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Once again it turns out that the professor is caught between all chairs.
The answer to reparations is YES and NO at the same time.
It is not the white colonial master who is to blame for the decline of Jamaica and Guyana, but two socialist lunatics: Michael Manley and Forbes Burnham “the butcher”.
By leaving out this side of history, the professor makes it seem as if he sympathises with dictatorship and communism. Obviously the professor has never read his Marx. Then he would know that communism has capitalism as a prerequisite, in a developed country. That is why Stalin failed, that is why Mao failed, that is why Manley and Burnham failed. You can’t lead wild tribes from the middle ages into workers’ paradise, Professor.
Conclusion: Reparations YES, but we have to subtract the economic and political crimes committed by local politicians for 60 years.
p.s. I always have to laugh how much the professor likes his “Sir”. Isn’t it a contradiction when the professor on the one hand castigates colonialism and on the other hand behaves like a noble English colonial ruler? Obviously, he is not annoyed by colonialism itself, but only by the fact that he was not personally appointed Viceroy of all West India.
Isn’t he the same man who was keeping noise about the Mutual Insurance? After they put him on the board of directors, didn’t hear another word from him. He didn’t refuse the knighthood. This is all for show and tell.
By the way, I would like to mention the very expensive Nelson Mandela Park at Cave Hill as a testimony for the megalomania of the said professor. There are only dogs, cats and drug dealers but no students, because there is no direct way up. The professor is world class at wasting money.
Nelson Mandela has nothing to do with Barbados at all – except by his first name. LOL. South Africans, and all Africans in general, don’t give a damn about OUR problems, while OUR establishment (especially Comrade Commissioner) is always obsessed with pan-Africanism.
All Africans in general don’t give a damn about our problems
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And you have based this statement on what evidence exactly? How many of the 1.2 billion Africans on the continent have you spoken to in order to arrive at this opinion?
Lol. Mao failed and now China is about to take over the world. Maybe we need to fail like them instead of being a Nelson loving success with over 30% unemployed, an apartheid economic and social regime and a 95% majority who get treated like an oppressed minority.
@ Tee White June 20, 2020 10:53 PM
I base my judgment on the fact of who transfers money to Barbados. So where are your African investors and your African tourists in Barbados? I know very few of them.
@ Tron
So you are basically talking about rich people. From my experiences of living in Africa, where I was always welcomed and made to feel at home, the vast majority of Africans are poor and don’t have money to meet their own needs let alone invest in Barbados. Just like the vast majority of poor Bajans, just because they don’t have money to invest in other Caribbean countries or even in Africa, it don’t mean they don’t care. Stop beating up on Africa, it’s a form of self hatred and it’s not cute in 2020. Given that you’re a strong BLP man, I would have thought you would be behind Mia and her pivot to Africa. By the way, rich people look out for themselves regardlesss of their colour or nationality.
The problem is that much of the reparations claims are based on only presenting a warped version by Mr Biccles.
When presenting legal argument you must come with clean hands and be truthful.
Unfortunately he and his partner Ralph Gonsalves have not been truthful or fully informative in there contentions and presentations.
Please readers take the time to read these articles they are so important for historical record.
https://www.iwnsvg.com/2013/09/08/we-are-what-we-are-with-some-exceptions/
https://www.ieyenews.com/peter-binose-ralph-gonsalves-ancestry-and-the-establishment-of-slavery/
Part of my overall objection is that you have Biccles wanting to be a white knight and English gentleman. Then you have Gonsalves wanting to be a black man. Neither are fit for the roles they are playing, it really is time to dump them both, send them both to Cuba where they will be most welcome.
Sir Arthur Lewis, 1939, Reparations
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WWII begun in 1939.
The Barbadian economy was based on sugar.
The destruction in the Pacific and Europe of sugar lands and factories reduced world sugar output from about 30 million tons to 15 million tons.
Demand soared as sugar had uses in the war as well as a sweetener.
Prices rose.
Output in Barbados rose.
Income rose.
Our greatest output was 200,000 tons in 1959 and 1967.
A booming economy financed the Deep Water Harbour and the QEH.
It also improved wages in the industry and caused the overall economy to grow.
Our Government squandered the windfall.
