‘Steve McQueen’s Blitz Attempts To Rewrite History' | Mike Graham x Peter Hitchens

[@namesake-uv8ug]

A black racist film maker rewriting our history , not surprising.

[@roberthancox]

So true.He has an agenda.

[@TheAdArchive]

Have you seen the film? This is a horrid twisted and racist view of the film.

[@faustoferrari4303]

@@namesake-uv8ug calling Steve McQueen a racist confirms that you are one.

[@namesake-uv8ug]

@TheAdArchive The racist with the horrid twisted view is the film maker , Steve Mcqueen.

[@TheAdArchive]

@@namesake-uv8ugmy god man go watch the film it’s not racist or anything being portrayed here

[@user-km2bk8zb4m]

I'm fed up with history protrayed with present day wokism.

[@SassyO100]

Yup it distorts past reality. How do people have factual discussions about the past if it’s being distorted to accommodate the woke society we live in today. I don’t know why we can’t remember or learn about the past as it was and then embrace how the world is today. All this distortion of the truth will cause issues for many in the future. Truth and reality seems to be rejected… What else in time will be rejected and a new reality be painted.

[@jpcaretta8847]

Now I see whyvthe average IQ is going down the drain except in Asia

[@chrisclark4813]

Yeah, BBC this morning promoting a Netflix film about a squadron of Black American Women who apparently did something, why justified a film about them................... ............ what about all the thousand, tens of thousands, more......of young British guys who actually died...................?

[@timwingham8952]

Me too

[@jpcaretta8847]

They should show the african rezlity !

[@BAF605]

Steve McQueen was much better as a white actor. He definitely slipped as a black film director

[@Trebor74]

Loved him in bullitt

[@sticksman1979]

Haha. Great stuff.

[@fokkerfilms560]

Transracial or transmortal? 🤔😄

[@DaChunkil8or]

Great escape best war film ever

[@apathyintheuk265]

@@Trebor74 I'd love this one to get a bullitt.

[@jameskrell4392]

I find it offensive, it’s an insult to our history, disgusting.

[@KemetledAfrica]

How is it disgusting, are you trying to say there was no racism in Britain

[@davidtomkinson1570]

Nothing to do with racism. It's not true to history. ​@@KemetledAfrica

[@TheAdArchive]

Have thou actually seen the film? There is no message. This is a horrid racist take on a fabulous film.

[@jameskrell4392]

@@TheAdArchive No, its a horrid racist take on a true historical event, an attempt to hijack history for your own ends. Children suffered and you have to make it about you, shameful Insidious people that I once had a lot of time for but not anymore.

[@DaChunkil8or]

It really is mate

[@vordman]

I'll give this one a miss. Same with the new Railway Children film where the children are now black. How ridiculous is that in a story set in the England of 1905.

[@davidmclachlan6592]

But they made sure that the father in the Railway Children was a white man imprisoned and not a black man .

[@PedrSion]

Normally in these circumstances the father of the mixed race family is black. The father of the railway chidren is in prison, so had to be played by a white actor. Modern sensibilities say that a black person can’t be in prison in any TV/Film presentations.

[@royfr8136]

@@davidmclachlan6592 Absolutely correct - and that was a choice. Never show a black person in a position that isn't an authority and never a criminal.

[@mreale2811]

Hi from Canada…by now I wouldn’t find it too far fetched to believe that in 100 years , when history has been rewritten yet again….that the late Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip would be portrayed as “people of colour” ….IMO 🇨🇦✝️🇬🇧

[@CarolFremel-my4hs]

@@mreale2811you think this insanity could last 100 years ? 😂

[@jonathanherapath7735]

It's beyond tiresome now

[@TheAdArchive]

Have you actually seen this film? It really isn’t what he is saying.

[@glasp-q8n]

I know. Have you thought about changing, to become a better person?

[@DaChunkil8or]

Who watches it🤷‍♂️

[@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204]

​@@TheAdArchivethe two POC in it would suggest otherwise

[@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204]

​@@glasp-q8nit's you who needs to change

[@ChrisMartin-b7l]

My father lived in a large city in the midlands. He was a teenager during the war. He told me that one thing he remembered was cycling home from work to lunch one day, when a large military truck stopped alongside and the driver leaned out the window to ask for directions. It was a US truck and the guy was black American. My father said that was the first and only black man he had ever seen other than in films.

[@tranqjl]

I grew up in Huntingdonshire in the 50's 60's and the only black men I saw were the occasional serviceman from the US airforce base a few miles away. Other than that none in the area , none at school, none when I started work . Even today I think you would have to search the area to find one - thank god. The countryside is the last English bastion and must be protected. It is from there we have to fight to retake our country.

[@bigenglishmonkey]

Did he give him the correct directions though?

[@antonyberry1632]

What large city?

[@carlryderiselvis]

@@antonyberry1632Well, Birmingham is the second largest City outside of London. Then there’s Coventry, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Leicester etc…

[@gcndc]

@@tranqjlWhy are you thanking god for your racism?

[@roadrunner1337]

People are sick of "The Message" 🙄

[@Martinw_909]

White people bad black people good

[@oliverearnshaw6189]

@@ShyTalks-d8bif you don’t know, you’re beyond help

[@criticalThinkerLad]

Annoying isnt it

[@DM-ur8vc]

@@ShyTalks-d8b To re-write history and present current events as if they are only the result of racial bigotry, sexism and homophobia.

[@valansley]

Getting it in spades

[@timwingham8952]

Rewriting history for the sake of virtue posturing. Absurd in the extreme

[@jocktheripper2073]

It's not correct in the first place. What they don't want to tell us is that the blitz was in response to months of Churchill's indiscriminate bombing of German cities. Check it out.

