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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
the government didn't ask anybody to come to the UK, they issued citizenship to the colonies in order to keep them as colonies within the commonwealth in the age of Independence movements after WWII, but they forgot that jamaica is not kenya or india, and that JA is close enough for blacks to immigrate and come to Britain as full citizens, which the whites absolutely detested.
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With respect, the first half of your statement is entirely wrong. The period of mass commonwealth immigration into Britain came at the height of a labour shortage. Blacks from the commonwealth were nothing short of being begged to come and work in Britain - usually in low-skilled service industry jobs.
The idea of giving them citizenship to bolster the commonwealth is strange given that Britain was at that time coming to a swift recognition that it could no-longer actually fund an Empire (being totally broke after WWII). It was ultimately tapping a workforce before losing it.
As for Blacks being detested by the British on arriving, this is again false in the extremity of the word 'detested'. Yes, there were riots in Notting Hill in the late 50s, and very small pockets of unrest elsehere, but the most common experiences of blacks in britain at that time was that they were treated with suspicion and ultimately as second class citizens. The real problems however started in the 70s when the oil crisis brought a massive recession and white people started to blame blacks for taking their jobs. That's when you began to see the relatively brief rise of racist skinheads and the National Front party.