When world output returned and grew to even greater volumes than at the beginning of WWII, today it is 150 million tons, prices fell as countries could produce far more than we could and their cost per ton of sugar was much lower than ours.
Incessant labour demands caused our cost of production to grow.
Britain paid a premium price for our sugar and subsidised us and other countries.
We got our subsidization already.
We got our reparations already.
We blew it.
BLACK PEOPLE ACROSS THE EARTH ARE JOINING FORCES…COMING TOGETHER AS ONE PEOPLE….it’s the UNIFICATION OF THE AFRICAN…..
house negros and idiots need not apply , no one needs you…no one plans to carry your heavy, useless, slaveminded asses….
The Negro problem in America
What some historians call the “peculiar institution” of Negro slavery is also sometimes referred to as America’s Original Sin. In the 1920s and 1930s, it was euphemistically referenced by white conservatives and liberals as The Negro Problem. In a society that ostensibly professed that all men were created equal, what was to be done about the black population that was the result of the “involuntary” migration resulting from the Atlantic Slave Trade?
It is said and truly so, that Negro slavery was not the first or only expression of human enslavement. The Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians held slaves. In Africa, blacks enslaved other blacks although much of that was what is termed domestic slavery, quantitatively and qualitatively different from “plantation slavery” practised in plantation America, North-Eastern Brazil, the southern states of the US and the islands of the Caribbean archipelago.
The difference between Negro plantation slavery and other slaveries is the legacy.
Nowhere else has slavery spawned the systemic, pandemic and ostensibly enduring racism that has resulted from black slavery. In the 17th Sir Winston Scott Memorial Lecture, Dr Niara Sudarkasa stated: “Despite all the rearranging of political, economic and technological hierarchies that have taken place in the 20th century, people
By Ralph Jemmott of African descent remain on or near the bottom of all of them.”
The recent killing of George Floyd in the United States was a shock for several reasons.
Firstly, it came only a few weeks after the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery by three white men who appeared to be hunting him down.
The video shown repeatedly on social media displays either extreme racism or violent sociopathic behaviour or both.
These were sequential on a long list of beatings and unlawful killings dating back to the 1991 beating of Rodney King, the more recent deaths of Trevon Martin, Eric Garner and Breonna Taylor, shot by police in her own home.
Three weeks after Floyd was killed, and while we were hoping that his murder would be a catalyst for change, Rayshard Brooks was shot twice in the back and killed by white police officers in Atlanta, Georgia.
These tragic events speak to a pattern of systemic racism in the US that should be of concern to every black person in the diaspora.
The election to the American presidency of Barack Obama led some to conclude, rather naively, that the United States had entered a post-racial phase in its development. This was because Obama could not have been elected without the support of a significant section of white liberal America. African Americans only constitute 13.5 per cent of the US population, Latinos about 15 per cent.
This optimism ignored not only the realities in the present, but the historic past.
It ignored the historic truth that whenever there have been gains by blacks in America, it has excited a whiteracist backlash, particularly in the former ConfederateSouth. The promise of Reconstruction after the Civil War incited a violent reaction ending in the Jim Crow segregation laws of the 1880s ultimately
covering every aspect of public life in the South. The Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, of 1896 ruled that “legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts” and as Adam Lively states in “Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination”, that ruling laid down the “separate but equal” rule as a justification for segregation.
The current wave of racism is in part a reaction against the successful presidency of Obama and a reflection of Trump’s covert and sometimes not so covert reassertion of white supremacist ideology. Trump’s presidency and Republican Party collusion, including something calling itself the religious right, constitutes a real and present danger to non-white people in America.
The November 2020 election provides a vital opportunity to correct this trend.
After the 1896 Supreme Court decision, the racist actions of the southern states had been given federal sanction.
The result was the systemic lynching of blacks as seen in the gruesome photograph “Strange Fruits”.
Most of the Confederate statues were built as late as the 1920s and 30s. Only 11 states joined the original Confederacy but 31 have official Confederacy statues or emblems. The Civil Rights struggle brought some changes, but many American whites have held on to the worst notions of white supremacy and black inferiority. For them, Black Lives do not Matter.
