Is It Time The UK Paid Reparations For Slavery? | Good Morning Britain
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- 'It may have been a long time ago, but there are obviously current-day consequences.' Leading UN judge, Patrick Robinson, says the UK will no longer be able to ignore calls for slavery reparations. It’s been suggested Britain owes £18.8 trillion.
Is it time to pay reparations?
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They would be too cowardly to do that .
If only it would certainly be more relevant to the UK than this nonsense about reparations.
If you keep going back in time, every country is a "victim country".
Some still are. And some will be.
True. Bloody Vikings.
These are not things invented today. It was agreed by the UK and other World powers that they would pay their former colonial states and return the loot they stole. This went hand in hand with giving their colonial states independence. the fact that you're too ignorant to know is, shouldn't be the excuse. this was the foundation that was agreed upon when united nations were founded. This wasn't something crocked up today. these were legal pledges made along with the Independence with the creation of the UN. the international rule-based order .
@@bad209 its daft as heck mate, 18 TRILLION for eevry country or split up? some will say they deserve more and it will worsen the uk economy especailly NOW when theyr at one of their lowest points. What will the money do? its a bandaid solution most of these countries have been recieving aid for decades and there situation doesnt improve because of corrupt officials and lack of responsibility to help their country themselves. It doesnt help anyone they need to get a grip
Non victim but the west look at coups
Ok, can we have the Vikings and Romans pay the British for doing the same to us?
We paid reperations to the slave owners...the tax payer paid that debt off in 2015.
SLAVERY IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES WITH BLACKS IS STILL GOING ON
Also some free Slaves ( black) had black slaves of their own
something original please
@leelobee6552 nobody has answered the original post other than to deride the very question, because to do so would be devastating to the victim narrative. PoC are far from the only historical victims of bad stuff
If we ignore the huge cost to Britain of policing the seas with its Navy to stamp out slavery, the £20m loan the country took out to ensure the freeing of slaves by compensating slave owners was the equivalent of £2.1bn in 2023 money.
If we compound that over 188 years (the same method used to generate the huge reparations figures against Britain) we come up with £25.4 trillion.
Just saying.
Its time england had reparations for taking in all the worlds entitled criminals
Consider the amount of money spent combating former slave crimes instead of sending them back. That also would total a couple trillion over the centuries.
@@dansmith1661western powers since creating these international systems have created trade practices unfairly f'ng over these smaller countries. Britain is finding that hard way now dues to brexit and Britain small economy. The Britain-india free trade negotiations is showing just how weak and poorer power Britain has become.
still should pay it
@talkswithjesse4062 thats great logic.
Slaves were not only Black.
Basically all slaves during the slave trade were black
Plenty of white slaves in the past.
Thank you very much these people need to get their facts straight
Also blacks in Britain aren't poor
Yes look at the Barbary Coast pirates who enslaved white people.
Wouldnt the decedants of african kings and tribal leaders need to apologise for their part
They never ask them as they know they will laugh at that
Who did those leaders sell to? Is it kosher?
Ok Reparations to those who give up their citizenship take a one way ticket to their ancestors.
You actually think UK is some amazing place where black people want to be 😂…you’re probably going to the food bank later.
Nobody in Britain is from slavery
There wouldn’t be a black soul left in Britain if that was offered.
DEAL! Who actually thinks England is a beautiful country? It's cold and horrible weather. Nothing to look at or natural beauty. People from former colonies just go there to make money 😂
And yet another ill informed UN appointed judge makes a idiotic stament.
The UN is a farce now .
Then please educate us fine gentleman. Imagine being a country that pledges to pay reparations during world war.only to reject it when it comes knocking. 🤔 I mean the amount the treasure alone this country is hording in museums and royal sites that are stole are already in the trillions in terms of value 😂
The fact that Judge Robinson is tying to justify this, calls in question his own judgement. Britian stopped the Atlantic slave trade, at considerable cost and loss of Royal Navy lives. Africa continues to benefit from Europe's inovation, technology and decades of material and monetary doantions to Africa, so in short, nothing is owed to Africa at all.
Africa is who sold its people into slavery to begin with
it is daft. The UKs at one of its lowest times and they thought it was a good idea to ask for 18 TRILLION when we all know that moneys gunna do fuckall for their country anyways
I guess you are arriving at GLOBAL WARMING, huh?
