Slavery and Apaches
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Now heres another one, as Im in a taboo shattering mood tonight, Im going for it!My mate Dee, love him God bless him, Nigerian dude, befriendid him in Siera Leone in 99, lives in Manchester now just up the 55 and the M56, so we get together to drink lots of beer regularly, but he just wont accept it that the slave trade was tribal driven, ok, money was the incentive provided by the white man, but for nearly all black slaves who found themselves in America the first set of chains were clamped on them by another black man from a victorious tribe.Then the prickly topic of the treatment of the Native Americans. Well, despicable as it was it wasnt the first time in history its happened and it wont be the last either probably if I know humans as I do.As for Germans, ye they were party to the Holocaust, they knew, they buried their heads in sand. Im not Jewish, but if I was I wouldnt expect grovelling apologism, in fact Id despise it with the contempt it deserved, worse than gloating about it, in fact Id find that more acceptable. Japs, treatment of POWs, my uncle suffered 3 years of it, he hates them but to be fair to the Japanese, they rarely apologise for their course in human history and why the hell should they. They belonged to a strong culture that did not beleive in surrender and considered those that did as weak sub human.If some Englishman started apologising to me about the military occupation and economic exploitation of my country, or even further back, the taking of old Albion in the Dark Ages, I swear Id hit him.Id probably hit him anyway, cos he's English.Haha!!!
updated by @gareth-williams: 12/04/15 03:57:45PM