The current issue is one of police assault on blacks, much clearly reflecting racist attitudes. The correction only partially underway will be a question of federal and state policy. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is trying to “pack” the courts with conservative judges.
Does America have the moral integrity to correct the original sin of black enslavement or is it like the biblical original sin, “The Fall”, endemic and pandemic in human character?
Ralph Jemmott is a retired educator and social commentator.
Honesty and transparency. The knight in shining armor needs to get reparations from the African states that were engaged in the slave trade and still are in the 21st century. Don’t try to put all the blame on the Europeans, both sides are guilty.
People holding your view need to be educated. No wonder the world continues to be embroiled in racial conflict.
Amazing how the masses could be so enduringly fickle. That a conman could conjure taking property of persons long dead under the rubric of miseducation and medical systems promoting a newer model of the very maladies those payments are intended to make ameliorate
There was a time, not so long ago, when Beckles used to know that both Arthur Lewis and his son did vast amounts of damage to Afrikan peoples. Lewis the elder got his Nobel for advising African countries with junk economics which saw them surrendering billions to european banks. He used to know these truths. But time is a bitch.
Today Beckles robs the memory of our ancestors to further industrialize the construction of human widgets at factories across the region. Measured in nominal terms Beckles is set to surpassed his uwi predecessors in terms of getting back to forms of slavery.
That is why if the UK put money in any of these sell out bitches hands in Barbados and the Caribbean, i hope to live a very long life to see them NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT…….
….as i said recently, there was no modern day technology around in the 14th century and UK, Europe, portugal and spain FOUND A WAY with all their engineering skills… to transport multiple millions of Africans they stole and enslaved across the Atlantic to the Americas and murdered even more millions of those victims..
…this is the 21st Century, they have all the tools, technology and ever better engineering skills available to them to make sure any REPARATIONS for slavery paid out…goes directly in the hands of the descendants of slaves. they have NO EXCUSE, they can’t find not one…since we know that they know, who everyone of the African descended from slavery are.
we have all the tools available to us TO MAKE SURE that these black face wannabe slavemasters in Barbados and the Caribbean do not get away with their KNOWN evil plans….to continue modern day slavery just to invisibly enrich themselves and publicly promote themselves, the negro wretches still trying to feed off Black people and they will not stop UNLESS STOPPED…
Pacha…the sell outs don’t even have it in them to PROMOTE BLACK ONLY BUSINESSES in Black majority Barbados….they would not even know how to start..
“Queen Bey also used her platform to uplift a directory of over 150 black businesses, among them companies that sell everything from handmade candles to visual art and even beauty products like sunscreen.”
David, if you and persons like you want to believe the knight go right ahead. No man could have gotten off a boat, walked into another man’s country and started rounded up slaves. Do some research. You are the one who needs education. There are people and sheeple. Try to find which one you are.
That has nothing with a Knight. There is a bigger issue at play here. Turn in your TV if you not not get it. Crabs in a barrel mentality will not move the issue forward.
@ Joe Black June 21, 2020 6:36 AM
You do have a ‘white’ point about the duplicitous nature of the ‘chief-like’ protagonist in this merry-go-round of modern exploitation for private gain.
The ‘black’ side of your argument is that reparations have not been received by the descendants of the victims of that centuries old enterprise.
So far, only the white and Western buyers of those slaves have been compensated for the loss of their properties.
Karma demands that the wheel of Justice must turn full circle before there can be any ablution to free the white man of his guilt for this ‘blackened’ blot on his moral history.
After all, it was the same white man who ‘taught’ the ‘liberated’ black slaves Christianity.
Why not let him practise now what he once preached?
When we see a similar payout (in whichever tangible form) from the modern beneficiaries of that enterprise then the mercenaries for Justice will go after the stupid sellers of their own black brothers and sisters.
You ought to read the Biblical fable of Joseph and his brothers who sold him into slavery in Egypt in order for you, old black Joe aka the Bow down man to appreciate the moral lesson contained therein.
Waru
Only that these sophisticated sellouts get us all the time. There was a time when Keith Hunte, Beckles’ predecessor, was a firebrand black power radical. He turned into the most reactionary imaginable.
There was also a former VC, Rex Nettleford, who would advise his charges that when speaking publicly that they should walk through the raindrops.
