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🗓️ 14 July 2025
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0:00.0 | So how many black guys you think fought during the Battle of Hastings and Sussex England nearly a millennium ago? |
0:06.3 | Before you give some flip answer, I want you to take a look at the participants, but before we do that, |
0:11.5 | hi everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. This is Wright Angle, brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com. |
0:19.8 | Wow. Okay, so gentlemen, on the one side, as you may know, |
0:23.0 | you had the Normans, led by their Duke, William, |
0:25.0 | and Normans were partially frankified Vikings |
0:28.5 | who had been invited to settle in France and 9-11. |
0:31.0 | On the other side, you had the English |
0:32.7 | descended from Angles, Saxons, and Uts from northern Germany, |
0:36.4 | led by their just-crowned king, Harold Godwinson. |
0:40.5 | So, okay, now that you know that everybody was just Lily White, |
0:44.6 | go ahead and give me your flip answer, |
0:46.2 | and I'll pretend like I heard it. |
0:47.7 | Mine is, those armies were wider |
0:50.4 | than the all albino Osmond's tribute band, |
0:53.3 | which we're gonna pretend as as a thing but not to the |
0:57.2 | bbc whose new miniseries king and conqueror features a diverse group of actors telling the story |
1:04.7 | of harold and williams fight for the english throne uh bill in 1066 the Normans were quite French. The English wouldn't |
1:13.3 | be recognizably English to modern years, but to be fair, today's England, where Muhammad is now |
1:19.0 | the most common baby boy's name, and that is a fact for the last couple of years now, |
1:23.8 | today's England would hardly be recognizable to a time traveler from just 50 years ago. |
1:29.0 | So it's my theory, and maybe you'll correct me if I'm wrong here, that the BBC is basically retconning history to make the unmaking of Britain seem normal. |
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