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Thread #92446   Message #1768217
Posted By: Les from Hull
24-Jun-06 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Apologies over slave trade?
Subject: RE: BS: Apologies over slave trade?
Very true. Two things that are wrong shouldn't be ranked in the order of wrongness. It will never make them right.

I am glad that someone has brought up WW2 slave labour, though. Another sickening episode in the story of the human race.

I'm not sure if anyone in the USA has mentioned the role of your 'founding fathers' and slavery, with right wing (and Christian?) apologists still supporting them in spite of the failure of the American Revolution to get freedom and equality for all - well all men. Women still had (are having) a long struggle.

If we can't learn from history, we'll never learn at all.