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Submitted by Ras Jahaziel
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At this epoch of Mankind’s evo­lu­tion, where democ­racy and respect for human rights are being immor­tal­ized as indis­pen­si­ble virtues which every soci­ety must pos­sess and are uni­ver­sal yard­sticks by which the actions of gov­ern­ments are mea­sured, it is almost incon­ceiv­able that there are still those who con­tinue to reject the idea of repa­ra­tions for descen­dants of African slaves. Recently, a book on the sub­ject by Pro­fes­sor Sir Hilary McD. Beck­les, pro-​vice chan­cel­lor at the UWI Cave Hill cam­pus a lead­ing activist and eco­nomic his­to­rian was pub­lished. Enti­tled Britain Black Debt: Repa­ra­tions for Caribbean Slav­ery and Native Geno­cide, it sets out a com­pelling case for Repa­ra­tions from Britain which can­not be coun­ter­acted by any of the sophisms and spe­cious rea­sons posited by cyn­i­cal detractors.

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284 responses to “The Path to REPARATIONS”

  1. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

    John Boy
    BU Legal Eagles
    USA is not UK Jurisdiction
    This is not about winning or losing it is about raising legal complaint
    Slavery was ungodly and it is an opportunity for UK to seek forgiveness for their sins by acknowledging them. Christians believe children inherit sins of their fathers back to Adam and Buddhists believe that children should take on parent’s Bad Karma when they die

  2. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    Moneybrain………….i believe i keep making a mistake in saying North America, it should be Latin America is pulling away from the failing white led system…they are more inclined to be BRIC led instead………that definitely lessens the percentage of the population that thinks they should control the earth and the people on it…

  3. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    KIKI…….you will definitely need a sledge hammer to pound your comments into the heads of black people OR watching white get their backsides lashed by bad karma may do the trick.

  4. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    John…..thanks for sharing, i am sure the chosen attorneys will get right on it and see if the laws of England allows for the same relief, remember the American laws are little more straight forward, but we can hope.

  5. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @WW
    Harsh lessons are the best lessons. The US Govt et al have been encouraging Dependency rather than Educating and insisting that the less fortunate move as quickly as practical to Self Dependence. The Nanny State has not and will not work because the objective of helping people must have the correct objective to have the required results ie properly developed humans.

    There are many successful Black people in various sectors and they follow a tried and true plan for all people 1 appreciate where your talent lies eg medicine, law, entertainment, sports. 2 work hard to achieve your goals.
    3 dont waste too much time/ energy on trying to fix or come to terms with factors beyond one’s control.

    Emigration is an option but you know that very few people will migrate from the US or Europe. Where will they go to escape the relative impoverishment already in motion?

  6. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    Please watch Prof. (at Harvard U) Henry Louis Gates Jnr “The African Americans:Many Rivers to Cross”

    Appears very well researched and straight forward account of the Atlantic Slave Trade and System. It begins in Sierra Leone where some Africans readily admit that their own family SOLD Black people to Whitey. This does not excuse the brutality of Slavery but does explain that Slavery was a very complex system and requires detailed research and an open mind to fully come to terms with.

  7. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

    “Africans readily admit that their own family SOLD Black people to Whitey”
    =
    Do you own C%NTING Research about tribes selling tribes to you
    stop making half arse excuses man up down on you knees for forgiveness pussy

  8. John Avatar
    John

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law

  9. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

    Judge and Jury

    http://youtu.be/HxB1Hq4Lob8

  10. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @KIKI
    Are you really that STUPID, not to understand that I was never a SlaveMaster? I have never ill treated Black people because of their race, unless an individual such as your self spews Bovine Excrement from your orifice which must be corrected since it makes you appear ignorant and screws your own mind, BUT that has nothing to do with race, it is your own warped response to the one sided nonsense that you permit to infest your cranial cavity

    How on Earth do you conclude that I need to beg God’s foregiveness for, admittedly a horrible history BUT in which I played ABSOLUTELY NO PART? I have associated with black peeps as my equal since 4 yrs old, played sports in the village and at school with black peeps and did what I could to defend them when necessary in social settings. The only problems I have ever had with black people were initiated by racists blacks, mainly Jamaicans, who are typically not well educated and hate anybody from mid/light brown and lighter.

    KIKI. you really urgently require a professional Psyche Consult! This reflection of your LACK of Rational Thinking is very disturbing for YOUR future. The really sad fact is that if you were to migrate to Africa without the correct associations and contacts you would likey be rejected.

  11. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

    Splashing , dashing , restless sea,
    Never still you seem to be :
    Sometimes angry , sometimes sad
    Sometimes you laugh as though you glad
    http://youtu.be/fhOPrP71Eyw

  12. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @KIKI
    This song was actually good!

    I was around in the 70s with Bob M and Peter T, and with the Sweeeeet sounds of Motown. I did not racialise music either and preferred these peeps to the Hard Rock whiteys.

