Jamaica latest to demand reparations from Britain for slave trade

[Broomstick]

The only reparations GB should offer these pathetic whiners is a one-way plane ticket to Africa.

Fuck off you ignorant racist asshole.

[Zaune]

Would it even be worth pointing out that the UK no longer owns Jamaica anyway?

[Solauren]

Would it even be worth pointing out that the UK no longer owns Jamaica anyway?

That's actually irrelevant. One nation is asking another nation for reparations for past transgressions.

[LadyTevar]

The only reparations GB should offer these pathetic whiners is a one-way plane ticket to Africa.

Coach.

We do not tolerate racism on this board. This is your first and only warning. Next time you will be banned.

[Zaune]

That's actually irrelevant. One nation is asking another nation for reparations for past transgressions.

I was addressing the guy who apparently thinks the British government should be repatriating citizens of another sovereign country to... somewhere in Africa, I'm not even going to bother asking which African country he had in mind because I honestly doubt he was aware there's more than one.

[Solauren]

That's actually irrelevant. One nation is asking another nation for reparations for past transgressions.

I was addressing the guy who apparently thinks the British government should be repatriating citizens of another sovereign country to... somewhere in Africa, I'm not even going to bother asking which African country he had in mind because I honestly doubt he was aware there's more than one.

Ah.

Well, if Jamaica asked that to be an option for willing citizens, Great Britian agreed to fund it, and an African country/countries agreed, would that be acceptable?

[Zaune]

There's some absolutely enormous "if"s there, but... maybe? Because something like that was actually attempted with Liberia, and that didn't go so well.

[loomer]

It'd also do fuck all to resolve the structural legacy of exploitation and dependence created through Britain's involvement in the slave trade and its colonial ventures.

[Solauren]

It'd also do fuck all to resolve the structural legacy of exploitation and dependence created through Britain's involvement in the slave trade and its colonial ventures.

Very true. However, it was meant as a side question, not as part of the main discussion.

[Broomstick]

There's some absolutely enormous "if"s there, but... maybe? Because something like that was actually attempted with Liberia, and that didn't go so well.

Liberia did not involve voluntary participation on the part of the Africans - it was basically conquered by Americans as a place to dump former slaves somewhere other than North America. During the Monroe Administration, hence the capital being named "Monrovia".