Posted on 07/07/2020 6:40:42 AM PDT by C19fan
Jamaica's High Commissioner has joined Prince Harry's call for an 'open discussion' on Britain's role in the slave trade, saying Commonwealth countries 'needs to address the elephant in the room'. Seth George Ramocan said that while today's generation is not responsible for 'dehumanizing' people taken into slavery from Africa and the Caribbean, the same mindset 'still exists in a more subtle form'. He told the Today programme: 'This really should be a matter of open discussion and acknowledgement of what the wrongs were, particularly through the slave trade and how we come to a common understanding about this.'
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I guess they could ship them all back to Africa, but would anyone be able to tell the difference?
Good point. They would probably wonder why there was such an upsurge in lazy potheads all of a sudden.
I don’t think the Democrats have enough money to pay repairations to the descendants of the people they enslaved and the Republicans freed.
I suppose they can try if they want. But this doesn’t affect me since I’m not a democrat.
Nice island. I stayed there once at the Wyndham resort. I was walking down the beach outside of the resort compound, and a young Jamaican came out of the brush very quickly and approached me from behind. We started talking and walking and he asked me if I wanted to take a tour. Being the inquisitive guy that I am and not feeling threatened by the younger fellow, I said sure. We walked for at least a mile through thick brush. My tour guide pointed out lots of vegetation and named the bushes and trees. He took a leaf of spearmint and gave it to me to smell. it was like walking with a botanist. Very educational. We walked to an opening and he showed me the Rose (Hill?) Plantation, explaining that it once held slaves. He gave me the history of Jamaica which was very interesting. I was walking with a historian. Very interesting. He took me to the gate of a mansion/house Johnny Cash had on the island. After that he took me back to the resort. He wasn’t allowed on the grounds, so I told him to wait at the gate. I went to my room and got a $20 to give to my tour guide. He was very appreciative and so was I. My wife, sis and her husband questioned why I was gone so long and I relayed the story. They all thought I was crazy. He was one of the most interesting individuals that I have ever met.
Sheesh that was about 25-30 years ago. Where does the time go?
True story BUMP!
Indian tribes will expect blacks to vacate the island too.
IIRC I got his name and address and was going to send him some things for his kids. I regret that I never did. Another Jamaican individual who tiled floors I talked to many times at the retail box I worked in invited me to come down and see his place in Jamaica. I regret that I never did. Life gets in the way sometimes. I always felt more comfortable in Jamaica than the Dominican Republic because of the commonality of language.
There’s also the matter of NHS dental expenditures due to sugar induced cavities.
Prince Harry doesn’t count. He renounced his title.
CC
Are you much better off because your ancestors were brought to the island as slaves than you would be as an African in Africa?
What about the Irish slaves in the Caribbean? Even though Snopes says it was a myth and they were just indentured servants. Good article here
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076
The Commissioner is free to point out all the inherited benefits from slavery he can find in the UK.
About the only legacies that remain are sugar rotted teeth in graves and black residents living on Notting Hill and elsewhere.
Indeed, where does the time go? I remember details of my travels, back when I was still young, and then it hits me, that was 30 years ago. There were people I wanted to stay in contact with, but never did - and then the years slipped by, and now they're gone.
You really did take a risk, though, because you didn't know this person giving you a tour. Then again, we all took risks - sometimes it's a wonder that we survived.
It’s always about mo’ money.
The Royal Family is the epitome of white supremacy.
They should offer themselves up at the guillotine to make up for the sins of their fathers.
Otherwise—their virtue signaling is just cheap talk.
I am not a British subject, so I don’t really have a dog in this fight...but I will comment anyway. It seems to me that:
1. Prince Harry doesn’t even speak for himself, let alone the Monarchy. He’s as hen-pecked/owned by MM as any man ever was by his wife/master.
2. I still fail to understand how it is that people who were never slaves are somehow owed money by people who never owned slaves (let alone these particular people demanding the money). This is especially problematic for: a) whites and other would-be payors who never had a family member in the country during slavery (including yours truly); and b) blacks who are would-be payees who never had a slave ancestor in this country, but who (or whose family) immigrated to this country after 1865.
WRT reparations: not just “NO!” but “PHUCK NO!”
I believe that all dead people are democrats. :)
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