unfortunately most people living in britain today are slaves. living on minimum wage breaking our backs so that the royal family, the bankers, politicians and all their religious deceiver cronies live in luxuries. they are the slave masters of today and yes even white people have become slaves too. if anyone of us had committed the same crimes the MP's committed with the expenses scandal guess where you would be right now? that right a prison cell.

of course they will throw one or two MP's in jail for you to think there's some sort of justice but errrrrrrrrrrrr it's deception. bankers caused this financial crisis that we're suffering today but guess who bailed them out us the tax payers. if we go down to our local bank to apply for a loan they will pretty much chase us away but we saved them from going bust. they dished out bonuses to themselves and got richer rewarded for failure.

if we perform badly at work you lose your job and if you goes as far as the bankers went it's prison for you. you think that isn't slavery? of course it is. if this country stopped profiting off people's back it would go broke the same system that was in place during the times of slavery still apply today only watered down, hidden in secrecy.

and white folks you are slaves too, only difference is they try to convince you that you get treated better than others, thats only to stop 50 million people from revolting, so a slave is a slave and the majority of us are slaves.

"Don't forget it was your fellow countrymen that sold these poor souls to the despicable "white man"!! Go home and leave us in peace if you don't like GREAT BRITAIN!!"

I fully agree with teh above quote you see Africa has long been a broken community with tribal wars long before slavery.Prisoner from tribal wars make up the large bulk of slaves that were sold into slavery by black men and the Yoruba tribe (Where Mr Adebyo comes from) was chief among these traitors. In africa there are over 2000 languages 520 in Nigeria alone. In Chrina there are only 2 main langaues. Check the difference between the two continents. Thats the probelm we need to deal with. Why black people grudge, hate and kill one another and dont support each other's business. thats why we dont have a sustainable black community in Britain. People with the mentality of Adebeyo only make matters worse

Why not establish a meaningful organisation which can ensure that the historical context of slavery is taught to children and the community, rather than remain hidden. It is a fact that millions were enslaved, murdered, tortured and as a result their blood was used to build Europe. I believe these atrocities remain in the human psyche, and needs exploration in order to help restore elements of self which remain absent throughout our community. In recent years we have seen the discovery of 'Eve', on the African continent, which confirms the true origin of the human being, laying to rest the ideas on 'difference'. Other communities have established means in their communities in order to ensure that children grow learning about the history of their ancestors, while being supported in clear, structured rites of passage programmes which enlighten and encourage future success, in spite of the past!

The Voice can to take action.

Oh Dear, sounds like someone who fits the stereotypical description of angry black person with a huge chip on their shoulder.

That comment does'nt sound like an angry black person to me, you must've been reading something else.

cheryl tweedy who hit the old black loo attendant is the angry person in this and not the brother who post the comment. dont get it twisted.

If I was a black man I would find something extremely strange about cheryl tweedy too.

Words fail you when you think of what people did - but let's not pretend that any group is uniquely evil or that the atrocities associated with slavery are confined to Britain, let alone the Atlantic slave trade. Though the British certainly had a monopoly on the sugar from Jamaica and the brutality inflicted on those sons and daughters of Africa who suffered for their gain. Still, it was a *trade*:

"In 1807 Britain outlawed slavery. In 1820 the king of the African kingdom of Ashanti inquired why the Christians did not want to trade slaves with him anymore, since they worshipped the same god as the Muslims and the Muslims were continuing the trade like before."

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/slavetra.html

Great article. Most British historians will do their best, to distort the truth, to make their forebears look noble and sophisticated. It's important we get a true picture of our history, not to get bitter but so that we can learn from it and improve and situation today.

I agree with the first two comments. If you want to live in this country and get ahead in society then you have to get over the events of the past. There are no time machines to enable you to change history, nor is today’s society responsible for the actions of their ancestors. I remember seeing an episode of “Who do you think you are” featuring Spike Lee, where he traced his slave ancestral roots back to the slave master who owned his family and met with a living female descendant from the same slave master. She was going to apologise for the actions of her family ancestors but Spike stopped her and said "no don’t apologise". He then went on to embrace her.

Does this make him some kind of sell out or someone who has rightfully moved on?

Those who constantly hold on to the past have no future in their grasp!

Right on brother, this is very disturbing. These people have no shame nor compassion for what they did! They actually walk around feeling its their right to live off of black people's free labour that took place donkey years ago without feeling any remorse. That's why you can have a woman like cheryl tweedy hitting an old black cleaner, racially abuse her on top of it, then go on to marry a RICH black man of barbados decent, then sucking and leaching off of will i am for a music deal, then go about pretending as if she's cool with black people.

Cant stand leaches!

Grow up Adebayo! Stop living in the past and peddling the old, worn out stereotypes. GREAT BRITAIN is now a different place to when it sold slaves. Have you not bought into the multi-cultural and multi-ethnicity hyperbole yet? Where would you like to live that has no association with the old slave trade? You've tried Sweden and you've tried the UK, where next? You could always try Nigeria.....oh sorry that was involved with the slave trade too wasn't it! Don't forget it was your fellow countrymen that sold these poor souls to the despicable "white man"!! Go home and leave us in peace if you don't like GREAT BRITAIN!!

Dear Dotun, the point is why be so miffed about a slaver's house when you live in a slaver's island? It is a bit hypocritical. Every person of colour who resides in England and America does. What you and others can do to honour the wrongs is to live the best lives that you can here. Stick to the original plan of the immigrant-make that money, and get out. Nearly all of us here say they ain't going back, it's too backward or they're English through birth, playing themselves.
sadly, the only way Blacks will leave this land is when the white people force them to. Me, I'm not waiting that long.