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>> >>Surely the fact that other countries practised it is >>completely irrelevant? Afetr all, Ian Huntley couldn't >>really use as a defence "I'm not the first person to >>murder a couple of kids". >> >>In many ways I think the state should apologise, as it >>the British state has had continuous existence since >>1807. In many ways though the fact that we outlawed >>slavery was ana cknowledgement that it was wrong - the >>abolitionists have therefore already apologised for >us. >> >>However it's copmpletely bogus that white people >>should apologise to black people. The next black >>protestor to disrupt some event should be asked to >>prove that he is descended 100% from slaves and not at >>least in opart from black slavers - and if he can't he >>should be made to apologise to himself! > >IT kind of like groups that call for slave reparations >in the United States, there are a lot of black >Americans that have ancestry from the slave owners >than from the slaves. I dont think that the UK or the >US or any one else should apologize for taking part in >the Slave trade 200 years ago, but it doesn't annoy me >as much as calls for reparations, since reparations >for all practical purpose says that the people alive >today are responsible for what their ancestors did.
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