Posted on 09/28/2015 10:31:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
David Cameron is facing calls for Britain to pay billions of pounds in reparations for slavery ahead of his first official visit to Jamaica on Tuesday.
Downing Street said the prime minister does not believe reparations or apologies for slavery are the right approach, but the issue is set to overshadow his trade trip to the island, where he will address the Jamaican parliament.
Ahead of his trip, Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the Caricom Reparations Commission, has led calls for Cameron to start talks on making amends for slavery and referenced the prime minister’s ancestral links to the trade in the 1700s through his cousin six times removed, General Sir James Duff.
In an open letter in the Jamaica Observer, the academic wrote: “You are a grandson of the Jamaican soil who has been privileged and enriched by your forebears’ sins of the enslavement of our ancestors ... You are, Sir, a prized product of this land and the bonanza benefits reaped by your family and inherited by you continue to bind us together like birds of a feather....
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We are next....
Fuj.
Wait til europe demands muslims and muslim africans pay for their barbary pirate raids and white slave trade for hundreds of years all over the european coastlines.
Lol. Like that will ever happen.
Only Europeans and Americans are held to account for their pasts. The brutal wars, slavery, and genocide (yes, genocide) by everyone else gets a pass.
Cost of this program to be split between the descendants of Muslim slave traders, the Indigenous Africans who first captured and sold the slave to the Muslim Slave Traders and the British who transported these slave to Jamaica. An additional small payment will be made by the descendants of Black Jamaican slave owners.
Socialists running out of welfare money I guess.
We are next...
POS Obama will probably do something along those lines before he leaves.
Cameron, rather than contribute to this bagatelle, should simply call off the visit. Permanently.
The brown and black and yellow and red world intends to punish those who civilized them
Will whites do nothing
And for how long
Sod off...
LOL
Whatever Jamaica gets, we confiscate. Reparations for the War of 1812. Look at how much the Military-Industrial Complex has cost us!
The Irish should be the first country to ask for reparations since they’ve been enslaved, raped and pillaged for 800 years.
When is Europe going to pay back the Marshall plan money plus interest. We have first claim since without USA there isn’t a Europe.
Where's my check?
Posted mine before I read your’s.
The British government is just daffy enough that they might seriously consider what would be, in a more normal world, a lunatic non-starter.
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