Abolition of Slavery: Apologise or Not Apologise. Discuss.

[ratewhore]

I'm not going to post any more on this topic. Thanks.

Thank fuck for that!!

[Board Game Geek]

"The past is a different country; they do things differenty there."

The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley

[mrdonuts]

It wasn't the Africans who tortured, raped, routinely beat, murdered, starved and abused the slaves.

really? -what about that idi amin chap then, seems there are more than a few examples of particularly bad behaviour in that neck of the woods

[wobbegong]

Typical pc lefty tulipe. Where's the sense apologising for something someone else did hundreds of years ago?

If we do apologise, does that make everything OK suddenly? Will attitudes towards black people be changed overnight, will their career prospects immediately become brighter and their housing transformed into show-homes?

Will poverty ridden ghettos just melt away, and violent crime, drug use and gang culture become a distant, hazy memory?

. . . or maybe it's just about making a fast buck for doing **** all?

[cykophysh39]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6499977.stm

To those who say there is no monetary agenda involved in the "Apology" what does that sign say?

[wobbegong]

The Italian government must be quaking in their boots. Imagine the reparation payments they'll be liable to cough up for the Romans' empirical ambitions.

[wendigo100]

The Italian government must be quaking in their boots. Imagine the reparation payments they'll be liable to cough up for the Romans' empirical ambitions.

Romans? As someone who lived in Norfolk, I can tell you that Boudicca was no saint either.

[SallyAnne]

To those that say "it was nothing to do with me", how about this. The Battle of Britain and the liberation of Europe was nothing to do with you; Magna Carta wasn't; Charles Darwin wasn't; defeating the Spanish Armada wasn't; William Shakespeare wasn't; the struggles of the Welsh Miners' Trade Unions weren't; the 1966 World Cup Final wasn't. And you can stop letting off ******* fireworks on November 5th too - the Gunpowder Plot was foiled in 1605 when the Slave Trade was in full flow. Nothing to do with you. Just forget it; that was 300 years ago.

If you can't feel personal shame and disgrace at Britain's involvement in the Slave Trade (and we were by far and away the biggest perpetrators and the biggest beneficiaries) then I really don't see how you can have any right whatsoever to feel personal pride in Britain's many great achievements either.

Ahhh brilliant!!! Bravo!!!!

A truly wonderful post

[wendigo100]

Ahhh brilliant!!! Bravo!!!!

A truly wonderful post

No, it's self-flagellatory crap.

[ratewhore]

Ahhh brilliant!!! Bravo!!!!

A truly wonderful post

Biggest pile of tulip I've read over the last few days imho. But then, thats just what it is - just an opinion isn't it? And we don't ram them down each others throats do we?

Didn't think so...