I’ve talked about the nonsense that is apologising for the slave trade before. Now someone has gone and done just that:
A DESCENDANT of England’s first slave trader knelt in chains in front of a crowd of 25,000 Africans this month and asked forgiveness for his ancestor’s actions.
Andrew Hawkins, 37, a youth worker from Liskeard, Cornwall, offered his apologies during an ethnic festival in the former West African British colony of The Gambia, as a gesture of reconciliation between Europeans and Africans.
My God! What a pretentious, arrogant, self-righteous twat. How dare he presume to apologise on behalf of someone else and, how dare the Vice President of Gambia presume to accept it. Mr Hawkins did not commit the injury against the slaves taken by his ancestor, therefore he does not have the right to apologise, such apology is meaningless – indeed, the empty gesture is deeply patronising and insulting.
Firstly, his ancestor was not the first to take African slaves – given that it was happening during the 1400s, some 100 years or so before Sir John Hawkins sailed that way. Secondly, slavery has been with us from the time of the Ancient Egyptians, through Roman times and guess what? It is still with us. Oh, but for the self-loathing Mr Hawkins it is far better to parade about among Africans while wearing chains and indulging in self abasement than to do something really valuable; like, oh, campaigning against modern slavery for instance? Slavery perpetrated by Africans against Africans? Oh, no far better to abase himself for the misdeeds of his ancestors. After all, Africans are “victims” and Europeans are “oppressors” – any acknowledgement of Africa’s inconvenient involvement in this trade upsets the neat labels so loved by the politically correct.
These self-haters, who want to vilify what we are and seek to undermine western values and their own culture choose to be selective about history. Apologists like this morally vacuous fuckwit are so busy wallowing in their self-loathing; something that is becoming all to prevalent today in this country; that they ignore the bigger picture.Yes, Britain was up to its eyeballs in human misery. That is a matter of historical fact. Yes, it was appalling – no rational person would deny that. Yet it was Britain that sought abolition. The country that gave us the slavers also gave us people like William Wilberforce. It is also worth pointing out that everybody involved is dead and has been for a couple of hundred years.
We made our apology in French, English and German. I apologised on behalf of my family. I apologised for the adults and children taken. There was a long pause and we didn’t really know what to expect.
What a pile of selfish, self-pitying, self-indulgent wank. This man is an abject gobshite; a fucktard of the worst order. Whatever he expected, what he should have received was a sharp smack around the ear and told to grow the fuck up and stop being such a self-righteous prick.
During their visit to The Gambia, Mr Hawkins and his party again wore chains and staged a “reconciliation walk” through the rural village of Juffureh. The local elders were not impressed by the gesture, Mr Hawkins admitted,
I can’t say that I am surprised. Perhaps the local elders should have delivered the well deserved smack around the ear. If they had, I would certainly have been impressed.
If this keeps up, I’ll be competing with the Devil’s Kitchen and we can’t have that…
Longrider,
Hawkins and their ilk should be directing their energies towards criticising the Balkan and Chinese people smugglers who form the heart of the modern slaving movement; but perhaps an event to remember 21 dead Chinese in Morecambe Bay isn’t as good a photo-op as posing in chains in The Gambia.
That, indeed, is another example. This isn’t about slavery, though, is it? It’s about empty gestures and publicity seeking.
Of course, slave trading on the large scale the British and other european countries embarked upon would not have been possible without the collusion of native africans and arabs.
It was them who supplied the traders with more and more slaves, from rival tribes and even disidents within their own tribes.
Of course, race politics doesn’t allow that to be published because all black people are obviously united against the opressive whites (despite contemporary and historical evidence to the contrary, and the fact that people are all equal, that means black people can be as nasty or as good as white people).
Now that a Cornishman has gone to Africa to apologise about his ancestors part in the slave trade I wonder if a modern moroccan would go to Cornwall to apologise for the raids that swept up entire villages into slavery in Africa. Slavery was not something invented by Europeans to do to non-europeans, it was openly and officially practiced in Arabia to the 1960’s and is still practiced in several African countries. It was by everybody to everybody, and destroyed as an institution by europeans, prinicpally the British. But that does not follow the PC line that everything bad is European, and principally English, in origin.
Un fucking believable, just where does this guy get off – other than abasing himself in front of people that is, apologising for stuff that happened centuries back.
In one word, TWAT!
“Youth worker” says it all. P.C. FUCKIN’ SHITE. What a fuckin’ dickhead! I bet the knob got a hard-on while he was kneeling before all those black geezers.
Seriously though, what this idiocy does is confirm to the “victims” (what victims, they’re all dead) that they’re right in playing the slavery card. Oh and that “western man” is all to willing to act like a cunt!
Unfortunately, this is the message that this prick is sending out – and the “victims” who, all too likely are descended from the people who sold slaves to European traders anyway, make the most of it. The hypocrisy stinks.
As you say there are real things that he could spend his time on, like campaigning against modern day slavery. As a decendent of a famous slave trader, that in itself would gain a great deal of publicity for a real cause. But no, Yuuf worker that he is, he had to bow down :bow: to the left wing bigotry of the victim culture.