[C19fan]

What a sanctimonious wanker.

[dfwgator]

And they wouldn’t be my choices

Real easy to say today. Like people who say if the lived in Germany in the 30s, they would have opposed Hitler. Guess what? 90% of them would have been right there in the crowd shouting "Sieg Heil."

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This guy is blonde, right?

[ladyjane]

one of the ugliest periods in human history

Actors don't have much time to read history books.

[SampleMan]

Greed and slavery are not definitions of Capitalism.

These idiots don’t even know what capitalism is. It is the rule of law (thus ensuring contracts); it is the movement of capital from those with an excess to those with ambition and ideas; it is distribution by merit.

[apillar]

My response to the finding out such news would be an indifferent shrug. That was just how things were done in that time and I’m not going to judge my ancestors by today’s standards. I imagine all of us, if we went far enough back, could find things our ancestors did that wouldn’t be kosher by the standards of today....

[The Sons of Liberty]

Actor Richard Roxburgh condemns ancestors as he discovers his family 'owned' 109 slaves

Put his name on the list of people we send a bill to when Jesse, Al, Holder and Hussein decide that we owe reparations for slavery.

[2banana]

Put him on the list to take all his assets in order to pay “reparations”

[tumblindice]

He must need work. U$ performers attack 1. Bush 2. Palin 3. the GOP, if the rent is owed.

[sten]

who??

let him know they also condemned homos ... and the self loathing will be complete

[Politicalkiddo]

They were all greedy Democrats.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Hey Dick, might I suggest a warm bathtub of water and a razor blade to ease your pain?

[BuffaloJack]

Since his gg-grandfather had sugar plantations in the Caribbean, it’s a good bet that many of his slaves were Irish as well as black.

[Gaffer]

As an act of solemn contrition then, he should commit suicide and be absolved of the sins of the father.

[El Cid]

Not defending slavery (the Bible condemns menstealers (slavers) - 1 Tim 1:10), but the alternative was that the African tribesmen who conquered their fellow tribesmen would have just killed them - rather than sold them; or have sold them to muslims who would have castrated the men captives.

If Actor Richard Roxburgh is so appalled, he should go to the Sudan and fight the present day islamic slavers.

[molson209]

It was the in thing ,like a few years`ago people owned Pet Rocks

[RightOnTheBorder]

Richard Roxburgh: Owning slaves is bad. Forcing a man to provide according to his ability for another man according to his needs is good.

Richard, I suspect you have more in common with your ancestor than you think.

[driftdiver]

“presided over one of the ugliest periods in human history”

That time wasn’t even close to being one of the ugliest periods in history.

[skeeter]

I’m sure his ancestors would be proud of him, too. /s

[The_Media_never_lie]

He should liquidate his assets and give them all to the reparations fund for penance, and quit his posturing.

[cripplecreek]

In my genealogical research I found a Klan member in the 20s and I found 2 who were captured and enslaved by northeast indians in the 1500s.

((shrug))