I condemn slavery with the utmost vehemence, but the fact that my remote ancestors may have been involved in it is nothing to do with me. You need a genetics lecture. Do you realise that probably only about 1 in 512 of my genes come from Henry Dawkins?’

Richard Dawkins on his family’s  connections with the slave trade.

pretty sure the “Dawkins family estate, consisting of 161 hectares in Oxfordshire …bought in part with wealth amassed through sugar plantations and slave ownership” counts as something to do with him

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(via ourcatastrophe)

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