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Charles' Succession Stirs Caribbean Calls for Reparations, Removal of Monarch as Head of State
Reuters via US News ^ | September 8, 2022 | By Kate Chappell and Michela Moscufo

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: charlesiii; chuckkingchuck; houseofwindsor; inbred; reparations; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 09/08/2022 7:58:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Bee strikes again!

...What?!?


2 posted on 09/08/2022 8:00:57 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Reparations”

Compensation for The Lazy


3 posted on 09/08/2022 8:03:59 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ( Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law the left understands)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What’s the over/under on when the Commonwealth dissolves? Three years?


4 posted on 09/08/2022 8:04:19 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
If they don't like it, they can withdraw from the Commonwealth. (Something tells me they won't, because of the benefits they would lose.)

Or they could declare independence from the British. We did.

It's probably easier for them to gripe and snipe from afar.

5 posted on 09/08/2022 8:09:44 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why do they allow these savages to continue on as part of the Commonwealth? When you have a hemorrhoid, you treat it.


6 posted on 09/08/2022 8:12:46 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: decal

It won’t. But a few countries might drop Chuck as head of state.


7 posted on 09/08/2022 8:20:05 PM PDT by Impy ("We didn't steal the election, we swear!!!" - Sincerely, The Election Thieves )
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To: Levy78

Calls for Britain to pay slavery reparations???????

LOLOL.....Always at the feeding trough for more of more. Reparations/ Nonsense.


8 posted on 09/08/2022 8:21:44 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Levy78

Calls for Britain to pay slavery reparations???????

LOLOL.....Always at the feeding trough for more of more. Reparations/ Nonsense.


9 posted on 09/08/2022 8:21:45 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I totally agree. Same with the US reparations. Yep, just prove you were a slave to Queen Elizabeth II and a check is in the mail.

I’ll be expecting my refund of all the college tuition I, Mr. b paid on time and in full for ourselves and our kids. Wait, that check will never be in the mail?


10 posted on 09/08/2022 8:22:39 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dear Carribean,

Piss off.

Yrs, King Chuck


11 posted on 09/08/2022 8:23:10 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: decal

And the blame on Charles. Love it. Haha. I seriously think Charles should do his king for a day and pass it to William. Charles will never get the love of being a king. Maybe if he stayed married to Diana and she lived. But Camilla won’t help him in popularity. William has Kate which is huge!


12 posted on 09/08/2022 8:24:21 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: caww
Always at the feeding trough for more of more.

Everything is an opportunity for the “gimme stuff” crowd.

13 posted on 09/08/2022 8:24:57 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Cut them loose 100%. No more aid. No more welfare. No more emigration. Nada. Nothing. Zip.

They can console themselves during their "worship" services as they partake of their ganja sacrament.

14 posted on 09/08/2022 8:26:36 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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Well I can see why they wouldn’t want to be ruled by Chuckles, but Reparations may be a ‘bridge too far’...
In fact, they should be kissing Charles’ hiney..... he is probably the only one dumb enough to consider giveing them reparations.


15 posted on 09/08/2022 8:30:57 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That didn’t take long


16 posted on 09/08/2022 8:34:05 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Levy78

Reminds me of when Jamaica wanted Independence. Great Britain knew a good deal when they heard it, “sign here, here and here”

Most beautiful shit hole tropical island you will find, went there once and never need to go back


17 posted on 09/08/2022 8:44:29 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Yup. How does one say, “Gibmedat” in Posh English?


18 posted on 09/08/2022 8:45:15 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

and so it begins? /s


19 posted on 09/08/2022 9:05:41 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: LegendHasIt

Yes. And that’s scary.


20 posted on 09/08/2022 9:09:33 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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