Did White People Invent Racism? Of Course Not. Rafe Heydel-Mankoo

[@lumenesque1]

What a rest to the soul it is to hear someone speaking truth with confidence. Always a pleasure, Rafe. Thank you.

[@Cedawood]

@@lumenesque1 Hear! Hear!

[@Cedawood]

I'm glad we ALL have smart & well read people like this gentleman to explain what's what! Thanks

[@84com83]

Have "we" always seen us as "us", not like the "other ones"? Political differences create "borders"

[@Cedawood]

@84com83 This is basic stuff. Things that used to go without saying, but now a dysfunctional, creeping ideology is given a voice by absurd voices

[@rn1005018]

Thank God for Rafe. The voice of reason and intelligence.

[@Shin.Sawada]

Rafe thank you. As an Asian myself living in the UK I never encountered racism here nor had difficulty finding jobs.. In fact I can attest to the racism that I experienced while living in other Asian countries because my nationality is seen as beneath them.

[@sonnykeith8338]

Respect you so much, Rafe. Many thanks and very best wishes.

[@valkyriesaxon]

Thank you Rafe for your steadfast fight for Britain. We need your voice of calm, reason and sound knowledge.

[@beryleades327]

Beautifully said.

[@utv5490]

Two racist women. Hope you don't have kids. 🤮🤮

[@MrLifestream1]

My fear, Rafe, is that your historical knowledge would blow their tiny minds . This lesson should reach a far wider audience and that the home office indoctrination needs to be outed. Thank you

[@brocktoon8]

Wish you were PM!

[@markhutton6055]

The reason that white officers are required during Ghurka selection is because it reduces or eliminates ethnic bias. Within Nepal there are around 50 ethnic groups, all of which vie for primacy, all on an ethnic basis.

[@JCNL871]

racism was invented when the second human was born

[@utv5490]

When was thick, coked up, cowardly racism born?

[@alanbrookes275]

There were immigrants in SE Britain before the Roman conquest, but they were from Gaul (the Belgae) and also Celtic like the Britons, but that is not mentioned on the DEI courses.

[@markhenry192]

You can find racism on our streets quite easily, particularly so in London and other major cities every Saturday and that racism isn't coming from the vast majority of white indigenous people.

[@bmyhrr]

How can the misinformation be addressed and corrected within the British civil service?

[@odysseussiren4274]

David Lammy, on 13 Mar 2021, on LBC, spent the whole program insisting that 'white people invented racism' and 'white people invented colonialism".

[@internetfairy1]

But surely no-one takes Lammy seriously? The man is a proven and complete numptie!

[@fionagregory9147]

White people gave him a job in parliament.

[@KaytalHEL]

A whole program wasted on this minset of fake news and illusions? O tempora, O mores

[@caravanlifenz]

He does it for financial gain.

[@internetfairy1]

@odysseussiren4274 oh, David Lammy really is unbelievably stupid. Labour do love these sort of creatures though. I cannot think why. It does say something about the sort of people who for them sadly.

[@ktay7382]

Well said, Rafe 👏

[@andersschmich8600]

One thing that shocked me was just how racist Medieval Arabs were, saying Black Africans had the souls of beasts and weren't really human.

[@KaytalHEL]

Souls of beasts, being not human, their lives didn't matter... this ideology had to be believed also to get away more easily with slave trade. They are not humans, you can trade/treat them as animals... Was also maybe a way to push people into conversion. Because as soon as "the beast" became moslim, it became a human being, dignified by the peaceful religion and the prayers, respecting the laws written by God... I'm not sure but I presume this mindset was also spread by christians in Africa (and other places in the world) Your soul is dark if you are not baptised, etc etc.

[@DavidAlm-y3y]

so well said Rafe!

[@helenworrall8273]

Flipping heck utube am I such a threat, I only said the racists are here and it isn't us. 😮

[@scorpiorob7986]

Thanks very much for setting the record straight Rafe. Unfortunately, the people from the "Frankfurt school" (and their relatives), had (and those alive today, still have), a very "anti native and indigenous white European" agenda.

[@robertjones8856]

Such a great channel, I'd love to see Rafe speaking somewhere. Huge amount of knowledge, with excellent judgement around the rights and wrongs of past and present. Best wishes all.

