Jamaicans lead Caribbean calls for Britain to pay slavery reparations
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Jamaicans lead Caribbean calls for Britain to pay slavery reparations
Caribbean slave descendants, some of whose ancestors worked for David Cameron's distant family, are calling for an apology and billions of pounds in reparations
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Originally Posted by Telegraph
From his bungalow on the side of a hill in western Jamaica, Willie Thompson surveys the same lush valley that one of his great-great-grandmothers was forced to harvest for sugar cane more than 180 years ago.
“I am an African descendant,” he said, whippet-thin and grizzled at the age of 78. “She came here with the chains on her feet, on a slave trade ship”.
Mr Thompson knows that when Parliament voted in 1833 to abolish slavery in Britain’s colonies, Earl Grey’s government was made to pay out compensation worth almost £2 billion in today’s money.
And after an exhausting day spent scratching out a living by farming yams, he wonders what might have been if Nana Bracket and her comrades, rather than the ancestor of David Cameron who owned them, had received £4,101 of it - the equivalent of £415,000 today.
“The English made a lot of money back then. A lot of money,” he said, with a sigh almost long enough to reach Dudley, West Mids, where he worked as a labourer in the 1960s before returning home. “I think it is fair for we to get a bit of compensation for what all our people been through.
A coalition of 14 Caribbean states, including Jamaica, agrees with Mr Thompson, and is now mounting the first united campaign for reparations from Britain over its role in the Atlantic slave trade.
Represented by CARICOM, the regional organisation, the group is prepared to sue in the courts. It has hired Leigh Day, the London law firm that last year won £20 million for Kenyans tortured by the British during the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s.
This month it will unveil a list of 10 demands for Britain, France and Holland, including funds likely to total billions, an apology, and assurances slavery will never be repeated, The Telegraph can disclose.
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Another failed tinpot country that has only gone backwards since independence from Britain now gets it begging bowl out in an attempt to blame their ills on somebody else when their failure of the last 60 years has been down to them and them alone. If you want any evidence for this, just look at the attitudes of the former colonies - the success stories of Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya and a few others don't sit there and moan about the past as they went and made a success of independence themselves.
But there's a few questions here we need to ask:
- Why aren't they seeking reparations from their 'African brothers' who were the ones who went into the jungles, captured the opposing tribes members and then sold them at the coastal ports to the British, French and Dutch?
- Why aren't they thanking Britain for ending slavery eventually across the globe which was pretty impressive considering how slavery had been a part of human history from the beginning until that point when the Europeans abolished it?
In any case, if this is to be paid then I have a few suggestions of my own. Turkey will have to pay billions to Eastern European countries as well as North and East Africa as under the Ottoman Empire operated a slavery system there for hundreds of years. The South American nations will have to pay billions towards the Indian tribes for displacing them and sacking the Aztec and Incan Empires. Iran will have to pay billions to India for the Mughal domination of that sub-continent. India will have to pay out to the Sikhs and Portugal for their mistreatment and illegal annexations - as well as to darker Indians who are treated like slaves. The Zulus will have to pay billions for displacing the tribes there in southern Africa long before the British and Dutch arrived. The Italians and the Vatican will have to pay out to Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and many other countries for the Roman Empire. The Germans will have to pay out for the damage they inflicted on the Romans over hundreds of years with the Germanic tribes. The Mongolians will have to pay out to Russia, China, India, Central Asia, Arabia and Eastern Europe for the ills and wreckage of the Mongolian Empire. The French will have to pay out to the British for the invasion of 1066. I would also like reparations to Britain for all the schools, hospitals, bridges, railways, roads, government buildings, streets, cities, towns, common law, standing army, defence, religion and science that we provided to large portions of Africa/the Indian subcontinent and East Asia. And on and on and on and on and on...
Thoughts? What should be our response to their constant begging and needy attitude?
My response? Go and do one! Here are some of the best-rated article comments..
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Nobody wants to talk about that aspect. The only reparation blacks should be offered is a one way ticket back to Africa...This is a shake down for cash pure and simple. These people were born on beautiful Caribbean Islands who never knew slavery or have even known a slave. They should count themselves lucky they weren't born in Africa. Constant civil wars and poverty...They should be thanking Briton they were born where they were. Sick of their crap...
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And slavery is still alive and well in Africa , from boy soldiers in the African bush to Islamic marriage practices. We need no lecturing from professional victims working the Race industry to further fleece us.
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Couldn't agree more. Tell them if slavery is so bad and that its effects linger 400 years later, maybe they should do something to stop BLACKS enslaving people TODAY. But nope all we hear is silence.
Also England left Jamaica with an educated people, developed lands and transportation structure in place when they left and the black people who ran the county into the ground thereafter should be the ones being sued.
Lastly, how did these race baiters come up with 4 trillion in unfunded wages from 3 million slaves? Was the minimum wage 25 million an hour 400 years ago?
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When I read stories such as this I am always left asking the same question. Who exactly do they want to pay the compensation?.
During the time of slavery the average British citizen didn't even have the right to vote. The average worker was worked to death in the pits and mills and died at the average age of 42 in Britain in the late 18th and 19th century.
The poverty commonplace amongst the uneducated masses of Britain during that period was every bit as tough to survive as the slave workers forced labour was to endure in the Americas.
With that as the background, I ask again who specifically do these slave descendants think should pay for their current life of hardship in what is one of the most blessed and beautiful areas of the world?.
Maybe the slave descendents would like to be repatriated to West Africa?