You get our drift. In short, we are saying that the uwi has been a hindrance to development. It seems to consistenly produce a straight line of coconuts. Such an organization should be proscribed, not funded
It is this same Beckles who called the blp victory a revolution. The only thing revotionized was his balance sheet. This is the kind of parasites produced by the uwi.
” Joe Black June 21, 2020 6:36 AM
Honesty and transparency. The knight in shining armor needs to get reparations from the African states that were engaged in the slave trade and still are in the 21st century. Don’t try to put all the blame on the Europeans, both sides are guilty.”
not even the Europeans or en-slavers rely on this trite argument any longer but some of us, if this bloke is a black bajan, always inject it somehow to show black complicity or to furnish a European excuse.
even if that was true or would seemingly blunt any European blame for slavery, let me point out that there were Jewish collaborators during the holocaust but that never stopped the Jews from putting the blame where it should go or excusing the actions of the perpetrators
@David
Lol. Some people wake up early Sunday morning and come pon you blog to provoke people and rile up their blood.
For those of you at the back of the room who didn’t get the memo, the demand for reparations for Atlantic chattel slavery is based on the simple fact that those who benefited financially from this crime against humanity must hand over their proceeds from the crime. Show me one country in Africa, that like England, went from being an insignificant island off the coast of Europe to being the most dominant global power as a result of the enslavement of Africans. Show me one African company that like Lloyds made their money and became the world’s largest insurer from involvement in enslaving Africans. Point out one central bank in Africa, like the Bank of England, thar got rich off enslaving Africans.
So please stop this nonsense talk about reparations from Africa. It’s embarrassing to display such a level of ignorance and it sounds either like white racism or black self hatred. It’s a go to place for those who want to defend the ill gotten gains of Atlantic chattel slavery. That system damaged Africa as much as it damaged her children that were stolen away.
“This is the kind of parasites produced by the uwi.”
no great surprise, it is also being noticed that the ones calling themselves coloreds who do not want to identify with being Black or African under any circumstances and are drawing lines in the sand, as well as the blacker ones who hate being called black let alone Africans are also CRINGING at the exposure of the nelson and minority bajan white fraud perpetrated against the black majority since the 1800s and compounded by sell out black leaders generationally in the last 60 years ….they think taking sides will save them, i would be happy to offer them ALL up as fodder and SACRIFICES for ALL racists NEAR AND FAR. .none of them serve any useful purpose anyway….and someone needs to have them..they are no longer welcomed in the African family, the descendants of the enslaved…we will see if slavemasters, slavemaster wannabes and racists want any of them when they can no longer suck on and steal from the majority population to PROP up a racist, apartheid modern day slavery system..
“It is this same Beckles who called the blp victory a revolution.”
but isn’t that just UGLY though, none of them seem to know what a revolution is and are RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF a REVOLUTION FOCUSED ON ALL OF THEM….Mia did not know what a revolution is either, she called it a trend and must be reminded about that for the next 2 years plus pre 2023 pre election…the fact that they are all self-serving frauds now exposed everywhere should energize the majority to PURGE ALL OF THEM.. out of the lives of the majority population….then they will be on their own…let’s see how they survive on that…
Greene…that fool cannot influence anything except those who are just like him and quickly becoming PARIAHS WORLDWIDE…they have not realized yet what the FALLOUT from their decades of crimes against Black people will be for all of them, they cannot see what is coming, that is why it will be so successful….no true African descended is paying attention to any of them or want any of them around them, they are too toxic, sell out and dangerous…..we got this..
“So please stop this nonsense talk about reparations from Africa. It’s embarrassing to display such a level of ignorance and it sounds either like white racism or black self hatred. ”
as we have been smeling their racist stench and reading their self-hating rhetoric for years…it cannnot even cause a ripple anymore, don’t even know why they even bother, they will all soon be the invisible untouchables .
“☎” Hello Calling Hilary on the BU Line. I hope you are listening and can hear me.
I’ve been pushing this idea / initiative here on the underground for a minute, but the seeds planted are still bedding in waiting propagation to crow into big trees and forests.
