The government has said that the history of slavery is to be taught in schools. No doubt emphasis will be placed on the transatlantic slave trade for which we are to be eternally ashamed and in so doing appease those of Afro Carribean descent.
I presume it will not be emphasised that the slave trade continues to this day in Arab countries and that over the ages far more Africans have been enslaved by Arabs than Europeans.
Light will be made of the fact that this country was the first in the world to abolish slavery and to enforce this with the Royal Navy.
Slavery is and was a crime there is no doubt, but why should the average British person be continually blamed for the sins of 200 years ago.
WHY ARE ALL THE WRONGS OF HISTORY OUR FAULT?
WHY DO WE HAVE TO FEEL GUILTY FOR THESE FAR OFF CRIMES?
WHY DO PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ORIGIN HARBOUR THIS PERSECUTION COMPLEX?
After all AFRICANS SOLD THE BRITISH THEIR SLAVES.
Remember decades after slavery was abolished in Wigan ,in 1841--
35 children aged 6-7 were employed in Wigan pits.
324 aged 7-8.
166 aged 9-10.
plus thousands of women employed pulling sledges full of coal in the darkness of the pit harnessed like horses.
Thousands of children worked in mills.
AS THESE WERE "FREE" PEOPLE AND DID NOT BELONG TO A MASTER --
THEY HAD NO VALUE. THEY WERE PAID BARELY ENOUGH TO LIVE ON. IF THEY DIED THEY DIED. NO LOSS TO THE BOSS.
THEIR LOT WAS WORSE THAN THAT OF THE SLAVES.
WILL THEIR PLIGHT , THE PLIGHT OF OUR ANCESTORS ,BE MENTIONED IN THESE SLAVERY LESSONS?
YOU CAN BET YOUR LIFE IT WON'T.
YET WE, THE DESCENDANTS OF THESE ABUSED PEOPLE ARE EXPECTED TO FEEL GUILTY!
IF APOLOGIES ARE IN ORDER FOR THE AFRICAN DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES--
HOW ABOUT AN APOLOGY FOR US ?whose ancestors were more abused than the African slaves.
