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The UK government has spent Billions compensating former slave owners!

It only finished paying them off in 2015! 2015!!!! Imagine what could have been done with that money?! But no, it was more important to compensate slavers for loss of earnings since the trade in actual people was so unfortunately criminalised!

Up until 5 years ago, people in the UK were being well paid for the fact that their great great grandparents were vile racists😡😡😡

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Confined · 56-60, M

All people of color in the US want compensation since it is likely their ancestors were slaves. They seem to think they are entitled to billions.
Cant change what happened 200 years ago. Almost every country in the world had slaves.

Snuffy1957 · 61-69, M

@Confined they are just a bunch of lazy motherfukers that want something for nothing...

bijouxbroussard · F

@Confined The difference in the US is:
1. This country claims to have been built on the premise of freedom; slavery should have never been legal here.
2. The promise of compensation was made (Special Field Orders #15) during the Civil War to allot land to newly freed slave families (and remember, at that time land was being distributed to any whites who could settle it). After a brief Reconstruction period, it was reversed and the focus was placed on helping white Southerners recover from a war they basically started. And they were allowed to pass laws disenfranchising blacks legally and establish hate groups to terrorize them on a personal level. It’s a reason the resentment and racial tensions remain to this day—yet another promise the US has broken.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Snuffy1957 @Confined I find this deeply hilarious considering the point of this post is SLAVERS being compensated for their LOSS OF INCOME in 2015.

You're clearly okay with rich people getting something for nothing, which they always do. Weird, huh?

Confined · 56-60, M

@bijouxbroussard would you be better off still living in Africa? What if your ancestors never left Africa? Would you have the same opportunities there?
Our history may be tragic, but we cant change it. You still have great opportunities in the United States.
Every country in the world including Africa had slavery.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Confined I have no way of knowing. I might’ve emigrated on my own, but I’d have my family name, native language and culture like other immigrants here. Dealing with our history, rather than making excuses for it, would be the honorable thing to do. And there’s clearly a precedent for it.

SW-User

@Confined To be honest, if slavery hadn’t happened, Africa would probably be FAR more prosperous than it is now. 400 years of progress was essentially stolen from them. Even now, former slave nations still owe billions to their former colonial masters.

Snuffy1957 · 61-69, M

@CountScrofula I'm NOT ok with anyone getting something for nothing and I don't know where you got that!
I had to work for everything I have just like everyone else should have to!

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Snuffy1957 Because you refocused this conversation onto poor black people and away from rich white people and I find that deeply telling.