“We ask not for handouts or any such acts of indecent submission. We merely ask that you acknowledge responsibility for your share of this situation and move to contribute in a joint programme of rehabilitation and renewal. The continuing suffering of our people, Sir, is as much your nation’s duty to alleviate as it is ours to resolve in steadfast acts of self-responsibility.”
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/jamaica-calls-for-brita in-to-pay-billions-of-pounds-in-reparations-for-slavery/ar-A AeTzdS?ocid=spartandhp
It's an absurd request after 3-400 years.
Besides, how much do the Romans owe on that basis
taking there visigoths and huns as slaves!
I think the head of the reparations committee has actually said an apology would suffice.
The comparison with the Romans is a bit much, mind. As far as I'm aware they didnt uproot us from a completely different continent, cart us the breadth of the known world whilst a high percentage perished along the way, and then make us work as slaves until we died.
I mean, I may be wrong, but as far as I'm aware they didnt.
ill get some no win no fee chappies onto it now
The idea that people in this country - many of whom are the descendants of relatively recent immigrants themselves and thus have no historical link whatsoever with the slave trade - should be made to pay for something that ended nearly two hundred years ago is utterly absurd and unjust. Indeed, the whole idea is redolent of the repellent concept of racial guilt, whereby a group can be held guilty of the 'crimes' of its ancestors simply by virtue of their heredity. Such a concept ought to have been thoroughly discredited by now, one would have liked to think,
Indeed, such a proposition raises the absurd possibility that descendants of slaves living in the UK should be out of pocket in order to enrich white Jamaicans who are the direct descendants of slaveowners.
Are the Germans expected to apologise to the jews for Nazi atrocities in the year 2300 ?
Does there not come a point when people respect the past but ultimately move on.
My conscience is 100 per cent clear as regards our Jamaican chums, thanks.
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