[@colinmatts]

It's a film. Not a documentary

[@timwingham8952]

@@colinmatts A film that's rewriting history.

[@EVALLOYD]

@@colinmatts Yes, but at a particular time in British history. It's callled "The Blitz" which took place in London in 1940 and there are still people alive today who were in the thick of it. I remember when the film "Saving Private Ryan" came out and Steven Spielberg was greatly criticized for it showed no black American soldiers. He replied I wanted it to be accurate and in those time the troops were segregated, black soldiers didn't fight with the white soldiers and it was only when the casualities were so high that they had to integrate black soldiers into white fighting units. By the way, it doesn't mean the black American soldiers weren't valiant in battle, one black American army doctor at the time saved the lives of a great number of soldiers. So a film can be a film and not a documentary yet still depict accurate history.

[@shaunpatrick8345]

It's not virtue posturing, he did it to advance his people's interests.

[@Its.all.a.game.m8]

It’s cultural appropriation. I grow tired of the constant hypocrisy.

[@sam8290]

Agreed!

[@terryallen1529]

trouble is it's eating away at our heritage

[@KemetledAfrica]

@sam8290 George Arthur Roberts First world war and Somme veteran, Blitz fireman. 🇹🇹 Trinidad born

[@sonmi2246]

​​@@KemetledAfricaand that's *one* out of thousands of yt British Blitz wardens. The blk population of the UK in WW2 never exceeded around 150k, and the vast majority of those were American GIs; after the war and before the Windrush this number was around 20k.

[@sonmi2246]

​@KemetledAfrica and that is *one* out of how many thousands of native British Blitz Wardens? The blk population of the UK during WW2 never exceeded 150k, and out of those, the vast majority were American GIs. After the war, this number was as low as 20k (and a good portion of those being American GIs who married British women).

[@charlietreston4035]

I'm old enough to have known what it was like in the blitz and this is an insult to those who died and suffered disgusting

[@vincekerrigan8300]

I lived through the Blitz, nearly copped it inthe so-called 'Baby' Blitz, and endured the V weapons afterwards. I consider films like this a vile insult to the people of those times.

[@KemetledAfrica]

How is it an insult.

[@bertiescunsbutch9323]

Because it's fake.

[@KemetledAfrica]

@@bertiescunsbutch9323 What part would you consider fake. The supposed level of racism, the black air warden, or the biracial child ?

[@maestroCanuck]

@@KemetledAfrica lying about others, especially when they are not able to defend themselves, and portraying in a general broad brush way a society as it WAS NOT is insulting, demeaning, and deceitful

[@paulpanther4772]

I’ll Guarantee That the BBC will at some point show This utter Tripe as a Christmas movie Prime time !. It’ll happen!.

[@royfr8136]

Absolutely - and unfortunately that will happen and they will advertise it with trailers for a month before.

[@glasp-q8n]

Good, I wish they would show more quality, up to date movies.

[@DaChunkil8or]

Of course, they only show this rancid SHT now

[@TheAdArchive]

It’s on Apple movies. You clearly haven’t seen it. So why are you commenting on a film you have not seen and reacting to a racist stirring up racial hatred… oh, sorry, it’s because you’re a racist too

[@colinfarrelly2513]

What else do you expect from a half-wit director?

[@oliverearnshaw6189]

Apparently the 2nd most influential Brit after David Bowie ever, in popular culture according to a poll a few years ago 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@terryjacob8169]

Must have been a crap poll if John Lennon didn't win it.

[@shaunpatrick8345]

Rewriting our history to benefit his people and demean us is not a half-witted mistake.

[@JosephB-tv7gf]

​@@oliverearnshaw6189He beat Isaac Newton? Wow!

[@RobRyan-c3v]

I guess white people just want to read about white culture, the king and Queen and Alice in wonderland and Snow white. Basically, something that reinforces their superiority complex is what they want.

[@petercook6339]

Hitchens is always on point

[@colinmatts]

He's a long winded, pompous old fool

[@stevev238]

Absolutely. He warned people exactly what Starmer is, but that message got to so few people.

[@davidmclachlan6592]

Unbelievably he praises this film in his Mail column , a black air raid warden and a half cast boy during the blitz, woke nonsense.

[@colinmatts]

@davidmclachlan6592 Who uses the term "half cast" in this day and age? Answer: the same kind of fool who calls people woke

[@KemetledAfrica]

​@@davidmclachlan6592But there were black air wardens and firemen during the blitz

[@geoffreywilson6024]

When I was nine, in the mid fifties, I used to walk to Brixton alone to go to the cinema. We often went shopping there. No blacks, no Islam, no trouble to speak of.

[@glasp-q8n]

Well, there was at least one racist there.

[@DaChunkil8or]

Mate I could go on a train from Glasgow to London, have a nice couple days & come back, no chance now, I wouldn’t want rbbd or mggd

[@DaChunkil8or]

@@glasp-q8noh shutup, NOBODY CARES ANYMORE ABOUT THAT, you have used & abused that right

[@jimdavis8391]

​@glasp-q8n Tell us all, please, why what he said was 'racist'?

[@ftroop2000]

​@@glasp-q8n, racist? How so. Do explain. Noticing something is not racist. Recognising patterns, is not racist!

[@fatpeter-u8t]

STEVE McQUEEN ? there is only one steve mcqueen ,and it aint that guy !

