Jamaica calls for Britain to pay billions of pounds in reparations for slavery

Jamaica calls for Britain to pay billions of pounds in reparations for slavery

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/jamaica-calls-britain-pay-billions-pounds-reparations-slavery

I have previously called for reparations rightly owned to the black community before:
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3459551&highlight=reparations+blacks

We know directly which families benefited:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

Reply 1

joey11223

20

lawyers going to love these historic lawsuits lol.

As long as Egypt/Tunisia/Morocco etc give us Europeans our due reparations for centuries of invading our coastal towns to capture white Christian slaves for the Ottoman trade.

Reply 2

queen-bee

19

Looool,David Cameron's too busy having oral sex with pigs to even care

Reply 3

MrKmas508

12

They do this every couple of months. Just walk on and ignore them.

Reply 4

Bill_Gates

OP

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Original post by queen-bee

Looool,David Cameron's too busy having oral sex with pigs to even care

Apparently he is going to visit Jamaica. Jamaica must have some exotic pigs up for some sexy time.

Reply 5

Farm_Ecology

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Original post by joey11223

As long as Egypt/Tunisia/Morocco etc give us Europeans our due reparations for centuries of invading our coastal towns to capture white Christian slaves for the Ottoman trade.

There is a difference in that the government and royal family that exists today is a continuation from that which was involved in slavery.

Reply 6

Bill_Gates

OP

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Original post by Farm_Ecology

There is a difference in that the government and royal family that exists today is a continuation from that which was involved in slavery.

exactly - we have records of the families who directly benefited.

Reply 7

joey11223

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Original post by Farm_Ecology

There is a difference in that the government and royal family that exists today is a continuation from that which was involved in slavery.

Are there not any billionaire Sheikh types who have family links to dodgy dealings?

Reply 8

TimmonaPortella

21

lol no thanks

No-one is going to be compensated out of present taxpayers' money for wrongs committed against their great (edit: great great) grandparents by dead people.

(edited 8 years ago)

How disgusting.

Original post by Bill_Gates

Jamaica calls for Britain to pay billions of pounds in reparations for slavery

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/jamaica-calls-britain-pay-billions-pounds-reparations-slavery

I have previously called for reparations rightly owned to the black community before:
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3459551&highlight=reparations+blacks

We know directly which families benefited:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

No Jamaican alive today has suffered because of British slavery - neither directly, because no Jamaican has been a slave to a Briton for nearly two hundred years, nor indirectly, because today's Jamaicans are far better off in Jamaica/Britain/America than they ever would have been had their enslaved ancestors remained in Africa. What grounds, then, are there for a claim for reparations?

Reply 11

Josb

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Jamaica wouldn't exist without Britain. Can't we say we're good?

Reply 12

silverbolt

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why the hell are they coming after the UK instead of the states? Oh thats right cos the US would laugh in thier face.

Pity the UK doesnt have the same balls

Reply 13

Rakas21

21

Original post by Bill_Gates

Jamaica calls for Britain to pay billions of pounds in reparations for slavery

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/jamaica-calls-britain-pay-billions-pounds-reparations-slavery

I have previously called for reparations rightly owned to the black community before:
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3459551&highlight=reparations+blacks

We know directly which families benefited:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

chair of the Caricom Reparations Commission, has led calls for Cameron to start talks on making amends for slavery

It's just some academic, not even the government.

I'd rather spend the money invading them again that give those leeches a single penny.

Reply 14

username1854431

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India's bid failed lol and now they start.

Reply 15

TimmonaPortella

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Original post by Starvation13

India's bid failed lol and now they start.

I love how quickly everyone forgot about that.

Reply 16

username1854431

16

Original post by TimmonaPortella

I love how quickly everyone forgot about that.

Because it was too ridiculous for anyone sensible to conceive lol it faded away,

and so will this

Reply 17

Bill_Gates

OP

21

Original post by Rakas21

chair of the Caricom Reparations Commission, has led calls for Cameron to start talks on making amends for slavery

It's just some academic, not even the government.

I'd rather spend the money invading them again that give those leeches a single penny.

No one's really going to come asking you now are they.

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 18

Slipandsquirm

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Original post by Danz123

Well thankfully your opinion is irrelevant. :awesome:

Neutral here, but what makes you think your opinion is any more relevant than his?

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Reply 19

Yawn!

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Original post by Starvation13

India's bid failed lol and now they start.

Original post by TimmonaPortella

I love how quickly everyone forgot about that.

Original post by Starvation13

Because it was too ridiculous for anyone sensible to conceive lol it faded away,

and so will this

India made no official bid for reparations. A well educated, respected Indian MP was invited to debate the issue at the Oxford Union. He did so with an intelligence and articulation that is beyond most british people of today.

If in the future, the day comes that India decides it wants reparations from Britain, there will be no debates.

And they won't be asking.

Jamaica calls for Britain to pay billions of pounds in reparations for slavery

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