Colton didn't take the slaves - they were bought from the black Africans who had enslaved them! The Romans took Britons, Celts, Saxons, etc as slaves. The Mongols took slaves. The Egyptians took slaves. The Native Americans took slaves. Every major civilisation through history has had slaves at some point. We don't do it now (most of us anyway!)
Don’t think for a moment that slavery isn’t a current issue... it’s just not in the media as much as historic slavery from 1763-1833 (the years of British involvement in the African slave trade) because this period is well documented in the British archives https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/
I wish everyone would shut up about the slave trade in Britain that happened a couple of hundred years ago. It wasn't my fault, had nothing at all to do with me and nobody is ever going to make me feel guilty about it. Full stop.
The slave trade is part of history get over it. We didn't start it and stopped it before most other peoples. Seems to me that the indiginous population of this country are an easy target for minority groups.
And now Lloyds of London and the bank of England have apologised for their links to slavery...this is getting so out of hand now, what have they got to apologise for, it all happened so long ago, they have no links to slavery now, and who are they apologising to, pretty sure the last people to be affected by slavery died many many years ago. I can just see the BLM people smirking as, like a small child, they have stamped their feet and got what they want but where does that end? Anyone that's had small children knows what happens if you don't say no to them, this is the thin end of the wedge and, like you half ton, pretty much hate the way everyone and everything is at the moment. Don't know if anyone saw it on the news but the grave of a black slave was desecrated in Bristol recently in a tit for tat thing regarding Colston's statue. That's not something I would ever agree with but I fear that may also be the thin end of the wedge.
Perhaps if we sane (what a world it's become when I can describe myself as sane!) people stop buying the products of all these gutless apologising businesses then they may stop their insincere pathetic grovelling and realise just who it is that provides their profits. Someone said something like this in another thread, and I totally agree with them; I'd like to be transported back to the 1970's or 80's when even with the problems of those times, and without the comforts and technology we have now, I felt like a free man, and although I went through some shit times in the 80's I felt far less stress than I do today. Plus the music was better, the pubs were better, men were men (apart from new romantics ) and women were women, if someone did a shit job you could tell them without fear of being called a bully, if you disagreed with someone you settled your differences without either party calling the other a bigot, racist, or having a childish tantrum
Does that picture at the top of the last post not look like the face of that orrible little Greta Thunberg creature? Is this what she looks like when she isn't disguised as a human. I see that, as the whole BLM thing has died down a little and the Lockdowns are starting to ease around the globe, her publicists have switched her back on and got her back into the public eye.