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Actor Richard Roxburgh condemns ancestors as he discovers his family 'owned' 109 slaves
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 26, 2014 | Lucy Chesterson

Posted on 07/28/2014 7:41:23 AM PDT by C19fan

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What a sanctimonious wanker.
1 posted on 07/28/2014 7:41:23 AM PDT by C19fan
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And they wouldn’t be my choices

Real easy to say today. Like people who say if the lived in Germany in the 30s, they would have opposed Hitler. Guess what? 90% of them would have been right there in the crowd shouting "Sieg Heil."

2 posted on 07/28/2014 7:42:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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This guy is blonde, right?
3 posted on 07/28/2014 7:43:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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one of the ugliest periods in human history

Actors don't have much time to read history books.

4 posted on 07/28/2014 7:44:25 AM PDT by ladyjane
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Greed and slavery are not definitions of Capitalism.

These idiots don’t even know what capitalism is. It is the rule of law (thus ensuring contracts); it is the movement of capital from those with an excess to those with ambition and ideas; it is distribution by merit.


5 posted on 07/28/2014 7:45:20 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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My response to the finding out such news would be an indifferent shrug. That was just how things were done in that time and I’m not going to judge my ancestors by today’s standards. I imagine all of us, if we went far enough back, could find things our ancestors did that wouldn’t be kosher by the standards of today....


6 posted on 07/28/2014 7:45:56 AM PDT by apillar
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Actor Richard Roxburgh condemns ancestors as he discovers his family 'owned' 109 slaves

Put his name on the list of people we send a bill to when Jesse, Al, Holder and Hussein decide that we owe reparations for slavery.

7 posted on 07/28/2014 7:46:20 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want 0bama to make history - First to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED!)
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Put him on the list to take all his assets in order to pay “reparations”


8 posted on 07/28/2014 7:47:54 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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He must need work. U$ performers attack 1. Bush 2. Palin 3. the GOP, if the rent is owed.


9 posted on 07/28/2014 7:48:44 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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who??

let him know they also condemned homos ... and the self loathing will be complete


10 posted on 07/28/2014 7:51:06 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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They were all greedy Democrats.


11 posted on 07/28/2014 7:51:14 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (You cannot protect a child from child abuse by aborting it. Abortion *is* child abuse.)
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Hey Dick, might I suggest a warm bathtub of water and a razor blade to ease your pain?


12 posted on 07/28/2014 7:51:34 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
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Maybe he could just write a big check to Jesse Jackson to assuage that White Guilt of his.


13 posted on 07/28/2014 7:52:08 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Since his gg-grandfather had sugar plantations in the Caribbean, it’s a good bet that many of his slaves were Irish as well as black.


14 posted on 07/28/2014 7:52:08 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Unarmed people cannot defend themselves. America is no longer a Free Country.)
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As an act of solemn contrition then, he should commit suicide and be absolved of the sins of the father.


15 posted on 07/28/2014 7:52:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Not defending slavery (the Bible condemns menstealers (slavers) - 1 Tim 1:10), but the alternative was that the African tribesmen who conquered their fellow tribesmen would have just killed them - rather than sold them; or have sold them to muslims who would have castrated the men captives.

If Actor Richard Roxburgh is so appalled, he should go to the Sudan and fight the present day islamic slavers.

16 posted on 07/28/2014 7:58:03 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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It was the in thing ,like a few years`ago people owned Pet Rocks


17 posted on 07/28/2014 7:58:38 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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Richard Roxburgh: Owning slaves is bad. Forcing a man to provide according to his ability for another man according to his needs is good.

Richard, I suspect you have more in common with your ancestor than you think.


18 posted on 07/28/2014 7:58:39 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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“presided over one of the ugliest periods in human history”

That time wasn’t even close to being one of the ugliest periods in history.


19 posted on 07/28/2014 8:02:59 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Good point. Liberals talking about slavery and our past sins, are not addressing that slavery still happens in some places today.

Ditto, these issues with liberal females and “war on women”. Given the treatment of women in some parts of the world, these liberals attention is best focused there, rather than bitching about birth control pills in a country in which they have full equal rights.


20 posted on 07/28/2014 8:03:11 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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