Our Jamaican Problem (1955)

[@CallmeMrStar]

I visit this video every so often to see my Grandfather and his brothers!

[@pallyali786]

It was so classy the way people used to dress back in them days.

[@marleyite]

pallyali786: I noticed that too. Well dressed and well groomed and not a scruffy jeans with cut away leg in sight 😊😊

[@jamworldmusic]

​@@marleyite yall are brainwashed in thinking what is good and what is bad dressing by this media bs fix up n use logics stop being brainwashed by colonizers

[@marleyite]

@@jamworldmusic I think you talking to the wrong person.

[@Darkness-ie2yl]

my people are super prideful. get dressed up to go to the supermarket when i was a kid 😂. this thing england did to us was uncool tho. i realize they did other places worse.

[@atilla4372]

That's the one thing I wish we could bring back in the 21st century.

[@preacaininternational5637]

Great homely people !As an Irish lad I emigrated in the eighties and had the joy of working with some of the old chippies and Thier sons in building sites as lo over London I can tell you to that I felt at home with them. I lived in Brixton and Clapham and we got along grand and even played hurling. On the green . no problems there just good memories of good work buddies family men with good grafters with humor and dedication big up Carribean cousins from your Irish buddy

[@Pat.Mustard.]

The windrush generation of immigrants from the Caribbean are wonderful people. Hard-working, gentle & friendly. lovely.

[@barb4645]

Our ancestors colonised their lands and used their resources e.g. to make us rich in trade. Men were chained as slaves in appalling conditions on long journeys as we farmed them out to do more work in other colonies Then we forced them to fight in our wars.. I think we owed them a life here!

[@joshgosh6067]

Who is 'We'? The posh end of town or the poor end of town?

[@Gabriel-kn7yn]

If it were the other way it would be the same, the human being is cruel so stop to problematizing.

[@joshgosh6067]

@@Gabriel-kn7yn All immigration - to ANY country is entirely based in immigrants beibg shoveled down to the poor side of town. Immigration would never happen anywhere, if the posh end if town takes all the burden. Hence, the middle-classes, who make these decisions to let them in, never suffer the consequences of their own decisions..

[@whynot6950]

We aquired Jamaica from the Spanish I think you need to do some research around how West Indians arrived in the Caribbean.

[@X.R.808]

@@whynot6950 Britain still _"acquired"_ Jamaica nonetheless. When it shouldn't have in the first place. Doesn't make it any better that Spain and other countries were involved.

[@lovefulfilsthelaw9013]

Trust in The Lord God for He is good and His mecry endoreth for all genarations be blessed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Amen.

[@christiangospels2682]

Amen

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Save Ukraine

[@KICKBOXER27]

AMEN!

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Save summon aliens heand

[@RoamingHeathen]

There is no god

[@lindabrown0]

Been reading the comments and having fun (lol). All these clever people giving their opinions. Very enlightening............

[@tinathomas8593]

🤡 much you are.

[@TruthSeeker30_]

Streets look clean

[@lorrainejohnson2425]

Thank God for my grandparents that sacrificed to leave their county the carribean to come to the uk for hope and a better life as they built up England to where it is today.They deserve the respect and honour.Thankyou Jesus 🙏🏻

[@tomderby7759]

Thank you for being respectful to my country ❤

[@Fidelisjoff]

The English built up England we never needed immigration. Immigrants invited themselves as the Labour Government permitted it in 1948. Today, the times shown here, are far removed from the dystopia immigration has created. Most blacks are now directly from Africa and are a huge cost to the tax payer with 48% alone taken up social housing at a time of a housing crisis. My country is unrecognisable and it's culture sidelined as every other culture is celebrated. A very unhappy situation. Immigration benefits the immigration and rarely the nation they enter. Today the problems from immigration are huge and growing.

[@trevormcdonald385]

@@Fidelisjoffthat’s a fair point but what you always forget is you immigrated to places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada at the same time. If it’s good enough for you why not for a country like Jamaica which was a British territory since before act of union between England and Scotland?

[@MelinkaMC]

That says a lot about the cultural development, specially in reggae music

[@maxwellhurlock6285]

I have several family members who immigrated to the UK in the 1950s from Jamaica, and their descendants still call Britain their home

[@Darkness-ie2yl]

i look at the affair through adult eyes now and i consider it a scam. used our people and even these days throw them out. gave us independence to put their responsibility to rest. still its so fascinating how we changed the landscape over there so remarkably

[@ahronthegreat]

Don’t care didn’t ask

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

​@@Darkness-ie2yl😅😅😅😅

[@toomuchinformation]

​@@ahronthegreatFor what? There is plenty of things the population doesn't "ask" for, but you only ever focus on one particular subject.

