Guyana: Former slave-owning British PM family apologies not enough

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Activists were not entirely satisfied with Friday's apology speech by a descendant of former British Prime Minister and slave exploiter/trader William Gladstone at the University of Guyana and insisted reparations worth around US$ 1.2 trillion were due as messages along the lines of “our ancestors deserve real justice” became rife. Read full article

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Don Alberto
The Gladstones and other descendants of slave owning families should be forced to repatriate the descendants of their slaves home to Africa, where they can live happily everafter. ,)
Aug 28th, 2023 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Livepeanuts
The Africans seem to be the lowdest cry babies! What about the white slaves taken from England by the Africans of the Barbary coast? More white slaves were taken from Northern Europe than all the black slaves taken to the North of America (mostly captured by blacks and Moslesm the wholesellers).
So why African enslavement, what about the enslavement by Africans? The reason “Rule Britania was invented”.
Another good one is that most whites were very poor and were slaves in all but name, do we count those in? They were worthless, nobody owned them, there would be another in the queue the next day if anyone died.
Until the Briish Empire put an end to slavery world wide nobody had tried to do this before. TODAY blacks are enslaving blacks and in Islam slavery is still legal! (according to the Quran)! It is a travesty of the cry babies to attack the British, Marxists today have loads of laves with the additional “organ harvesting”.
Behind all this precisely are the Marxists of course the largest slavers of today.
Presentism is a Marxist lie invented to destroy the West. You can't oblige somebody in the past to obey a law of the future, those who say so need to see a doctor. Are you living by the laws of the year 3000? Do you what to do for your descendents not to have to pay reparations then?
Aug 28th, 2023 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
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Pugol-H
US$ 1.2 trillion, is that all?

Whilst we all have a responsibility to try and correct the effects in today of injustices of the past and money should be paid for ‘holistic repair’ of communities most affected, no one alive today is responsible for things that happened 200 years before they were born.

Handing someone a US$ 1.2 trillion bill today and saying you’re responsible for this because of your genetic lineage and skin colour is as racist as it gets.

‘repatriations for descendants, and debt cancellation to clean up the “colonial mess,”’

I think they mean reparations rather than repatriations, debts were taken out after independence and as for “colonial mess” these countries were independent in the early 60 any ‘mess’ there today is of their own making.

A regressive and racist ideology which sets back the cause of equality for Black people.
Aug 28th, 2023 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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imoyaro
The US did not import anywhere near as many slaves as Brazil, where the cane fields and engenhos simply went through people, or the Spanish colonies.
Aug 28th, 2023 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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