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14 Caribbean nations sue Britain, Holland and France for slavery reparations…

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 pay—and 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. …


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: caribbean; france; netherlands; reparations
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14 Caribbean nations sue Britain, Holland and France for slavery reparations that could cost hundreds of billions of pounds
Enough already with playing the victim.
1 posted on 10/10/2013 9:18:05 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451891/14-Caribbean-nations-sue-Britain-Holland-France-slavery-reparations.html
2 posted on 10/10/2013 9:18:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Why aren’t they suing the AFRICAN nations that were the suppliers of slaves for the European slave traders?


3 posted on 10/10/2013 9:20:41 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: Olog-hai

One aspect of the story needs to be repeated often.

Not all of the slaves went to the original colonies.
I believe more slaves went to Brazil than the 13 original colonies. To hear the academic left speak-slavery started in 1621 and the USA is entirely to blame for it all.


4 posted on 10/10/2013 9:21:06 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Olog-hai

Offer any descendent of slaves a boat ride back to Africa.

That should settle things.


5 posted on 10/10/2013 9:21:12 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists take the stand: "There is no God AND I hate Him.")
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Because most of the African nations are poorer than they are!


6 posted on 10/10/2013 9:21:48 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Cause they don’t have any money?


7 posted on 10/10/2013 9:23:05 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Olog-hai

Counter sue for the cost of every public building and project built during the colonial period, and all “aid” provided since then.


8 posted on 10/10/2013 9:23:09 AM PDT by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: Olog-hai

A group of countries populated and run by people who can’t do for themselves demand rich countries subsidize their uselessness for eternity.


9 posted on 10/10/2013 9:23:11 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Olog-hai

In all of this slave talk were is the mention of the Spanish?


10 posted on 10/10/2013 9:23:37 AM PDT by barmag25
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To: Above My Pay Grade
Why aren’t they suing the AFRICAN nations that were the suppliers of slaves for the European slave traders?

There is a well-established legal principle that says you always sue whoever has the deepest pockets, whether you have a case or not.

11 posted on 10/10/2013 9:26:04 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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We should just nuke the islands and be done with it.


12 posted on 10/10/2013 9:27:20 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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No one alive has experienced slavery and is in fact better off than their ancestors who remained in Africa.

Perhaps Britian, Holland, and France should send the complainants a bill for improving their lots in life.

13 posted on 10/10/2013 9:27:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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Actually when there in the Caribbean I found most all the inhabitants (black) were indeed the decedents of slaves brought over through places like Bonaire.

What no one will mention here is that there used to be other ORIGINAL ISLAND populations before the current almost all black ones that DIED because the slaves brought diseases that killed them all. (Kind of like Columbus and Indians)...
So there are NO original folks left to sue IMO. This is just another ploy where a crying population is trying to use the courts to get rich quick.
IMO they need to get a life and go away.

On the positive side of slavery (yes there was one); wasn't good ethically at all, but it saved the lives of all those sold who would have been killed by the opposing tribes anyway.
So my point is that if there was no slavery, there would have been none of these people to be descended from because their forefathers would have been slaughtered in tribal warfare. How about going back to sue the victorious tribes that captured and sold them? (their own brothers) PS: Slavery is still going on from Africa through the Arab nations and where is the outrage? Anyone hear word one about that and who is doing anything about that today?

14 posted on 10/10/2013 9:28:09 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Olog-hai

Offer each one coach airfare with a meal and a movie back to their precious africa.


15 posted on 10/10/2013 9:28:50 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Maine Mariner

The US wasn’t even thought of yet. They were late in the game and only practiced slavery on a small scale compared to when the spainards were building new spain(Mexico) or their conquests through South America in search of silver. Most of the wrongdoings white people are blamed for can usually be traced back to the spainards.


16 posted on 10/10/2013 9:29:18 AM PDT by barmag25
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To: Olog-hai

Never any mention of the role the Muslims played....HMMM wonder why? Anyone want a good read about the slave trade in Africa, read “The White Nile” although it is actually about the opening of Africa to the West it has great accounts of the slave trade. I also read that the Arabs [Muslims] enslaved over 18 to 20 million White people from countries they invaded in Europe, where are the reparations for their progeny?


17 posted on 10/10/2013 9:33:24 AM PDT by ABN 505
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Who knew Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have Caribbean subsidiaries?

It is clear race-baiting shakedowns are a lucrative global business.


18 posted on 10/10/2013 9:34:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Above My Pay Grade

The African nations are poorer than they are. They are also run by ‘people of color’.


19 posted on 10/10/2013 9:44:34 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Exactly! They should sue the tribes in Africa that captured and sold their ancestors. Many of those tribes still maintain the coastal forts as tourist attractions and take pride in their part in the slave trade. Many are still actively involved in the slave trade today.

Aside from the other “plaintiffs”, Haiti became a free and primarily black run island over 200 years ago. Their history is a good indicator of how every “african” run country inside and outside of africa is run.

In this country, I would consider reparations AFTER they pay the descendants of all union soldiers who fought, bled, or died in freeing their ancestors reparations for making them free. If they want to sue an entity here then sue the party of slavery and the KKK, the democrat party.


20 posted on 10/10/2013 9:48:57 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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