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Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)

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

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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

It's not whitewashing if your entire country was white for almost all its history.

Most non whites came over after ww2. It's not racist to say their just really wasn't that many historical black people. Forcing a narrative is stupid. This is why so many people have issues with wokeness.

Our kids don't know enough about history anyway. That could be solved. But it doesn't mean they should know about some random black guy that did almost nothing of note just because he is black. Plenty of people did almost nothing of note and we don't know about them.