[@mreale2811]

You took the words right out of my mouth…I was just thinking the same thing.🇨🇦✝️🇬🇧

[@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb]

Absolutely. Also a great Prefab Sprout album from the 80's.

[@sticksman1979]

It’s cultural appropriation!

[@faustoferrari4303]

I agree with the criticisms of the movie, but the black Steve McQueen is more talented than the white Steve McQueen, who was quite a boring actor.

[@jbleeuk]

Let me guess you are not Caucasian?​@@faustoferrari4303

[@LS-xs7sg]

I used to work in an old peoples home in the east end. Every bonfire night many of the dementia ridden patients would revert back to childhood and whimper at the sounds of the fireworks thinking it was the bombs falling again. McQueen has taken something terrible endured by the last English generation of London and made it all about black people. He's a cultural imperialist

[@glasp-q8n]

That wins the award for the daftest most racist thing so far in this stream of utterly daft racist nonsense.

[@LS-xs7sg]

@@glasp-q8nhow is it racist to point out that the experience of the blitz was overwhelmingly something white English people went through?

[@LS-xs7sg]

@ what is racist about it?

[@glasp-q8n]

@@LS-xs7sg What's racist about Nazi racial purity ideology?

[@TheAdArchive]

@@glasp-q8n 👏👏👏

[@eleveneleven572]

This focus on race is despicable. The blitz was awful, my father was seconded there to Deptford to help rescue victims whilst he was a Royal Marine. There were near to no none native people in London then apart from Jewish refugees. Why arent the vast majority celebrated for their bravery, not branded a load of racists.

[@danbaumann8273]

Because they're jealous of the history. Yeah, it sounds nuts cuz it is, but nevertheless.

[@DraftySatyr]

Because that would run contrary to "The Message" ...

[@ThinWhite_Duke]

They even race-swapped Steve McQueen

[@clarksavage2683]

Brilliant, this is lost on most people….haha

[@vordman]

Haha

[@mjones4083]

I know .No respect for the dead eh ? !!

[@fluffycloudsdogadventures]

This is the best KZbin comment.

[@JosephB-tv7gf]

And we got the booby prize.

[@bobjames6622]

I was looking forward to this movie. But the SECOND i saw the utterly RIDICULOUS premise of an interracial marriage in 1940's Britain I shall NOT be going anywhere near it.

[@DM-ur8vc]

It's worse than that. Literally ever single white person (outside of the family) has bad motives, but every person of colour is shown as morally good. To the extent that the white gang that the kid falls in with are almost ridiculously Oliver Twist-like and are able to bribe numerous air wardens to ignore them robbing dead rich people. Even the nice old lady who finds the boy is shown dobbing him to the police in a negative way, but not because she might have been concerned for his safety.

[@EnlightenedPatriot1]

Not having visited a cinema for some 35 years, nor a TV watcher, I have not seen this film yet and have no plans to. I understand mixed race marriage was not so prevalent then, as now, but would not agree that it is a ridiculous premise for 1940's Britain. My (White) mother married my (Black) father in the 30's, him of West Indian heritage, born here. Born '46, I am White, as is my sister, but my late brother was dark-skinned as my dad. I therefore cannot be against it, though my White son is. Post WW2, I understand that it was common for White British females to marry Black US servicemen - GI brides. That said, I am sick of seeing the distorted view of the supposed mixed race society we now live in, pushed by the media. when catching sight of TV shows, YT videos and adverts, etc, (my wife watches), seeing it is shoved in our faces. Social engineering ,to push multiculturalism. Mostly a Black guy, typically with an attractive, young, White female, seldom. if ever, the other way round. From the number of other ethnicities shown partnering as TV presenters, in adverts, news and TV shows, etc, you would not think this nation is still 75-80% White. I try hard not to judge any person from initial appearance. I do try to discern a person's character from any 1st contact. I do hate to feel we are being lied to, manipulated, and being made to feel like 2nd Class citizens in our OWN country.

[@brianpeck3716]

I was born in 1945 ,at 9 years old both my parents where working on Leeds City buses.I got up one morning and in the kitchen was a tall thin black man .the story was that he had come to England to work and had got a job as a bus conductor,but had no were to stay .I think he was with us for about two months.

[@jpcaretta8847]

This has been used to wipe Native American , breeding with freed slaves !

[@alexojideagu]

Henry the 8th black bugler John Blake married a white woman hundreds of years before this. There were mixed race children and marriages in London during Shakespeare's time. Although they were a small minority.

[@Plesiosaur68]

Peter is correct, people in the UK were polite towards, and simply curious of black people in the 1930's and 40's, and racism as we know it, came over with the Americans in 1943. My father, who is 94, often recalls meeting his first black person, a man selling dusters in Nottingham in the 1930's, who was apparently very friendly and was happy to let curious children touch his skin and hair. As for a large black community in the East End, my maternal relatives would have probably have said, 'You're having a larf !'

[@rogerwhite4073]

The core issue here, that Hitchens is right to focus on, is why would someone wish to impose an unpleasant racial narrative on to a period of British history that is normally perceived to have brought people together, bridging social and class difference like only a crisis tends to do. Not only does it ring false, but the motives seem underhand and deeply cynical. Even if one was to concede some selectivity in the national memory in the establishment of national myths, in this case, we have forests of individual private testimonies that recall the period of the Blitz. Douglas Murray would likely say that there is a deliberate attack on our sacred stories and symbols, and I would incline to agree with him. The film maker, who has already been praised for inserting his imagination in to American racial history, has shown himself to be clumsy in my opinion, to the point that something of the grifter has been irrevocably revealed in this latest project.

