Posted on 10/10/2013 9:18:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Britain is being sued, with France and the Netherlands, by 14 Caribbean countries, which are demanding what could be hundreds of billions of pounds in reparations for slavery.
Around 175 years after Britain freed its last slaves in the West Indies, an alliance of Caribbean nations is demanding to be repaid for the awful lingering legacy of the Atlantic slave trade.
Caricom, a group of 12 former British colonies together with the former French colony Haiti and the Dutch-held Suriname, believes the European governments should payand the UK in particular. It has hired the British law firm Leigh Day, which recently won compensation for hundreds of Kenyans tortured by the British colonial government during the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s.
Racism has always been big business
no, no, no....this is legitimate, same as here in the US. Every former slave owner should have to pay into a fund that will be used to compenstae every former slave.
Guess what happens to all that slave reparation money....within a matter of months, the whites will get it all back.
You are correct. Many times more slaves went to Central and South American than did to North America.
Yet there are few blacks in Saudi Arabia.
The muslim arabs preferred their slaved castrated!
(This is a fun fact to share with any NOI type you happen to talk to)
Well that explains the lack of black population after these hundreds of years. Very sad and why isn't Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton over there marching?
Answer, no money to be made that they would be putting themselves at risk for once.
The UK should respond with a an ultimatum - drop the law suit or we declare war - good old fashioned, WWII type war.
I wonder if, sooner or later, crap like this will cause a war? I hope not, but I just wonder.
I think they should pay them a lump sum and then stop all foreign aid, bar them from ever entering the donor countries and deport the rest.
It’s a little unclear from the article (or my reading comprehension has taken another hit from lack of coffee) but exactly where is this suit taking place? In an EU court? I ask because it appears to be one of those “go for the deep pockets” lawsuits - note nobody is suing Spain - and those of the U.S. are deeper than most. Empty, but deep.
For centuries, Britain did a decent job running their Caribbean islands. The two I saw on a cruise....Barbados and Grand Turk....are really messing things up with independence. If they want Britain, Holland and France to keep subsidizing them, maybe they should become colonies again.
In what court are they bringing this action?
Really, the descendents of slaves should be paying these European countries back for bringing their ancestors to freedom for the descendents.
It does become clear why the proggies are so intent on having the U.S. sign into this sort of program. It's a redistributionist's wet dream.
yes, but they could be suing oil-rich, Arab countries. I wonder what kind of a response they’d get from the Saudis.
We in America are going back to it with giant government and forced taxation for things we don't need or want. There is even a 3.5% tax coming on the sales of all homes through Obamacare.
And also charge for education costs and healthcare provided, plus a surcharge for defense. Which should leave all of them OWING Europe. Call it a “civilization fee”. . .
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