Should we have to apologise for the slave trade?
By smuggeridge
@smuggeridge (2148)
March 25, 2007 3:07pm CST
This week marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade and all this week there has been lots on the news of the importance of appologising for those terrible attrocities, but do we really need to apologise for what people did over 200 years ago?
Tony Blair has already stated the regret and shame of those events, yet apparatly this is not enough, he should appologise. What difference will apologising really make? and why should he apologise for something that no one alive today was involved with?
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@Smith2028 (797)
• United States
25 Mar 07
No. There should be no apology. The slave trade was a product of the time period. It is over, it no longer exists (well not in the western hemisphere at least. I still question about what goes on in 3rd world countries).
There is no need to apologize anymore.
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@smuggeridge (2148)
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25 Mar 07
Well i think it even exists in western society to some extent, however the difference is that everything is done to stop it, its no longer done and paid for by our politicians.
Thanks for your response
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@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
25 Mar 07
I think the time for a appologies is long since past. I don't know why people continue to appologize. It seems a bit rediculous to me. None of us alive were involved, it's in the past and there it should stay. I agree what possible difference could an appology today make on something that has been abolished two hundred years ago... I say..forget it and move on already.
@sassinqueen (710)
• United States
25 Mar 07
How can I possibly apoligize to someone for something that I did not do?
If we stop doing what we are still doing to each other, there will be no need for furture generations to apologize.
Fix what's wrong right now, because you can't change the pass and Tony Blair's lip service is just a bunch of bull.
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@smuggeridge (2148)
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25 Mar 07
Thats the other thing, tony blair would be apologising, but not because he has a reason to just because he's been pressed into it, its not going to be very sincere is it.
P.S. Don't put links to websites in your answers, they will delete your responses
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