Reparations - slavery
Discussion
Seems to be building up a head of steam. Two different viewpoints:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/27/un-sl...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/28/demand...
I'm firmly in the latter camp - how can we be responsible for the sins of our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/27/un-sl...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/28/demand...
I'm firmly in the latter camp - how can we be responsible for the sins of our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers?
I always find it amusing when African nations demand reparations from the West. Conveniently forgetting that before the white man arrived slaves had been sent to the middle East and that much of the slave trade was run by African. Disease and hostile tribes meant whites could not take slaves directly this would be done by Africans who brought them to the coast for sale.
Better start with the African state of Benin and it's descendants, they were the biggest enslaving nation and made huge amounts of wealth. Millions of enslaved people were sold by local kings to European traders for firearms and goods, with kings like Gezo famously defending the trade as essential to their economy. Black Africans did all the capturing of rival tribes and enslavement. And they controlled the market.
JagLover said:
They have spotted we have cretins like Starmer in charge. Who would no doubt hand over tens of billions while moaning about our obligations under international law.
If the opportunity is there why not seize it.
True.If the opportunity is there why not seize it.
It's got to be more than a 75% chance that Starmer will cough up several suitcases full of our money this time round.
Imagine the invited speaker slots he will gain from that when he's kicked out on his arse by the real Left after May.
You think it's bad now, wait until Ange / Minibrain / Khan get the PM gig.
I'm not saying that we need a revolution, but we need 'change' for sure.
And soon.
French Frank said:
True.
It's got to be more than a 75% chance that Starmer will cough up several suitcases full of our money this time round.
Imagine the invited speaker slots he will gain from that when he's kicked out on his arse by the real Left after May.
You think it's bad now, wait until Ange / Minibrain / Khan get the PM gig.
I'm not saying that we need a revolution, but we need 'change' for sure.
And soon.
I agree, but truthfully, how are we going to get actual change (and Reform isn't it) without a revolution? I really want to know.It's got to be more than a 75% chance that Starmer will cough up several suitcases full of our money this time round.
Imagine the invited speaker slots he will gain from that when he's kicked out on his arse by the real Left after May.
You think it's bad now, wait until Ange / Minibrain / Khan get the PM gig.
I'm not saying that we need a revolution, but we need 'change' for sure.
And soon.
I think reparations for the slave trade are an excellent idea, genuinely!
All cheques should be very generous, have huge numbers on them and be made out to the British Royal Navy for their outstanding service in smashing the slave trades and all the money should then be filtered down to the hundreds of sailors and marines families who lost loved ones fighting the Barbary slavers.
Great idea.
All cheques should be very generous, have huge numbers on them and be made out to the British Royal Navy for their outstanding service in smashing the slave trades and all the money should then be filtered down to the hundreds of sailors and marines families who lost loved ones fighting the Barbary slavers.
Great idea.
Oilchange said:
I think reparations for the slave trade are an excellent idea, genuinely!
All cheques should be very generous, have huge numbers on them and be made out to the British Royal Navy for their outstanding service in smashing the slave trades and all the money should then be filtered down to the hundreds of sailors and marines families who lost loved ones fighting the Barbary slavers.
Great idea.
The Italians owe us a few billion too.All cheques should be very generous, have huge numbers on them and be made out to the British Royal Navy for their outstanding service in smashing the slave trades and all the money should then be filtered down to the hundreds of sailors and marines families who lost loved ones fighting the Barbary slavers.
Great idea.
They need to bore off with this stuff. There is nobody alive today thats negatively affected by Slavery*. You could argue that Black Americans who are alive today are advantaged by Slavery as they live in America rather than Africa and have all the advantages of that available to them if they try. The late great Charlie Kirk made some very valid points around this subject and are worth looking up on YouTube.
It's a perfect little virtue signalling soap box to stand on but we are 3/4 generations out from Slavery. It was a horrible thing. If you go back far enough in time we can find European slaves google the Barbary corsairs. Where is my money for this terrible act? The other thing with the whole Slavery thing is that it couldn't have worked without the Africans who sourced all the slaves. Why dont they go looking for the ancestors of the Africans that collaborated with the slave trade and go after them?
It's a period in history that was absolutely awful but this group of people need to get over it and stop with the victim mentality. Rupert Lowe was exactly right when he said Ghana can sod off. Their GDP growth is going great guns like a lot of Africa. they need to look to the future not the past.
It's a perfect little virtue signalling soap box to stand on but we are 3/4 generations out from Slavery. It was a horrible thing. If you go back far enough in time we can find European slaves google the Barbary corsairs. Where is my money for this terrible act? The other thing with the whole Slavery thing is that it couldn't have worked without the Africans who sourced all the slaves. Why dont they go looking for the ancestors of the Africans that collaborated with the slave trade and go after them?
It's a period in history that was absolutely awful but this group of people need to get over it and stop with the victim mentality. Rupert Lowe was exactly right when he said Ghana can sod off. Their GDP growth is going great guns like a lot of Africa. they need to look to the future not the past.
- Slavery very much is alive and well today and all efforts around Slavery should be directed to people traffic to work in domestic servitude as is in fashion with Middle Eastern households or sex trafficking from Eastern Europe or really all over the world. We should really carry on work to eradicate whats there in front of us today.
Countdown said:
Why do people start frothing at the mouth about stuff that's never going to happen?
Because people aren t stupid.We have a legalistic PM who believes in the importance of international law and an attorney general who has advised these chancers.
Like he did with Mauritius and the god awful situation with Chagos which he persuaded his good friend the PM to rollover on.
The f
king UK *abstained* on that UN vote the other day.So frothing about things that may never happen doesn t cover it. Because this basket case of a government has form. Just saying ‘it won’t happen’ when it comes to this government is like sticking your fingers in your ear as actual reality passes you by..
Us long suffering Caribbean people have carried this generational trauma for literally several years since it was invented. We are surrounded by the lingering effects of a people ripped from their homeland and reminded of it daily, in the time-honoured way of trying to break the rear window of a Honda Accord with dancehall music. It is time for you colonial dogs to dig deep, pay your taxes and let that nice Mr Starmer give us a few trillion to ease our terrible pain. Thank you in advance.
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