{"id":1454066,"date":"2024-01-30T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1454066"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:30:00","slug":"diversity-exhibition-laughably-claims-original-brits-were-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/diversity-exhibition-laughably-claims-original-brits-were-black\/1454066\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Diversity&#8217; Exhibition Laughably Claims Original Brits Were Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8216;Diversity&#8217; Exhibition Laughably Claims Original Brits Were Black<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/modernity.news\/2024\/01\/28\/diversity-exhibition-laughably-claims-original-brits-were-black\"><em>Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An exhibition celebrating \u2018diversity\u2019 in London laughably claims that the first Britons were black and that \u201cBritain was black for 7,000 years before\u201d white people arrived.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/270124black.jpg?itok=wBerk5Ar\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, really.<\/p>\n<p>The Brilliant Black British History exhibition held at Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, south London, received taxpayer funding to spout patently false nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>The very first display panel in the exhibition states, <em><strong>\u201cBy testing DNA, scientists made an amazing discovery \u2013 the first migrants to Britain around 12,000 years ago had black skin. Yes, that\u2019s right, the very first Britons were black!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fact check: Nope.<\/p>\n<p>This is all based on the infamous Cheddar Man hoax, the oldest set of human remains to have been found in Briton, who researchers initially claimed had possible skin pigmentations from \u201cdark to black\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 The first Britons were Black, exhibition on diverse history claims.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit claims that 11 percent of Roman York was \u2018Black\u2019, possibly based on a 2009 study <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wEu41XserI\">https:\/\/t.co\/wEu41XserI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Telegraph (@Telegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Telegraph\/status\/1751359716310040707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSusan Walsh, clarified that Cheddar Man\u2019s appearance was uncertain, while a separate 2017 study from geneticist Sarah Tishkoff found that <strong>predicting likely pigmentation based on \u201cgiveaway\u201d genes was inaccurate,\u201d <\/strong>notes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/01\/27\/the-first-britons-were-black-exhibition-on-diverse-history\/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1706381378-1\">the Telegraph<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition also falsely claims that AD Roman Emperor Septimius Severus was \u201ca Black Roman ruler,\u201d when in reality he had Italian and Middle Eastern descent.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe exhibit claims that 11 per cent of Roman York was \u201cBlack\u201d, possibly based on a 2009 study, which suggested 11 per cent of one set of human remains may have been migrants who \u201cmainly originated from northern Africa (modern Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya),\u201d reports the Telegraph.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition was blasted by Cambridge historian Professor David Abulafia.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThe presence of a very small number of Africans in this country over the two millennia up to the 19th century is exaggerated out of all proportion. And most of these \u2018Africans\u2019 were from the north of the continent and white or light brown,\u201d <\/strong>he asserted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s little surprise that the exhibition is so absurdly inaccurate given that is is based on Bloomsbury children\u2019s book Brilliant Black British History, by Atinuke, the Nigerian-born poet and author.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The book claims that black people built Stonehenge, despite there being absolutely no evidence of this at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We wuz Mesolithic hunter-gatherers n\u2019 shieet!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>As we document in the video below, the BBC also produces TV shows for children pushing the lie that a whole raft of British historical figures were sub-Saharan African, which is a total fallacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As we previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/modernity.news\/2023\/12\/12\/report-school-kids-wrongly-taught-historical-figure-was-black\/\">highlighted<\/a>, children at schools in the UK are being taught that St Hadrian, an abbot who played a pivotal role in the early history of the English Church, was black, despite the fact that there is no record of him being black at all.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph reported, \u201cThe Dark Age abbot St Hadrian of Canterbury has been referred to as a \u2018black scholar\u2019 in primary school teaching material, despite the holy man being of north African origin and not black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>In another similar case, the BBC had to remove a plaque it had installed celebrating the \u201cfirst black Briton\u201d after scientific evidence revealed the person was not African, but from Cyprus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BBC plaque to mark earliest black Briton removed because she \u2018was from Cyprus\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New DNA analysis suggests BBC programme&#8217;s claims about the origins of &#8216;Beachy Head Lady&#8217; were wrong&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hriOgF95X8\">https:\/\/t.co\/hriOgF95X8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Dowson (@TonyDowson5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyDowson5\/status\/1717270332124631238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2023<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Again, race activists will seize upon any indication that a historical figure didn\u2019t have porcelain white skin and claim they came from sub-Sahara Africa to push diversity propaganda and attack the heritage of native white Britons.<\/p>\n<p>This all points to the fact that sub-Sahara Africa has actually produced next to nothing in terms of important historical figures, culture, or anything of value, which is why they have to lie so profusely about it via government-funded fake museum exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tfpbdn45im\">https:\/\/t.co\/Tfpbdn45im<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SBAfzmazlE\">pic.twitter.com\/SBAfzmazlE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Morgoth (@MorgothsReview) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MorgothsReview\/status\/1751384475349422420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><em>Your support is crucial in helping us defeat mass censorship. 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