“The Brits did more than everyone else combined to exterminate the slave trade. How about we give ‘em a pass.”
So America should be blamed for that which the guilt lies elsewhere?
That’s simply unacceptable. The timeline doesn’t match your “pass.” That someone did something _later_ doesn’t absolve prior crimes.
We’re being forced into this position by the progressives, don’t forget that. The issue is, how do we respond. Should America be blamed for that which didn’t start with us? It’s that simple.
America doesn’t need to apologize for slavery.
Neither do the Brits or Portuguese who brought the first slaves to the US, or Blacks who sold their fellows into slavery, or anyone else, even the Moslems who took more slaves than everybody else combined and still practice slavery when they can get away with it.
Slavery has simply been a fact of life since before the dawn of history. It is still being practiced in various forms today, such as camps in the PRC or simple chattel slavery in Africa, or Filipino maids the Middle East.
But not in the West.
That fact that we have managed to (at least temporarily) suppress slavery here in the West for the last century and half is an achievement of our culture and our ancestors that we should laud. The idiots that talk about slavery like it was some sort temporary aberration should be ridiculed and condemned. The descendants of former slaves should simply be happy that they are here and that they are free. They are not owed a damn thing. Not money. Not even an apology.
I am not going to accept blame for anything I personally didn’t do and I am not going to blame people in the past for not living up to ridiculous modern standards. So I am not going accept the idea of blaming anybody for slavery, nor am I going to buy into guilt for anyone over something a hundred and fifty years dead here in the West and which still practiced over much of the rest of the world.
Go peddle it somewhere else.