Dr Sentamu, Archbishop of York:
He added: “This community was involved in a very terrible trade, Africans were involved in a very terrible trade, the Church was involved in a very terrible trade… it’s important that we all own up to what was collectively done.”
BBC NEWS | UK | UK slave trade apology ‘needed’.
By dead people you twat! Not us, we weren’t born. They are all dead. Apology only means something if the protagonists apologise to those injured. They cannot because they are all dead and have been for two hundred years. Any apology by this generation for the sins of past generations is nothing more than hollow, self-indulgent rhetoric.
I wonder, will the good doctor be demanding an apology from the Arab slavers?
I’m a bit confused by all this. Do I have to apologise if none of my ancestors was in the UK at the time?
You don’t have to apologise at all – none of us does. Ultimately this is all about money. The minute Britain apologises there will be demands for reparations.
Reparations have already repeatedly mentioned by many of the ‘activists’. How much is this going to cost us all, do we think?
Now that we’re in ‘Europe’ we need to reassess the whole notion of ‘reparations’.
Then again, what about the wars etc with the Scots, Welsh, Danes etc?
I believe that black Aficans were pretty active in enslaving their own kind back then and in more recent times.
How about the descendants of the mill, mine and land owners of this country apologising for how they treated their working class ‘slaves’. The same kind of ‘slaves’ that are still exploited all over the world today.
What a load of old cobblers.
I had a (cyber) row with some Irish Americans on a similar basis once. According to them the Potato Famine was my fault. Partly as result of my jumping on the genealogy bandwagon I know my ancestors (both sides) were illiterate workers scraping an existence around the time of slavery and the potato famine – no TV – no newspapers (they couldn’t read) no votes and not much to eat – how were they responsible?
Just watched a programme on TV with Rageeh Omaar skirting around the issue of child slavery in Muslim countries… mention of Madrassahs and mosque but no direct references. Strange choice of reporter for this feature.
regarding the poor irish americans, they got their revenge by sponsoring the IRA all those years…. they want more ?
“Just watched a programme on TV with Rageeh Omaar skirting around the issue of child slavery in Muslim countries… mention of Madrassahs and mosque but no direct references. Strange choice of reporter for this feature.”
Well as we know Muslims are above and beyond reproach, being exponents of a quiet, peaceful and inclusive religion.