[@JC-ee6pc]

The Channel Richard the Fourth showed a picture of the Home Office; ALL the staff were Black or Asian.

[@stevenbratz7333]

Your responses to the rhetoric of our bizarre society is much appreciated, even in America.

[@WhiteRacismSurvivor]

I would like to hear you do a series debunking anti-White racist myths. There are so many of them.

[@therealgrimreaper68]

Racism evolved independently across many cultures

[@millerbiz]

Let’s us not forget that the spaces subject to the Arab slave trade were castrated which is why you don’t see many descendants of slaves in Arab countries

[@roberthancox]

TRUE, AND IF ANY AVOIDED CASTRATION AND THEY HAD CHILDREN , THEN THE CHILDREN WERE KILLED

[@barle5566]

They only lasted three months at best if not days

[@davidwilson4846]

Note also the caste system in India, dating back some 3500 years ago. The lighter skinned peoples arriving from the North West had a brief period of intermingling with the then indigenous population, before such mixing ceased and the 'races' were separated by rigid caste distinctions.

[@frankiestein8482]

caste is not race based so lets not confuse 18th century european race theories of some made up aryan race theory when in india many ;high' castes are also very dark skinned as like most indians who are all skin tones across all castes .

[@davidwilson4846]

@frankiestein8482 The only reliable evidence we have is from DNA studies, albeit still from a small (but growing) database in places like India. Most people would regard that as a bit more reliable than the other sources about the origins of the caste system, but if you have a better explanation then let's hear it here. As for skin tones (note my use of 'races' in inverted commas), obviously there will be exceptions. But as a general rule, Brahmins tend to be lighter skinned than the other castes. Or do you disagree? Finally, we only have moderately reliable census information from the late 19th Century. It proved impossible to reflect the sheer complexity of the caste system (30k + categories) as well as accommodate the inevitable variations between different regions. The simplified categories that were eventually adopted (and remain in use today, more or less) were deeply controversial and remain so. It is not a subject that tolerates definitive statements, generalisations are often the best we can do - whilst acknowledging the limitations. So feel free to challenge, but perhaps help readers by also proposing something better?

[@KaytalHEL]

@@frankiestein8482 exactly, I did read somewhere that caste system was originally introduced to make life easier around food consumption for people in society. Vegetarians were separated from meat eaters, making it easier for preparing/serving/cleaning the food, birds of a feather flock together kind of thing. Later with time passing by, caste systems got introduced within more aspects of life etc.

[@starrynight1329]

Cuckoo's in the nest describes it perfectly.

[@RileEren]

You are one.

[@Isa712x]

Your'e a superstar Rafe. Thanks so much. ❤

[@silverstone0907]

Mr Heydel-Mankoo, I wish you could teach and reach more minds of our unfortunate, social media educated society that values emotions over facts.

[@lope542]

Love your content, thanks🙏

[@Seekthetruth.Dontfollowblindly]