  13. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    Moneybrain said:

    “Emigration is an option but you know that very few people will migrate from the US or Europe. Where will they go to escape the relative impoverishment already in motion?”
    ____________________________________

    Money……..good point, but they need to start somewhere, fortunately for the black race, they only make up around 12% of the population in the US, maybe 5% in Canada and I am sure only about 3-5% of the population in Europe if that much, so its not like they are over 100 million of them scattered around those continents…………impoverishment is impoverishment anywhere you go and it depends on where they will be more comfortable starting fresh……

    On another topic i forgot to mention, blacks may want to take note that European countries like Hungary, Iceland and a few others do not trust the banksters, world bank, IMF or any organizations controlled by the Rothschilds and are chasing them out of their countries, people need to do some research to figure out why these countries want no part of their own people and their new world order.

  14. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

    http://youtu.be/EWsrWswNm_E

  15. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

    Babylon Weaving…
    William Hague, described the trade in human beings as an indefensible barbarity, “brutal, mercenary and inhumane from its beginning to its end.”

    William Hague, the British foreign secretary, said he deeply regretted the slave trade, but in a statement his office dismissed paying reparations.
    =

    An African Woman could KO a Bald Header Informer like Hague One Time

  16. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    Moneybrain……….here is what you have been concerned about, the implosion may have started………….although i take everything Fox and their teaparty pimps say with a grain of salt.

  17. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2473196/How-Briton-walked-glass-door-bikini-push-price-holidays-winning-24-000-payout.html

  18. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

    Reggae International
    American Reggae
    Afro Omega-Lion of Zion, Call On Rasta, Move Like Light

  19. David Avatar
    David

    Not sure if we have heard a Barbados Minister speaking to the issue of reparations. A culture of silence defines this administration anyway.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs on Caricom and Reparations for SlaveryOct 24, 2013 – 1:04:35 PMEmail this articlePrinter friendly page
    Statement by Fred MitchellMinister of Foreign AffairsHouse of AssemblyNassau, Bahamas16th October 2013On Caricom and Reparations for Slavery
    Mr. Speaker, I wish in public interest to say for the record what the position is with regard to the quest for reparations to counter act the ill effects of slavery.Unfortunately, this has attracted some alarmist headlines and ill-informed commentary, all invented to unnecessarily frighten and alarm people.The fact is that no decision has been taken to sue the United Kingdom by The Bahamas government with regard to slavery and its ill effects.The headline was a complete invention of The Tribune.  If you read the story, you will see that the story does not say that at all. Not to be undone, the opponents start with a false premise and they and all their progenitors then proceed to attack the government based on their false premise.What strikes me is the fundamental disrespect of people of African descent which underlines all the criticism, notwithstanding for example the fact of recompense made to the Jewish people because off the injury done to them in the millions during the Second World War.Eric Williams, the late Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, wrote extensively on this subject. The record will show that tens of millions of Africans were brought to this hemisphere against their will, half of them as many as ten million some say, died in the middle passage.The Prime Minister and I were present in Trinidad at the Heads of Government meeting.  An official attended the detailed briefing session and we joined the Caricom consensus that indicated that this was an issue which deserved to be studied.This becomes a teachable moment for the public.I would like to read into the record of the House the decision announced at the heads of government meeting as is relevant: “Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), on the final day of their thirty first regular meeting agreed on follow-up action on the matter of reparations for native genocide and slavery.“The meeting agreed to the establishment of A National Reparations Committee in each member state with the Chair of each Committee sitting on a Caricom reparations Commission.  The Heads of Government of Barbados (Chair), St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, Guyana, and Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago will provide political oversight.“The decisions were taken followed presentations by Member States, led by St. Vincent and the Grenadines and their unanimous support of the road map.”This is not some crazy cockamamie scheme.  Another letter writer who is from a minority ethnic group in the Bahamas that was at one time itself discriminated against by the local Bahamas establishment sought to make fun of the idea.  It was not her best effort.What was most uprising though was a series of questions by another of the now opponents of this who one would have thought has the intellectual heft to know better, who raised a series of questions.Underlying each question was misinformation based on a Tribune headline and further that we were being misled by Caricom and that somehow The Bahamas was caught unawares and the Bahamian people misled or fooled by its government.  The fact is everything is there in plain sight and on a slow news weekend, someone decided that this was a good idea to spread alarm.I am advised that the lawyers from the United Kingdom who made the presentation at the Heads of Government meeting in Trinidad are the same firm of lawyers that led the successful fight for compensation from the British in the Mau Mau case.The case is based in the articles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination which The Bahamas supports.  State parties I am advised are able to take action pursuant to the terms of the convention where states are not adhering to its provisions.Hard cases make good law.  The matter if it arises as litigation will be before the International Court of Justice at the Hague. I such a case were successful and The Bahamas failed to be at the table would we not have been badly advised not to be at the table?I am advised the British government has already expressed regret for slavery.  That is a form of reparations already given.I will lay all the documents from the conference that was held in St. Vincent which unfortunately we were unable to attend.  It is to that conference that I said we were unrepresented. Having regard to the communique from that meeting, there has been no material change in the position of Caricom since the Heads meeting.The decisions about what ultimately to do rests with the Cabinet and the Bahamian people.In the meantime, an informal ad hoc committee has been formed to work within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Foreign service officer Charmaine Williams will coordinate from the Ministry’s side.  I have asked Alfred Sears, the former Attorney General and Philip Smith the former MP to provide their informal ideas and consultations on this matter until we are in a position to formally advise the government.The facts will show that the economies of the old world were built on the backs of African slavery. Contrary to the view being put by the local critics, Africans were not responsible for slavery.  The fact is that while there is individual responsibility for what happens today,  it is clear that there are some ill effects from this issue on all our societies which need to be studied and on which we need to be advised.In ending her column on the matter, The Tribune’s editor said we must let by-gones be by gones.  This is interesting coming from a lady whose father after having fought for an end to racial discrimination in the then colony of The Bahamas was defeated by Sammy Isaacs of the PLP in 1956.  He and she never forgave Mr. Isaacs or the PLP.  She wrote as recently as within the last month that her father was defeated by “a mere plumber”.  She cannot let that by gone be bye gone from 57 years ago.Life is very interesting.  I would like now to lay the documents on the table.  The press release from Caricom, the Communiqué from the Meeting in St. Vincent 15th to 17th September, Women Slavery and Reparations, Road Map for reparations by Ralph Gonsalves Prime Minister of St, Vincent.I thank you.Mr. Speaker.

