4 des passages que j'lui ai demander de transcrire, j'ai eu le droit à je cite "haha i can't understand either" ou "let me double check ... ew cannot divide ____ ...i couldn't get that word! >
I'm currently working on this video and i can"t understand what it said at 2:03....
A .... of controlled immigration ??
Could you please help me ?
A plea for controlled immigration
Too many blacks are arriving lock up your wives and daughters
Michael Jackson at 0.30?
des gens du mirail par ici non ?
Nah they just came back home
8-How could many West Indians afford to leave?
10-What could be the aims of such a video?
A problem in 1955 an even bigger problem in 2015.
What? The black "problem" or racism?
A problem for you ?
Peter whitehall< UK raped and pillaged Jamaica, left it destitute and rail when the people are invited here to fill jobs that UK natives didnt even want to do as they saw them as menial and beneath them to do even though most of the UK working population was low. smh
@sapikoote31 lol^^
No-one's doubting the immigrant population hadn't, even then, made a contribution to Britain and her economy - however, who said they should have been allowed citizenship? The order of you can work here, but when the work dries up, you have to go home, should have been done. We have too much trouble now from too many different ethnic groups having too many rights over own people and, especially the contribution they mad was good, but now, with uncontrolled mass immigration and EU immigration, this country is finished.
''...uncontrolled mass immigration...''?What are you talking about?Do you know how many requirements a immigrant has to fulfill in order to be allowed to live and work in the UK?Of course you dont.
There are as many UK immigrants living in the EU as there are EU ones living in the UK (about 2.5 million on each side) so this old arguments against immigration are based in populism not facts.Your media and politicians are the ones to blame for your lack of information.
No mate, our workers have to work, they don't get the benefits, OTHERS get when they come to the UK. Why do you think we in the UK have ordered a clampdown? We get mostly unskilled workers or scroungers coming here. Does YOUR country take immigrants who sponge off your state? No. You wouldn't tolerate it but you expect the UK to!
True, but it was as much their war as ours. It was in all our interests to fight it. I have sympathy for the blacks in the USA more than the ones that emigrated here, as they were brought to the USA as slaves which of course is wrong. Equally, when these countries got their independence, from the UK which was RIGHT, why do they then come over to the UK?
No-one's doubting the 'contribution' of any immigrant group, but now immigration in the UK is over the top. My original point stands that yes, indulge in immigrant labour but that does not mean, at the end of work, they should have a 'right' to citizenship (it is only the UK government that allowed this to happen). Furthermore, I would say, that plenty of countries don't, have hardly any migrants themselves and do well or, maybe with their own problems, the ones who don't do well (poor) will not take any immigrants in. Also, would the countries of the immigrants take anyone in THEMSELVES into THEIR countries? No, more often and not, the answer would be not - but they expect the UK to take people in???????????
marcjboy1 Can you actually show with numbers and facts the real percentage of " unskilled workers or scroungers".?
These kind populist arguments are the same ones people used against the first afro Caribbeans and Asians some 60 years ago.
I can give the example of how false perceptions and preconceptions are not considered facts:
If you ask to a certain number of people of the general population what would be (based on their information), the percentage of benefits fraud in the system probably you would get a number like 40,50 or 60% when in reality the number is 0.7%.(and with in those, errors of information are included)
That means 99.3% are legit benefit recipients.
So i ask you this:
Based on your information what is the REAL percentage of "unskilled workers or scroungers"?...
Laboral work
pls study your history..there was black people in England before the jamaicans came over...study and you will find the truth.
not on any significant scale! The few were servants for very wealthy people!
2.01A plea for controlled Immigration.....