I agree I'm tired of this race crap I'm irish Canadian and metis I'm tired of it the irish were treated bad too they got it from all ends in the usa they were attacked and over 100 killed because some black Americans didn't like them thinking they were taking what they felt should be theirs. My family didn't have slaves and my great great grandfather died he was the fire chief in the halifax explosion where 2 ships collided one was carrying explosives for the war. Many died many lost limbs eyes etc many children suffered in that as well. Not all whites come from slave owners and even the ones that do why should they be punished for what some of their people did in times past but the democrats and liberals who are white and black want to punish us all they cause division they always call the other side racist but it was the right who faught and died trying to save them even on the high seas it's funny how these white democrats and liberals don't include themselves in this and rich left leaning celebrities either it was the liberals and democrats who treated people of color horrible they enslaved them they faught to keep slavery and when they lost they started up the kkk and jim crow laws yet some people of color don't even mention it because they are putting people of color in high postions even as president but what they don't get is the people they put in these positions are out for themselves they don't care about their own people is why when they are in power nothing changes their way of helping is releasing violent black criminals back into their communities and now all these illegals they promise reparations for decades they will never get it from them they use it to trick them to vote yet they throw the rest of white people under the bus for their parties crimes against people of color in the past to me that's twisted evil and then cause division and lies about the right yet when the right is in power thats the only time they see improvements in their communities all the democrats do is let them attack whites on every platforms even physically they let them loot burn down cities and mass steal from stores and people that doesn't help no one and nobody can fight back if they are shooting at you or attacking you or breaking into your house or car if we fight back and they get hurt or die we will end up in jail same with white cops. I can't stand the brainwashing they have done they accuse the right of taking womens rights away yet they can't define what a women is and they took most of all womens rights for these trans women even the language around how we see and call our own bodies even mothers bothers trans women they win everything to do with women sports safe spaces but they wont even listen to the facts about some men use this to gain access to women and children all they have to say is their a women even if they do nothing to even look like a women even putting violent rapers in jail with women. They call the right misogynistic yet sone trans women and their supporters are more misogynistic then what they call the right. They brainwashing kids to go along with their extreme ideologies is why their obsessed with kids even teaching crt and dei to children and inappropriate lgbtq stuff yet in meeting with the town and school board they freak out when parents read some of the books they have in the schools and arrest parents saying the books their reading out is very inappropriate and the parents say if it's inappropriate then why do you have it in schools libraries then and they never answer why because they can't they are hypocrites even the medical boards changing the language around females and children never men tho changing facts and science for feelings for one small group but taking away everything mostly from females that's a huge group just because some females go along with it especially around sports but you never hear of trans men who are biological female fighting to get into men's sports they don't because they know they will lose 100% to men who compete in these se sports is why it's unfair for biological men to be in womens sports and even science they twist for their narratives plus they never help all people only certain groups that they support and even when people lost their homes amd families in those storms it's already been proven and people fired for not helping people who had trump sighs and the 750 the government offered most couldn't even access getting that money when they spent billions on illegals I think like 30 something billions on them and only spent 3 billion on homeless vets even when Hawaii had that huge fire they offered 750 dollars for cloths and food most couldn't even access it. 80 million that was ment for the black communities with blm they spent millions on themselves their friends and family 1 head leader bought 3 homes and the rest went to the lgbtq nothing went to people of color look up their tax forms and money they could of helped the black communities went to illegals they lie manipulate and blame everyone else on the right for all their crap they do. You cant fix stupid either people will keep voting for them kamala paid over a billion dollars to all these celebrities wow. But back to the racism even youtube tictoc will allow anyone to be racist towards whites but if a white person even says anything they are kicked off the site. No race on earth is guilt free of crimes against humanity and slavery there are slaves today in Africa mostly children and they are enslaved by their own people and also child soldiers forsed labor forsed into sex trafficking mutilations on young girls even genocide like in rawanda all black on black even the congo even haiti and other places even the usa most black killings are done by their own people yet if you talk about it youtue bans you for 24 hours from texting on their site. Even facts gets you baned I'm tired of it all. Even the news when crimes and killing happens they only say it's a white person when it is a white person but won't say anything if it's an illegal or a person of color that's when we know it's a person of color they say it discourages the black communities it makes them look bad well it already does stereotypes are for reasons not for nothing and hiding it and not talking about the problems they have doesnt help anyone it only makes if worse for them all because that's why change for the better never happens. Some are perfectly ok to punish inosent people for the crimes of the past but it never includes the 2 parties who did the worst to people of color and still does and that's democrats and liberals

[@Seekthetruth.Dontfollowblindly]

Sorry for my novella I wrote which is a small novel. These things had to be said

[@HuwPrice-d4n]

Listening to the eminent scholar is refreshing and shows up the word salads spouted by various politicians for what are Words to fill airtime!!!!

[@samanthaclugston6685]

SPEAK UP SPEAK OUT SPEAK TRUTH AND OWN IT PEOPLE 👍🇬🇧👌!!!

[@StudentDad-mc3pu]

Rafe deals brilliantly with this straw man argument - the only kind of opponent that does not unhorse him.

[@rdgrow]

Fairer skin is preferred everywhere, among and within ethnic groups. Nobody knows why.

[@alp8409]

A paler skin tone has historically across the globe been seen as being a sign of wealth and privilege which set them apart from poorer people who had to work outdoors. In the UK white pale skin had this status until the elites returned from the Rivera with sun tans.

