that’s why I thought this was a hoot:
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/071100/mov_0711000005.shtml
“With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt onto someone else,” historian Andrew Roberts wrote in the Daily Express newspaper.
Since there were about 1 million Indians in North America when Columbus landed, and rather more than that now, and since the men and women landed in North America had, and have had better lives and longer than their siblings left behind who sold the slaves to the slave shippers...
Perhaps we don’t have historical guilt. Perhaps we have serious mitsvah points.