White people have been enslaved over and over again since the beginning of time... We just don't whine about it and blame others if we fail at something .. Every nation and every culture has spent times as slaves to another nation. It seems odd that we focus so much energy on one aspect of history, when so much else has happened of equal or worse barbarity....

Preach it, John...

Lynda

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British comedian John Cleese in row with fellow comics over slave reparations

Monty Python icon had been at South by Southwest public event in Texas, USA

But he landed himself in hot water after joking about France and Italy owing Brits slave reparations for the Roman Empire and the Norman invasion of 1066

His microphone was eventually taken off him by American comic Dulcé Sloan

By Jacob Thorburn For Mailonline

The Monty Python icon, 82, was riffing with other comics in front of the crowd in Texas when he talked about the 'competition' between cultures over who has been more oppressed by colonisations throughout history.

Pointing to world history being 'a history of crime', he added: 'It's a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker and it's always been that. It's deeply, deeply distasteful.

'But to pretend that one lot were worse than another – you do know the British have been slaves twice, right?

Cleese explained: '[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed. We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans from about 0 to 400.'