Should We Still Be Paying For The Sins Of Some Of Our Fore Fathers?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/23/glasgow-university-slave-trade-reparations

In fact hasn't the time now come to forget what happened so far back in history, as this sort of thing only alienates once race against another?

[Khandro]

Perhaps some of these now comfortable distant descendents of slavery, should be shown some contemporary literature & pictures of the lot of working people in Northern England (&throughout Europe)in the 18th century, where people including children were little better than slaves.

[Mamyalynne]

Seems an admirable project to me, not an alienation but a joint effort.

I'm sure the Centre will be a great success.

[woofgang]

spicerack watch your language.

[Spicerack]

I haven't used any bad language. Mind your own business.

[woofgang]

abo is on a par with the n word

[Spicerack]

In your head.

[anotheoldgit]

Strange how some still hark on by what happened hundreds of year ago, while at the same time show little concern about Modern Day Slavery which is increasing day by day.

[Mamyalynne]

I wasn't aware Glasgow University had made it known they were not concerned about modern slavery.

You aren't for building bridges AOG, are you?

[Khandro]

How many slaves & their descendants died of hunger in the Caribbean? People have starved & lived at subsistence levels for centuries here in the West, even in the 20th cent. there was the 'Great Famine' (Holodomor) of 1932–33—a man-made catastrophe. Of the estimated five million people who died of hunger in the Soviet Union, almost four million were Ukrainians, but the list is much longer.
If the whining black people don't know this, the agitating, virtue -signalling students should
What kind of history are we now teaching?

[KARL]

Rockrose nailed it: Only once people (in the UK) stop going on about (the glorious, heroic exploits in, etc.) wars can there be any hint at starting to closing the story on slavery. We seem to be a long way off from that.

[anotheoldgit]

Mamyalynne

/// I wasn't aware Glasgow University had made it known they were not concerned about modern slavery. ///

I wasn't referring to the University, I was referring to some of the snowflakes on this site.

/// You aren't for building bridges AOG, are you? ///

It is not I that should be 'building bridges' but those who are not prepared to ignore the past, and learn to integrate with those from the country who have provided a home and living for them in our own country.

[woofgang]

Spicerack not just in my head https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/abo-is-not-just-an-abbreviation-of-aboriginal-ng-4ddb57fe9fac0137c39f9d0b9bbb1d9f

[webbo3]

What about the Barbary pirates that raided the west country, as my relations MAY have been involved can i get some compo.

[Spicerack]

Wow, took you over an hour to find another idiot who agrees with you.
A racist idiot to boot.
//Terms like Kiwi, Yank and Aussie are innocuous because they refer to powerful, white, dominant cultures.//

[anotheoldgit]

webbo3

/// What about the Barbary pirates that raided the west country, as my relations MAY have been involved can i get some compo. ///

What about the African slave traders, we hear very little of their input into slavery, perhaps the time has now come for their descendants to pay compensation to their own people?

[1ozzy]

//Oz. Ever thought about pulling your shack down, getting a loin cloth and a pointy stick and joining the Abo's in the Outback.
You'd be practising what you preach and we wouldn't have to listen to your interminable virtue-signalling botox.//

Simply awesome Spicerack, shows your exceptional knowledge of other peoples life styles.

Haa haa, live on and whinge about your own loss of culture along with Brexit etc.

LOL!!!

[Khandro]

Aog //What about the African slave traders,//

All Arab Muslims, every man jack of 'em

[youngmafbog]

Looks to me like the Univierity is using it as advertising. Where did the nice round figure of 20million come from for instance and more importanty where is it going to?

Another intereting point about this sort of thing is that
any money used from taxpayers means that the decendants of the slave will also pay. Always makes me smile that one.

What should be done with regard to slavery is stamp it out - it is still happening but some seem more interested in something that happened 200 years ago.

[Mamyalynne]

I had to leave the site, sorry for delay in response.

AOG, once more you use that word , it has no context to me, but I presume those who you meant it for will take it to heart.

I see this (and other projects in a similar vein) as worthwhile in building good relationships in the present and in the future.

As far as I can see it has come about naturally and not under duress.

If the world is to survive at all, it stands a better chance if more people are working with rather than against each other.

To quote Labi Siffre:

"The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become".

Seems you and I will forever be the opposite sides of a coin, enjoy your afternoon.

[Khandro]

CHARLES MOORE asks (reasonably) in today's Telegraph, If we are to pay reparations for slavery, why not for the persecution of Catholics?