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Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)

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Exclusive: Majority of British people found to have ‘shockingly little’ knowledge about Black British history

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[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

99% of American can't either.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

They probably can, given there are more famous black Americans to choose from. Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, etc.

[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

British, not American

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Read the title of the thread. While half of Britons can't name a black historical figure, I bet 99% of Americans can name a Black British historical figure either. I sure can't.

[-] neoman4426@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Huh, didn't know they were British figures. Learn something new every day I suppose

[-] Gladaed@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah, bur that's not newsworthy.

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

re-reading that, its not as much of a roast as I first thought

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

why would we :(

[-] Heratiki@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Ugh George Washington Carver is known by a LOT OF people. Not to mention we have days dedicated to some of the greatest historical black Americans, Martin Luther King Jr for instance. But outside of that nearly every American knows a decent amount.

Even the hateful useless Americans know President Barack Obama.

Others of note when I asked several friends at work (blue collar average Joes and Jills, hotel maintenance):

Booker T Washington Rosa Parks Harriet Tubman Jackie Robinson Malcolm X Hattie McDaniel Fredrick Douglass Oprah Winfrey (yeah I don’t know if this counts but I included it)

Out of the 15 or so people I asked all of them said Obama and MLK Jr.

[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

British, not American

[-] Heratiki@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I was assuming that the commenter was claiming 99% of Americans couldn’t name a black American historical figure.

[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nah, we're pretty uneducated, but there's an MLK day at least.

[-] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Lots of Americans know Crispis Attucks, he's covered in history class. They may not associate him with britian but he was shot years before the revolution so he was a British subject.