To cut to chase I think Barbados (the British Slave port to Americas in Atlantic Slave Trade) should push for reparation monies to be put into an ethical Black Business / Slave Reparation / Investment Trust Fund as it’s Official Receivers which can be traded in Global Stock Exchange and put into Pension Funds etc managed by BlackRock Asset Managers and Individuals of all Shades could invest in.
Down the line X-Slave Descendants could be issued free shares and be eligible to be paid Group 1 Special Dividends.
many banks and businesses are beginning to fess up to their infamy in trade of human cargo starting from last week so the cheques should start flooding in
“No man could have gotten off a boat, walked into another man’s country and started rounded up slaves.”
They were traded for glass beads, cowrie shells, manilla, tobacco, alcohol, guns and sold for vast profits in Americas up to $1000 equivalent $75,000
Tribes “sold” “traded” children and young adults from other tribes which means the original transaction in the slave trade chain that Stink Ass Brits claim is legal is in fact illegal child and people trafficking of 4,000,000 counts and followed by rape breeding up to 15 children from 14 years of age for 20 generations.
I could go on and on the full has never been told
Pacha….in the meantime the half-human black face sell outs in the parliament are busy SETTING UP the descendants of the majority populaton…to be future slaves to the minority criminals currently sucking on the people and island….we gotta make sure that they do not set up our descendants to be dependent on criminal minorities….going forward…for anything..
“So please stop this nonsense talk about reparations from Africa. It’s embarrassing to display such a level of ignorance and it sounds either like white racism or black self hatred. ”
This is one of the reasons I skirt talk of racism/classism on BU and would prefer to deal with ‘who is a big tief, who tief dis, who tief dat and who gine tief’. When the talk moves to race some does get new, big and fancy ideas and open dem mout and out rolls a lot of nonsense. And it seems to come from the full pelau spectrum; it is painful to read some of it.
The well of self hatred is deep.
First of all i don’t want any of these black face thieves representing me and mine in anything to do with reparations and certainly don’t want any minorities or any other criminal investing in anything due to my descendants, so the UK better make sure that reparations are paid directly to the descendants of African slaves and NONE OF IT IS TRANSFERABLE…
this is when those beautiful engineering skills of the UK will have to come into play, some of which are too special to mention…
Theo…by now you should be aware that UK does nothing half way…so when they created self-hating negros they went full spectrum … when they created racist criminal minorities in Barbados, they went all out..
..Barbados was their crown jewel of a trading post and clearing house for slaves coming out of the African Continent….so ya done know it will be next to impossible to reverse any of that…they all have to be starved out of existence….because now it is all heading in the direction of both destructive creations HAVING BECOME A VERY EMBARRASSING LIABILITY..
FOR THOSE THAT SPOUT ABOUT RACISM THEY HAVE CHOSEN ONE BAD BEHAVIOUR AND MADE IT THEIR LIFE’S MISSION TO HATE OTHERS WHILE TRYING TO SOUND LIKE THEY ARE RIGHTEOUS.
I thought that racism was making decision based on race and not the PERSON who is before you. But people who spout against racism who say the following “We consider that these people and their systems must be frontally destroyed, by any means necessary.” Advocate racism. Funny how that works. People who say that they hate racism want to exterminate a race by any means. Let’s say blacks were successful in exterminating the white race who is next maybe the yellow race may think they are next and might want to exterminate the black race before they can get to them. Where does this end.
Where do you think those that profess they are against racism and use racism to kill another race are after glory of the world “wealth” and power over those that they intend to rule their own people for they would have killed off the others. Or do you think that if a few other races live among you they will be threaten that you “must not blaspheme” or you will die. And we will determine if you are a blasphemer or not.
I do not know of a man alive that does not sin. We all need to repent. As Christ has said “it is written”
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote (the little spirally dirt) thing that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam (the biggest piece of lumber that may be used in a house) that is in thine own eye? (Matthew 7:2–3)
ALSO INSTRUCTIVE IS THAT WE SHOULD LOOK TO OURSELVES FIRST TO CORRECT OUR FAULTS NOT AT OTHERS.
Please be aware that faced with destruction nobody goes quietly in to the night.
