Reply to: Abolition of Slavery: Apologise or Not Apologise. Discuss.

[vetran]

Question time

Looked like the audience understood it was about cash not pretty apologies.

Sad really, our ancestors abolish a widely carried out legal trade (quite rightly) on moral grounds and defend that decision with arms, all the descendants of some of the victims can think of is to look for a paycheck. I liked the comment from the lady regarding her Grandmother in the RAJ, sounds like she is worried that would be the next "fairness lottery".

[threaded]

White mans burden eh?

[ratewhore]

http://notsaussure.wordpress.com/200...y-reparations/

I like the linked blog by Tim Worstall - but I can see some people on this board being disgusted by it...

[Troll]

The protesters also called for reparations to be made to help narrow the gap between the black communities and the rest of society.

White mans burden eh?

[cykophysh39]

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/366019.html

[Board Game Geek]

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[Dundeegeorge]

Let's see now.

http://notsaussure.wordpress.com/200...y-reparations/

[SallyAnne]

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...

Of course not!

[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...

[wendigo100]

Ahhh brilliant!!! Bravo!!!!

A truly wonderful post

No, it's self-flagellatory crap.

[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]

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.

[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.

[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]

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?