elodieunderglass:

biscuitsarenice:

Black and British: A Forgotten History 

Francis Barber’s descendant Cedric Barber [x] [x]

History by its nature never vanishes but builds

(I can 100% see the big-picture difficulty in centring a white person’s Big Revelation About History over actual lived experience of British PoC, but I think it’s also very important for people to internalise the idea that history is a continuum. Western culture has this weird amnesia of our ancestors; it’s like we picture History Times as a perfectly straight line from Game of Thrones to America Beating Up the Nazis to Now, when racism and sexism are over. The nature of history is actually a surprisingly big, scary, porous concept, and this interview makes it incredibly accessible, and I prefer to have 101-level political stuff on my blog to High Level Discourse.)