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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  June 2004

  Originally posted by ladymuck
  oh but he is. i was at a music event for primary schools in an inner-city area, some ill-informed twit of a music teacher had composed a song about him (dreadful it was) and the hapless young pupils were singing it
  
  i've met some black ppl who've made slightly bitter comments about slavery, it's a facet of history, grim things happened then including the enslavement of white ppl by the Moors but hey, that's history
  
  I doubt they'd have had a great life had they stayed in Africa

  
  One song hardly makes a populist figure.
  
  So you think enslavement, rape and murder is better than remaining untouched in Africa? :rolleyes:

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  June 2004

  Black slave-trader in black honour-list
  
  There he is. As Bob Marley-tile said you should know your history
  
  Why are school pupils singing prases of such a minor(and flawed) figure anyway? Multiculturalism, that's why
  
  What i meant was that the outcome for black ppl in the west now is possibly better than had slavery never happened given the parlous state of Africa(but then that's a hypothetical)

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  June 2004

  Originally posted by ladymuck
  Black slave-trader in black honour-list
  
  There he is. As Bob Marley-tile said you should know your history
  
  Why are school pupils singing prases of such a minor(and flawed) figure anyway? Multiculturalism, that's why
  
  What i meant was that the outcome for black ppl in the west now is possibly better than had slavery never happened given the parlous state of Africa(but then that's a hypothetical) [/QUOTE
  
  I continue to study my History but knowing every black figure that every existed is beyond my powers.
  
  Marley-tile
  
  Its funny you make an issue of my lack of knowledge then question the point of children singing about a historical figure. Surely the song address3ed the situation.
  
  As a History student I've studied many minor and flawed characters (in fact show me the person who has ever existed without flaws). The kind of teaching your condemning is the reason I grew up with understanding different religions and races and would go a long way to explain my lack of prejudices.
  
  I take it, the school was multicultural.

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