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[Zigenare]

Sadly true but it is true that in the many millennia of slavery where the British were not involved reparations are not forthcoming.

To achieve the abolition of the legal trade of Slavery in the UK and the Empire the Government decided to pay the slave owners for their property. Whilst this seems abhorrent nowadays it was the only sensible way to achieve the aim.

We still deal with IBM, VW & IG Farben should we not break them up and give reparations for the holocaust?

Lets make the Catholic churches pay for the inquisition.

Maybe we should split up the Emirates and split the cash between Cornish people and the Nubians?

Can we invoice the Vikings and the Normans for a bit of pillaging?

What you are forgetting is that white western people are deemed a soft target. Riot and throw statues into the harbour, slap on the wrist. Riot and feel the kind of despair that only looting a new TV or a pair of trainers will salve, slap on the wrist.

If people truly feel that reparations are the only answer then fine. Pay 'em and ship 'em to their original homes in Africa - that would be restorative after all.