Should we feel guilty about our slave owning ancestors?

Question

Should I tell my boss to stuff his stupid job!

Should I beat my children and wife and not let them leave the home?

I am a Patriarch and if I want to bomb people who have different methods of enslaving their population and looking after their buddies, then we do, so be it?

Don't make me feel guilty though.

Righteous Blair

Answer 1

Do feel guilty - get angry!

Oh! you already are, okay then

Answer 2

I feel bad about what happened in the past, and I think we should think about it more often then we do. I also feel that nations who were involved in the slave trade - like Holland for instance - should incorporate that part of history in their history books and teach the kids about it more than is done. Slavery is part of our history, and how horrible it is: we should acknowledge it.


BUT.

I refuse to take responsibility to what my ancestors may or may not have done in the past. I was not born back then, so I impossibly could have had an influence on their actions. So no, I cant say sorry for something I had no role to play in.

Answer 3

As a white you should feel as guilty about buying and transporting slaves, as the black tribes who enslaved and sold other tribes to turn a profit. Yes it was a bad period of history. But where you there? Did you take any action? Then get over it and move on. If anybody tries to lay a guilt trip on you over it, advise them to Foxtrot Oscar.

Answer 4

for the reason which you're nonetheless taking area in most of the culmination of those sick gotton advantageous factors and because you realize that a large variety of the reward that accrue to you right this moment purely for being white (which would be summed up because of the fact the ease of no longer having to stand any substantial discrimination that limits your existence opportunities) are the effect of all those poor issues your ancestors and cutting-edge family individuals did. in spite of each and every thing, Jim Crow ended interior of a lot of our dad and mom' lifetimes, so it is not particularly purely a query of ancestors. most of the racist rules and rules that a majority of whites actively supported and defended ended purely after a heck of a combat in the '60's and 70's. it is not sooooo earlier. In generational words, it particularly is the day gone by.

Answer 5

Well in regards to your boss. it all depends if you want to keep your job or if you want to lose it. now, i tell my boss to screw off all the time and he seems to think that im showing initiative. so i suppose it all depends what kind of personality he has.

On the note of acestrial slavery, we cant change the past but we can change the future. I'm not sure of my possision on slavery but just the same there is no need to feel guilty about something you had no say in.

Now child and spousal abuse i can say something about. i was abused as a child and so i am completely againest that and if you do that you are scum to this earth but thats just my opinion.

again bombing is all your own opinion. its not up to me to say what is right.

Answer 6

at this point in time, it doesn't make sense to feel guilty. the issue at hand is doing something to counter the 500+ years of continued racism in the world. slavery was bad. but in my eyes it became worse after slavery because hate evolved into nazism, aryanism, and the kkk.

i don't care whether or not you feel guilty. your guilt doesn't undo nor address the obvious legacy that slavery had and still has on countless generations. racial profiling. continued racism in job placement, education, housing, etc etc etc.

there's a lot this nation owes african american people. even if every white person in the world felt guilty, it still wouldn't begin to address what European and American nations owe to people of african descent from Canada down to the tip of Chile, including the Caribbean.

Answer 7

No, you shouldn't "feel guilty" about our slave owning ancestors - you should LEARN from their mistake.

As for the rest, of course you should not beat your family, or bomb people.

Answer 8

my ancestors didnt have slaves they had adopted workers from other tribes and eventually married them....be a good patriot then and stop crying about it...and by the wayyyy-cherokee ppl did have slaves too BUT-only because they thot it was the whiteman thing to do..back then our ancestors tried to integrate into the great white fathers new laws...

Answer 9

All races have been subjected to slavery. And it still happens today.
Child slavery in China. Men enslaved on "plantatians" in Brazil. Blacks
enslaving blacks in Niger, and Muslims enslaving black Christians in
Sudan.
The rest is just @sshole SH1T!

Answer 10

Should you feel shame for what someone else did, someone you never even knew, with very different moral standards, before you were even born?

I don't.

Learn from the past, don't beat yourself up over stuff you have absolutely NO control over.

Answer 11

why would you feel guilty for something that was done long before you were ever around, you had no control over what your ancestors did, not like you were there 250 years ago, loading the ships in africa...