Did Africa ask for that, it is like to say a thief stole from yours house last night and gave you aid the next morning so you have to thank the thief
@@emmanuelankomah6343 It's not comparable because we're talking about nations of people with different governments over hundreds of years. Africa is a continent and they're people who were unfortunately sold into slavery, not property taken from a house.
Tell him to take a long walk of a short pier. We owe nothing for slavery. We fought for nearly 150 years to abolish it. What did he do?
First of all the rudeness was not needed
These are modern-day slavery numbers ,but yeah, make the uk pay for what we abolished in 1833... what a joke
India - 7,989,000
China - 3,864,000
North Korea - 2,640,000
Nigeria - 1,386,000
Iran - 1,289,000
Indonesia - 1,220,000
Congo (Democratic Republic of) - 1,045,000
Russia - 794,000
Philippines - 784,000
Afghanistan - 749,000
How much should the Italians pay for the Roman empire?
By this guy's estimate 985 trillion dollars. 😂😂
Reparations for slavery SHOULD be paid. Any individual who was owned as a slave should be paid reparations from the individual who owned them.
If YOU were not owned as a slave, you are owed NOTHING.
If you did not own any slaves, you owe NOTHING.
No one living today owes anyone repartitions because no one living today was a victim of the said slavery.
These people who like to play the victim should be showing some gratitude to Britain for abolishing slavery and freeing their ancestors, whilst Britain lost thousands of men on the high seas in doing so.
Why is no one asking Africa for repartitions they started slavery by selling their own people.
Anyone who wants repartitions are the same ones who like to play a victim of something they never encountered.
Well said Kate.
There are people living today that are still enjoying the benefits for their family that their family gained by participating in the trans Atlantic slave trade.
@@jujutrini8412
I’m open to the concept of reparations (if done in a specific way), but I also think this bizarre searching through people’s family history to think of ways to milk them is weird.
Yes but they're still benefiting from it whilst others are suffering.
@@jujutrini8412Can you name one? And did you know it was their own selling themselves??
@@kingkoi6542
Not really “their own” - Africa has a tonne of different tribes and cultures. But yeah, most of the slaves were war captives.
British empire abolished slavery after conquering the land cus at the time all individual countries were evil in there own way
you realise they don't care?
All countries were NOT evil that’s a lie
Well said mate 🏴🇬🇧
Descendents of slaves in UK or indeed the USA are better off than if their ancestors had remained in Africa. And why do these people who support payments never seem to consider those in slavery TODAY in Africa ?
It's just one big grift
Should Britain be paid reparations by everybody in the world for forcibly ending and policing the abolishment of slavery at great cost to itself?
It sounds like Lucy letby taking credit for the success of investigation and trial . Dude thinks slavery as some king of rights .
@@karthikj8969 we literally ended slavery while africans have continued it to this day. If anyone should be punished its them
@karthikj8969 the reason you think slavery is bad is largely down to the efforts of British abolitionists in the 18th and 19th century.
@@tomjohnson9833 : well well well the level of ignorance in your comment is astounding. I wanted counter but hey with that though it’s not worth any debate . It’s like saying the rape victim never new it was wrong until a criminal law was passed . Baffling
@@karthikj8969 The reason you cannot counter the argument is you haven't a clue. But nice try!
Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations.
Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators.
I don't know of anybody who opposes that.
Don't say that. I want my compensation from Iceland, for the horrific Viking attacks.
@@stephenhumphrey7935 you cant pay repirations to yourself
@@MrPerfect-mo1xr No. I meant Iceland, the supermarket. 2 Vikings beat me up in there.
@@stephenhumphrey7935 I don't think after one generation the vikings/english could tell who was their offsping and who they gave the beats to....
Its very petty, while uk citizens are struggling to pay bills they show up and ask for 18 trillion pounds while theyve been receiving aid for years and have gotten nowhere
I am so tired of this. How about this….
YOU WILL RECEIVE A REPARATION IF YOU WERE A SLAVE AND ARE LIVING, GIVEN BY A LIVING SLAVE OWNER. 🤷🏻
SLAVERY IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES WITH BLACKS IS STILL GOING ON
😂😂😂😂😂😂 My native friends say go home.
No one cares what you’re tired of you but. Reparations are long overdue so the conversation will never be over.
@@isafauxmystrahsmith9415 if we’re equal then no reparations for you or anyone else. You’re just a selfish person that wants a free handout.
Maybe go over where your people are from and ask them for some money!
