Coalition of the Confused
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Erasing History, or Editing it? General Confusion
From: adwil
Jul-9
Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:The Duke and Duchess of Sussex said the Commonwealth needed to "right those wrongs" of the past to properly address racial injustice.
Not terribly specific. What do they actually want? I don't buy into this national guilt trip rubbish over past slavery. The biggest slavers were the Africans themselves.
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
Jul-9
The British Empire has a lot of blood on its hands.
That has to be acknowledged.
From: PTG (anotherPTG)
Jul-9
So will they renounce their titles and Ill gotten gains from the downtrodden ENGLISH peasants?
From: adwil
Jul-9
"The British Empire has a lot of blood on its hands."
That has to be acknowledged."
Why do you think it hasn't been acknowledged?
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
Jul-9
They lost their empire, so I guess that is punishment, but have there ever been formal apologies to the countries they invaded and the consequences to the indigenous peoples?
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
Jul-12
The one thing that has happened from the tearing down of all those statues, is that we are finally talking about the true men they were.
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
Jul-14
Why are the NFL's Washington Redskins changing their name?
The Washington Redskins NFL team announces it will drop its franchise name, but why have they done it, what happens now, and what could it mean for the rest of American sport?
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
Jul-16
Columbus statue smashed up in US
Surveillance video has shown a man climbing a Columbus statue in Connecticut. The man hit the head with an object. He runs away and then returns to climb the statue again and smashes the head off the statue.
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