‘It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.’ P.G Wodehouse Does historical ignorance trump bad faith, or vice versa? Does lack of personal responsibility absolve everyone of historical crimes? Is the same true for historic familial responsibility? And if absolution is not agreed, and genuine contrition absent, what should be expected, what should suffice? Do current apologies for historical crimes mean anything? Since personal contrition is hardly to be expected for crimes not personally committed, can an apology be anything but bogus, empty?
I wonder whether you read what I wrote? Since my views on the demand for reparations would seem to be similar to yours. As for wanting to do something about the manifest unfairnesses our history had bequeathed to our own people, go and take a look at The Long March, and the maybe get back to me.
"Rather, in humility we might offer the descendents of ‘our’ slaves the best Britain still has to offer, in a way which invites them to re-write their own, and our, version, of their qualities, characteristics and potentials."
Hand wringing self-aggrandising liberals have been coming out with this kind of thing for decades. Reparation has long been repaid in the form of all the innovations, technology and medicine which Britain has given the world. The quality of life of those West Indians living in the Caribbean and Britain today is immeasurably better for the gifts of Britain's industrial and scientific revolutions. People such as yourself have long given black people a stick to beat white people with and look where it's got us.
This issue was actually long forgotten until it was dragged up by the likes of the Runnymede Trust to attack this country with. It is clearly being used as a psychological weapon together with the accusation of racism and there is a direct link between that and the mass sexual enslavement of tens of thousands of white girls across this country over the last 40 years. How about you turn your sanctimonious mind towards securing "reparation" for those kids and their parents and remind those in the race industry what their politics led to.
I wonder whether you read what I wrote? Since my views on the demand for reparations would seem to be similar to yours. As for wanting to do something about the manifest unfairnesses our history had bequeathed to our own people, go and take a look at The Long March, and the maybe get back to me.
"Rather, in humility we might offer the descendents of ‘our’ slaves the best Britain still has to offer, in a way which invites them to re-write their own, and our, version, of their qualities, characteristics and potentials."
Hand wringing self-aggrandising liberals have been coming out with this kind of thing for decades. Reparation has long been repaid in the form of all the innovations, technology and medicine which Britain has given the world. The quality of life of those West Indians living in the Caribbean and Britain today is immeasurably better for the gifts of Britain's industrial and scientific revolutions. People such as yourself have long given black people a stick to beat white people with and look where it's got us.
This issue was actually long forgotten until it was dragged up by the likes of the Runnymede Trust to attack this country with. It is clearly being used as a psychological weapon together with the accusation of racism and there is a direct link between that and the mass sexual enslavement of tens of thousands of white girls across this country over the last 40 years. How about you turn your sanctimonious mind towards securing "reparation" for those kids and their parents and remind those in the race industry what their politics led to.