Thanks for posting this piece (written by a descendent of a slaver family). It was an interesting read.
I noticed this bit:
> Grenada’s reparations commission wants the colonial powers of France and Britain to invest in health and education, to try and repair the damage done by slavery.
Sounds perfectly reasonable.
Britain’s global role and reputation is declining at an accelerating pace. It would only be fair to finally start acting like a grown up nation and showing some remorse for the grave injustice done. That might at least buy us back a tiny bit of respectability
Being as there’s more slaves in Britain now than ever before maybe we should sort that out first.
They have a solid point but blaming slavers 300 years ago for Grenadans having a poor diet today? Bloody hell
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Thanks for posting this piece (written by a descendent of a slaver family). It was an interesting read.
I noticed this bit:
> Grenada’s reparations commission wants the colonial powers of France and Britain to invest in health and education, to try and repair the damage done by slavery.
Sounds perfectly reasonable.
Britain’s global role and reputation is declining at an accelerating pace. It would only be fair to finally start acting like a grown up nation and showing some remorse for the grave injustice done. That might at least buy us back a tiny bit of respectability
Being as there’s more slaves in Britain now than ever before maybe we should sort that out first.
They have a solid point but blaming slavers 300 years ago for Grenadans having a poor diet today? Bloody hell