I’m not giving you one cent. Narcissist…..And maybe while you’re there, they can teach you how to write.🤷🏻
@@isafauxmystrahsmith9415lol none of us will ever pay for this nonsense. You are not a slave, you were never a slave, so you will get nothing
Notice that he specifies it as 'Translatlantic Chattel Slavery" in an attempt to avoid discussing other slavery that had been going on for millennia.
Id like to hear his response to the fact that $8tn is 250 times Jamaica's GDP.
Because we not talking about other slavery. That's their issue we talking about pure slavery stop bringing up other slavery. That's like talking about marvel and u walk and say what about dc.
@talkswithjesse4062 literally no idea what you mean with the Marvel and DC analogy.
I just pointed out that this man, who was never a slave, whose grandparents weren't even slaves, is demanding what amounts to many times the UK's entire GDP for a very select group of historical crimes, while totally ignoring others.
Any country can play such a childish and vindictive game, including the UK, which has been colonised many times in its history and was victim to attacks by African slave raids in the 17th and 18th century - See Barbary Slave Trade.
@@tomjohnson9833 He's not talking about other peoples crimes it's not his problems he's talking about the crimes to his country. Why are u downplaying his historical truth???????
@@tomjohnson9833 Just because other countries don't want pay back that ain't his problem!
@talkswithjesse4062 there's no such thing as 'his truth'
There's 'the truth' and 'his opinion'
Well by all means go ahead, go straight to Africa and find out who sold your ancestors and get paid , Goodluck
Reported. Racism isn’t supported on here
Do they realize there were Black Slave owners as well, do they have to pay too or nah?
No because they're not white. He's limited it to white European countries. Nothing about Arabs, Africans, Asians etc. He's a black supremacist.
Why were their black slave owners?
In a country that owns people that aren’t their relatives, why were their black slave owners? 🤔
If I was enslaved and was able to afford my family somehow I’d buy them so they’d be free… did you know black slave owners did that? I’m sure you don’t.
At least they didn’t do vile shit to their own like white people wouldn’t mind doing if they owned them.
Sub Sahara Africa was centuries behind Europe and Asia in their development. This had nothing to do with slavery.
this nonsense again
In other words: "We want free money! We want free money!"
Nope it’s not time where would the money go? Who would it go to?. Nah , how about concentrating on modern day slavery instead of this crap
The world has gone crazy!!!!!
This is the most ridiculous thing ever I have heard…
Paying £24 trillion? That's like 24 times our State Budget?? How the hell are we gonna pay that back in the short-term. That'll take centuries to pay back??
exactly, but at least it will be less than 400 + years not to mention the damage done to the human psych on all parties ever since
Why not put money into actually stopping slavery in India for example, let’s actually help those affected by slavery right now.
Isn't slavery alive and well in Africa and the Middle East today? Isn't child trafficking more important? This is just racial panhandling
This has nothing to do with justice. It has nothing to do with right, it has nothing to do with good triumphing over evil. It's all about getting something for nothing.
What about who invented slavery oh africa and arabs
How much will Africa pay for selling their own?
I wish people would stop saying that it is the greatest catastrophe in history. He should acknowledge the slavery In Africa at the moment and the history of slavery. Slaves in the west indies were sold to the Europeans by African leaders. One of my great grandfathers was born and bred in a work house and lost his leg in the first world war. A child slave who in his late 30s volunteered to fight a cause. The British abolished slavery 🏴🇬🇧💜
It was the greatest erm I think catastrophe doesn't come close the only catastrophe for England was the loss of preoperty for which most were compensated and their ancestors still benefit from said wealth
@@leelobee6552 not my ancestors mate. You better read it again, eŕm clever bollocks
@@paulhooker6346 I have a lovely pair of clever bollocks thanks for the compliment
@@leelobee6552 I think you mean their descendants - perhaps you should name them for us because 99.999% of British people had nothing whatsoever to do with slavery and it's doubtful they even knew it existed at the time.
As others keep reminding folk like you, it was the Africans themselves who sold their fellow countrymen into slavery and slavery still exists in parts of Africa today. Why not go after them?
