Posted on 09/20/2022 7:08:20 AM PDT by rktman
So... everyone stand in a circle.
Pass the guy to your left a quarter.
All ancestral bad acts are now paid for.
Now everyone get back to work.
The British paid reparations to slave owners for their emancipated slaves.
American slave owners never received any reparations.
“the British government spent £20 million, a staggering 40% of its budget in 1833, to buy freedom for slaves. That’s equivalent to approximately £20bn today, making it one of the biggest ever government bailouts. The cost was so high, the vast loans the government took out to fund it were only just paid off in 2015.”
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200205-how-britain-is-facing-up-to-its-secret-slavery-history
Now about the land the slave descendants are living on, Jamaica, the Bahamas, etc....
Do these slave descendants have purchase receipts?
“American slave owners never received any reparations.”
They got the use of the slaves for years.
Slavery was and is an obcenity that was practiced worldwide, by African Blacks, Arabs, American Indians, and the white man. It was Black Africans that sold them to the white man. It should also be noted that many millions of whites were enslaved by the Muslims raiding Europe.
This institution of slavery is not the white man’s guilt. This guilt belongs to all. Relative to the USA over 650,000 soldiers died in the civil war, ending slavery here. Relative to the population then it would be 6,000,000 today.
Reparations have been paid in full, with the blood of those soldiers.
“But remember that 500,000 white Americans died to free black Americans.”
That is an interesting comment.
But why did they go to war to “free the slaves?” That could have been done peacefully using the constitutional amendment process in - say, 1848 - or even earlier.
That is what happens when you have a war rather then a financial transaction.
That’s the narrative we need to be pushing right back at these poverty pimps.
I love the way Hilary Forwich gracefully tossed that reparations BS right back in Lemon’s face.
What do the slave descendants think is worth more, shiploads of sugar (less the cost of shipping), or the saltwater fronting/view islands of the Caribbean?
My kin fought on the Yankee side during the (un)civil war. Waiting for my check from ‘BET’.
Black enslaved blacks, and some still do to this day.
Whites liberated blacks and ended slavery.
Although we are owed reparations and thanks, I will not ask each black person I meet to pay me money, a simple thanks will be enough. \s
The deer-in-the-headlights look on Lemon’s face made my morning.
“Originally inhabited by the indigenous Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of African slaves to Jamaica as labourers. Named Santiago by the Spanish, the island remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later Great Britain) conquered it, renaming it Jamaica. Under British colonial rule Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with a plantation economy dependent on the African slaves and later their descendants. The British fully emancipated all slaves in 1838, and many freedmen chose to have subsistence farms rather than to work on plantations. Beginning in the 1840s, the British began using Chinese and Indian indentured labour to work on plantations.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica
“When the English captured Jamaica, most Spanish colonists fled, with the exception of Spanish Jews, who chose to remain on the island. Spanish slave holders freed their slaves before leaving Jamaica.”
“In 1660, the population of Jamaica was about 4,500 white and 1,500 black.”
“During the 1700s the economy boomed, based largely on sugar and other crops for export such as coffee, cotton and indigo. All these crops were worked by black slaves, who lived short and often brutal lives with no rights.”
“The British abolished the slave trade in 1807, but not the institution itself. In 1831 a huge slave rebellion, known as the Baptist War, broke out, led by the Baptist preacher Samuel Sharpe. The rebellion resulted in hundreds of deaths and the destruction of many plantations, and led to ferocious reprisals by the plantocracy class. As a result of rebellions such as these, as well as the efforts of abolitionists, Britain outlawed slavery in its empire in 1834, with full emancipation from chattel slavery declared in 1838. The population in 1834 was 371,070, of whom 15,000 were white, 5,000 free black; 40,000 “coloured” or free people of colour (mixed race); and 311,070 were slaves.”
“In context, the £20 million voted by Parliament to compensate slave owners under the 1833 Act can be compared with the Gross Domestic Product of the UK in 1832, which was £459 million.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_Kingdom
This all boils down to people wanting free money. There’s no moral crisis in their souls because if there was, people would be rabidly insisting present-day slavery be abolished. With military force.
There is nothing but *crickets* when modern slavery is brought up.
“The Act provided for payments to slave-owners. The amount of money to be spent on the payments was set at ‘the Sum of Twenty Million Pounds Sterling’. Under the terms of the Act, the British government raised £20 million to pay out for the loss of the slaves as business assets to the registered owners of the freed slaves. In 1833, £20 million amounted to 40% of the Treasury’s annual income or approximately 5% of British GDP at the time. To finance the payments, the British government took on a £15 million loan, finalised on 3 August 1835, with banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his brother-in-law Moses Montefiore; £5 million was paid out directly in government stock, worth £1.5 billion in present day.
“There have been claims the money was not paid back by the British taxpayers until 2015, however this claim is based on a technicality as to how the British Government financed their debt though undated gilts.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
Annnnd THE WOMAN KING MOVIE was written by 2 white progressive women helping black dems bury the truth about the African slave trade...Darn it, that internet always getting in. the way of our lies........
I have a friend who is a Jewish man of Italian descent.
He is owed no money even if his ancestors helped build the Coliseum in Rome.
So two white liberals profiting off the backs of gullible black folks. Sort of like branDUHn extorting the little black kids as a lifeguard? Sorta.
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