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bazza · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Karma :

Someone should put this sad sack of crap out of his misery:

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5105328.stm

preferably with a nickel-jacketed Anadin.
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Jamie. · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Karma :

Sorry but thats pretty sad, I bet hes a vegan or something

tatters · Exxon Valdez Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Karma :

Bollocks to the African Holocaust Rolling Eyes

many more of our european ancestors were slaves for thosands of years long before they were used.
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Mister James · I want to believe! Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Karma :

Wipe them out.

All of them.
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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

well i dont think there is anything wrong with a guy being embarassed and appologetic about what his ancestors got up to. I think its nice that he wants to highlight the selfish cruelty done with ships with christain names by supposedly respectable citizens of this country.

I'd agree with tatters tho that hundreds of years ago peasants in this country were little more than slaves belonging to their lord and master.
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Jubal · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Karma :

Trouble is though that these people wringing their hands with guilt and self loathing judge the acts of our ancestors with todays values.
Look at what prevailed at the time-
You could be hung for stealing a loaf of bread, or even impersonation of a Greenwich pensioner, transported in slaver-like ships to Aus for what would now be a minor offence, imprisoned in shocking conditions for being in debt.
Or if you were a six year old child you could be working down the mines or get mangled up in mill machinery whilst working a 12 hour shift after school, but that's assuming your parents were still around, if not it was the workhouse.
All this still happened way after slavery was abolished, so who had it worse, slaves or slaves in all but name?
Do the descendants of mine and mill owners feel similarly guilty I wonder?.............I think not!
Dragging up "Slavery" all the time is just a bull shit excuse, nothing more.

bazza · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Karma :

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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

yeah id go along with that
the post from tatters, not bazza obviously Smile

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Mister James · I want to believe! Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Karma :

One thing that's constantly ignored, and gains only a brief mention in the original article, is that the vast majority of black slaves were sold by their countrymen - rather than rounded up by Whitey.

Personally, I think the Royal Navy expunged much of the wrong that we did as a nation, by effectively wiping out the international slave trade single handedly.
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