[@Tropicaya]

£10 per week pay and 30 shillings per week rent? Jeez! That's about 1/3 of the pay. Interesting the same ratio is very common today. Hmmmm??

[@simongrey3806]

Thirty shillings is £1-1/2. £10 per week is 800 shillings per month. They're paying about 3.75% of their income in rent.

[@simongrey3806]

Sorry, its 30 shillings rent, 200 shillings income, so about 15%. Still not quite 1/3.

[@mikedee5864]

1/6 and a bit,of the pay.

[@renwoxing8287]

Its meant to keep us poor !¡! CHARGED JUST ENOUGH $ To ENSURE that we remain poor and without enough excess funds to rapidly reach wealth ! It Takes Clever Actions or family support to rise properly !

[@RBAILEY57]

Not 1/3, 15%.

[@PaulWalshp-wx4in]

JUST THE START OF IT ALL !!!!!!!

[@user-yf4gx9lw6c]

I always say to my grandparents you can’t say “coloured.” Watching this is realise that during their pre-teen years this was just the way Britain was.

[@davidmccann9811]

My grandparents used the same term. It was just the norm.

[@guidadiehl9176]

Maybe you should spend less time lecturing your elders over what they can and cannot say.

[@user-yf4gx9lw6c]

@@guidadiehl9176 not really. British standards and inclusivity are a lot different then they used to be. Words like coloured aren’t used anymore and aren’t appreciated.

[@davidmccann9811]

@@user-yf4gx9lw6c They are used though, that was the guys point. They may not be "appreciated" or deemed acceptable by many, but what right does one citizen have to tell another citizen what words they can and can't use?

[@user-yf4gx9lw6c]

@@davidmccann9811 I have a right to piont out when somethings wrong. If someone tells me 2+2=5 I’m goanna point out that’s wrong. If someone uses a word that is derogatory and offensive I’m goanna point that out. I would rather correct my grandparents then have a my grandma regularly say the n-word.

[@richardmuirhead5428]

Fought their wars, gave them swag.

[@davidmccann9811]

Ironic that they were talking about mass immigration and it's impact on housing even then.

[@audreydralega7158]

Especially as the invitation came from a Britain that couldn't persuade its own working class to do the less lucrative work.

[@davidmccann9811]

@@audreydralega7158 They could and they did. What jobs do you think the British working class were doing post war?

[@trevormcdonald385]

@@davidmccann9811dole

[@thomasreed49]

@@audreydralega7158 You’re living in a fantasy world they were never invited to come here. The government didn’t want him here in Lord of the indigenous population. That said there has been some very sensible comments and nice comments on this program. But you always get one that tries to turn white against blacks and blacks against white you are that one. I’ve had great fun with Afro-Caribbeans work wise enjoy the company. You wouldn’t be one of them

[@JohnDoe-bh2lp]

@@davidmccann9811 Nothing, that's why Britain needed to bring so many Jamaicans to do the jobs the whites didn't want.

[@coltonsimmonds6991]

'Why A Jamaican Problem Only'?

[@rickchros1919]

It just shows ingrained race and nationality were back then, this a relative to the time, quite a liberal a video but still the idea that those of Jamaican descent should be in Jamaica is unwavering

[@user-hh8yc9eb2k]

UK refused to take in British whites who lived in South Africa. Colonization was a financial burden on UK, but its aim was to get rid of the population, so migration to UK is like madness.

[@DaughteroftheKing-h1k]

@@user-hh8yc9eb2ksame with Portugal, after Angola got its independence, Portugal was reluctant to take in the Portuguese Angolans and now in the 21st century hundreds of thousands have returned back to Angola to live and work

[@babeena_gt_3645]

When west indian and jamaican people went to Britain they should have entered on red carpet because they would not have fell into hardship to begin with if england just left their islands alone to begin with

[@mididoctors]

You do realise we ENSLAVED THEM and took them to the west indies first ..they did not originate there ?

