"We'll never drive the British out with words, not with doubts and not with friendship. Only guns"

[get these nets]

Coincidentally, I was just listening to a podcast on the Mau May’s today. Have you watched the whole movie?

Mau Mau - Radiolab

I meant to tag you in this Root thread

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/why...dopt-swahili-why-did-we-adopt-swahili.783926/


Traces the use of Swahili by different groups in America. Despite the silly modern internet diaspora wars, Black people of the same spirit have ALWAYS respected each other. People always gravitate towards kin & kind. Warrior spirited people in this country recognized their own kind in the news stories of the Mau Mau rebels in Kenya.

 

[get these nets]

Good scene.
And not a single Kenyan complained about great American and Bahamian actors portraying Mau Mau freedom fighters.

I posted this deliberately, not as a troll, not as a derailment, but to provide context to people who fell for internet driven nonsense.
That stuff only flies among people who don't understand or care about history.

William Marshall was the definition of a real one. Here is an old post about the 1970s controversy about who should be allowed to play the Haitian emperor Christophe.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-black-king-must-be-black.745591/

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[Dr. Narcisse]

I posted this deliberately, not as a troll, not as a derailment, but to provide context to people who fell for internet driven nonsense.
That stuff only flies among people who don't understand or care about history.

William Marshall was the definition of a real one. Here is an old post about the 1970s controversy about who should be allowed to play the Haitian emperor Christophe.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-black-king-must-be-black.745591/

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[ThrobbingHood]

But we’re “taught” to forgive our oppressors.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Just reminded of this with Sidney Poitier dying recently.