as tony blair has half appoligised about britains involvement in the black slave trade,will the .....?

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u.k prime minister half appoligised about his country's involvement in the black slave trade last week, though is wasn't a full appology. but will george bush or it's alllies australia and new zea land appoligise for massacres and for stealing whole countries from ingegnious native people in thier country?

Answer 1

the guilty never appoligise fully, and evil people never appoligise at all

Answer 2

I don't know why any government person would have to appologize for something our ancesters did. At one point in time everyone was involved in a slave relationship. That is the way it has always been. That is why there were Kings in each small kingdoms. Almost all the underlings were slaves. Who built the pyramids, slaves many were white. If we go back far enough, all of us deserve apologies and even reparations. Since we would all be paying each other, lets just forget about it and live today. We cannot help what has happened in the past.

Answer 3

Since the people that got overthrown to build the USA and such had also done the same stuff to othere tribes, and in so far as blacks were the ones selling slaves to the slave traders, maybe noone need to apologize to anyone. INRE: the slave trade, looking at Africa today, they should thank us for their ancestors getting to come to America.

Answer 4

No reason to. Why apologize for something that happened a couple of hundred years ago? What good would it do? Who would be helped by such an apology? The past is over, why dwell on it when you can't change it?


Long Live Jambi

Answer 5

Such arguments are pointless. It makes as much sense as the great-great grandson of John Wilkes Booth apologizing for his ancestor shooting Abraham Lincoln or someone from modern-day Italy apologizing to the peoples of Europe for their subjigation by ancient Rome. No one alive today had any control over our government's actions centuries ago. To waste time and energy on apologizing for something that was not your fault is ridiculous.

Answer 6

It's interesting, because Canada's Governor-General,( Our head of state), Her Excellency Michelle Jean,herself a desendent of slaves and came to Canada as a refugee while still a child, is currently in Africa and if the President of Ghana can apologize for his peoples actions, Tony Blair should be able to do likewise

ACCRA, Ghana — Michaelle Jean told an African audience Tuesday that the continent must recognize its own role in the slave trade to help turn the page on a shameful chapter in history.
The Governor General used a state dinner to congratulate Ghana’s government for offering such an apology and suggested other African countries should do the same.
She made the remarks on the eve of an emotional pilgrimage to a seaside fortress where thousands of slaves were shipped to the Americas.
"The time has come to recapture that moment of African history in order to move ahead together," Jean said in a speech.
"As it looks to the future, Ghana has shown that it is willing to confront the past.
"I am impressed by your government’s decision to apologize for what was done hundreds of years ago by the people of this region involved in the slave trade."
More than 15 million men, women and children were captured and sold to Europeans during the colonial age and crammed onto wooden ships bound for the Americas.
Ghana was a major hub of the international slave trade concentrated in West Africa, and the national government has recognized the role Africans here played.
"As a descendent of slaves, that touched me very much. I know that we cannot go back and solve past injustices. All we can do is learn from the lessons of the past, even the painful lessons, and use that knowledge to build a better future."
Jean will visit Elmina Castle today and step up to its so-called Door of No Return, the infamous final spot where the captured natives were taken from African soil.
Jean said she planned to gaze at the ocean and reflect on what happened there.
"I will think of the millions of people packed tightly in rickety ships bound for unknown lands. Faraway lands where they were deprived of their memories, of their languages, of their heritage, of their dignity and, most of all, of their freedom," she said.
"I will stand and pray for those who never completed the journey and whose bodies were thrown out to the ocean."
"As I will stand there and reconnect with the land of my ancestors, I will salute your openness and I will accept your apology."
Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor gave an extremely detailed account of the history of slavery to an international conference in July, where he drew attention to historical facts that many Africans would rather forget.
He described how Phoenicians and Greco-Romans had been enslaving Africans thousands of years ago and how Africans themselves profited from the trade with Europeans.

Answer 7

Bush will never apologize. He has bodies buried in his yard from this generation. He is from the "rob from everybody and keep everything" school. To him and the families friends, you rise to the top because you have the right blood, and if you don't you weren't meant to survive. He shows no remorse for anything. He doesn't even refer to 500,000 Iraqis who are now dead due to his invasion and occupation of that old country. To him, the loss of life is "collateral damage," and stealing countries is the Divine Right of the Prince.

Answer 8

It happened in the Emancipation proclamation. They may have done more than apologizing by driving the stupid slavedrivers broke. There would be a need for this if there were no emancipation procl'mtn

Answer 9

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Answer 10

When will these countries apologies for the cro-Magnon? They massacred and stole the caves from the Neanderthals.Who speaks for our dead cousins.Someone must pay!