TIL: During WW2 black U.S soldiers stationed in England were drinking in a pub with local people when U.S Military police arrived to stop them getting served and arrest them for not segregating. The white local people in the pub defended the black men, which eventually led to a riot and gunshots.

It’s just jaw dropping the sense of entitlement Americans seem to have, especially Americans from the South. I’m from New Zealand and when reading about their soldiers coming over to my country and thinking they could just order our Maori soldiers out of a bar because they had segregation back home - and nothing seems to have changed much about their mentality over the years from what I can tell - just how fucking dare they. I bet our Maori soldiers probably had more mana and pride in one single soldier than in a whole battalion of white Southern American soldiers put together! And to think they did this in other places too - glad the bars in that little UK town put coloured only signs up everywhere.

/r/todayilearned Thread Link - telegraph.co.uk