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Look like the reparations lot are getting desperate
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If slaves who currently live in the Colonies wish to return to Africa, so be it, charter a few Super Sized Cruise Liners and ship 'em back to their homeland with a hundred quid in their pockets. They'll be a hundred quid better off than they were and back in their land of milk and honey. -
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Ridiculous. Why should today's UK citizens pay for what happened over 200 years ago? Not as if the ancestors of most of us were involved or benefited. A significant number of today's citizens have an African or other colonial heritage and the ancestors of most white British people did not benefit from slavery, most were labourers who worked in appalling conditions not much better than the slaves did. Also, some Africans today have ancestors who were complicit in the trade, selling captured members of other tribes. Then there's the fact that some of African origins are rather better off in the US and the Carribean than they would be in poorer African countries.bloggoth
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As The Mogster says, they should be paying us for stopping all the carnage in their countries that went on before the Empire, setting up their legal system, democracy, schooling and other infrastructure etc, etc. Ungrateful gets!I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostRidiculous. Why should today's UK citizens pay for what happened over 200 years ago? Not as if the ancestors of most of us were involved or benefited. A significant number of today's citizens have an African or other colonial heritage and the ancestors of most white British people did not benefit from slavery, most were labourers who worked in appalling conditions not much better than the slaves did. Also, some Africans today have ancestors who were complicit in the trade, selling captured members of other tribes. Then there's the fact that some of African origins are rather better off in the US and the Carribean than they would be in poorer African countries.Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostThat worked ever so well when it happened in Liberia IIRC.
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