If you're free today, thank a white man

On 25 March 1807, King George III assented to the Slave Trade Act, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. On 1 January 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. These two White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant countries were two of the earliest to abolish slavery. Others lagged far behind - Saudi Arabia only outlawed slavery in 1962, at a time when the world was castigating Rhodesia and South Africa for their treatment of uncastrated blacks.

Why is there all this talk of evil white and Western oppression, when they are the ones who freed the slaves? In the thousands of years of recorded history, nobody has done as much to eradicate the scourge of slavery, as have white people. White people set everyone free. It is high time a little gratitude was shown. If it wasn't for white men, there would still be slavery worldwide as there is in Libya today.

If you aren't a slave, you should thank a white man. They're the reason you're free. Let's celebrate this anniversary of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 by thanking white men for ending so much oppression throughout the globe.