[@agnescraig2912]

All in the name of Diversity Multiculturalism and new Narrative which is better than the entire history of nations. Similar to the Mughal Period in Indian history now being attacked relentlessly by Hindu bigots like Modi/BJP. Context is different but thrown on the rubbish heap.

[@LloydLaughalot]

Because the director is a black bloke who’s made a film for black people. This stuff really isn’t rocket science. My group vs your group.

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

trying to brainwash the young to accept them ...-big mistake if they do ..

[@theDuctapeUnion]

@@rogerwhite4073 Clumsy or typical?

[@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb]

An Olusogan interpretation of British history. Or if you prefer, a complete lie.

[@brucehulmes]

Olusogan, white mother Nigerian father lived in Nigeria, black father dumps white wife and his six children. Mother and six children move to England and get a council hose and benefits, sound familiar? Son decides that his mothers white race is the evil one, but will not move back to Nigeria, why. After all he is a Nigerian born and bred

[@garyhope3731]

Yeh, I hate Britain, except for my gong.

[@mjones4083]

Yes, we get your grift !

[@roberthancox]

Olusogan is just a story teller.Mainly fiction.

[@KemetledAfrica]

How is it a complete lie. Make you points of proof

[@junesmith6689]

Love Him or Loathe Him Peter Hitchens is a Genius and speaks LOADS of Commen Sense

[@davidgrahambrown3793]

@@ShyTalks-d8bA lot of them around at this time of the year.

[@worldofameiso5491]

@@ShyTalks-d8b No, Commen Sense - very like our normal Common Sense...only more special.

[@bumberClart1000]

He’s full of it

[@kevinmassey7675]

​@@ShyTalks-d8bYou give yourself self congratulations and a pat on the back for that one

[@worldofameiso5491]

Straight back at you...​@@ShyTalks-d8b

[@ubergeraldine]

Saw the film and was deeply offended by it. The flood in the underground actually happened in Balham Station for real. People went for shelter, got bombed and a water main burst. At least 60 drowned. And no, a young black boy didn’t save any lives. What an insult to the people who were bombed, drowned and interred there.

[@raycorrigan3297]

@@ubergeraldine the Germans did that not the blacks.

[@TheAdArchive]

You really are a top drawer racist aren’t you

[@kevinsimpson-dw6vu]

@@raycorrigan3297 The poster never said the blacks did anything. And thanks for informing us that it was the Germans doing the bombing during the Blitz, nobody would have known that otherwise.

[@theDuctapeUnion]

@@raycorrigan3297 You’ve strategically avoided his point only to redirect. Like a Leftoid. 🤤

[@sonmi2246]

@TheAdArchive that word has ceased to have any coherent meaning-- due, in the large part, to the way in which people such as yourself carelessly throw around the accusation in lieu of any meaningful, substantive argument.

[@sacradotjoannes]

The same was recently seen in Wolf Hall, with palace guards and servants as well as ladies in waiting were coloured! Not to mention the terrible series that had Anne Boylen as black!!

[@agnescraig2912]

Why doesn't anyone make a film of The Great Ocean Road in Australia built by White convicts from UK. Always an insatiable appetite to portray The West as Racists. Yet you choose thru Mass Migration from all over the World to Racist West only. No African Indian Middle East Far East China Russia have this problem.

[@whitehart11]

And somehow Beth Seymour, Jane's sister, was not white!

[@MarcLudford]

@sacradotjoannes I saw a film recently where guy Fawkes was black

[@whitehart11]

@@MarcLudford Must have been after he was on the bonfire!

[@claudiameier666]

and that travesty bridgerton

[@chieftandriver703]

Watch Goodnight Mr Tom. A grim and tragic story of The Blitz with an uplifting ending, beautifully acted and beautifully produced

[@Northernlights-gv4vx]

Watched it last week when it popped up on KZbin,it’s one of my favourites.

[@vivian9187]

And it was fab because the actors were wonderful, and the storyline was powerful and moving. Unlike this tripe which exists only to portray British history as racist with the usual DEI actors. Disgusted with Paul Weller taking part

[@bronte333]

Agree. Wonderful, authentic film unlike this yawnfest of woke garbage.

[@mjones4083]

So true -m on all levels .

[@stevev238]

That was a brilliant film. Very well played by the late John Thaw.

[@MrDavey2010]

I got fed up with this movie & left

[@ianrichardson9950]

I love films but didn't bother with this one as could tell from the clip/synopsis exactly how it would be. Seems l was right.

[@stevenpaterson5100]

12000 in the UK. Still far too many

[@fokkerfilms560]

👍

[@robinburn4974]

I'm at an age where i no longer watch live tv, listen to MSM, ignore any silly rules that woke people or organisations insist we follow, i don't trust polititions, i don't pay for the bbc and I'm really happy

[@jakhaughton1800]

People need to read the history of Bamber Bridge where British soldiers and the public fought US military police to allow black American soldiers to drink in their pub. These films should be banned for fermenting racial intolerance.

[@mjones4083]

A shedload of grifters would be out of work if films , TV dramas /books like this racially insulting nonsense were banned .

[@colinmatts]

If you actually saw the film you would know it is NOT fermenting racial intolerence

[@shaunpatrick8345]

​@@colinmattsyes it is. As Peter pointed out, and I've seen others make the same point, ll the b people are good and all the w people are bad (except one).

[@colinmatts]

@shaunpatrick8345 That's not actually the case in the film. But keep in mind, it's just a FILM. Not a documentary

[@shaunpatrick8345]

@colinmatts I'll go with the majority opinion on how he represented his and my people. If it's set in an alternative universe with a similar history to ours, that needs to be made clear, otherwise it would mislead people into thinking it portrays our history.