@@ChristineRead-ck1uq missing the point we can go after everyone including them England need to pay for their part no excuses
Oh yer weres the money coming from and you need to get money from Africa they sold there own people and it is is still going on and who gets the money
Maybe you should of reminded India of the 11 million in slavery in there countries today 11 million is just India that’s from official statistics it’s a lot more than that if you put all the West Indies slave trade together these people are sick 😡
If you divide the total wealth of the Uk by the total population we arrive a a figure of £315,000 If we were to pay the 18 trillion pounds the cost per person is £300,000 This would leave every person in the uk with an average net wealth of £15,000 and the total cost of reperations would cost the uk 95% of its total wealth
So people who have never owned slaves will give people have never been slaves 95% of thier wealth
if we use the other figure quoted £24 trillion the cost would be £400,0000 meaning the average debt person would be £85000
You could not make it up
What they are asking if for the English to go back to living in generational poverty . This would bankrupt the country.
i also want money for my ancesters enslavement by the vikings and the romans
If you start paying you will need to pay forever. Dont give them anything. They are just gravy train passengers.
They will spend/waste it and be agitating for more in no time at all . They are takers not givers .
@@mjones4083They will spend it all on something beginning with D. 😅😅
“Them”, who exactly are you referring to sorry
@@stephenhumphrey7935reported. Racism at its finest
What a load of crap. Tax payer would ultimate have to foot this ‘reparations’ bill. Tax payers who weren’t even alive 300 years ago when all this happened🙄
Blacks in Britain aren't slaves
Same BS is happening in the US!
Well you all are benefiting of what happened 300 years ago. That's what build your country
Who paid the enslavers for the lack of their “product” once the country officially ended slavery. The discussion is currently being directed towards the UK. Stop trying to redirect the conversation.
Why would you direct the conversation to the County that ended transatlantic slavery?
At this rate society will sink into an angry little morass of intolerance, with everyone blaming each other.. Claim, counter claim. Constant apologies. Brittle egos. And a colossal sense of entitlement.
This NEEDS to be done!!!!!
If the nation that ended slavery owes this much then imagine how Africa the Middle East and Asia owe!
I dont know if your just thick. But the British empire owned about half the world. A landmass larger than most continents today. So much larger than Arab world- which was also owned by the British.
The imperial age you refer to happened substantially AFTER Atlantic slavery. Britain did not enslave any subjects in nations it gained control of.
And what would they do with the cash if they got it?????
Spend it like they should
@@josephbell5334spend it on Nikes and dope
It would go into the pockets of despotic leaders just as UK overseas aid does.
Spend it on trainers and gaudy jewelry.
Knives and crackpipes?
Well UK can't pay the reparations to countries like India & African countries because the UK can't even accommodate that much wealth 😂
Oh do one ! 😂
Iraq will be asking for reparations next, always causing problems where ever you go…
Britain recently stopped paying in 2015!!!!! Yes they can AFFORD.
The ones who seek to take what someone else has bear the burden of proof that they are entitled to it.
Britain & the western countries have already been paying Africa trillions in reparations over the past decades in the form of aid, debt relief & charity.Britain was the first country to abolish slavery over 300 years ago, something some African nations still haven't done. Africa needs to stop making excuses for corruption & failures & stand on its own.
Debt relief/ aid are not reparations. Britain/EU/Western Powers Don't get to block African countries from international markets. Kill aspirational African leaders a Moment notice - the moment they talk about independent sovereign rights over their resources. Are Invaded the minute, they try move away from euro/us dollar/ western backed currency. Make a huff/puff about china investing on infrastructure in Africa. All the while the french blow up African countries infrastructure(i.e. guinea bissau - because some countries broke ties with them, due to their sponsor terror groups). They destroy local economies the moment they decide to disagree with western companies predatory contracts. The moment African countries decide to create independent fiscal policies that don't favour Europeans or western/g7 countries...International world is tired of the west and Their antics. they want an actual clean divorce and return stolen loot , the royal family alone has 300 billion in stolen jewels and priceless heritage and the trillions more in treasure in western museums, belonging to African countries. You don't get to cry what about charity when simultaneously you fight everyway to block African countries seeking true independence - the freedom not to be sanctioned, leaders killed and the freedom to create their own laws. belonging to African countries...colonial states want a clean divorce, stolen treasure returned from places like British museums that don't belong there and payback any lost loot. Britain along the West agreed to this during the creation of the UN. If Britain remains stubborn along with the west. Then these former colonial states will eventually create new international alignment with the likes of china, India, Russia and keep their resources (and shut you out) that you crave so much in Europe, only to be left to the dustbin of history like the Vikings, Mongols, Romans , British and soon the American empire. if that happens the cost of living will be the least of your concerns.
