AFRO UNITED KINGDOM: The African Diaspora In The UK

[@tracydavis3634]

Thank you ! This is enlightening and appreciated. Blessings to you!

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

Thank you so much for your lovely message!

[@thepropertyhustle38]

I genuinely couldn't count the amount of information I learnt from watching this video, it was honestly mind opening! Thank you again and I look forward to future videos!

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

Thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and for your kind words, hopefully more people will see this and learn something of our hidden histories!

[@michaelashburne1829]

A wealth of our hidden history in Great Brittan is curated and revealed. Good job!

[@TheRealJapaExperience.]

Thank you.... I'm here to get more information and context on a school project... This is so helpful.

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

I'm so glad it was helpful, thanks for watching!

[@TheRealJapaExperience.]

@@FreedomIsMineOfficial Thank you for replying. Do mind answering a question?

[@TheRealJapaExperience.]

How would you compare racism in those day like you have discussed in the video to racism now?

[@reneedennis2011]

Thank you for this video 🙂!

[@thepropertyhustle38]

Absolutely amazing, thank you for championing the African disapora around the world!!

[@johnprice9998]

Fr tho man I've learned so much off watching these videos 💯

[@truecolours3797]

Love these vids and good to see you mentioned my cousin chewitel Ejiofor on there. Very proud of his achievements

[@weredevil616]

Amazing videos. It’s good to see black achievements and history and not just the slave trade.

[@jrusafvet5908]

Thank you for the history lesson as it should be taught, sticking to the facts and not conjecture. Love it, well done!

[@ilahildasissac1943]

Pablo was mentioned in a Beatles song.

[@MiguelDLewis]

12:05 Dawn Butler's locs are so perfect.❤

[@nitawest3337]

Awesome video

[@omartistry]

I was wondering when you were gonna do your part of the diaspora, great video✊🏿

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

Thank you so much! Yes, this video is particularly close to my heart!

[@lloydwillacy6024]

Thanks 🙏🏾 beautiful stranger for your factual information about us the melanin race

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

Thank you so much! 🥰

[@ssjr3604]

Grerat work sister this chanel needs to be much larger if u dont mind I would like to use your videos for educational purposes.

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

Hi there, thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoy the content, I will keep making more! Of course it's ok to use for educational purposes! As long as it's non-profit of course. I would be delighted and honoured if you could share my videos with others! 🙌🏽

[@ssjr3604]

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[@godwindei1471]

Ghana to the world forever and ever

[@stinette1748]

good work sis!❤️

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

Thank you sis! ❤🥰

[@DderwenWyllt]

Black people in Britain didn't start in Roman Britain it actually started much earlier, ignoring the fact the first Homo sapiens to arrive in Britain were black, the Silures tribe which existed in what we now call Wales were descended from people who had travelled from Iberia and what is now Morocco and Western Sahara, they either migrated to Wales or it was due to trade connection which existed between these areas to export copper from Wales across the world. While the Silures were considered part of the "Combrogi" or modern "Cymry" (compatriots/kin) to the other Brythonic peoples, by the time of the Roman invasion they were still quite distinct with dark skin and some sources describe "Wearing hair like snakes" that could mean evidence of Brythonic Silurian peoples with braided hair or dreadlocks, or it could just be a Roman story to scare children into thinking all Britons were an army of Medusa's. Most of British history has been solely focused on the Germanic Anglo-Saxons, but before that Britain was pretty diverse for the time period, how else did the ginger gene jump from Asia to the Scottish highlands. But yeh, the pre-Roman Brittonic tribe of Silures were the first documented black people in Britain, and they were the fiercest of foes for the Romans and were the last Brittonic tribe to surrender and inspired many Welsh legends about the Silurian leaders and are my number one favourite Brythonic tribe. My ancestry DNA shows the path my ancestors took, and it shows they were from North-Western Africa and Iberia, which I jokingly use as proof I am a decedent of Caradog which also makes my ancestors were the least adventurous people since I still live in the area the Silures once called home meaning they never moved for 2,000+ years. I think certain biases have caused an unconscious whitewashing of history, in other cases it is blatant whitewashing, another hero of mine is Paul Robeson he was an African-American who visited Wales a few times and was allowed to perform at the National Eisteddfod in English (Which is rare since it was taboo to not speak Welsh during the Eisteddfod genedlaethol) he was a hero of many Welsh miners at the time including my great-grandfather who had his picture on the wall. But this history has almost become lost as schools focus solely on the Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings and queens and the rest being London during WW2, I'd honestly have preferred lessons on the rich and tragic life of Paul Robeson than lessons glorifying Winston Churchill. Fun fact for those that read my ramblings (or skipped to the end) Paul Robeson was friends with the great Welshman himself Aneurin Bevan the founder of the NHS who had grown up with free healthcare in Wales and thought it would be a good idea to share the concept of free healthcare to the rest of the UK. Keep up the good work, history should not be forgotten, it is the interwoven story that made us who we are, we are here because of every person that came before us, and not a single one of them deserves to be forgotten (Except for Edward Longshanks, he's the first on my hit list when I get my hands on a time machine, but that's a story for another comment section)

[@rodb66]

Thanks for your own history lesson.

