The history of British slave ownership has been buried...now

[Karl]

...its scale can be revealed

The past has a disconcerting habit of bursting, uninvited and unwelcome, into the present. This year history gate-crashed modern America in the form of a 150-year-old document: a few sheets of paper that compelled Hollywood actor Ben Affleck to issue a public apology and forced the highly regarded US public service broadcaster PBS to launch an internal investigation.

The document, which emerged during the production of Finding Your Roots, a celebrity genealogy show, is neither unique nor unusual. It is one of thousands that record the primal wound of the American republic – slavery. It lists the names of 24 slaves, men and women, who in 1858 were owned by Benjamin L Cole, Affleck’s great-great-great-grandfather. When this uncomfortable fact came to light, Affleck asked the show’s producers to conceal his family’s links to slavery. Internal emails discussing the programme were later published by WikiLeaks, forcing Affleck to admit in a Facebook post: “I didn’t want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed.”


http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...scale-revealed

[Don1]

Good post mi bredda

What is revealed is the utter spiritual corruption of Babylon. The British, American and European ruling circles are consummate deceivers and not to be trusted. They deny the obvious genocide and oppression their shitstem is based on....and want to promote themselves as moral rulers of the world

Furthermore their corporate media bamboozles simple-minded Lemmings into believing that Babylon is "moral" and has great "values" and is "progressive". While Babylon may show those traits when it suits them...at their core they're the same people who enslaved 10s of millions....and also killed 10s of millions on their way to world domination. If it suits their purpose they would commit the same atrocities today that they did during slavery

That same media has the simple-minded Lemmings among us loving Babylon and all the corruption it represents....to the extent where the Lemmings love Babylon more than their own people. A mass version of the Stockholm Syndrome where the victim adores his oppressor..

So clearly the simple-minded Lemmings suffer from a severe & intractable psychological illness they're totally unaware of....courtesy of Babylon Media.

Mi all si one bredda claim couple day aback seh im tek one oath...and presumably dat oath im feel REQUIRES him to support the US football team... Now suppen simple lika dat reveals a mindset corrupted by a severe psychological illness ... Dat Head Gone Bye

Babylon Shitstem is a Vampiya....Memba mi tole unnu dat

[Sir X]

Deep.....Jimmys story need to be told.

[Mosiah]

The letters "H" and "L" should not keep popping up when I read this post.

Stop it!!!

[Karl]

heheheheheheh!!!!
Good words there...but di style put pan mi face

[Don1]

heheheheheheh!!!!
Good words there...but di style put pan mi face

style n fashion wi seh

[Don1]

The letters "H" and "L" should not keep popping up when I read this post.

Stop it!!!

Yep dat deh Head Light

[Islandman]

Some very good information there. Interesting that there were a number of middle class slaveowners in Britain. I was not aware of that fact.

Slave ownership, it appears, was far more common than has previously been presumed. Many of these middle-class slave owners had just a few slaves, possessed no land in the Caribbean and rented their slaves out to landowners, in work gangs.

I wonder why Affleck thought it so necessary to conceal the sins of his foreparents. It would have been much more powerful if he had used that PBS program to speak about the horrors of slavery.

[Sir X]

The more I read , the more I lean to reparations

[Islandman]

I support reparations, but not to individuals. That would be a disaster.

[Sir X]

Governments too, looks like a disaster.It should include debt write off along with monetary compensation.

[Islandman]

Debt write-off is good, I would prefer infrastructure projects over monetary compensation ....highway, power plants, water management.

[Sir X]

Agreed .