Posted on 09/08/2022 7:58:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
KINGSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -The accession of King Charles to the British throne has stirred renewed calls from politicians and activists for former colonies in the Caribbean to remove the monarch as their head of state and for Britain to pay slavery reparations.
Charles succeeds his mother, Queen Elizabeth, who ruled for 70 years and died on Thursday afternoon.
The prime minister of Jamaica said his country would mourn Elizabeth, and his counterpart in Antigua and Barbuda ordered flags to half-staff until the day of her burial.
But in some quarters there are doubts about the role a distant monarch should play in the 21st century. Earlier this year, some Commonwealth leaders expressed unease at a summit in Kigali, Rwanda, about the passage of leadership of the 54-nation club from Elizabeth to Charles.
And an eight-day tour in March by now heir-to-the-throne Prince William and his wife, Kate, to Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas was marked by calls for reparation payments and an apology for slavery.
"As the role of the monarchy changes, we expect this can be an opportunity to advance discussions of reparations for our region," Niambi Hall-Campbell, a 44-year-old academic who chairs the Bahamas National Reparations Committee, said Thursday.
Hall-Campbell sent condolences to the Queen's family and noted Charles' acknowledgment of the "appalling atrocity of slavery" at a ceremony last year marking the end of British rule as Barbados became a republic.
She said she hopes Charles would lead in a way reflecting the "justice required of the times. And that justice is reparatory justice."
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All those Caribbean islands are sunny breezy tropical paradises with few if any natural resources on them whatsoever. Maybe just the roll of the dice when God created the world and dished out the resources to the various countries, but those islands are more or less nothings. I worked on an rccl ship for 10 months as a musician, and believe me, long before the 19th time visiting Bermuda, I kind of lost interest. There isn’t a molecule of anything there that wasn’t brought in from somewhere else.
Charles needs to “apologize” for slavery? When did he ever own a slave or condone the practice?
Slavery didn’t exist there prior to British presence? I doubt that is true.
Moreover, Britain and other Western powers spent a lot of blood and treasure to end the slave trade...a slave trade they did not start.
Some, just to avoid printing new currency with his face on it.
they dont like Charles the Turd either
The failed gibsmedat nations realized the optics were bad, and re-packaged reparations demands as climate-related - absolutely true.
Most if not all former colonies of European countries have devolved since throwing out the white people; while Zimbabwe or Haiti are flagrant examples, it is widespread. Some have transitioned better than others, but few thrive or even match the level of development they saw under European colonization. The infrastructures rot as public funds are looted, the environment suffers as industry reverts to primitive methods, and they blame whitey. there may be some truth to their accusation; Western medicine caused their populations to explode while the cultures lagged in learning how to provide for them.
It is now universal......... the cure for inequality is reparations.
Reparations?
I thought British slave owners were compensated for emancipated slaves.
Compensation for the LAZY-—and the DELIBERATELY STUPID
Jamaica is a Garden of Eden. It’s unfortunate its citizens can’t properly capitalize on the blessings bestowed upon them.
I’m pretty sure my white great-grandfather’s great-great-great-grandfather picked cotton. I want reparations!
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