[@XVII-FEAR-GOD-XVII]

Thank you for this information about black history. This is the history they didn't teach us in school, l wonder why?🤔 I've been having these strange visions lately where the African Diaspora all over the world exodus from foreign lands back to our spiritual home.... I feel something is happening in the spiritual realm.....

[@josephstapleton5241]

Because it is not real... That is why it was never taught 😂

[@ianblake815]

Shoutout to Lennox Lewis, Frank Bruno, and Danny Williams as well!

[@NativeNomad10]

The first windrush people were from the Caribbean. It was also these Caribbean descendants who advocated from other black groups to enter the UK

[@rodb66]

Please tell me you didn't forget Slick Rick and Monie Love.

[@pamrowe3935]

Thank you. Your videos are helpful and provide basic information. More critical analysis about the experience of current racism would enhance these videos. In other words what black people in the countries you select are experiencing and still working to combat, information that is usually available in newspapers or by communicatingwith black groups.

[@jassip18]

love this!

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

Thank you for watching! ✊🏽🥰

[@abrahamisaacmuciusiii691]

Do you have a video on Afro Italians?

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

Coming this month 👍🏽

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

If you go to the playlist 'African Diaspora Worldwide' on my channel, you will see in the playlist all the countries I have ever made a video on. That's probably the fastest and easiest way to see which countries are available and which are still to come 😊 There is a further breakdown of playlists by continent/region, if you are interested in a particular area, such as the Americas, which you were asking about recently. I hope that helps! Thank you so much for watching as always!

[@khalidbinwaleed5072]

Never knew as far as the tudors respect

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

Yes, indeed!

[@Lando-kx6so]

I don't agree with that 2011 census at all I know damn well there's more than 2 million black people in the UK

[@Adam_K14]

how was life for the free people in the 18 centuries the middle class black people and are there descendent still living in the uk

[@johnsonchikachika2318]

Thanks,you look like red Igbo

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[@ughwhatever6380]

Wait why didn’t you add the uk cultural clothing in the clickbait-

[@flomccool20]

We are all one as black people all our ancestors stories are the same world literally 💁🏾‍♀️💁🏽‍♀️💁🏿‍♀️💁🏽‍♂️💁🏾‍♂️💁🏿‍♂️

[@MatildaNzisagysin]

There we Africans there before any one else go do your research again

[@ivankrasimirov6476]

Quit experimenting with cheap narcotics 😅😅😅

[@eastbayant7606]

This one was 11 minutes she had a lot to say

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

And could have gone on for much longer! But I had to cut it down.

[@eastbayant7606]

Thank you for your time and love for us around the world peace ✌ in love

[@abrahamisaacmuciusiii691]

Ira Aldridge was Afro American not English.

[@FreedomIsMineOfficial]

Yes, American-born and spent most of his career in the UK/Europe as a Shakespearean actor.

[@devogrant2817]

True talk .......

[@northfolk6991]

IQ???

[@africantheoriginalpeople5178]

We are the original people of England not those albinos

[@emilyb5278]

No your not. I'm happy about black history but it's attitudes like you're that make people think you want to dominate us. And that's what causes problems, you can't just be happy with this you have to dominate.

[@emilyb5278]

The first people were European not African the Beakers were from Europe and are the native British and European ancestors not yours.

[@NativeNomad10]

Meanwhile Europeans aka whites only came into existence about 60,000 years ago.

[@devogrant2817]

@@emilyb5278 Maybe what the person was trying to say is ......the out-of-Africa story where there was one land mass called Pangea .......and what about cheddar man......?

[@BronzeSista]

3 million Black people is quite low for the entire United Kingdom.

[@jabaltariq4606]

What she did not mention is that most Black English people do not want to procreate with other Blacks if they could help it. For example, almost 70% of Black Caribbean males and over half of Black Caribbean females engage in inter-racial relationships. And 90% of their off spring marry White!! That's what the demographers report. Compare that to the Asian population where in the percent of interracial marriage is comparatively low.

[@BronzeSista]

@@jabaltariq4606 which Black British people marry whites at a high rate? Africans or Jamaicans?

[@BronzeSista]

@don't care very true

[@NativeNomad10]

So they breed out their race, the jokes on them. It’s not just Caribbean, it’s black British on a whole, including Africans.