Looks like a cult, tbh.
'Lost African tribe' set up home in Scots woodlands as locals left baffled
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/lost-african-tribe-set-up-35758961
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/lost-african-tribe-set-up-35758961
Looks like a cult, tbh.
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floo@retrolemmy.com · 72 pts · 360d
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 53 pts · 359d
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 360d
Dang, I've seen people with these beliefs but I can't remember what they call themselves. An American(?) black crypto-jewish religious conspiracy group. They set up on sidewalks and yell at everyone.
fullsquare@awful.systems · 17 pts · 359d
like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 359d
Yes! Thank you. They seemed like an angry bunch when I encountered them.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 360d
Black Hebrew Israelites?
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 359d
Yes! Thank you. They seemed like an angry bunch when I encountered them.
aramis87@fedia.io · 53 pts · 360d
"The tribe", "the group" -- aka three people.
Also, for the record, I'd like to point out that the Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 359d
Sorry, was trying to avoid the daily fail and this seemed to have the funniest title. It does seem like a weird mini sex cult.
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 360d
Five@slrpnk.net · 39 pts · 359d
Britain with no irony: "You can't come to a land and act like its yours! We were living here first!"
toynbee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 359d
Well ... Do they have a flag?
rbesfe@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 359d
People living in public woods is okay because colonialism, thanks Lemmy
Part4@infosec.pub · -8 pts · 359d
A7thStone@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 359d
Did you actually just say that with no irony? The "western" world lives in relative luxury because of continued exploitation of the global south.
Part4@infosec.pub · -1 pts · 359d
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 359d
Where do you think your cheap clothes, devices, food, energy, transportation, etc. comes from? Today’s globalism is a direct descendant of colonialism. In fact, many people even call it neo-colonialism.
Part4@infosec.pub · -2 pts · 359d
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 359d
I agree with almost everything you say, except you are ignoring that capital bribes workers in the imperial core with a superior quality of life to maintain a compliant populace to provide a bulwark against the “slavering masses.”
It sounds like you’re anti capitalist and fairly well educated, but it’s a straight up lie to say that capitalism hasn’t increased quality of life for imperial core workers over that of global south.
Five@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 359d
Will the British Museum Ever Return These Stolen Artifacts?
Part4@infosec.pub · -2 pts · 359d
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 359d
You keep harping on about impoverished Brits as if the poorest Brits aren’t still more wealthy than 90% of the world’s inhabitants.
Like I get it, life is hard for poor people everywhere, but everyone in the imperial core benefits from western dominance. I’d much rather be poor in London than in Mumbai.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 359d
You don’t need to benefit to still have it better than the people it was stolen from.
Someone else getting knocked down leaves them worse off even if it doesn’t improve your situation.
Part4@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 359d
fristislurper@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 359d
And yet, here we are, writing in English because it is the lingua franca.
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 359d
I read the whole article and I still don't know if it is real. I hate this timeline.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 359d
Same. The fact the site had an obscene amount of ads on mobile made it worse weird
Feyd@programming.dev · 1 pts · 359d
Tf is an ad?
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 359d
They seem like a UK offshoot of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
If they want to live in tents in the forest instead of yelling at people walking by on the street, I suppose that's an improvement.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 357d
Living on nuts and berries is probably safer than eating Scottish food.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 12 pts · 359d
I'm skeptical. If these people truly are of a tribe attempting to reclaim stolen land, I support them. But the cynic in me wonders if they're cosplaying and looking for a con.
rbesfe@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 359d
They're African. There were never any Africans living in Scotland before the slave trade.
tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 347d
Well, to be pedantic, we're all African immigrants, just many generations removed. But, yeah.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 359d
If it lets them get back to nature and pursue enlightenment, does the story they use to get there really matter?
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 359d
Yes, if they're lying to perpetuate fraud.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 359d
Isn't that every religion?
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 359d
Yes and no. There are true believers and there are charlatans who knowingly swindle people. That much is easily apparent.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 360d
That was certainly... a read. I don't know enough about Jacobites, anyone have any context on that?
zloubida@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 360d
To simplify, it was a political group of Catholic conservatives, which fought the Protestant kings and queens. They were not especially black.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 360d
lol
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 359d
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).
shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 359d
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.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 360d
It's not a thing I thought I'd write someday 😅
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 359d
This story gets weirder and weirder.
Part4@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 359d
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 359d
Looking forward to an update after the first snow.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 359d
Kinda feel like we should leave them just to see what happens
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 3 pts · 359d
I wonder if they'd like it more or less if people just agreed to let them do it
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 359d
Cool and all, but you were not natives of Scotland.
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 359d
Neither are the Scots if you go back far enough.
All humans are immigrants except MAYBE some Ethiopians still living in the cradle of life.
Idk i feel like 1,000 years should be long enough to naturalize. If they can hold those woods for 1,000 years, they should be considered natives.