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Exclusive: Majority of British people found to have ‘shockingly little’ knowledge about Black British history

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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

99% of American can't either.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They probably can, given there are more famous black Americans to choose from. Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, etc.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Read the title of the thread. While half of Britons can't name a black historical figure, I bet 99% of Americans can name a Black British historical figure either. I sure can't.

[–] neoman4426@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Huh, didn't know they were British figures. Learn something new every day I suppose

[–] Gladaed@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, bur that's not newsworthy.

[–] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

re-reading that, its not as much of a roast as I first thought

[–] Heratiki@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh George Washington Carver is known by a LOT OF people. Not to mention we have days dedicated to some of the greatest historical black Americans, Martin Luther King Jr for instance. But outside of that nearly every American knows a decent amount.

Even the hateful useless Americans know President Barack Obama.

Others of note when I asked several friends at work (blue collar average Joes and Jills, hotel maintenance):

Booker T Washington Rosa Parks Harriet Tubman Jackie Robinson Malcolm X Hattie McDaniel Fredrick Douglass Oprah Winfrey (yeah I don’t know if this counts but I included it)

Out of the 15 or so people I asked all of them said Obama and MLK Jr.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Heratiki@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was assuming that the commenter was claiming 99% of Americans couldn’t name a black American historical figure.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, we're pretty uneducated, but there's an MLK day at least.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

why would we :(

[–] KRAW@linux.community 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, I would be willing to believe most people can come up with MLK. Not to mention that Obama technically is a correct answer.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

British, not American

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lots of Americans know Crispis Attucks, he's covered in history class. They may not associate him with britian but he was shot years before the revolution so he was a British subject.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Never heard of him, but now I know, and knowing is half the battle. Thanks!