[@KaytalHEL]

@@alp8409 yes, you are right. and the white powder for making the skin more pale, that contained often deadly chemicals. I would not be surprised that pale skin is still envied nowadays in Asia and Africa. Cosmetic industry making fortunes out of it. Sun tans are highly fashionable nowadays too, and could tatoos be considered in the same mindset of apartenance to a distinctive group? Very interesting.

[@KaytalHEL]

Skin tone fashion/discrimination reminds me of slavery and serfdom too. "Timeline and abolition of slavery" is an interesting wikipedia page. and guess what is the last sentenced mentioned?"Although slavery is now abolished de jure in all countries, de facto practices akin to it continue today in many places throughout the world, almost exclusively in Asia and Africa"... ... Both same continents where light skins are still in high regards?

[@mattanderson6672]

Rafe you are a total legend, I love you and I want you to marry my sister!! Brilliant discussion Excellent Analysis Thank you Sir I love your work, and I always love listening to you Thank you !!

[@simchalebovitch6944]

If you look into the Bible, in Genesis in regards to Josef, it says that the Egyptians wouldn't eat bread with non Egyptians. Those who weren't Egyptians were see as beneath them. This was the earliest instance of racism that I can think of off the cuff.

[@matthorrocks6517]

I could imagine my boss coming in and telling me I'm responsible for racism and I'm going to pay for it.

[@mdfrenchy]

"They are cuckoos in the nest". 😂😂😂😂. That was awesome!

[@danielleal1037]

Narrative-shredding solid facts. Thank you.

[@internetfairy1]

Maybe if people read more, they would be better informed. I remember reading Nigel Barley's books. He is an anthropologist, his book The Innocent Anthropologist and A Plaque of Caterpillars. An insight into African tribalism, their distrust of other tribes.

[@duncangrice1908]

It saddens me that people are so ignorant that Rafe has to make this sort of video. Having lived in China, South east Asia and the Middle East he is spot on with what he is saying. We helped an Indonesian maid flee from her Emirati owners ( i would say employers but they didn't pay her for six months, took her passport off her and beat her). Racism and slavery has always existed way prior to anything that happened in more recent times.

[@sigurdholbarki8268]

I nearly died when you said the Japanese drew the Portuguese as monkeys 😂 I wonder how they'd draw us Brits - if they'd think we all looked the same that would probably finish me off 😂

[@Mark_Dyer1]

Look who is Secretary of Stayte for 'Foreign' Affairs. He is likely a 'graduate' of this course in critical thinking!

[@nicksmith3315]

Wish Rafe would have been my history teacher.

[@daveduvergier3412]

At what point does "just wanting to be kind and inclusive" morph into something dangerous and sinister? I feel we are now well past that point

[@lesleycronin832]

Rafe is the best!

[@NorthernAtlantic1980s]

Rafe is the best 🇬🇧

[@jenniferbate9682]

Love Rafe. Thanks for your channel, please keep digging away at the hidden agendas x

[@fabulousfurryfreakbro6991]

Well said Rafe!

[@wernerblaser5565]

Very interesting. Maybe it would be a good idea to add a few reading suggestions to the video.

[@guardinner]

I'm a Civil Servant and I haven't been indoctrinated (yet) by any of this and I would actively push back if anyone tried. I am at an age where I remember my history lessons from school and have lived and worked all over the world both as a serviceman and a civilian (private security) and know only too well who the best racists are and those who still actively pursue slavery to this day (hint, neither ethnic group is white or European...)

[@carolynb.7455]

Thank you for highlighting this, Rafe. Well said as always.

[@kenwright5144]

I imagine that the home office staff is quite diverse these days. Perhaps those who composed this egregious document, have skin in the game, you might say.

[@alextitei9748]

In Nigeria the Yoruba also think themselves as a distinct superior race and the Hausa probably do as well.

[@MrCollins-z6c]

Racism is rather 'normal'. There's nothing inherently wrong with being about your own people first. Bigotry on the other hand, is cruel because of going out of your way to prevent others from getting what they want for themselves and their families.

[@mohamedgoldstein5565]

Nah. Ask indians what they did to the local Negrito population.

[@kevonkenna989]

We invented the idea that racism is wrong and needs a label. We invented the concept.

