Apologizing for your Remote Ancestors

The port of Bristol, in England, was until 1807 involved in the slave trade. Should modern Bristolians apologize for that?

"The front page headline in the Evening Post, Bristol's local newspaper, was in no doubt. 'It's time the city said sorry' it shouted last week. But there is no consensus on the issue; on the contrary, the debate is stirring up anger and upset".

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1807 was when Britain abolished slavery and made the Royal Navy the enemy of slavers. The importation of slaves into the USA was banned in 1808. Abraham Lincoln's emancipation declaration was in 1863.




Southern History Unmentionable Again

We read:

"Confederate Memorial Day is a mandatory state holiday in South Carolina, but you wouldn't know it from the classrooms. Only one of the state's 85 school districts closed Wednesday in observation of the holiday, the product of a legislative compromise that also created a permanent Martin Luther King Jr. Day."

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Wow! One "Incorrect" Guy!

Are blacks on average less intelligent than whites? Was slavery good for blacks on balance? A High School Latin teacher, Winston McCuen, in South Carolina thinks so. And he had the audacity to mention his views in class one day. He has been suspended from teaching over it.

Whether his views reflect the facts or not, should all diversity of views be banned from South Carolina classrooms? Many years ago they put Galileo in jail for making the outrageous and improper claim that the earth revolved around the sun. But it turned out Galileo was right.

And what about a government body restricting someone's freedom of speech? There is no claim that his views interfered with his teaching in any way. The classrooms are already full of Leftist politics so it can't be that politically controversial matters may not be mentioned in public school classrooms.

If you can argue in favor of homosexuality, why not in favor of white superiority? The view that homosexuals are normal and the view that whites are superior are both seen as wrong and offensive by some people.

Details of the case here