That Welfare state won't fund itself.
It was 1807 we banned the sale and purchase of slaves but you were still allowed to have ones you had before 1807 until 1837 when it was abolished all together so I don’t know where you got that 300 years ago figure. Also Japan abolished slavery in the 1590s.
Trillions you say. 😂
@@Tom-iv3nd Actually, slavery no longer existed in Britain and Ireland by 1200. The end of slavery began with the Norman Conquest of 1066.
We are never going to get away from racism and bigotry ( which goes way beyond skin colour and even ancestry ) if we keep discussing nonsence like this because as long as hate and guilt and blame is thrown around it just keeps it relevant and reciprocates the issue! Paying money makes nothing better and makes nothing righted . Learning to live together equaly is whats needed . This man saying his people if you will are surpressed is hypocritical coming from a judge!
So let’s do away with civil law where people claim compensation for wrongs done to them then! 🤷♀️
An individual achieving a powerful status does not mean that the group from which he comes is not suppressed or discriminated against. Your comment makes no sense.
@@jujutrini8412
Civil law doesn’t cover “my great, great, great, great, grandad was discriminated against - I want money”
Absolute melt.
@@jujutrini8412 in fairness it needs far more writing than I have here to get my point across in context. What I will say as the son of an italian immigrant who was forced here as a pow and stayed as it was his best option at the time I do know a bit about racial abuse my brother and I were given endless abuse for being different and it destroyed my school life there was one person in particular a leader if you like who was the instigator of much suffering but I wouldnt ask his son for compensation for what his father did. . When I left school I had a choice to let it get to me and carry it through life or to do what I did as i left the school for the last time and made a promise to myself that noone would ever undermine me ever again due to who i represent . I never have . The judge here proves it is perfectly possible to get on in life if you choose to. Times have changed mainly for the better and noone ever seems to want to acknowledge that which i find frustrating The recent times have stirred up upset and I personally feel caused more harm than good. Thats how i feel but again not enough room here to say it all.
SLAVERY IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES WITH BLACKS IS STILL GOING ON
@jujutrini8412 even if you could claim compensation from people for things one of their great-great-great-great grandparents did, you'd have to prove that black Britons are actually suppressed.
It's time for them to pay
No, no one alive today is a slave and all the slave owners are long since gone. Why should the blameless people of today be made to pay and apologise for the crimes of someone over 200 years ago? Insanity.
Let's go back asking reparations starting with current Russia war , Second and first World War and once all countries in the world pay their reparations we can start addressing slavery from 500 year ago and romans reparations and reparations to decendents from slaves that were forced to build Egyptians pyramids. I think the man is right, I just think he should start asking to Putin for money.
Black people are at the bottom of the economic ladder because of trance Atlantic slavery? I DONT THINK THAT'S CORRECT.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Who came up with 18trillian dollars? This is a joke
It's telling that I can't find a direct link from Good Morning Britain with the interview with the Guyana president. Only second-hand links. Probably because Mr Maideley realises what a disrespectful **** he was to an actual head of state. Absolutely disgraceful. How they keep letting you get away with your own special brand of gutter journalism is beyond me.
I hope he gets reprimanded for such behaviour, which inadvertently proved your guests' point. Talking down to him like that, when he is the leader of a sovereign nation. Shameful in the extreme.
We ended slavery.this person has done very well for himself. Please shut up and move on.
If the UK pays $18 trillion then the UK should bill those former colonies for infrastructure instigated while colonies and lease costs since. Bridges, roads, buildings, harbours, drainage, agriculture, sewage and all foreign aid. Securities and a bill for World War 2. Because if we had lost, you think it's bad now?