[@robertmalyn6493]

Slavery in Europe had been replaced by serfdom after the fall of the Roman Empire. Around 1500 AD the discovery of the Americas and its exotic crops like tobacco, cotton and sugar etc meant that Europeans after the black death went to the slave markets of Africa - that had happily continued in trading slaves to the Arabs for a millennia - to recruit its labor for the plantations in the americas. The advantage of black slaves from africa over european white slaves was that the black slaves were identifiable and had less chance of escape.

[@yt.damian]

Humans have for all time seen others as something less than, something foreign. Initially humans lived in family groups and then villages and eventually city states. At all times along this journey they viewed everyone else as something less. From there we developed nations and wide spread religions. As our reach increased our definitions of others has morphed but it has always been there and always will. Even the most tolerant people still prefer their own people (whoever they might be).

[@JeanWebb-k3y]

Thanks Rafe will share.

[@franciscovideira5974]

The Portuguese!? We invented racism!? Ffs...

[@oldgitwinnie-jb3oc]

Hadiths (Sahih Bukhari) states that the profit Muhammad refered to an Ethiopian black slave as a 'raisin head' 7th century

[@Jezzybel-fn]

The fact that he had slaves and concubines says a lot for that religion

[@dannywlm63]

You can still fight this crap but honestly give up I'm sick of fighting back and being drowned out and in modern times arrested for typing the truth or at the very least blocked by fakebook, youtube and the rest

[@BishopofBayeux]

People who claim the west is a racist place have never traveled or are liars. Go to Dubai and ask a Philippino nanny about an Indian car driver haha your mind will be blown.

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

For someone to make that question, things are extremely bad

[@Englishsea24]

White people don't go on about it anywhere near as much 🙄

[@annmorgan5130]

Good man, thank you

[@caravanlifenz]

Tribes have always feared other tribes. The innate fear and distrust we have of strangers shows that humans have always been suspicious of others.

[@LouiseIngram-hd5yc]

Definitely not , my Indian born and raised ex lover from Delhi often said “ Indians are racist” whenever my borderline frenemy Patel called screaming at me.

[@MrReubenTishkoff]

In my personal experience, they tend to be the worst offenders in the big R.

[@conradswadling8495]

so refreshing to hear the truth spoken out loud, thank you.

[@dawnemile7499]

That liquor table behind Rafe looks like my father's at Christmas time.

[@citizencaitlin7240]

Useful. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@ko0974]

Caste system existed in India from way before and Europeans and Adruca with its Colourist too

[@marksheehan8026]

Well explained ...

[@yvonnerichardson258]

just Thank You

[@christophersams3125]

Yes would be refreshing to actually have someone speaking the truth

[@drijam2106]

As a historian, common knowledge to me is that every region in the world has endured being raped, enslaved, invaded peoples w/o provocation, since the beginning of time, regardless of skin color, typically for glory, natural resources, etc. And disliked people more for being a diff, culture than there's. For example, Muslim armies spread Islam; if a great city converted to Islam, it was integrated, if they said no, they were slaughtered & enslaved. Sub-Saharan African empires, raided tribes for slaves way before 1492, and when slaves were suggested for the America's, someone said hey, places we trade with along the African coast have slaves, let's get them there. Everyone that calls themselves a historian or loves History would know these things, smh. 🧐

[@KaytalHEL]

Thank you for these interesting infos.

[@ronniefoxxx]

The Home Office needs investigating, if this is true

[@JonahBread]

(AND THE "TRUTH" SHALL SET YOU "FREE")

[@17_73]

The short answer is no but Europeans built their own specific model of racism built around class structures.

[@bear-tv]

My man.

[@matthewlynch903]

And even if it did, now what ?. We're is this conversation going ?. What's the expected outcome ?.

[@brycecombs2868]

So true. If someone wants to see ethnocentrism, literally go anywhere but Europe or the US.🤦

[@lesleycronin832]

Yes and not a word said about it.

[@ALK730]

By that logic we are all immigrants and native to Africa.

[@MAX-tw3qz]

Racism began when there was more than one race. Before that Adam blamed Eve.

[@lesleycronin832]

So sexism came first?

[@RosalinaCastro-o8b]

Sou Portuguesa ec,sinceramente nunca tinha ouvido semelhante disparate,em inglaterra não sevaprende história?

