Letter: You say - Education is key.Byline: Gary O'Neill TO answer letters from Tony Larkin and Emma Reilly (ECHO, March 23 and 24). It's funny how paranoid par·a·noid adj. Relating to, characteristic of, or affected with paranoia. n. One affected with paranoia. some people get when they think someone is having a go at them. As a white working-class forty-something I have never felt any self-loathing or felt the need to apologise for the slave trade slave trade Capturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan any more than I would like the Germans to apologise to the Jews for the Holocaust. It is not needed. But what is needed is to constantly educate and re-educate present generations about what stupid, white, upper-class idiots did 200-300 years ago. Like the horrors of the 1st and 2nd World Wars, we should never forget, and on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade it is a time to remember every black person who died on the ships from Africa. What a different place Africa would be now if 50 % of its people hadn't been forcibly forc·i·ble adj. 1. Effected against resistance through the use of force: The police used forcible restraint in order to subdue the assailant. 2. Characterized by force; powerful. displaced. Stupid white people caused the problems 300 years ago and the least we can do today is remember, and try to understand. More power to the pen of Laurence Westgaph! Gary O'Neill, Greasby, Wirral |
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