Posted By: Ribicon, 7/14/2021 1:19:27 AM
Jamaica is planning to ask the United Kingdom for compensation for the Atlantic slave trade in the former British colony, a senior government official said. The Caribbean island nation will file a petition that could seek billions of pounds in reparations, pending legal advice, according to Olivia Grange, Jamaica's minister of sports, youth and culture. She said the country hoped for 'reparatory justice in all forms' to 'repair the damages that our ancestors experienced'.(Snip) It was noted at the time that Britain paid £20m to British planters in the Caribbean, the equivalent of £200bn now, in reparations during emancipation in 1834.
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Hundreds of years later and with untold amounts of foreign aid and other assistance taken and spent and still they sit there complaining and looking for a handout. This does nothing to dispel old notions that they were incapable of functioning on their own, but hey.