A historic guilty thread

[Orionaut]

So,

For all you White folks, how would you feel if you found out today that your forbears traded and profited from "Black Ivory", and what would you do now as a consequence of learning this.?

For all you Black folks, how would you feel if you discovered that your forbears were also involved with the trading of "Black Ivory" (Not an unrealistic scenario by any means in the UK and the US too). What would you do?

I would kind of like to have put this in SC put I think putting it in GD is probably better, despite my wanting it to be a serious question.

In the mean time. As far as I am aware. Despite having sea farers in my past. I do not think that "Black Ivory" was ever any part of it. For my part my sins of the past are all about Whales. And while I feel bad about this. no, I do not feel any need to rip my shirt off and beat my breast an reject my ancestors as a consequence!

 

[Orionaut]

I'd do sweet F A except wonder where the money went.

Lols (Didn't want thread to be Lols really) but you are correct.

Whalers made ********* of money! Why don't I have any of it?

 

[Orionaut]

Donald Trump was a founding member of the KKK and he doesn't care, so neither do I.

KKK was a collage frat from the 1830's as I recall. It only got nasty later.

I want what he is on (And Melina too)

 

[Orionaut]

Where do you draw the line? How far do you go back?

As already mentioned, Britons were subjugated many times, where is the outrage at that.

The need to create a global scale Navy was initially driven by the fact that north African raiders (Muslims, not Blacks as such) were routinely taking huge numbers of people from England/Britain, particularly Cornwall.

Slave raiding, and the response to it, didn't just drive Britain to become global Naval superpower,. It drive us right into the industrial revolution too!