Do I look Jamaican to you, you silly tw@t.

You didn't quote the rest of it:

Instead Britons should be forced to walk about with I am a **** tattooed on their heads.

JBNAY
JBNAY 29 Sep 15 20:48 Joined: 26 Jan 11 | Topic/replies: 937 | Blogger: JBNAY's blog
Alias hoping for a payout, NAP

As it happens, on checking the website mentioned earlier I found that a distant relative had been compensated for "loss of property".

Do all the right wingers here simply think that anything carried out in the past under the banner of "British interests" or "empire building" is OK then? It's jolly fine to destroy the lives of countless indigenous and native peoples 'cos you want their land/gold/silver/diamonds/spices/tobacco/opium etc etc etc?

If it wasn't for slavery these people trying to claim would not have been born.

Their ancestors mingled with other slaves that they would never have met otherwise. Then they breed with others in same position etc etc and so on so forth.

So not 1 of them would have been born without it.

Don't think anyone is defending slavery, but not only black people from Africa has suffered this. It has been widespread through out human history. (one of the largest blot on the copybook of the human species)

These people need to get rid of the chip on their shoulder and move forward in life. Not 1 of them has ever suffered at the hands of slavery or seen any of the suffering.

If any of those slaves where still alive etc then yes compensation would be appropriate. But they are not

Lazy scroungers.

I am waiting for the PPI call centres to pick up on this one and start calling me to ask if I like reggae music.

Bannockburn Alias?

If we got in a ring and they carried you out feet first after nine rounds would it comfort you when you came round to tell people you won the third round?

I'm not a Britnat. I voted for Scottish independence. I'm making allowances for your distressed and emotional state because I know you've got a wound which festers but then that's democracy for you. You got another pasting. You're just going to have to suck it up because despite the campaign which was very well run by the independents you lost.

You got that? You LOST.

Has Alias been chucking insults at people while I've been away?  Must be running low on half bricks.

What a kartoffel kopf that tumshie is

If Cameron gives 'em money ...they'll spend it all on skunk and Ganja !

In case you hadn't noticed Eo, this is a thread about reparations for slavery, not another excuse for you to fib about voting Yes.

There are many very rich people in the UK whose families became rich on free labour, that is slavery. They became suddenly richer still when their government decided to compensate THEM for the loss of "property" when abolition was introduced. Why should the descendants of those slave owners continue to accumulate wealth which grew from slavery, while the mass of the slaves' descendants live in poverty? So much could be done, starting with building schools and hospitals. Germany paid for the excesses of the Nazis after all. Cameron and co should dig deep too.

When slavery was abolished in the West Indies, former slave holders were paid reparations. If you owned slaves, the British Government saw it as only fair that you were compensated for the inconvenience of no longer benefiting from free labour.

The former slaves got nothing. They were forced to work for free for a period of time, so as to give the former slave holders a chance to catch themselves.  The former slaves were left to catch their tails.

This arrangement was not called slavery because even though you were forced to work for nothing, the people you worked for had to give you nothing.  At least as a slave they threw you scraps of food and cloth.

The Jews received reparations from Germany after World War 2. First Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion argued that the reparation demand was based on recovering as much Jewish property as possible "so that the murderers do not become the heirs as well". He also argued that the reparations were needed to finance the absorption and rehabilitation of the Holocaust survivors in Israel.

There was no financing of the rehabilitation of the victims of slavery.  Just like the Jews, we must not forget our own Holocaust. And we must always seek to ensure that those who built empires on our backs do not get away with a free ride.
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http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/72953/real-reparations-slavery

I'd recognise you with the half brick in your hand.
Selling your house btw? Can I advise you to give Michelle Thomson a miss.
Unravelling by the day Alias.

You have to laugh at comments like I believe in fairness and justice for all

Where do you draw the line? How far back in history should we go. I hope Genghis Khan invested wisely.