HRH Albert paid £17billion way way back in the day so think they have already had their cake an eaten it
Everyone needs to grow up whats in the past stays in the past everyone that did wrong isnt here no more this is punishing people that had nothing to do with them this isnt roght and anyone tgat think it is needs to get a grip and focus on whats really imporant that family and working to provide for them and stopping all these wars and supporting one an other
people are asking for reperations as america are doing same we owe noone anything
Each individual government control the land the people living in ... We as a land don't decide it's the bigots above
I do not believe the UK government should pay reparations due to the length of time past however people could claim directly from families who owned slaves, this would be easily traceable. Also there is a distinction between the slavery practised in Africa, serfdom and that practised in the atlantic slave trade, chattel racialised slavery, by far the most brutal type of slavery that existed alongside the arab slave trade. With regards to abolishing slavery, in fact it was the Mauryan Empire which outlawed slavery in BC times! The UK was one the first major nations in the west to abolish slavery in modern times after Haiti and some scandinavian countries, also it did so due to rising revolts and costs involved in maintaining the system, also replaced it with indentured servitude. On another note the africans who did sell people, some did so as they were forced at gun point, others did not know they were being sold into a brutal chattel slavery system, some put profits before all else, so it wasnt 1 size fits all scenario
If it could be proven that your grandfather stole someone's watch, would it be fair for their grandchildren to demand the inflation-adjusted cost of it from you, with a massive compound insterest added?
Gorra larf else you go mad.
It's not Britain's fault that the Caribbeans and black Americans are not doing well economically
it absolutely is. There would be no such thing as black Caribbeans and black Americans if it wasnt for Britain for a start..
@@grilledcheese9297 Do you mean if it wasn't for Portugal and West Africa right?
@@grilledcheese9297black Americans are doing better than most black Africans
@@grilledcheese9297🥱🥱🥱🥱
@@grilledcheese9297😂
noone today should be traumatised by slavery as people are not slaves now if people want a good life work for it
This kind of stuff is great for the modern slave trade.
It’s no surprise Dr Irfan Ali’s interview from two weeks ago isn’t on here
But i never owned a slave, why should i pay reparations...and when will these slave decendants get over it and move on?
They are always going to bitch like this. They won't stop until it backfires or if we ignore it.
So we’re going to act like a cargo on the transatlantic slave trade was not insured by the Lords of London out of great Britain. There is a way to pay this debt.
A ridiculous, even laughable notion!
Why should should I pay money for something I didn't do to somebody it didn't happen to?
There are now white wealthy families all around the UK still indirectly enjoying the proceeds of slavery where it has been passed on to them..
YAAAWN!
God should have to pay for creating Eve.
Wow, I guess you don't like women
@@onlyme219she was the; one who caused the flooding iirc.
@@Blazedreptile Yeah, I guess you don't like women
Well Adam and Eve were black you know that should explain it all. ... God should have to pay for his welfare dependents children. The per say black sheeps in the family aka white people are tired of financially supporting them generation after generation after generation after generation. We would like to give them up for adoption or return them back to where our ancestors got them from.
No matter how much, it will never be enough.
And the other European countries who transported far more slaves than Great Britain? Are they to get off scot free while we are made the scapegoats? Spain & Portugal : nearly 7 million: UK: 2 million: France: 2 million and others who transported hundreds of thousands each.
And what about the African countries, like the present day Nigeria, who rounded up their own people to sell into slavery? There would have been no slave trade without them.
Then there were the people from coastal areas of the Northern shores of the Mediterranean, coastal areas of England, South wales and Ireland where whole coastal communities were kidnapped by the Barbary Pirates and taken into slavery in Africa and the Middle East. Can we claim reparations for their loss?
Have you forgotten too that this country banned slavery here in the 14th Century whilst other countries in the rest of the known world quite openly still practiced it and that some are still practicing it?
You also forget that it was Great Britain that ended the trans Atlantic slave trade at the cost of the lives of 20,000 British sailors.
The irony in all this is that those who are calling for 'reparations' are experiencing a much better life than they otherwise would have done had their forebears not been transported.
They would spend (waste ) it and be back for more in no time at all.
@@mjones4083why?
There, problem solved. Can't be done so let's move on
@@mjones4083Let's play a game. how about no gold, no uranium, no cobalt, no tin, no iron, no copper , no platinum, no lithium, no zinc, no oil, no petrol, no precious metal and no agriculture to Britain and the west. Till you return the trillions in stolen treasure and priceless heritage that you horde in your museums. 😮. While you wine 🍷 about your economical decline and cost of living. Dunce 😂.
As a white tax payer why should I have to pay this bill? It wasn’t my fault slavery was a legal thing.
It’s not so crazy when u consider in Canada First Nations get free education and don’t have to pay tax!
You might have noticed that white Canadians are still living on the land of said Native Americans, or did that important distinction escape you?
@@tomjohnson9833 gee I wonder who originally implemented that!! No it doesn’t escape me as a black Canadian with native friends.
Yeah, Canadians shouldn’t have done that either 😂 but also, Canada was colonised.