[@chieftandriver703]

The film isn’t aimed at anyone born before 1980, so Mr Hitchens assertion that he didn’t identify with the recollection he had of the 50’s and 60’s is perfectly reasonable. Rather like the BBC News it is there to reinforce a message, not be accurate

[@mjones4083]

True enough .It's aimed at both the brainwashed and those who have not been honestly educated about history . The type that go to see Hamilton the musical and believe that an American Founding Father was actually black .

[@thecat558]

Exactly, propaganda

[@DavidMeikle-ei7fr]

Memo to McQueen - you can't change history, it's in the past, no amount of wokerati nonsense will change it

[@fokkerfilms560]

👏

[@davidwoolfenden6961]

Unfortunately you can change history by continually portraying lies and untruths so eventually the misinformation becomes the truth in many people's minds, particularly those who were not there. Then, when a very old person who was there tells it like is was, he is ignored and vilified.

[@karenrobinson129]

Another load of rubbish. I won't be watching this.

[@fokkerfilms560]

x2

[@glasp-q8n]

That is absolutely the best qualification for having an opinion on it though. Well done.

[@karenrobinson129]

@glasp-q8n Easy decision! I'm not up for watching crap.

[@karenrobinson129]

@@glasp-q8n I thought so.😁

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

their own animals will be . . .

[@99IronDuke]

My father was born in London in 1933, his home was bombed flat in 1940 during the London blitz. He did not see a single black person in London until he returned from serving in the army well into the 1950's.

[@fokkerfilms560]

There were probably some, but damn, damn few. I've never seen a black person in a single piece of contemporary footage. 🤦🤬 If you're going to do this sort of thing you should base it on actual experiences of real people otherwise you're distorting history in order to push your agenda. I am working on something about the lesbians involved in Ireland's struggle for independence (1916 - 23). I am only going to show someone as being gay if I am 💯 sure they were and I am going to make sure it's obvious they only represented a tiny fraction of the freedom fighters the vast majority of whom were straight white men. 🤨

[@j2174]

By 1948, there were about 20,000 in the UK. It was a bit higher than this in 1944, apparently. But still this is nothing in comparison to today or even 20 years ago.

[@Monicablackbelt24]

Same! My dad’s house was bombed by the last V2 .. my parents both were children in south London during the war and there were no black people when they were growing up! My generation.. X .. was different.. we grew up completely multiracial so if you make a movie in the. 70/80s then it’s totally acceptable and accurate! I’m sick of them erasing our history!! History matters as does truth!

[@fokkerfilms560]

@Monicablackbelt24 💯 Another Gen X-er 👍❤️

[@refractedphoton]

Look at the huge crowd scenes in photos of Londoners celebrating the end of WWII, that shows how things were at the time.

[@glasp-q8n]

Yeah that doesn't exclude the possibility that some were racist, or that the UK government would use German prisoners of war as slave labour for the next two years, or that British soldiers didn't commit rapes and other war crimes as they occupied Germany, or that formers allies were betrayed and murdered, etc. etc. History is what it is, not your romantic ideology.

[@refractedphoton]

????? I simply meant that the photos show the actual demographic make-up of Londoners at the time

[@jameskrell4392]

@@refractedphoton I knew what you meant but some people wallow in bile.

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

not one non-European face on the photos -literally millions of People . . . .!

[@refractedphoton]

Exactly, photos like them show the lie of films like this snd other historical revisionist lies, seeking to steal our past.

[@stephennorris2524]

Any Film or TV series that inserts coloured actors into parts that they never would have been historically I won't watch, Boleyn being a prime example, and before anyone gets on their high horse, I wouldn't watch something where a white actor is playing a poc, beyond ridiculous, there are plenty of actors to suit all roles keeping authenticity correct.

[@KemetledAfrica]

Black air wardens and firemen in London during the blitz

[@edthompson9337]

The new series of Wolf Hall is the same, blacks in the king's guards and ladies in waiting, ridiculous!😂

[@scootertart]

Watch Hope and Glory (1987) instead - brilliant film about life during the Blitz.

[@chejones6058]

Excellent film. The Grandad 😂

[@rogkeista1]

''Thank you, Adolf''

[@boatfaceslim9005]

Agreed!

[@dilltdog1158]

Spot on!

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

they are remaking that with Idris Elba next year ...

[@veronho1ness]

As soon as I saw the subject matter, I knew it was a big, fat 'No' for me. I don't know who this film is aimed at, because I'm a mix-raced man and view films like this as mere pandering and a means to massage the director's ego.

[@veronho1ness]

@ShyTalks-d8b Britain 'bad' Britain 'racist' Even in their "Finest Hour," white British should be ashamed of their past. If only directors like McQueen put so much effort into exposing Africa's true history. The bloody history of Communism and its inherent racism but that doesn't suit the agenda.

[@bobjames6622]

@@ShyTalks-d8b Pay attention at the back! Jeez!

[@agnescraig2912]

My sons are mixed Race this constant analysing and dissecting of Race in this case Black vs White is exhausting. White British people on all my expat postings are not Racist Monsters everyone likes to project. Race is a worldwide issue in Black brown blue yellow societies than in White societies with all the mixed marriages in the West. Mass Migration only to the Christian West is the finest example of White TOLERANCE.