[@osmundbullock2219]

You don't seem to realize that black West Indians were originally shipped there as slaves from Africa. If the Europeans (not only British) had "left the islands alone to begin with", there would be no black (i.e. of African origin) West Indians in the Caribbean at all! They were not "their" islands: before Spanish conquest in the late 1400s &1500s, the Caribbean islands were inhabited by various Arawak tribes originating in South America, who had in turn conquered and supplanted other indigenous people who had been there for thousands of years. I'm afraid that in those days, 200 to 500 years ago, all over the world *everybody* of every colour tried to conquer and colonize everybody else - it's just that the Europeans were particularly good at at it. Long before the Europeans arrived, West Africa itself, where most of the slaves came from, was a place of dozens of competing native black kingdoms, who spent all their time at war with each other, fighting to get the most land, gold, ivory and slaves - the slaves were traded in their millions, along with gold and ivory, across the Sahara via Timbuktu, to the Muslim world of North Africa.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

@@osmundbullock2219 You're not THE "Osmund Bullock" of acting fame are you? Whether you are or not, well said, good to see there are still some others who can think for themselves without the helpful "man from the left" helping you to understand.

[@jamesjameson4566]

You were not from them Islands 🙆🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@babeena_gt_3645]

@@osmundbullock2219 very enlightening education. Thank you

[@Jabberstax]

The beginning of the end for Great Britain.

[@X.R.808]

What do you mean by that?

[@Alberga1900]

U literally invite us because the world war and nhs

[@RBAILEY57]

That began with the arrival of the Empire Windrush in June, 1948.

[@MasalaMan]

​@rtmiddleeast4968 Wrong, you didn't even watch more than a minute into the video. As they say their was plenty of work to go around for all at the time.

[@kholebandz-gq9lh]

You wouldn’t have a nhs if it wasn’t for the windrush it didn’t exist before them and it’s crumbling as they begin to leave your dirty sunless ugly land!

[@asa1973100]

The West Indies the slums of the Empire As quoted by Lloyd George ( Yet we are led to believe that these people left their Paradise islands to come and work in the damp cold miserable British climate for peanuts as a goodwill gesture ) !

[@jessielegrande5211]

What's your point?

[@UTG-uptown]

He need dig up shat millions time inna head for every races comments and remarks he made these ppl really think is

[@englishpatriot9464]

They weren't invited? ​@@UTG-uptown

[@Fidelisjoff]

​@@jessielegrande5211No one wanted immigrants and they invited themselves permanently changing the nation they entered.

[@trevormcdonald385]

@@Fidelisjoffand? You went to Australia in the millions a few Jamaicans won’t hurt

[@reubenfevrier2349]

Councillor White!

[@royalegamer2704]

Karma init. Why exploit their people for centuries then invite them to work if you couldn't look after their basic needs

[@marleyite]

@Haku Yuki : I think you mean - Opportunity 🙂🙂

[@garypautard1069]

They were not invited.

[@tazdaniels4869]

@@garypautard1069 They were invited. It's a fact the British Government invited and actively encouraged people from the Caribbean to help fill the gaps in the labour market.

[@Jabberstax]

Karma? More like government policy that got us here.

[@X.R.808]

@@garypautard1069 they were... 1 quick search on the internet shows the invitation

[@FelipeCoke]

Greatest trick the windrush scandal

[@alcestebaronhelies6320]

Coucou tou le monde 🥰🥰

[@FGBBQ21]

Atleast better than the US around the same time

[@alfredroyal3473]

They were British. Fair enough. Now Jamaica wants to remove the monarch. Fair enough. I wouldn’t give them another penny in aid. Fair enough.

[@Bababui69]

More black people immigrated to the US than were forced during slavery.

[@X.R.808]

If Jamaica leaves the Commonwealth then yeah "fair enough". After that, slave trade compensation is deserved though.

[@jeddaniels2283]

Jamaican's own the blessed island they now live upon. Once African sold by Africa for sure. What more is needed then freedom the Island folk now own.

[@careytitan9097]

Being in the British empire does not make any ethnically British.

[@jessielegrande5211]

the Brits should remove the monarch too if they were not so pathetically servile and loved tugging their forelocks to the freeloading parasites.

[@RxxhPickneyEnt.]

Jah jah jah look how them a deport the people them now

[@letspetpuppies]

@Haku Yuki why? you can clearly understand him

[@trevormcdonald385]

@@hakuyuki6859patois will suffice

[@X.R.808]

@Liberals Are gross stop trolling

[@juicybeans147]

@Liberals Are gross stfu

[@englishpatriot9464]

Yes support repatriations

[@nacsocchick]

They all have to go back

[@lindabrown0]

Too late. That's not going to happen (lol). Deal with it.

[@PhotographyInFlight4183]

They threw down a reverse uno card on you🤣.

