A bishop in Liverpoool has decared that the recent murder of a black boy with an ice pick was a direct result of slavery, when slave owners used to hack slaves to death with axes as a warning to the others.
Really? I seem to remember that an ice pick was the preffered murder weapon of the Chinese tongs.
Is this idiot of a Bishop seriously suggesting that the killer, as a decendant of a slave owner, had decided to revive the custom, or that the unfortunate victim was pre-ordained to be killed in such a barbaric nature because he was decended from a slave?
Where do they find these lunatics?
Blaming our ancestors for todays woes is a cop out. What about all the British orphans of two world wars, do they go about whinging about the unfairness of it all.
Show me an apologist for slavery and you'll be showing me a an insignicant individual who is drawing attention to himself the only way he can - a loser.
2007-03-24 23:46:25 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'd prefer an honest comment of 'We don't do that anymore'.
No one is commenting on the fact that MANY cultures used slaves, from the Aztecs to the.. well, you get the idea. There was also 'white slavery' endemic in the North of Africa, but no one's bouncing on that one.
Or the fact that many people in the UK would be moving here if they had the chance to leave an impoverished country.
yes, incarceration is 'nasty'... so let's stop human trafficking now. But we are not responsible for what our ancestors did. And I resent the fact that people are using their colour to gain political or fiscal power.... it's just another form of power play.
2007-03-27 14:58:11 · answer #1 · answered by janvalphagan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Apologies does not make any difference to the facts which were suffered. In S.audi A.rabia where I live for now,
slavery is very current. Car drivers, maid, cooks, and workers actually are "real" Slaves. So do we as contractors.
Masters would not think of apologising.
2007-03-25 15:30:08 · answer #2 · answered by Nicolette 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree... somehow.
It is good to remember that we humans screwed up. Just to make sure it doesn't happen again.
2007-03-25 04:05:47 · answer #3 · answered by felipelotas1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