When someone says RACISM they are attempting to obtain power by HATEFUL DIVISION. This Hate & Intolerance of IDENTITY POLITICS pitches us against each other & has gone too far! It’s time to stop creating divisions in our society & start coming together to solve our shared issues.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECRPNQXVUAE5Ujs?format=png&name=small
Divide & Conquer is the Mantra of Leftism!
Do Barbados and CARICOM actually pay reparations because they looked away or even supported the criminal regime of Burnham the Butcher for 20 years? Was Burnham the Butcher not a good friend of Barrow? Why did Barrow never criticize the Slayer in public or throw him out of CARICOM? Was it because his victims were primarily Indians and not black?
The history professor´s works on the history of the Caribbean have large gaps for the period after 1966. The professor must finally put off his ideological eyeglasses and name the crimes of various governments in the Caribbean. Otherwise, he will be suspected of being not a professor of history but of postcolonial propaganda.
“Blacks’ Britannica” (1978 Banned film on immigration and racism)
13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix
The professor works in Jamaica. Didn’t Jamaica reject its own citizens for months when they wanted to return home, thus degrading them to second-class human beings? Why did our professor of justice not protest against the Jamaican government? Perhaps because he’s an opportunist?
@WURA-War-on-U June 21, 2020 8:48 AM “…beauty products like sunscreen.”
Sunscreen is not a beauty product.
Why would black people who live in their tropical homelands need sunscreen for “beauty”?
I’ve NEVER used sunscreen. NEVER will.
Waste of good money.
Stupssseee!!!
@Tron June 21, 2020 10:23 PM “The professor works in Jamaica. Didn’t Jamaica reject its own citizens for months when they wanted to return home, thus degrading them to second-class human beings? Why did our professor of justice not protest against the Jamaican government? Perhaps because he’s an opportunist?”
Why doyou have to be so deceitful?
You know as well as I do, you know as well as all sensible people do, that Jamaica, like Barbados was managing the return of its nationals in order to prevent the rapid spread of COVID 19.
Would you feel better if Jamaica had had 10,000 cases of COVID19, and Barbados 5,000.
Would it give you the jollies in 800 black Jamaicans had died; if 400 black Bajans had died?
Reparations for enslaved Africans…Period. Do not allow greedy, racist bandwagonists to squeeze their way on board at the 25th hour. Africans were the only peoples in the caribbean & americas (besides native peoples) to be legally considered a FRACTION of a human being (3/5) and physically, mentally & spiritually BONDED to free labour for hundreds of years.Legally & systematically raped, tortured, decultured, worked to death and children sold away to enslavement elsewher. Indentureship was NONE of those aforementioned abuses and was PAID LABOUR over a CONTRACTED, finite period, after which Indians were given land OR passage back to india! Formerly enslaved africans were TAXED to pay for Indian immigration. Hilary Beckles has to be held accountable for allowing Indian indentureship to even be considered as worthy of attachment to the african reparations movement (they are manipulating him)
THERE WERE HORRENDOUS ABUSES BY THE SLAVERS, BOTH TO AFRICANS AND IRISH AND SCOTTISH.
All Barbadians born on this beautiful gemstone, of Barbadian heritage, have ancestors who were slaves originally; the Chisel of Oppression Carves us all from the Same Stone. Everyone in Barbados whether they think they are white or whether they think they are Black have other Races in them. If you think otherwise simply, open the phone book and see the names listed of the Black Irish and those of Scottish Ancestry that most are unawares of their Heritage.
“It’s interesting to see this video especially having grown up with Bajan people. I am of a black decent that actually held slaves in Africa. So people are confused all over the World thinking all blacks were slaves when some blacks were slave owners who owned the slaves that Went to America.”
“I’m a descendant of the mixture of slaves and indentured servants who were originally prisoners of war from Ireland banished by that tyrant Cromwell to the West Indies. My fam is directly from Barbados, but I got relatives in Jamaica, Montserrat, and St. Kitts and Nevis, and many other Irish chattel was sent to Bermuda, Virginia, and New England. My ancestors got freed, according to legal documents, in 1834, and then became simple fishermen and day laborers after being freed from the plantation fields and sugar mills they once worked. These redlegs, my ancestors, immigrated to the Midwest in the early 1900’s and I’m proud to claim my heritage.”
