@itsvantaaa: Even if my voice shakes I will still speak up about mine urs and our community if we continue to be ignorant we will remain in this vicious cycle… I’m not perfect I get things wrong .. and it’s okay to admit that. On a whole Black brits need to start discussing things in house and start having these difficult conversations safely holding ourselves and each other accountable whilst doing so. ❤️❤️#awareness #blackhistorymonth #fy #blackbritish I send my condolences to the Taylor family 💐💐💐

🃏.WUNNA🇯🇲 :

It has nothing to do with Caribbeans and Africans. The crime is due to gang violence. It’s black on black crime not Caribbean on African crime. This is a London thing yfm

Leroy :

I have been thinking about how Britain never hated everyone equally. There was an actual pecking order, and people at the time could name it without blinking. Caribbeans came over as loyal colonials, or so the story went. The papers could paint Windrush arrivals as cheerful subjects of the King, and light skin with an English name opened doors that stayed shut to others. I read about a lighter skinned Caribbean person being told, you are alright, it is the others, and being given a room that a darker applicant had been refused. That sentence, it is the others, tells you everything. The system did not need everyone to be cruel. It only needed a few people to feel exempt. Africans arriving afterwards, with names and accents and dress that announced them as foreign, got no such flattery. Nobody patted a Nigerian on the head and called him almost one of us. The cruelty did not stop at the water's edge. Inside Caribbean homes, where lighter skin had meant status since the plantation, Africans met the same prejudice in miniature. Accents mocked. Whispers about being fresh. Parents who hoped their children would never bring an African partner through the door. And Africans pushed back in kind, calling Caribbean people hollow, white washed, carriers of the master's name, people who had misplaced their languages and their gods. That last insult lands because it is half true. The English surname was never an inheritance. It is a scar that got mistaken for one. Both groups were wound from the same cloth, cutting at each other, while the hand holding the scissors went unnoticed.

RhïRhï🐻🩷 :

First and foremost from since young the reason why our generation have this whole African versus Caribbean thing it’s not even just for my parents it’s because white children always told that Caribbean is a place to go and enjoy yourself and Africa a place you donate from a TV advert. So naturally Caribbean used to always say oh with a better black people this whole issue of us versus us it’s because of white people yet get again.

Vantaa :

The word sorry is really underrated ❤️

Trickybizniz :

well said!

djossgass :

Natz love :

I am of Jamaican descent and you are right. Jamaican children did put down other children of African descent. We thought we were better for some strange reason. I believe this was due to ignorance and only seeing negative narrative. I personally had friends both from the Caribbean and different parts of Africa but I remember the disrespect that they received and it was f’ed up.

RhïRhï🐻🩷 :

My mum is born in the 60s way before this even happened and she is Caribbean and she’s got absolutely bullied by Africans for being so “colonised” then they start getting on, then she said again Africans and Caribbeans started beefing again. A lot of older generation Caribbean and Africans do not get on so to say that they too young to know, is wrong the parents tell them stick to your culture so u may not know why u different but know there’s a difference. then now our generation is finally getting on sharing each other’s culture standing United as a black people not as Africans or Caribbean and now the BBC which is government lead has release this. Now Caribbeans and Africans are versing again, so when we are finally at peace we bring this up 26 years later IN BLACK HISTORY MONTH. Africans versus Caribbean is a good thing for the government because it keeps black people from being United and keeps us from retaliate against what they do to us. we’re all getting distracted by this again not trying to be rude. And Peckhams history is very known for police brutality and it gets mentioned every year. So what a great way to distract us by turning us on each other again. when it became a very black oriented place the government let it go, then black people started turning on each other and it went to Caribbeans vs African. We started Taking from each other and naturally they they took the side of their culture as understanding. We are soooo blind as a whole race it is crazy. And to say Jamaicas are this Jamaicans are that against Africans. So when this documentary is out is the only time Africans see a difference and don’t tell us we are stolen Africans. According to like every African ik they don’t fail to remind me I’m African so it’s not Caribbeans vs Africans because us Caribbeans are Africans remember. Let’s not pick and choose when we wanna remember that.

kfundz101 :

There’s no such thing as Black British we are not homogeneous. I’m Caribbean and that’s it. We not to stop forcing this Black British nonsense. Africans shouldn’t be worried about us they should be worried about the tribal wars in their countries that’s really killing them.

3188manda :

sorry but you didnt live in those times and really are just waffling, the truth is that the black caribbean community didnt ever want to label themselves english or even british, but africans coming to england absolutely did, they had nothing but positive commentary about their new life in britain, but black Caribbeans didnt like that attitude, mostly because they had spent years saying they couldnt get ahead because of white supremacy, they also watched those people going into social homes and jobs instantly and was angry they had to wait but these people are immediately on the same level as them if not better. because they like to keep the message to hate the English because of slavery and colonialism, africans also came and went straight into work, while many black Caribbean stayed on welfare because the mind set spread was to take out of the system and never put in, or they was involved in gang culture and violence. black Caribbeans never wanted to identify as africans or english themselves and hated those people for trying to remind them that your all the same people. these are the same generation that now go on tv and claim they've always called themselves english but its the white people that have stopped them. even now when people are talking about it they immediately talk about being oppressed by racism and not all the true factors that really created that black on black racism.