Are you bored of the BBC banging on about the slave trade yet?

Question

I am!

Answer 1

Absolutely!!!!! It was 200 years ago for goodness sake. Let it go.

Answer 2

No one should be surprised by the BBC reporting on 200 year old history. Three cheers for post-colonial guilt and third-worldism! Actually, the past is all the British Establishment has to talk about, or has no one else in the universe noticed that the whole programming schedules of the World Service reflect the worldview of the propagandizing nanny state of the 1950s?

Answer 3

the BBC news readers they sit their like the load of popus prats they are .Has though every thing they read .will never affect them .just like the the makers of the Titanic.You think If the Slave traders that were firstly Africans secondly Arabs Thirdly The European Whites The Africans Sold them were did they the slave s come from in the first place Self inflicted Slavery is it not .Would all the Black descendants from Britan the Carrib Etc Like to live in Africa .If the slave trade did not ac cure That is were 90% of them would be in Africa And Parts of Africa are really really Bad .So the out come at the end of the day A better life than one in Africa today .What is or would be the use Me asking for an apology from Germany for what they did to the Jews .I am nearer to the Jews by blood than the modern day blacks are to the slaves part of history end of story Shalom

Answer 4

The Economist had a whole segment on slavery about a month ago. The whole point of it was to point the finger at African slave traders. This is done periodically, the UK seems to go by the idea that since most people forget history it is alright to take the credit for what were absolutely self-interested actions. In the 19th c. the slave trade was used as an excuse for the UK to monitor international waters just like the US uses drugs as an excuse to patrol S. America and the Caribbean.
If the UK really feels bad about its colonial heritage it should pay reparations to all the colonies it sucked dry.

Answer 5

I am NOT racist or xenophobic. But i think the whole thing is just stirring stuff up for the sake of it.

Would we ask the Italians and the POPE to apologise to the world for killing Jesus?

Besides most of the people in Britain, that is the working class never benefited from slavery, if any thing the working class were screwed over by the ruling class as well, just not to such a harsh degree.

My sympathies to the families who suffered, but let it rest now. We can't be held responsible for really, really, really distant relatives!!!

Answer 6

I think Britain should seek an apology from the Normans for the Norman conquest of 1066 and perhaps we could also seek an apology from the Italians for the Roman Invasion and we haven't even got to the Vikings etc.
All Nations have a past of which they can be ashamed or proud perhaps in equal measure.
I don't recollect any Nation thanking Britain for any good she may have done in Colonial times. or was none of it good and we should all remain ashamed......

Answer 7

Bored,... I'm sick to death of it.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
THIS IS ABOUT MONEY. Pure and simple.
Should we now claim all the money [millions] that has been given to Africa every time there has been cry for help,over decades.
If their greedy fat leaders stopped lining their pockets Africans would have a better life.It's about time Africans started living in the present and not harping on the past.

Answer 8

I support the view of reflecting the needs of a diverse set of cultures, but think the BBC has an overly strong Afro centric agenda. After watching a few hours of CBBC, you'd be forgiven for thinking that half of the the UK population was black!

Answer 9

Absolutley sick to bleedin death of hearing about it?
Absolutley sick to death of hearing blacks demanding a full apoligy from this generation whites?
What do they want us to do? It was 200 hundred years ago? Why should we apoligise now? It has nothing at all to do with us?
Folks should just get on with life today and make a better future for them selves instead of wallowing in the past... Its gone..Let it be, there is nothing we can do about it now.

Answer 10

BBC is always going on and on and on about the same thing all the time. boring

Answer 11

it has been doing my head in.what do these people want?nothing is good enough,so fu*k em all.we've been paying Africa back approx £7 trillion since the 60s,and yet put on the TV,and surprise sup rise,nothings changed ! the 'stolen Africans' (who are happy to live here in slave city,by the way) should direct their anger and energy at the corrupt regimes raping Africa and her daughters TODAY. go home to your motherland,and leave us evil Brits to watch the sun set on our empire.