[@fredkeeler4620]

Thank you.

[@jozefserf2024]

Everyone knows the entire modern world is based on what began in ancient Greece and Rome and was developed in Europe. Colonialism tried to drag the rest into modernity.

[@hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894]

Hormonal levels are related to feelings Masculinity and femininity does not change biological reality ..

[@billcosbyjr9609]

It sounds like I'm looking at it thru rose tinted glasses cos I'm English. But I do believe we were one of if not the best empire to the point we made deals that would hinder our empire. In the Roman days, how many Celts and others they conquered, would volunteer to fight for them. No one. The Brits have had India, Canada and more. The Indians gave over 1 million men to fight for the British flag. Just in ww1. they weren't fighting for the English, they fought for the great British flag that represents pride, freedom and the pursuit of happiness.

[@PatrickLee-h1y]

Actually the Roman Empire had soldiers in their ranks from all of their colonies. But the British Empire is the only one to the best of my knowledge that has many of its ex colonised countries that are still keen to have an association with us by dint of the Commonwealth. Not only that but to have our Monarch as head of it.

[@careyfreeman5056]

It does feel like a defense mechanism, during slavery, for something they made a point to get rid of in Europe centuries before. Crazy profits have a way of doing that.

[@leebennett1821]

I have said it before and i will say it again in Britain we don't care about the colour of your skin we care about the content of your Character

[@lesleycronin832]

The problem with this is that their characters aren't too great.

[@JoseAngelFlores]

Racism is an issue that in North America and Western Europe has been addressed in many ways, through expansion of the civil rights and through education, laws and institutions. If you´d like to witness racism and discrimination in all its form, just take a trip to South America, where being black it´s a social disadvantage. In Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba and many other Latin American countries with tens of millions of African descendants racism is rampant. In Brazil, the beaty pageant was a clearly example for decades with only European descendants representing the country year after year. African descendants lack all kinds of representation in South America, politically, socially and economically.

[@svtinker]

The elites need to go!

[@starrynight1329]

Does Rafe write history books?

[@projectalice8119]

I’m not sure which is worse…those who are peddling this BS as the “truth” or those who choose to believe it without question. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@Rio-uv1gs]

Show me sysmatic racism before Europeans.. Before European colonialism, systemic racism as it is understood today-where institutional structures are built to maintain racial hierarchies-was not as explicitly documented. However, forms of discrimination and social stratification based on ethnicity, culture, or perceived differences existed in many societies. Examples of Pre-European Discrimination: Ancient Egypt (c. 1500 BCE): The ancient Egyptians often viewed Nubians (from modern-day Sudan) as "inferior" and depicted them in art with stereotypical physical features.While this wasn't strictly racism, it reflected ethnocentric attitudes tied to military conquest and cultural superiority. Caste System in Ancient India: The caste system in South Asia predates European colonialism by thousands of years and was based on strict hierarchies. While rooted in religion, it often created divisions that could align with ethnic or physical traits.Darker-skinned groups, particularly in southern India, were historically relegated to lower castes, though this is a complex cultural phenomenon rather than racial in the modern sense. Greco-Roman World: The Greeks and Romans exhibited ethnocentric attitudes, often labeling non-Greeks or non-Romans as "barbarians."They enslaved people from other ethnic groups but did not base this on a modern concept of race. Slavery was more tied to conquest, nationality, or religion. Islamic Caliphates and African Slavery: The trans-Saharan slave trade (beginning around the 7th century) involved Arab states enslaving African people. Though not based explicitly on race, it included stereotypes about Africans being "suited for servitude."These attitudes influenced later European racial ideologies.Key Distinction:These examples involve discrimination and hierarchy but lack the pseudoscientific racial theories and global systemic oppression that European colonial powers developed and exported during the modern era. While forms of systemic inequality existed, the racialized systems that dominate modern history were deeply shaped by European ideologies during colonial expansion.

[@wadesimpson2594]

I think racism occurred when modern humans met neanderthals. I believe it's in our DNA to be suspicious of a different culture. When we learn about them then common interests and cultural attitudes/norms lead to understanding..

[@DC3Refom]

no arabs started it thiusands of years ago