If POC are so traumatised by their ancestral history - they are very much free to leave the U.K.
Not to mention colonization at least brought technology... These immigrants are sometimes coming from places that have no electricity and need to take courses on how not to sexually assault a women.... 😅
@nokibin9676 it didn't escape you, yet you view Canada (still effectively colonised) the same as the UK (no longer has any colonies at all)
Maybe Spain and italy should be asking the moors for money
All races white,black,Asian etc suffered because of slavery’
How far do people want to go back really! Should the Jewish people fight for reparations from the Egyptians? British from the Scandinavians and the Ottoman Empire?
They can't afford it. The system is collapsing, shops, banks businesses are all closing down one by one
africa and portugal our gone have to pay so much money also how does the reperations work for the tribes in africa cause some our around and some our not do they charge the modern countries
They will not get one red bend cent. If they force me to pay i will find a way to take it back
Ohh give over
Well since when the black people were given there freedom in 1865 hardy any of them wanted to return to Africa, maybe the ancestors of slaves should be charged money for there free shipping to the colonies. The British people paid for that the black people in America and the Caribbean owe the British tax payer a fortune and nothing is said about it.
People who never owned slaves paying money to people who were never slaves - doesn't make sense. Further more, people who are supposed to pay, most of their ancestors probably didn't own slaves. And they should pay money to people (who were never slaves) who's ancestors themselves may have been involved in slave trade. The whole thing is bonkers.
It's not just different /blameless people. Countries don't exist any more - are not the same countries. It was Portuguese kingdom and kingdom is no more. The king was killed, deposed, exiled. Portuguese people today or the modern Portuguese state had nothing to do with slavery.
Funny they never talk about the Arab Slave trade or getting money off Saudi Arabia I wonder why?.
Oh no , not 1 dime , but a 1way ticket to the mother land that's cool
I live 3 miles from Hadrians wall, I know it was built during the Roman occupation of England and I know that the Romans enslaved local people to build it, I know the Romans came from Italy, but I have no claim on them because those who did it are dead and I was not even born.
The roman soldiers stationed at Hadrian's Wall came from Germany and North Africa.
@@GlenRoss-ug5jm And Belgium
@@hitime2405 Interesting I didn't know about them.
@@GlenRoss-ug5jm The second cohort of Nervians from Gallic Belgicia my friend.
Always someone trying to get something for nothing..
If one group of people is strong enough to conquer another group they deserve the rewards. We recognise this in sports, the team that wins has won because they were the superior team in that game and therefore they deserve the accolades of victory and the losing team has to accept the defeat with honour and try harder next time
NO.......nuff said
No.
Do you hold everybody equally responsible for the actions of their ancestors?
Even yourself?
Why can't people focus on solving the many problems afflicting the world instead of harking back to events long since consigned to history.
Because that's all they can do.
@@stephenhumphrey7935 Well they need to do something more constructive then.
That don’t generate free woke money !
@@lal2300 Forget this absurd nonsense.
I am in favor of fair reparations, but fair means fair. In law (and common sense) any damages paid must be calculated based on factual data. So, how do we calculate today's damages as a result of actions that occurred 200 years ago? There is only one way, and that is by comparing lifestyles of western (US the UK, etc.) blacks now with the lifestyles of blacks still in Africa... distant cousins so to speak. If the "damaged" person's ancestors had not been taken from their homes, what lifestyle would the "damaged" person be experiencing in Africa today? So, after a fair analysis it seems to me that African-Americans today for example should pay reparations to their host country. They, in fact, have negative damages. They are better off. So, write a check to Uncle Sam and the King and we can bury an old worn-out discussion.
The argument is we oaid to free the slaves,we bought hem fro skave owners and FREED them! We paid our debt!!!
Imagine Russians come out tomorrow saying “let’s not pick on the past “. Double stance to condemn one and embrace other . Both are equally guilty.
Except nobody is asking russia to pay for serfdom from 200 years ago let alone 50 years ago.
@@Blazedreptile : and which countries should be asking Russians ?? It’s their fault if they are not already asking .
if reparations to slavery is sought then the source of it all i.e. the arabs should be the ones paying as it was started by arab muslim slavers who raided and went on conversion expeditions into Africa capturing and selling non-muslim africans into slavery! The Europeans and Amiericans did not want to pay the high prices and then started their own expeditions at least that is what history books tell us.