Dutch PM Apologises for 250 Years of Slavery

Channel ^ | 20 Dec 2022

[nickcarraway]

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday (Dec 19) officially apologised for 250 years of the Netherlands' involvement in slavery, calling it a "crime against humanity".

The apology comes almost 150 years after the end of slavery in the European country's overseas colonies, which included Suriname and islands like Curacao and Aruba in the Caribbean and Indonesia in the East.

In the first of the former Dutch colonies to react, Aruba's Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes accepted the apology, but others like the island of Sint Maarten said it would not.

[nickcarraway]

What about Belgium and it's royal family? They are descendants of Leopold II.

[rfp1234]

How many Solomon Islands leaders have apologized for cannibalism?

[ronnie raygun]

So let him and his family pay reparations if he’s so guilty

[dsrtsage]

Did they enslave people, or simply purchase those that were already enslaved?

[youngidiot]

It’s not his apology to make. It’s not their apology to accept or reject.

[Bigg Red]

Good point.

[EEGator]

Only white people have to apologize.

“Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!”

Muhammad Ali

[Bigg Red]

And I don’t now anything about this man, but I am guessing he is not old enough to have been involved in this slavery.

[Samurai_Jack]

BIG mistake.

Never apologize for something you didn’t do.
Now he’s gonna have to pay.

[ConservativeInPA]

Okay, apology accepted. Let’s not hear about it again.

[Jhadur]

Travel expense reimbursement should be forthcoming as well...

[Mark17]

So let him and his family pay reparations if he’s so guilty

Yep, reparations, was the first thing I thought that he might be leaving himself open to.

[nickcarraway]

Have the relatives of the people they ate apologized for giving them heartburn?

[jroehl]

When will Africans apologize for not collectively becoming an advanced culture over the last 200 years?

[Jacquerie]

Slave owners had an interest in keeping their property alive.

Belgium legalized abortion in 1990.

I suggest you apologize for what you are doing rather than what your distant ancestors did.

[joshua c]

i had no idea he was that old

[butlerweave]

Hey Mark you can’t apologize for the past you were not there

[FlingWingFlyer]

String him up! That apology doesn’t give all those slaves any justice. Make the boy pay for what he did to them.

[momincombatboots]

WEF meets then the worlds sends money to every corruptocracy in the world, while we freeze and can’t afford basics. Same a Belgium.
We are in deep trouble.

[Bonemaker]

Same idiot killing Dutch farmers. Kill yourself.