Harvey656 comments on 'Lost African tribe' set up home in Scots woodlands as locals left baffled

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That was certainly... a read. I don't know enough about Jacobites, anyone have any context on that?

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

To simplify, it was a political group of Catholic conservatives, which fought the Protestant kings and queens. They were not especially black.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They were not especially black.

lol

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world [S] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

There’s a group of people who are (rightly) concerned that black folks have been omitted from history, and have overcorrected to claiming that basically all important historical figures ever were black. Another comment in this thread mentioned the Black Israelites, but there’s also the Nation of Islam (nothing Yakub made could be good of course).

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Betting the lost black tribe nonsense is a corruption of some African Christian myth. The Christians were already there by the 1st century, and in no small numbers, building churches, all that. There's a lot of history there I'm ignorant of.

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[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

It's not a thing I thought I'd write someday 😅

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[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This story gets weirder and weirder.

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