Jamaica Calls For Reparations !

[tonyav]

Jamaica calls for Britain to pay billions of pounds in reparations for slavery.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/jamaica-calls-for-britain-to-pay-billions-of-pounds-in-reparations-for-slavery/ar-AAeTzdS?li=AA9SkIr

[douglas9401]

A contra invoice for having to deal with their exported drug gangs and the mayhem they bring including any and all expenses re healthcare and other social payments will balance the books.

[Ric.ror]

I seem to remember George Galloway stating he would open a slavery museum and would also be agreeable to making reparations if he was elected mayor of london.

[tonyav]

I'm sure the people of London would appreciate that, Ric.

[jomifl]

In that case we should demand reparations from the Barbary pirates of North Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade

[youngmafbog]

And for those relatives that would have lived in a war torn corrupt country had their forefathers not been slaves?

[Ric.ror]

I'm sure the people of London would appreciate that, Ric.

I suspect they have more pressing demands

[Svejk]

I wonder why the second answer was removed. (it was about the drugs trade, for those that didn't see it)

[Ric.ror]

It may have been bad language

[Svejk]

Nah, it was Baz, I think. (he's like a choirboy)

[bazwillrun]

yup it was mine...pure comedy on here...i said they should go forth and multiply !

[Svejk]

They make me flipping tired, they do.

[anotheoldgit]

And what about all the Black millionaires will they also be asked to pay compensation?

Because without slavery most of their ancestors would still be living in Africa, so consequently today's western Black millionaires would not have had the opportunities to make their millions in the West.

[vetuste_ennemi]

What about Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria and Benin? Weren't Africans from what are now these countries (not to mention many others in West Africa) the guys who actually caught the slaves for the Europeans to buy?

[joggerjayne]

This little chestnut will probably become the flavour of the month for a while.

One could pick any episode from history, where one group had been wronged by another, and ask for a bit of cash to put it right.

Incidentally, when is the Christian world getting reparations from the Jews? The creator of the Universe sent his only son to save us all, and ...

... the Jews sobbed him in to the Romans.

It's time a bit of reparations was divvied up.

[joggerjayne]

"dobbed" him in

[Old_Geezer]

I don't think they were good enough slaves. We are owed billions of pounds from them as compensation.

[jourdain2]

v-ennui is correct. Local chieftains rounded up people to sell them. (Slavery was well-established by N. African Asian countries.) Nowt to do with me or mine. It's a 'try-on'.