[@Arnold-p5z]

I'm enjoying my stay! Thank you very much lol

[@cL-bf2ug]

No they don’t. If they do then all the white people in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the US have to go back to the UK

[@X.R.808]

Sounds about Hwyte

[@corentin334]

merci mme cavadini

[@pichenettepasdenom6824]

mdrr pareil

[@normanbrown9225]

IF ALL THE PEOPLE. ON THE EARTH WAS TO GO BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM There WOULD BE NO HUMANS ON THE EARTH, OUR ROOTS ARE FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE UNIVERSE😂

[@mididoctors]

More tolerant attitude than Priti Patel is it not ..... How we gave/let the gammons drag this nation into the sewer

[@user-yf4gx9lw6c]

With populism anything is possible!

[@cheese5728]

Mass immigration destroys a nation

[@X.R.808]

Definitely

[@georgewashington1990]

Look how good Britain was to them.

[@everythingerina9379]

you really need to think about that

[@UKIP]

And then we had reversion to the mean...

[@tripleq7888]

Britain needed them lol

[@everythingerina9379]

@@Zeuswashington who was ungrateful

[@memberberries3615]

Bruh they volunteered to fight along side the Brits in WW2 then after the war Britain needed a labour force and wanted Jamaicans to come over and work, that's why they were there. It was supposed to be mutually benificial, sadly too many people didn't understand why they were there in the first place.

[@rileymead6025]

anyone else watching this while reading The Lonely Londoner’s?

[@keifer7813]

2:50 "True his music is gay" I've never heard more "battyboi" in any other music

[@timpatjoe]

A massive mistake

[@arkitekfran]

Didn't you hear the narrator near the end saying "how pathetic" our people are too dependent because they are lost as hell. My dream is for them to find the courage to wake up, wise up listen and apply.

[@cL-bf2ug]

that’s what ur mom said when she gave birth to you

[@X.R.808]

Definitely at least a bit of a mistake. Racism hasn't reduced by much and the welcome has always felt superficial, even in 2023

[@MrSfilms94]

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[@rasempress9724]

We were invited to come ‘help rebuild the motherland’…(common ‘m’ intentional)…..Britain had lost a new generation of men n needed our manpower….like our slave ancestors , we built Britain yet again

[@ABB-bw6tc]

Reggae reggae sauce

[@margaretpepper3550]

That is a film about the suicide of the British nation....

[@dylanblue2271]

The British nation built it's wealth and it's 'empire' on the backs on enslaved people. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.

[@punbasedname9032]

How?

[@mididoctors]

By voting in Priti Patel and her disgusting policies ?

[@punbasedname9032]

@@mididoctors She wasn't elected in the events shown in the video though

[@PorkChopExpress86]

More the result of murder by the British empire. Don't colonise and then complain when it comes back to bite you

[@tancreddehauteville764]

The idea that these people were automatically considered in law British citizens was utter lunacy. British citizenship should have remained the right only of people with ancestors originating from Great Britain, i.e. most Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians and many white South Africans. The native, indigenous, populations of imperial territories should in no way have been granted that right - this was utter madness.

[@termsn3804]

The fact that you had written such a narrow minded argument shows pure idiocy. Had the right not been introduced, this country would not have developed the way it is today. You should thank these people as well as the others, from different regions, for helping build Britain. (You are a fool, simply an absolute c*nt)

[@Smellthecoffee100]

Whose idea was it to call them UK citizens?

[@Darkness-ie2yl]

what you don't appreciate perhaps is your people scammed us to come over there and lighten your load. then when they were done they threw us away like used rags. but as usual we made the best of it and now are so entrenched in your culture you all walk and talk like us 🙂

[@shevineminto7435]

@@Darkness-ie2ylI thank you

[@adebolabloke6962]

Darknessie2yl A lot of what you said there is wrong

[@promoteyourfirm7502]

Propaganda

[@marybedward9381]

Uk government turned on them 😡

[@bretwein3793]

Once they became independent they should’ve been repatriated back to their island and had their British citizenship rescinded much like the Taiwanese and Koreans ceased to be citizens of the Empire of Japan.

[@scootergrant8683]

Well we didn't do that to Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia or South Africa as far as I am aware. To be frank, I think that's another good mark in our books.

[@TruthSeeker30_]

Devil

[@OMG-seriously]

White supremists are such hypocrites, They never want the pinks leave Australia, America, Canada, new Zealand, south Africa

[@cL-bf2ug]

You’re evil. They were British from the moment they were born.

[@williammohan9784]

Bill Strachan was the Clerk of the Court at Clerkenwell Magistrates Court. Woe betide any officer who didn't observe the rules of the court. He was partnered with a Magistrate, who's name escapes me. The terrified all the young probationary constables. But only because they believed in high standards. I found him a very pleasant gentleman when he wasn't savaging me in court, lol

[@MrSfilms94]

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