I am sick to death of hearing demands for apologies for slavery. The Queen was just in the area today, and the local news made a point of mentioning that she didn’t apologize for slavery “as some hoped she would.” What a crock.
Is slavery abhorrent? Of course it is. But it’s not a creation of the “white man.” The earliest civilizations had slaves, and it was commonplace around the world…until the “white man” outlawed it…
Those in the African-American community who would demand such apologies only put on display either a) a willful ignorance of history, or b) shameless racism, or c) both. Pretending that the “white people” invented slavery or were the only practitioners of it is downright dishonest, and I’m sick and tired of putting up with it.
Lest we forget, when the Europeans landed on African shores they didn’t come there looking for slaves. It was the natives who approached Europeans asking them if they wanted to buy the slaves they had already captured and were either using themselves or selling to other tribes. Was it wrong for them to buy the slaves? Absolutely….but in any other circumstance who do we blame: the dealer or the user? That’s right…the blame belongs to the dealer. So when will the real slave traders be asked to apologize?
So when these race-baiting, victimologists go to Africa and start demanding apologies from the tribes who sold the slaves inthe first place, then I’ll take their demands seriously. Until then, there’s no way to look at it as anything other than yet another attempt at racial intimidation.
Enough’s enough….
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