[@tonywhitby8602]

​@@ShyTalks-d8b🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🤡

[@KemetledAfrica]

I see you are afraid of not knowing historical truth about black people during the blitz

[@mjones4083]

What about the white actors/actresses who miss out on casting for rolls that should obviously be white characters - whether fictional or real life/history . These white actors and actresses are the real (front line ) victims of racial discrimination as far as I'm concerning .How can they not be when they miss s out on work ? Somewhere out there is a little white boy actor who would have been perfect to play the child in this film .

[@KemetledAfrica]

Because it was a film about a mixed race boy duh

[@christine2429]

Yes..white actors are not getting the work and most black actors can't act at all. Awful what's happening to our country.

[@shaunpreston2839]

I was born in 60s and it was far better without them!😢

[@RobRyan-c3v]

Them basically gave you all the crap white music you have today.

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

Get out of Ireland.

[@glasp-q8n]

Well that's why need films like this - because there are people like you.

[@jimdavis8391]

​@glasp-q8n Can you expand on that? This guy feels that in his early life Britain was more to his liking because of it's homogenity. How is this film going to persuade him to change that belief? The clumsy and insulting nature of the film, I would suggest, would be more likely to serve to make him more entrenched in his views.

[@glasp-q8n]

@@jimdavis8391 My expansion is that he's racist.

[@A-Negative]

Looked great… Intensely boring far too long wildly inaccurate simplistic lecture on how you- as a Brit are in fact a racist. Was at a bafta screening in LA and dozens walked out not offended…bored.

[@dotdashdotdash]

Briton.

[@carlbonnachetti4740]

Dont warch it its simple...i wont.

[@puckthebear]

It is about time that the natives of British Isles stand up and act against cultural and historical appropriation.

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

hear ..hear

[@ccarmencavallaro46]

Sad part is we let them get away with it all the time. That’s the problem.

[@glasp-q8n]

No, the sad part is that people like you don't realise that you were on the other side in the War.

[@FabianCollinsEgan]

Can someone explain to me why it’s never a white man black woman couple. And these people are the ones claiming racism?

[@roberthancox]

There is an explanation.Think it through.

[@grahamthacker6498]

I have noticed that too, wonder why they don't marry their own women.

[@sh0k0nes]

@@roberthancoxthinking for racists? Good luck😂

[@SacredIsles]

@@sh0k0nes racist

[@thegeneralmitch]

The blitz was picked for the time period to attack one of the moments in history were still allowed to be proud of and denigrate it to a new generation who have no connection to the time period.

[@stracepipe]

Same as Churchill is singled out for criticism: the left are targeting what we hold dear.

[@stratsdad]

The truth is that Brits had actual punch ups in pubs over the right of Black American soldiers to drink there with everyone else, the prejudice came from White American troops. It was imported!

[@stevecarter8810]

The battle of bamber bridge is one such

[@LloydLaughalot]

Don’t get suckered by their talking points. We don’t care about that racial angst because it’s irrelevant to us as Englishmen. Battle of Bamber Bridge? Who cares.

[@grahamthacker6498]

Should have listened to the White Americans shouldn't you.

[@boranbkk4270]

As a proud Londoner I find it outrageous a fresh import with zero connection to the Blitz or the era gets to alter and try to tell us what our history was. I’ll listen to my family members who were actually there thanks. His parents hadn’t even arrived at the the time of the blitz….

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

That has to stop, people are fed up, it will lead to people taking actions.

[@sam-by5or]

When this happened 80 odd years ago, this country ie united kingdom of great Britain and Northern Ireland, was 99% white, still is 85% white if anybody of any other colour than white if you don't like it then go to another and find out how intolerant they are.just give it a rest or I am sure we will become just as intolerant, majority of brits are not racist, there just sick and tired of people denigrating british history, and blaming anything and everything on racism in stead of working hard and abiding by the law of the land.

[@Fanakapan222]

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” Orwell, 1984.

[@glossy3651]

There's artistic licence, and then there is changing history.

[@Captally]

Is it safe to presume that the BBC are unaware of The Battle of Bamber Bridge?

[@lynnelowery8435]

Also ,Burgess Meredith, did a small film for the GIs coming to England, showing how welcoming English people were to all races, and how we didn't have segregation, and would invite the black GIs into their homes.

[@katekelly4502]

I was thinking the same, but perhaps the message ( white folk not being racist) doesn't fit the agenda!

[@James_Blonde]

THE NARRATIVE

[@oliverearnshaw6189]

Oy vey Stop noticing

[@apathyintheuk265]

Black (or any colour for that matter) directors/writers need to document the conveniently omitted fact of black Africans selling fellow black Africans to kick start the trans Atlantic slave trade instead of producing pure fantasy.

[@Lloyd.Browne]

Corruption…the ideology of the elite is were the challenge laid bare.

[@geoffevans4908]

Very true,White men did not collect Slaves,they were sold them by Black Men. Central Africa was full of Tribal Strife and captured Enemies were exploited as Slaves in Africa before the Trade began

[@petercook6339]

His brother was also a visionary

[@user-xs9fp3ic9y]

What relevance does this have? We are not our brothers. We have different views.

[@scaberouswretch3673]

The biggest historical lie we’ve been sold in recent years is cheddar man.

[@peterjackson7956]

What about Bamber Bridge where the pub landlord banned white American soldiers in retaliation against segregation demanded by American officers.

[@wantagebacon]

Saw Peter cycling through Oxford the other day, shouted hello Peter at him and he gave me a nod. Good old boy

[@chrismac2234]

It was called the battle of Bamber bridge. It's when the American civil rights movement started. It started in the UK.

