Plays 1 by Kwame Kwei-Armah

Author:Kwame Kwei-Armah [Kwei-Armah, Kwame]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408115602
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2009-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

Statement of Regret

The government is considering issuing a statement of regret for the slave trade on the two-hundredth anniversary of its abolition. Commemorations are to be held across the UK on 25 March, two centuries after the passing of an 1807 parliamentary bill outlawing the trade in the British empire.

The deputy prime minister, John Prescott, ruled out a formal apology for Britain’s part in slavery earlier this year. But he will chair a meeting next month of the advisory committee overseeing preparations for the commemoration, at which proposals for a statement of regret are expected to be discussed.

Guardian, 22 September 2006

If you are the son of a man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your father’s estate, you have to pay off the debts that your father incurred before he died. The only reason that the present generation of white Americans are in a position of economic strength . . . is because our fathers worked for their fathers for over four hundred years with no pay . . . We were sold from plantation to plantation like you sell a horse, or a cow, or a chicken, or a bushel of wheat . . . All that money . . . is what gives the present generation of American whites the ability to walk around the earth with their chest out . . .

Malcolm X, Malcolm Speaks, 1962

We need first of all (for) the Caribbean Blacks to acknowledge we are not the same group as they are – to begin to learn about Africans, to begin to listen to us, to begin to understand that even if they have the African heritage they are not Africans any more.

Lola Ayonrinde,

Former Conservative Mayor of Wandsworth, 2006

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