MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Commonwealth leaders concur it is time to discuss slavery reparations
Commonwealth leaders agreed during a Heads of Government meeting in Samoa Friday that it was time to discuss reparations from the United Kingdom for its role in the transatlantic slave trade. ”The time has come for a meaningful, truthful, and respectful conversation towards forging a common future based on equity,” the leaders said in a statement. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesYes Slavery was a terrible thing - but was in a different world- centuries ago lots of things people did to each other were despicable by todays standards- but it was a different world back then.
Oct 28th, 2024 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Funny Thing- no mention from the likes of Nigeria and Ghana about how much gold and silver several of their Tribal Kings of 200 years ago made in rounding up and selling off their Own people to the slavers!
Nor the fact that the UK alone declared the slave trade illegal around 1830 and the Royal Navy then fought alone for several decades to try and prevent the slave ships operating and lost many ships and thousands of men. So why just pick on UK as lots of other Nations were in it as well - and carried on after the UK banned the trade.
Nor any mention of the African Countries who even today still allow and practise slavery.
Maybe time to wind up the Commonwealth Organisation if it insists on this hypocritical two faced route.
Does the UK get reparations from Italy enslaved by the Roman Empire , or from the Vikings in Norway, or the French Normans, what about the Arab slavery, Chinese Slavery or the Ottoman Slavery, what about black Africans that enslaved their own people, What a bloody farce all this garbage is, slavery has been around for 1000s of years,
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