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Saturday January 15, 2005 23:10

by Barry

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British imperialists treated Africans like "savages" -Thabo Mbeki reckons otherwise.

In the middle of his current visit to Tanzania, British chancellor Gordon Brown has claimed that "the days of Britain apologising for its colonial past are over". Some of us may beforgiven for wondering when we ever heard any of these apologies, but I suppose that would be unfair to the chancellor and highly cynical.

Especially when one considers his follow up comment that it was time for Africans to start talking about "the enduring British traditions of liberty and tolerance".

ANC leader Thabo Mbeki, for some strange unearthly reason, isnt highly impressed by the British chancellor. He claims that British imperialists have simply treated the African peoples whose lands they occupied as savages.

Speaking as someone from an area which Britain currently occupies, apparently because we Irish natives are unruly savages Britain has to police, Id settle for a withdrawal rather than an apology for its actions. Maybe Mr Mbeki and myself are just a pair of cynical bastards, unable to appreciate "British traditions of liberty and tolerance". I suppose that must mean we are savages after all.

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Comments (28 of 28)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Mbeki would be better of listening to his brother	Cabhog	Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:34
2	You're not cynical... you just don't understand what they mean	Michael	Sun Jan 16, 2005 14:21
3	Fascinating article about the British Slave Trade (Part about Haiti made me think of Fallujah)	redjade	Sun Jan 16, 2005 16:08
4	Slave trade	Obsever	Sun Jan 16, 2005 21:10
5	Savages	Michael Hennigan	Mon Jan 17, 2005 23:46
6	Oh dear, someone (me) criticised the brits again.	Barry	Tue Jan 18, 2005 05:37
7	tanzania	peter	Tue Jan 18, 2005 14:14
8	Brits may not have invented slavery, but	R. Isible	Tue Jan 18, 2005 18:01
9	My post was about Britains colonial exploits, not about slavery.	Barry	Tue Jan 18, 2005 20:23
10	Britain and The World	South African Friend of Ireland	Wed Jan 19, 2005 07:46
11	wow	james	Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:20
12	Britain vs Other Countries	South African Friend of Ireland	Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:44
13	Our SA friend is correct	Ali H.	Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:16
14	Very well pointed out Ali H	Barry	Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:29
15	Lack of communication	MB	Wed Jan 19, 2005 18:53
16	Victorian ideals as 'progress' still exist,	pc	Wed Jan 19, 2005 19:05
17	To MB - Hows this for communication	Barry	Thu Jan 20, 2005 00:24
18	Pompous and Arrogant Britain.	South African Friend of Ireland	Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:32
19	They arent rying to get out actually	Barry	Thu Jan 20, 2005 13:25
20	And it flies thick and fast...	MB	Fri Jan 21, 2005 14:05
21	MB's use of Economic Terminology	South African Friend of Ireland	Sat Jan 22, 2005 09:35
22	apolgies	MB	Mon Jan 24, 2005 15:26
23	Royal Family	South African Friend of Ireland	Mon Jan 24, 2005 18:25
24	What would the Irish have done	Maubere	Tue Jan 25, 2005 23:05
25	What are you raving about ?	Barry	Wed Jan 26, 2005 02:50
26	Slavery Today	teg	Mon Feb 21, 2005 15:28
27	Balance sheet of Empire	Anatole	Mon May 16, 2005 11:27
28	gulag in K enya	lila	Thu Nov 03, 2005 02:38

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