Originally Posted by
BaggieSingh
I’m amazed that people are so pissed off just by having a few brown faces on TV
Does the colour of a few people skin make you that offended that you wanna stop watching the TV. Surely there’s always some artistic license in any drama or TV programme
In fact there is a massive amount of “artistic license” used when discussing history colonialism decisions made by people who are liked and the colour of people skin generally throughout history.
I hope you all get seriously offended every time there’s any depiction of Jesus and him being some blue-eyed blond haired pale skinned fella from the Middle East, and the rest of his disciples
And Boingy if you want to learn from history then shouldn’t history be taught as it was in our schools?
Do you feel school children get the truth about colonialism and how people are treated and how anybody that wasn’t white skinned was thought of as inferior almost animal like in the not too distant past, look at what Winston Churchill did during the Second World War causing hundreds of thousands to die of starvation in India. Please feel free to look up some of his quotes of how he felt about Indians
Indians, Africans and others were treated horrifically and their countries had their fortunes stolen and were put in permanent debts so they could always be classed as the third world, but apparently they did get roads, aqueducts etc etc
Do you feel this is represented well enough, in programmes, in history taught in schools?
Not everyone in every other country were living in mud huts, there was wealth and intelligence
But what we are taught is that colonialism taught these people how to behave, and become civilised
Due to the fact only Europeans know how to be civilised, even though they were doing the same things just a hundred years ago.
Do you feel all the programs that are depicted in the times of slavery show how brutal it was?
How many shows do you watch where a white person turns up and helps non-white mainly black people to do things and inspires them.
Really do you feel this happens as often as it is portrayed, or is it a good story for the masses to make them feel better about themselves?
If you think some of this isn’t relevant and should be in the past than one way to solve that is to let everybody play together rather than everybody just pandering to make white people feel better about themselves and their achievements.