[@scottpeterMA]

Goodnight Mr Tom - same theme (Blitz, evacuees), vastly superior film

[@Gianfranco_69]

They keep making the same dumb mistake......'Britain in the past was horribly racist at the same time Black people where everywhere doing everything..." And the child actor in Blitz is ridiculously wooden

[@JosephB-tv7gf]

I saw him in an excerpt and he looks like a fool. In fact he looks foolish in this photo. What a waste of money and time.

[@Gianfranco_69]

@JosephB-tv7gf at least he is 'half HUman' .... because white people are Evil always... i saw it in a film

[@clarksavage2683]

Won’t watch…

[@gbentley8176]

Alastair Sim as Scrooge for me this Christmas. Dickens pretty much used his talent to bring poverty and social injustice to the fore. Blitz is a modern unwatchable.

[@JosephB-tv7gf]

No comparison!

[@dondraper4890]

I saw the trailer of this movie and I said wait a minute, something is a little off here. And I’m a black man from the USA. Grew up on war movies from my grandfather.

[@davidboon7219]

Tragic that the memory of the Londoners in the Blitz has been insulted 😡😡😡😡

[@trevorjohnhill4596]

Black vikings next.

[@davidgifford8112]

It’s been done!

[@JosephB-tv7gf]

He, he, he! And black Samurai! Nobody escapes.

[@KPate-y5z]

Hollywood did it already and upset Scandinavians who did not appreciate their cultural heritage being hijacked.

[@KemetledAfrica]

And whyte Ancient Egyptians

[@claudiameier666]

its been done and it was idiotic

[@mikey2363]

The reason British people didn’t react in a cautionary manner towards blacks in the 1940’s is because they had not yet had them living amongst them en masse. That of course soon changed in the 1960’s when people experienced the issues that arise when this happens.

[@christine2429]

Yeah..they've been a pain in the bum ever since they've been coming here.

[@leechilds3725]

The film is an insult to the londoners who endured the blitz for real

[@ResoundGuy5]

Message for "Modern Audiences"

[@richteezer1]

People should look up the "battle of Bamber Bridge" for how British people acted towards black people at rgat time. Racism as we know it came about a decade later. The good experience that black American soldiers had in the UK during war made them even more determined to change things in the USA when they returned.

[@darthsaber3815]

I'm glad I definately and surely missed this.

[@davidwoolfenden6961]

The best solution to this modern trend to base everything on race is not to view it.

[@DavidFerry08]

Maybe he should remake 12 years a slave with Jonny Depp in the lead role to balance this out

[@Yazz2014]

I’m bloody fed up of this obnoxious grift. STOP THE EFFIN’ LIES.

[@kiwitoffee]

It sounds like a load of cobblers. I wouldn't watch it even if you paid me.

[@Steven-d6b7x]

I'm waiting for the remake of The Snowman.

[@robertmckinnon6564]

Well he is terribly white.

[@MrBallynally2]

Historically inaccurate?😁 I would think a black boy would make a nice contrast to the white snow. Your comment is racist in nature but of course wou would never admit that. Btw, i agree w Peter on all points..

[@Steven-d6b7x]

@MrBallynally2 triggered

[@Peter70539]

The Battle of Bamber Bridge demonstrated the real attitude of the British. Fair, tolerant, friendly and stood up to bullies. Unfortunately this doesn't fit the 'narrative.'

[@LloydLaughalot]

Don’t be led by these people. Why would you care about ‘bamber bridge’? Haven’t you had a bellyful of this nonsense?

[@grahamthacker6498]

And where as it got us?

[@mikewilson730]

The two most popular eras of history WW2 and the Tudors have been hijacked.

[@KemetledAfrica]

Found the Simon Webb fanboy

[@FrederickSilvester-h1y]

I'd rather watch the magic roundabout this kind of rewriting history is boring

[@johnarmstrong1578]

The BBC are showing a new series of Enid Blyton's, 'Famous Five', and you've guessed it, one the children is shown to be black even though it's set in the thirties or forties

[@KemetledAfrica]

Kenny Lynch the singer and actor, was born in the east end of London in 1938

[@rahowherox1177]

Ironic considering Enids only prior black character was banned and considered politically incorrect (sic) ...

[@grahammitchell8524]

Mud huts are the pinnacle of their ingenuity !

[@KemetledAfrica]

Go back to school you obviously left too early

[@DogmaDisputant]

@@KemetledAfrica We used punctuation when I was in school.

[@janeilsley7702]

The same people taught u how to wash

[@rlawrence9838]

People should read the memoir that the film "12 years a slave" is based on. Mcqueen altered aspects of that to make it fit more with modern superficial concepts of slavery as well.

[@keithharle3217]

I lived through the 1950s and white working class people were insular a with little knowledge and experience of other cultures, so they tended to be very suspicious of the motives, lifestyles and habits of outsiders. From my experience "racial prejudice" by some white people was more about ignorance resulting in distrust and fear of foreign cultures..

[@sueedwards9334]

They were right to not trust people from foreign cultures.

[@MarekBobosik]

These are the false premises of liberalism. Lie that everybody in the world is the same. It's the lie of equality. Europeans have the right to be suspicious of other cultures. Especially the working class which is more likely to be victimized by these savages.

[@vivian9187]

thats what happens when you work in a mine getting paid a pittance to bring up a large family- no time for luxury beliefs that mass immigration is good for the country.

[@mjones4083]

As I child growing up in the late 50s /60s I was told - both at home & school , not to judge people you don't know (including "foreigners " ) . Made sense to me and I (tried ) my best not to judge on ignorance . Then in my early 20s I moved away from my " mono cultural " town and have lived in multicultural cities ever since... and my , oh my, don't I feel "fully qualified " to judge now.