SLAVES OR INDENTURED SERVANTS?…
There has been a lot of whitewashing of the Irish slave trade, partly by not mentioning it, and partly by labelling slaves as indentured servants. There were indeed indentured, including English, French, Spanish and even a few Irish. But there is a great difference between the two. Indentures bind two or more parties in mutual obligations. Servant indentures were agreements between an individual and a shipper in which the individual agreed to sell his services for a period of time in exchange for passage, and during his service, he would receive proper housing, food, clothing, and usually a piece of land at the end of the term of service. It is believed that some of the Irish that went to the Amazon settlement after the Battle of Kinsale and up to 1612 were exiled military who went voluntarily, probably as indentured to Spanish or Portuguese shippers.
However, from 1625 onward the Irish were sold, pure and simple as slaves. There were no indenture agreements, no protection, no choice. They were captured and originally turned over to shippers to be sold for their profit. Because the profits were so great, generally 900 pounds of cotton for a slave, the Irish slave trade became an industry in which everyone involved (except the Irish) had a share of the profits.
Ireland became the Biggest Source of Livestock for the English Slave Trade.
Few people today realize that from 1600 to 1699, Far More Irish were Sold as Slaves than Africans…
BARBADIAN HISTORIANS SUPPORT THE VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES PRESENTED…
SCOTTISH SLAVES IN BARBADOS
The Irish Sugar Slaves of Barbados
Feliciaa…these evil greedy fcukers for minorities in Barbados are just waiting to tief any reparations for the African descended on the island…and the dirty sell out negros in the parliament are more than eager to help them…they are all pariahs and parasites in the lives of the black population…and always will be..
The African descended in the US and the wide Diaspora, have somewhere to go, they have always had a home to return to…
https://thegrio.com/2020/06/21/black-americans-come-home/
“TheGrio
Ghana’s Minister of Tourism to Black Americans: Come home to Africa
In light of the nation’s current season of civil unrest, African country seizes the opportunity to persuade Black Americans to return to the Motherland
By Christian Spencer -June 21, 2020
Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, Ghana memorial for George Floyd (Sceenshot)
Ghana’s Minister of Tourism Barbara Oteng-Gyasi capitalized on America’s poor race relations, specifically the treatment of Black people, to recruit and nationalize African Americans.
The Minister of Tourism made her appearance at George Floyd‘s memorial and wreath-laying ceremony. She could not resist and recite her government’s message to Black people to “come home.”
READ MORE: ‘Year of Return’ movement beckons Blacks back to Africa prompting powerful cultural and economic exchange
Because of the current season of civil unrest, the deaths of Ahmed Arbery, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and Breonna Taylor, Ghana is seizing the opportunity to persuade people of the African diaspora living in America, to move.”
Healing Ancestral Karma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpQ8phspQe4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpv__k_vhjk
Is Sir Hilary aware that native americans kept black people as slaves?
Is Sir Hillary aware that black people were once slaves? I think BU regulars should write to the Cabinet Office recommending Prof Keith Arlington Patrick Sandiford for the highest award in the land. He is not only our greatest living historian, but he knows about and understands slavery. We must not allow what happened to Kamau Brathwaite to happen to \Prof Sandiford.
Gaston Browne has called Ron ‘Singh’ Sanders and intellectual giant. Can he be compared with Sir Hillary or our president?
@ charles skeete June 22, 2020 9:37 AM
“Is Sir Hilary aware that native americans kept black people as slaves?”
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So too did the Romans keep both black and white slaves!
The difference between black chattel slavery in America and the British West Indies (BWI is that the ‘white’ slave owners in the BWI were handsomely compensated for the loss of their black ‘properties’ and nothing was given to the blacks as monetary compensation for the 200 years of dehumanizing treatment.
Was the ‘free’ transportation to Liberia on board the Christian ship called “Cora” the compensation for the Bajan ex-slaves?
Know your true history and not THEIR DISTORTIONS and you will understand the present and be much more prepared for the future.
Miller
Chattel slavery stands alone as the worst of all abomination.
Those who seek to find parallels with serfdom, indentureship, other forms of deprivation will never be able to overcome the mountain of wickedness therein represented
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