TerriBull
I saw the Raiway Children and agree some of the scenes relating to the treatment of the black soldiers was horrible. I'd read about that prejudice before, I think some of those men felt that they got better treatment from the locals where they were stationed in England than their own compatriots. Churchill, like many world leaders had his flaws, find me one that hasn't. Some decisions taken during wartime in retrospect would have been the wrong ones, that would be inevitable there was so much to balance. He nevertheless was the man who got this country through an incredibly difficult time. My mother spent those years working in London when incendiary bombs were dropping all over the place, never knowing whether there would be a home, or family to come back to. I remember her telling me "the war destroyed relationships and people and there was absolutely no certainty or ability to project forward just to get through the day and hopefully the next one" My father was in North Africa most of the time. They were both teens at the outset in 1939. I think they felt that he was the right leader for the time, even if they later thought there was a need for change post war. Later generations can give their opinions, but none of us were there on the ground living through it and what was needed a then was strong leadership.
My late MIL married her black north American soldier husband during WWII and my husband was the result. Actually I think he has a right to have a view of how they were treated and how he was treated. It isn't ancient history and a child who was spat on in the street because he was a different colour to his mother is evidence of how disgracefully people behaved. A child hearing his mother being called a whore because her child was a different colour is entitled to be judgemental. Remember my late FIL was here fighting