  20. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    “The Heads of Government of Barbados (Chair), St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, Guyana, and Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago will provide political oversight.”
    ___________________________________

    It is well noted that Barbados is the chair for the reparations committee but PM Stuart and his minions still don’t see it fit to inform the public in Barbados so they can have the option to debate and understand what is happening……..useless bunch..

  21. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @WW
    Will they be so SLOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW to grab any CASH that may result?

  22. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

    Rod of Jahovia
    Writing is on Your Wall
    Babylon A Fall

    http://youtu.be/HftHMuPC-xU

  23. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2013 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2013 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad

    Well Well. | October 24, 2013 at 8:18 PM | @
    “The Heads of Government of Barbados (Chair), ? They cant even CHAIR Violet Beckles reparations in Barbados , That CHAIR have no legs , Barbados DLP/blp dont give they , TAKE AND HAVE TAKEN and keep taking ,,, ,” O.P.P ”
    OTHERS PEOPLE PROPERTY

  24. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

    Stand Up To Your Judgement

    http://youtu.be/H1JtpV6B9Ug

  25. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @KIKI
    SWEEETT reggae to be sure!

  26. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    Kiki………………this link will give you some insight into the recessive gene that causes albinism through people……….

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2475971/Bulgarian-Sasha-Ruseva-believed-Marias-mother-wants-Greece.html

  27. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    MoneyBrain | October 24, 2013 at 8:28 PM |

    @WW
    Will they be so SLOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW to grab any CASH that may result?
    ___________________________________

    Moneybrain…………if any cash results, no one will even know, they will try to keep it a state secret, it will be left to Europe to let the people in the Caribbean know the outcome of the reparations lawsuit, particularly with these crabs for leaders in Barbados………that is one reason i am hesitant to join the call for reparations in the form of CASH….we know what we know Moneybrain.

    Plantation…………the government acts like they did not even want the people in Barbados to know of the reparations lawsuit, hence the silence, they disgust me.

  28. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

  29. Boy Blue Avatar
    Boy Blue

    Marijauna is still illegal in Barbados. Why do we allow PM Gonsalves to come here and ‘push’ marijauna ,as he did at Cave Hill recently?

  30. John Avatar
    John

    I was thinking a bit more of the consumer action which that American decision indicates could be brought against companies who deliberately conceal their involvement in Slavery.

    I was thinking of other companies and institutions which were involved in slavery all those centuries ago and are still alive today and realize of course both the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches fit the bill.

    However, they have gone so far as to apologise for their involvement so that suggests to me they did not conceal their involvement.

    Their apologies were made years before the decision so it can’t be said that they were informed by the decision.

    It was just astute forward thinking and a realization of what they stand for.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4694896.stm

    http://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/14/world/pope-apologizes-to-africans-for-slavery.html

  31. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

    Just another monday morning blues
    Bills to pay and the kids want shoes
    http://youtu.be/pBL4nNzY8d0

  32. englishman Avatar
    englishman

  33. englishman Avatar
    englishman

    The Race Is Not To The Swift Or Strong But To Those Who Endure To The End

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/jamaica/10640560/Jamaicans-lead-Caribbean-calls-for-Britain-to-pay-slavery-reparations.html

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10639899/Global-genetic-map-shows-impact-of-colonialism-and-slave-trade-around-the-world.html

  34. ra1 Avatar
    ra1

    https://youtu.be/t1TaP1b_XvM

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