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At its height, Rome's empire stretched right along the coast of north Africa and sub-Saharan Africans passed to and fro across its porous southern border.
- David Olusoga
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We nonchalantly expect that next year's smartphone will be faster and better than this year's, yet we struggle to imagine that society and our lives could progress at anything like the pace at which technology advances and we meekly accept it when things go backwards.
- David Olusoga
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Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.
- David Olusoga
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Aside from his other achievements, Winston Churchill wrote a six-volume, 1.9m-word account of the second world war and his role in winning it.
- David Olusoga
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#War
#Winning
#World War
#World
When the banks crashed the global economy in 2007-08, it was they who received a bailout while the rest of us got austerity.
- David Olusoga
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#Global Economy
#Rest
#Us
#Who
For black and Asian people of my generation, the England team and the cross of St George were once ingredients in a toxic broth. For decades, a minority of England fans brought the nation and the national team into disrepute, bringing violence both to foreign streets and immigrant communities at home.
- David Olusoga
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#Fans
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#People
Even the building of a second British empire in the 19th century never fully healed the wound of losing America, and the end of Britain's imperial prestige after the second world war has cut deeper.
- David Olusoga
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#Building
#Losing
#War
#World
The nation of 2019, exponentially wealthier, appears to have a fraction of its former self-belief and little faith in its capacity to solve the latest in a long line of housing crises that stretch back to the 18th century.
- David Olusoga
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#Faith
#Housing
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#Nation
The history of the British empire, the chapter of our national story that would have explained to my classmates why a child born in Nigeria was sat among them, was similarly missing from the curriculum.
- David Olusoga
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#Curriculum
#History
#Story
#Why
I think I was eight the first time I saw the Benin bronzes. I was taken to see them at the British Museum by my white, British mother, who felt it important that her half-Nigerian children learned about the artistic achievements of their forefathers. I've been entranced by them ever since.
- David Olusoga
#Children
#Important
#Mother
#Time
#White
The loss of the American colonies was the first time the process of British empire building had been put significantly into reverse, and became the starting point for a nostalgic yearning for lost colonies - and the wealth and global influence that came with them - that has become part of our national psyche.
- David Olusoga
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#Lost
#Process
#Time
#Wealth
To describe someone as a pessimist is to issue an insult, whereas to be labelled an optimist is to get a pat on the back. To dismiss someone's argument as pessimistic is to suggest it is the product of a personality disorder, rather than careful analysis.
- David Olusoga
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Excusing or downplaying British racism with comparisons to the US is a bad habit with a long history.
- David Olusoga
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#Habit
#History
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#Us
I never had a black teacher or lecturer, I never once met a black British person who held any sort of professional or managerial role.
- David Olusoga
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#Person
#Professional
#Teacher
Our national history cannot be national if, in the near future, one in three young adults feels their stories remain untold, if this country's long global history of empire and interconnections is marginalised and if the historical reality of race is rendered almost invisible.
- David Olusoga
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#Future
#History
#Long
#Reality
At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me.
- David Olusoga
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#Front
#Louvre
#Me
#Shown
History, after all, is a process, not a position, and it is not best written in bronze and marble. It is complex, plastic and ever-changing; all things that heroic statues are not.
- David Olusoga
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#Marble
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Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it is not a primal urge or a basic instinct, it is a 400-year-old political and economic system that has infected our institutions, our culture and even our thinking.
- David Olusoga
#Culture
#Jealousy
#Political
#Thinking
From daycare to graduation, our education system stacks the odds against the poor. Predicted grades is just one of many hurdles that are set a little higher for those whose parents do not have the money to smooth their path in life or the inside knowledge of how the system works.
- David Olusoga
#Education
#Knowledge
#Life
#Money
#Path
Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.
- David Olusoga
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#Black
#History
#Missing
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