Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for 10 years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
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"Two arguments are brought forward against official apology - not only by the government but by David Cameron. First, an apology is unnecessary because this happened a long time ago. This would only apply if there had been a previously apology - there hasn't been. Slavery was the mass murder of millions of people. Germany apologised for the Holocaust. We must for the slave trade."
What people have to remember is that if the transatlantic slave trade had never existed, history would have been so different that none of the current decendents would exist.#
Perversely they owe their very existence to slavery, just like most of Ken's baby boomer generation owe their very existence to World War 2.
Aside from that, the Caribbean, or the USA for that matter, aren't the worst places to live.
March 23, 2007 8:02 PM | permalink
What people have to remember is that if the transatlantic slave trade had never existed, history would have been so different that none of the current decendents would exist.#
Perversely they owe their very existence to slavery, just like most of Ken's baby boomer generation owe their very existence to World War 2.
Aside from that, the Caribbean, or the USA for that matter, aren't the worst places to live.