Caribbean Delegation Bound for Brussels, London to Demand Slavery Reparations

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Reparations are due now to compensate for the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a way to tackle “its legacy” in contemporary society, including “systemic racism and white supremacy.” That is the message a Caribbean delegation will take to Brussels and London on a visit designed to elicit cash payments as compensation for “slavery and colonialism.”


Calls for reparations are longstanding but have been gaining momentum around the world, particularly among the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the African Union (AU), Reuters reports.


The outlet set out some of the background to the latest call to target Europe:


Organised by the Repair Campaign, a group advocating for reparations in the Caribbean, the trip will start in Brussels on July 1, where the delegation will host a briefing with European Union (EU) lawmakers.
In 2023, the EU said Europe inflicted “untold suffering” on millions of people but even though some member states have acknowledged past wrongs, no country has agreed to reparations.
The delegation will then travel to London, where they will hold a briefing in parliament on July 2.

The Reuters report goes on to state the delegation includes “Caribbean academics and policy experts, as well as members of national reparations committees established by CARICOM member states and backed by their respective governments.”


CARICOM has a reparations plan, which, among other demands, calls for technology transfers and investments to tackle health crises and illiteracy. The AU is developing its own plan.



An infographic details growing demands for slavery reparations. (Ufuk Celal Guzel/Anadolu via Getty)

Opponents of reparations argue contemporary states and institutions should not be held responsible for their past. But advocates say action is needed to address the legacies, such as inherent racism allegedly delivered through colonialism.


Britain has previously rejected calls for reparations even as the United Nations has added its voice to the call.


Just this past week a Black Lives Matter (BLM) affiliate made a demand of its own in the U.S. telling “white folks” the time has come to pay up.


BLM has also made the same call in the UK.


As Breitbart News reported, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres in 2024 said past colonial powers “laid the foundations for a violent discrimination system based on white supremacy that still echoes today.


“Descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent are still fighting for equal rights and freedoms around the world. Today and every day, we reject the legacy of this horrific crime against humanity.


“[…] We call for reparatory justice frameworks to help overcome generations of exclusion and discrimination.”


HILARIOUS!!!!
 
Being 1/4 black myself (waist to the knees), I fully support repatriations.
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Wasn't some African national woman caught with a "slave" last year? Maybe she should fork out first.


Slavery is a BIGTIME business in Africa right now. Most of central and southern Africa are in a perpetual state of war, with tribal rivalries going back to before Rome was an empire. Rwandan Tutsis, taking advantage of DR-Congo's chaotic military government, are currently trying to move in and establish a Tutsi dominant party in Congo. Tutsi paramilitaries already killed several hundred Congolese civilians and rural Congolese bush hunters are now starting to form militias and fight back. Thousands of captives captured by all sides are sold to the highest bidders in "neutral" territory where they are then forced into indentured labor or as sex slaves for warlords and their entourages. Great Britain actually abolished the participation in the slave trade by their merchants and mercenaries in the 1820s, with France following suit quickly after that. But slavery within the perpetually war torn subcontinent has always been a dominant source of revenue for the combatants, going right back to prehistory.
 

Reparations are due now to compensate for the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a way to tackle “its legacy” in contemporary society, including “systemic racism and white supremacy.” That is the message a Caribbean delegation will take to Brussels and London on a visit designed to elicit cash payments as compensation for “slavery and colonialism.”


Calls for reparations are longstanding but have been gaining momentum around the world, particularly among the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the African Union (AU), Reuters reports.


The outlet set out some of the background to the latest call to target Europe:




The Reuters report goes on to state the delegation includes “Caribbean academics and policy experts, as well as members of national reparations committees established by CARICOM member states and backed by their respective governments.”


CARICOM has a reparations plan, which, among other demands, calls for technology transfers and investments to tackle health crises and illiteracy. The AU is developing its own plan.



An infographic details growing demands for slavery reparations. (Ufuk Celal Guzel/Anadolu via Getty)

Opponents of reparations argue contemporary states and institutions should not be held responsible for their past. But advocates say action is needed to address the legacies, such as inherent racism allegedly delivered through colonialism.


Britain has previously rejected calls for reparations even as the United Nations has added its voice to the call.


Just this past week a Black Lives Matter (BLM) affiliate made a demand of its own in the U.S. telling “white folks” the time has come to pay up.


BLM has also made the same call in the UK.


As Breitbart News reported, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres in 2024 said past colonial powers “laid the foundations for a violent discrimination system based on white supremacy that still echoes today.


“Descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent are still fighting for equal rights and freedoms around the world. Today and every day, we reject the legacy of this horrific crime against humanity.


“[…] We call for reparatory justice frameworks to help overcome generations of exclusion and discrimination.”


HILARIOUS!!!!
Hey, I have an idea on how to solve this and make everyone happy.

Instead of paying retributions with cash, why don't we just give the slaves (and all their descendants) back?

Wouldn't that make more sense?

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Didn’t another group of people, other than Europeans, abduct and sell Africans to European slave traders? Didn’t African tribes enslave members of other tribes and sell those people to slave traders? Should not those people have to pay reparations?
 
Didn’t another group of people, other than Europeans, abduct and sell Africans to European slave traders? Didn’t African tribes enslave members of other tribes and sell those people to slave traders? Should not those people have to pay reparations?
Spent a little time in Liberia in the 90s, the locals working at the US Embassy wouldn’t talk to our Black Jarheads. When I asked them why, they basically responded “We already got rid of them once…”.

When we first got there, a lot of our Black guys were getting a lot of souvenirs from their “homeland”, but once they experienced how they were treated they were pure Red, White and Blue proud with a serious “fuck that African shit hole” attitude.

Long story short, yes, the local tribes there were VERY culpable in the slave trade and their ancestors are still proud of it.