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[Rob @KeeganBox]

The best explanation I’ve read of the reaction to Jason Arday

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.

[Rob @KeeganBox]

@rickygervais Chunky funster!

[Rob @KeeganBox]

@theRealEnzoMac Only the hardest of men could beat Ovill

[Rob @KeeganBox]

@MrHreviews Holy fuck

[Rob @KeeganBox]

@reformparty_uk Accept for when you let in the Afghan rapists

[Rob @KeeganBox]

https://t.co/7c3Mvm7goO

[Rob @KeeganBox]

Terrence King convicted of murder for avenging the theft of his teenage sons e-bike but Dawood Safi stabbed Wayne Broadhurst 14 times to the neck, chest and back and is convicted of manslaughter. The justice system has no tolerance for the native white man

[Rob @KeeganBox]

@ClonesCyclone God bless you and your family Barry x

[Major Richard Sharpe @takeitbackUK]

This is what we’ve lost.

Been in a small coastal village near Salcombe in Devon for the last week.

It hits you straight away. Complete lack of diversity and the place is spotlessly clean. Streets you could eat off. No rubbish, no graffiti, no mess.

The cafés and shops are run by polite English kids. Smiling, working hard, speaking properly. The sort of thing that used to be normal everywhere.

No vape shops. No Turkish barbers. Just quiet English life by the sea.

You can see exactly what has been taken from us. This is how it all used to be. And now it only survives in these few forgotten corners.

Depressing when you realise how much we gave away.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧

Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.

Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧

So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖

Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.

They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.

Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.

In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.

In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.

In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.

In 1807, Britain banned the trade.

Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.

The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.

From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓

In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.

In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿

Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.

That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧

So why haven't you heard any of this?

Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.

The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.

We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.

This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.

We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.

If you can afford to support what we do: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Rob @KeeganBox]

@RadioGenoa Striking fear into the Russians

[Rob @KeeganBox]

The only message businesses understand is through their wallets. The public should take a stand and boycott this park for the rest of the year.

[Rob @KeeganBox]

@gallegos_fam There's nothing wrong with letting the girls know that you're money and that you want to party!

[Rob @KeeganBox]

If you refuse to integrate into a civilised society and respect the people around you don’t be surprised when people want you to return to your ancestral homeland.

[Queen Natalie 👑 @TheNorfolkLion]

This really upset me. What if this was your nan or relative?!

An elderly woman was trying to get up the stairs and this arrogant POS stood in her way and wouldn’t move!

How hard would it have been for him to move? 😡 Nasty little prick.

[Jayda Fransen @JaydaBF]

An African with zero genetic ties to England can be born in England, live there his whole life, but will always be an African.

It’s perfectly natural for this African man to support Ghana - what’s totally unnatural is anyone pretending he’s an Englishman.

[Stokie'73 🔴⚪️🔴⚪️ @potter2207]

Stormzy, "I'm a proud Englishman, but I want a 1-1 because WE need the points more than England do"🤦‍♂️

[Rob @KeeganBox]

@potter2207 English when it suits, African in his heart

[Rob @KeeganBox]

@BasilTheGreat Wonder if he looked anything like this Yorkshireman