Apologise for slavery? You must be joking.

Firstly the British didn't invent slavery (the Romans were masters at it and I'm expecting the Italian apology any day now for their invasion). Most of the slaves collected on the Gambian coast were collected by the tribes themselves or slavers from Southern Spain, Britain facilitated the triangle as we were masters of the sea at the time.

The slave triangle ended in 1807, the Americans carried on effectively enslaving their black population for another 160 years! Longer than the slave trade ever lasted! The slave trade was borne out of necessity at the time, the Americans kept it going out of greed and dominance.

I hope that Martin Luther King, Condolesa Rice, Colin Powell etc accept the apology for making them some of the most powerful blacks in the world! Without slavery, of course, they would be as a Gambian is now!

You can't apologise for something that was acceptable at that point in time or else we'd be apologising to each other all the time! The Germans would spend most of their time on their knees, the Catholics would be trying to appease the Protestants, Christians would be asking the Jerusalem muslims to forget about that incident back in the crusades - ad invinitem!

You couldn't make it up!