Do whites feel any guilt or shame regarding slavery?

Answer 1

No.
Slavery took place and still does in this world of ours.
People of color owned slaves and still do.
It isn't a white thing.
Many blacks owned slaves .
Many whites were slaves throughout the world,
for instance, TODAY and YESTERDAY'S Sex-slaves come in all colors.
Not too long ago in the USA's history
according to Thomas Burton's Parliamentary Diary 1656-1659, in 1659 the English parliament debated the practice of selling British Whites into slavery in the New World. In the debate, these Whites were referred to not as "indentured servants" but as "slaves."
In the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies of 1701, we read of a protest over the "encouragement to the spiriting away of Englishmen without their consent and selling them for slaves, which hath been a practice very frequent and known by the name of kidnapping." In the British West Indies, plantation slavery was instituted as early as 1627. In Barbados by the 1640s there were an estimated 25,000 slaves, of whom 21,700 were White.

Answer 2

Considering that there was a time when Africa enslaved White people we both have a shameful past. Yet no one alive to day has been a slave or owned a slave in this country. We will never get past this if people keep bringing it up so let sleeping dogs lie and lets make a better future for everyone.

Answer 3

It was a way of life at the time and was abolished. You could say every civilization has enslaved another. The Romans and even enemy tribles in Africa did it. But to feel guilt or shame for something I had no part of to people who were not involved then I have to say NO.

Answer 4

Yes it was shameful that it ever happened, do blacks from Africa feel ashamed that they sold their own people into slavery. But we can't take responsibility for the people of the past, that is between them and G-D and he will be their judge. Slavery has been all over the world and still going on in Africa.

Answer 5

Why should they? They didn't own slaves, and you aren't one now. So what's your point? Or did you actually have one? Africa not only sold their own into slavery, but they still have their own under slavery today. Check out "modern day slavery in Africa" by doing an engine search (msn, google, yahoo). Then either stop your complaining about it to the whites in the U.S, or do something for those who are still enslaved in Africa.

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Native American

Answer 6

Guilt no. I wasn't born then.
Shame belongs with those enslaved others. It died with them.
Shame only belongs now to those who look at a black person with prejudice for their skin color.
One of my black friends once told me in a discussion about slavery, "Girl, get over it. I have. Now let's get these hot rolls on the table and eat."
There is no reason for shame or guilt when your fellow Americans are all equal in your eyes.
BarB As for the Native American issue, I'm half Choctaw. I don't blame my white half for winning any more than I blame my Choctaw half for losing.

Answer 7

Do you think any blacks in Africa feel any guilt regarding slavery??

They sold their own people into slavery. Rounded them up from the villages, brought them to ports and auctioned them off.

Study your history!!!!!

BTW...as was said, no whites today ever owned slaves. I wasn't born yet, my parents weren't born yet, my grandparents weren't born yet.

If you found out your great great great grandfather was a murderer for example, would you PERSONALLY feel any guilt??

Answer 8

No,especially after the way i've seen you talk about us here. You're a racist but one of the worst kind,you wanna dish it out but when it comes back at you you scream and hollar about racism. Let me set you straight on another matter,it was your own people who traded and sold you,it's still going on over there. Besides that, you were never a slave nor I a slave master so why in the hell should I feel guilty,i've done nothing wrong. Take your slave BS guilt trip elsewhere because this whitey is sick of it.

Answer 9

While it was a terrible time in our history and throughout the world, it has been gone a long time in the U.S.

No caucasian citizen of the U.S. who is living today ever owned a slave. No African American citizen of the U.S. who is living today ever WAS a slave.

So why would anyone feel guilty???? History is what it is.....

If there is any guilt, it should be because of the Native people of this continent - who still live in the most desparate conditions.......

Answer 10

i don't think of its real that each and all and sundry whites if any in any respect experience responsible approximately it immediately, yet comments like ' I dont think of black human beings have fun with what the whites in u . s . a . have executed for them' teach a loss of information. have you ever concept what the black slaves did for the Whites? raised their toddlers, worked the land, picked cotton/tobacco, regarded after their animals, fought wars for them and lots extra....... What did they get in return at that element? whippings, families torn aside, rapes, sodemy, torture, severing of physique aspects ,holes dug for pregnant women to guard the unborn slave whilst they have been given whipped... till you examine and discover out approximately how they actually suffered, you will probable never have fun with that not something the white person does can ever atone for the inhumane way black human beings have been taken care of. there'll continually be evil human beings in this existence, besides as grasping ones.. There are at the instant people who enslave human beings following abduction and act out their warped fantasies on them, difference is now that is unlawful. in spite of the shown fact that, here we had a central authority that legalised this therapy and allowed human beings to be taken care of with degradation. not all whites have been part of the slave commerce, so their descendants shouldn't experience any guilt. i think of that is embarrassing to affix a race that brutalised different human beings (because of the fact of their epidermis shade) so badly, even although you had not something to do with it.