[@benscaro7666]

I've given up on British TV. Unless it's from about 1973.

[@AlunThomas-mp5qo]

When I saw the name Steve McQueen I thought it was something about 'The Great Escape'.

[@LWD1099]

That is a classic film and did the motorcycle stunts himself if I remember rightly

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

more like 'replacement' .. .

[@mathewgurney2033]

Even his name is stolen.

[@janeilsley7702]

No it's not his birth name is Steve Rodney mcqeen The actors birth name is Terence stephan mcqeen 😂 so what did he steal ?

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

they have to give them an 'anglicised' name . .. lol

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

My Dad was an air raid warden in Scotland 1939-1942. He never mentioned black people being there.🤔🇬🇧

[@WinstonGulag84]

Remake of Zulu with White Zulus ! What a sham in fifty years people will probably believe this is what happened in history but it didn’t did it 1984 anyone

[@frankiehoskyn3948]

I'm not surprised to hear this, it's what one would expect from this overrated film director who has an axe to grind.

[@RavenShinyThings]

the story of english people kicking off in a pub when US MP's were trying to stitch up african american soliders, when the pub was fine with having them join everyone else says alot.

[@samspot]

I wouldn't lower myself and watch that bollocks, McQueens deluded. 😢

[@royfr8136]

London - Full-time ARP staff peaked at over 131,000 in December 1940 and dropped to about 67,000 in 1944. And over the Second World War period, there were over 1.4 million wardens across Britain. Within that, there is only one black person from Nigeria. In this film, it was the Blitz - other 'period' dramas have included a black queen Anne Boleyn, and a black Henry 8th. Works of British literature have also been edited and adapted for the screen, casting black actors. Five Children and It and The Railway Children. When it's a fictional character, the response is - well its just fiction - regardless of the time period the story is set in, and when it's an actual historical figure, the response is 'Whats your problems!' This is all about presenting a false past to the younger generations so they think that the UK has been historically, always full of immigrants. Of course, it wouldn't go the other way - Hugh Grant playing Nelson Mandela. - Documentaries now tell us that Cleopatra was black, and Hadrian's wall was manned by black guards. Now, pre-1950s Britain was populated by Africans and Afro-Caribbeans. I mean, really?! The reason why this is set in WW2 is because many are wondering why there were so many sacrifices to defend the UK and retain an identity - when now that identity seems to be being lost.

[@KemetledAfrica]

Now there wasn't only one black air warden

[@royfr8136]

@@KemetledAfrica Your evidence.... And I guess you completely ignored all the other points being made....

[@royfr8136]

@@KemetledAfrica Ita Ekpenyon is the only known Black air raid warden in World War II London: Background Ekpenyon was a Nigerian who came to Britain to study law. He was too old to serve in the military, so he volunteered to join the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) in 1940. Your prejudice is not evidence -this is

[@KemetledAfrica]

Kenny Lynch the famous singer was born in London in 1938

[@KemetledAfrica]

@royfr8136 Seen Europeans portrayed Chinese, Africans, Native Americans, Arabs , Ancient Egyptians in films. You name the race Europeans have played them

[@makalu69]

My grandad was a real life Blitz copper - 6'6'' and not to be messed with but totally fair and unbiased towards anyone or anything - an incredible man. When I heard about this film I was keen to see the story line - so very disappointed to find it was just another race related bashing so I gave it a miss.

[@johnrainsley5757]

Because our Colonial Cousins have no past history in Britain 🇬🇧, then simply invent it, no doubt his next film will be called saving Private Tyler or Leroy .!

[@TreVader1378]

And now we've got the Netflix film about those brave heroes that won the war single handedly, the US postal women of colour. Who showed up two months before the end of the war.

[@davidreed9671]

Born in 1950 it was 1964 before I saw a black face, I remember being fascinated by the lady cleaning tables in Manchester Victoria buffet.

[@KemetledAfrica]

So

[@sonmi2246]

​@KemetledAfrica the point is that people of African ancestry played a negligible role in the history of the British Isles. It is only until very recently in recorded history (around the 1960s) that the blk population in the UK exceeded one percent of the total population-- the vast majority of which has been, for nigh on a thousand years, Western Europeans.

[@DBE-df4wx]

So you arent apart of the British or their history. Cry more​@@KemetledAfrica

[@davidreed9671]

@@KemetledAfrica There were no black people about to be visible for many years so when I saw one I was fascinated. Yet today we are told they were always there, even though they weren't! How hard is that to understand?

[@davidreed9671]

@@KemetledAfrica despite what we are told black people were so rare in Britain then that when they are discovered today they put up plaques to them!

[@davidwhelan1545]

There were black people in Liverpool, in the 60s. My parents just told me they were people from elsewhere! Still remember it.

[@FraserBailey-jm5yz]

Steve McQueen is a black director and obsessed with inventing grievances around race. I'm sick of all this nonsense.

[@paulwee1924dus]

Steve McQueen was an actor in "The Great escape" driving a motorcycle.

[@ExileGilby64]

This film could have been the perfect way of bringing people together.

[@bobjames6622]

By indulging in a history that NEVER happened? Hardly!

[@ExileGilby64]

@bobjames6622 wow, maybe switch to decaf? I didn't say that. The film is a missed opportunity to tell a story that brings people together.

[@bobjames6622]

@@ExileGilby64 You can't bring people together by misrepresenting their history, and culture. If you cannot grasp that fact, that's your problem.

[@ExileGilby64]

@@bobjames6622 I think you could start an argument in an empty room