By people of the time. You're one of those modern, PC, self-righteous idiots who place easily-offended 21st Century sensibilities onto those of the past.
The fact is that things people like you consider to be wrong today were NOT considered to be wrong by most people in the past. They were different times with different sensibilties.
To mankind.
Typical of you to ignore the part played in slavery by the blacks and only concentrating on Evil Whitey.
The fact is that North African Barbary pirates captured white people in the British Isles and sold them into slavery.
It wasn't just blacks who were victims of slavery, you know. There were times when whites were the slaves and blacks were the masters.
I'm not ignoring anything. I'm focussing on the part of the world I live in. To be perfectly honest, I neither know nor particularly care whether tribes in sub-Saharan Africa, or Borneo, or Indonesia kept slaves. Nor am I all that concerned that many Scandanavian societies did the same.
But, and I'm speaking of the U.S. here, the simple fact is that slavery was practiced for three and a half centuries in North America, and was then followed by a century of official, legal, and mandatory discrimination. It wasn't blacks who mandated it, either African blacks or American blacks. These practices, and discrimination against other groups of non-whites and women, had effects that continue today, fifty years after most of the official, legal, mandatory discrimination was ended.
I think it odd how some people, like you and Captain Morgan, celebrate the traditions of your countries that go back centuries and form a large part of what it is to be British or Canadian, yet pretend that the less pleasant parts of your traditions play no role whatever in modern Britain or Canada (or the U.S., I'm not excluding that, but merely addressing you and Cap).
It is largely because of the duration of the discrimination, and the continuity of the countries that practiced it, that the effects continue so strongly. By contrast, the African nations that you bellyache about no longer exist (and were hardly even nations as we think of them when they did exist).
Finally, I have no interest in whether you feel guilty or not. Your emotional state is a matter of utter indifference to me (Cap's is a little more important to me, but hardly a big priority). I also don't care what Canada or Britain do about matters of race or other group identity and treatment. As a citizen of the U.S. and Ireland, I'm concerned about what those countries do about these issues.
As far as your personal bigotry goes, Schwarzblatt, again I don't really care. It's just kinda fun to point it out every now and again, because you're one of the least pleasant people I've ever encountered.
Memo: marches are being coordinated on multiple continents, multiple nations
Guess that goes as additional proof that every culture has it's share of the blame... Unless, of course, you feel it helps humanity by recognizing one and absolving all others.
Yeah, that makes it A-OK
Nor you
I understand, by the way, that there is no point in talking to you or Schwarzblatt about this. The two of you are constitutionally incapable of even entertaining the idea that a view different from yours could possibly have any validity. If that were otherwise, I might explain exactly why many non-whites blame the Euro-American powers for slavery and genocide more than the Africans. But there's really no point, is there? You are convinced that all non-whites want to blame whites and demand handouts, and you have demonstrated to my satisfaction that you will not, under any circumstances, give any facts or reasoning to the contrary any consideration at all.
C'est la vie.
