Children of Britain lie about history: "blacks were here 10 thousand years ago"

In the children's program Horrible Histories, which has been out for more than 15 years and is now being broadcast by the BBC iPlayer streaming service, they told a new version of the story on behalf of a group of black artists.

The Horrible Histories program is incredibly popular. The original idea was that in the series the story becomes funny in a format that is never present in school lessons. "What is not taught at school" — the thesis has become a kind of slogan of the project, but it should be noted that in some cases, what school teachers do not tell about simply did not happen.

In one of the episodes of the program, the story of black people in Britain was told in the form of the song Been Here from the Start. In particular, there are such lines in the song::

We worked in the Stone Age,

Went to war with Bonaparte;

Before these islands became British,

Black people played their part.

As an example, the famous "Cheddar man" is mentioned, whose remains were found in the Gough cave in 1903. Allegedly, he could also be black.

"For 10,000 years of Britain's existence, some Britons looked just like me," a black man in a headdress, which is considered to be the helmet of a Roman legionary, sings happily.

A racial scandal unfolded in social networks after the publication of this song. Critics have accused the BBC of rewriting history.

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage responded with a question: "When will the BBC stop lying?"