Re: Andrew Don't use this baseless trick -- British Empire

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Date Posted: 23:12:50 08/22/08 Fri
Author: Uncle Tom
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 222.127.223.71
Subject: Re: Andrew Don't use this baseless trick
In reply to: Andrew from the USA 's message, "Re: Why has any Western or "White" nation ever apologized for slavery?" on 19:45:22 08/22/08 Fri

The American government should apologize for healing to take place. So that progress can take place. Stop using the trick argument Andrew!
>I don't think I should apologize for what my ancestors
>did, especially since they didn't do anything! As far
>as I know, none of them owned a single slave or
>participated in slavery-related activities. There only
>ever was a small portion of people who owned slaves in
>America.
>
>Here's something that may intrigue (though maybe not
>surprise) people here, but the South had a dirty
>little secret: many of the southern slave owning men
>had sexual affairs with their property. As a result,
>African Americans today are about 20% white on
>average. Barack Obama's wife is descended from both
>slaves and slaveowners.
>
>We shouldn't have to apologize for slavery anymore
>than these blacks have to apologize for their
>slaveowning anscestors.

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Re: Andrew Don't use this baseless trick -- Andrew from the USA, 00:49:58 08/23/08 Sat

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> The American government should apologize for healing >to take place. So that progress can take place. Stop >using the trick argument Andrew! >>I don't think I should apologize for what my ancestors >>did, especially since they didn't do anything! As far >>as I know, none of them owned a single slave or >>participated in slavery-related activities. There only >>ever was a small portion of people who owned slaves in >>America. >> >>Here's something that may intrigue (though maybe not >>surprise) people here, but the South had a dirty >>little secret: many of the southern slave owning men >>had sexual affairs with their property. As a result, >>African Americans today are about 20% white on >>average. Barack Obama's wife is descended from both >>slaves and slaveowners. >> >>We shouldn't have to apologize for slavery anymore >>than these blacks have to apologize for their >>slaveowning anscestors.
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