Should Caribbean nations and descendants of enslaved people receive a formal apology?
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NO
If any nation should apologize it should be Spain but, you don't hear any descendants of the atrocities that was committed on our ancestors clamoring for reparations. We tend to look at the future not get depressed and fixated on what happened in the past. I am a descendant of the Taino, (Caribbean Indians), but, what will reparations or formal apology achieve??? Nothing but, a few $$ in ones pocket.
No way
In this world Slavey is widespread and will always be. I’m white English and can trace my ancestors forced into slavey. Our fascination and obsession for cheap goods and services will always make a slave of somebody in the world.
No.
No. Every country took slaves that's how it was. You cant make today pay for history
NO..its wasn't our responsibility to make good for old 200 yr old ancient practices
It's amazing how brain washed the people in Britain are!
I'm not apologising for anything,why the hell should we apologise for something that happened 100's of years ago and had nothing to do with us!!
No, not at all!!! They can f’ing do one!!!
Is that from the people who enslaved them, or from their own rulers who sold them?
I work with Orthodox rabbis. A few years ago, they were offered a statement of apology by an organization representing a certain Balkan nation. The formal apology expressed its regret on behalf of ancestors and fellow citizens who participated in the Hol*caust and collaborated with the Germans to exterminate Jews.
The rabbis, who included the descendants of Shoah survivors, said they really could not accept an apology on behalf of victims, certainly not from well-meaning individuals who were not themselves responsible for any crime. I believe they found some other way to express solidarity with one another and show appreciation for a well-intentioned gesture.
If slavery is a serious crime, it should be treated seriously. Those who are not responsible cannot apologize to those who were not victims.
This is a distraction from real, contemporary slavery. Women and children are trafficked every day and we’re supposed to call it “sex work” and pretend it’s not exploitation. We use batteries made from cobalt mined in the Congo under horrific conditions—often by children. I’m typing this on a phone that would not exist without forced labor.
The Atlantic slave trade is over. It was terrible and deserves study. But apologies from people with no part in the crime are meaningless insults to the living and the dead.
This is a catch 22 situation. Many were sold as slaves, captured by other africans, what would have happened to them otherwise, probably have been killed.
The First Nations of England were Murdered, pillaged by Irish, Danes, Norwegians, Germans.
I WANT 2 TRILLION EUROS
Don't be rediculous. We have already paid reparations of a quarter of GDP that we finished paying in 2008.
We are the only country to have done that.
The slaves were taken by African opposing tribes then sold on.
This needs to be dropped now. It's old. It should be remembered so it ne very happens again.
Don’t be ridiculous
Britain paid for their freedom at the time by compensating their former owners and by employing the navy to patrol and enforce it. If anything, they owe us a debt of gratitude.
Things aren’t improving? lol has she seen the prime minister?!
Hell no it's history get a life and get on with your scrounging life ,so we should blame the Romans and the vikings works both ways they need to get there chip of the shoulder
Thismakes me seething mad…..for goodness sake this was bygone ……what about other countries……you look to the future not the past…..it was a different age…..get over it
When did the Irish take British slaves?? 😅
No. The British ended the Atlantic slave trade and paid a heavy price in lives, time and money. We already paid.
No.
Every race were once slaves, where do you think the word came from?
No
Some were accepting of it, and it will resurface as everyone, regardless of servitude or freedom are in some way in mental slavery.
Every nation had enslaved people just depends historically how far back you go ! Wish woke losers would stfu about historical slavery & focus on current slavery which is bigger than it ever was !!
100% agree with the last guy. Why all the fuss now, and why are only white people the target for blame? At least we stopped slavery 150+ years ago, unlike the victim in question.. which still enslave their own.
Oh piss off, my grandparents were slaves, worked in the mills and lived in the slums of manchester with no running water. Not one black person alive has a memory of slavery.
When Australia receives one for the 170,000 people sent there in chains, but then they turned it into the lucky country.
And don't whine and beg for something most of us had nothing to do with.
Rubbish; slavery started with black people and Arabs in western Africa; stop the pity parties and work for your money and send criminals off to an island instead of WEF; WHO; new world order that are destroying the workd with open borders and corrupt politicians; may God help us😢
Who from?
As soon as they shut down their international offshore banking institutions!! yeah that's fair enough, but if they are still taking kickbacks that's another story innit
Take note of who agrees with this.These are the same people that are destroying your nation from within.
Cultural self-hate is a concealed form of suicidal desire.
How arn't they aware that Britain was the first country to abolish slavery in the middle eighteenth century.
The British navy flying the Union jack flag was pivotal in breaking the global slave trade.
The middle east and many African countries were the last to grudgingly abolish slavery in the middle 1960s
In fact slavery can still be found in all of it's ugly glory in parts of land in Houthie controlled Yemen and Isis controlled Syria including sex slaves.
Please tell people about this reality!
No definitely not should the British people receive an apology for the actions of idiots in politics who are giving are taxpayers money away to people who hate are country and are way of life and democracy
We paid reparations for this and we single handedly destroyed the Benin empire and hunted pirates to end slavery……utter idiots on this channel
And nor the Irish didn't take us as slaves the Irish were used as slaves they practically built america ……wtf are people talking about in this country
The thing is what we must ask, WHO is asking for the apology? Are any black people asking for it? Or is this GBN baiting and s**t stirring? Just be aware
Maybe, just maybe we should All look as to where the slaves were purchased from in the first place
The slaves were sold by their own people, address this point first and once you have an apology from your own people then you might get one from us
This subject is now beyond BORING
get an apology from your own people/tribes that sold you in the first place and seek compensation
How bout ask the Africans that caught & sold the black slaves to Europeans & Arabs rather than constantly gaslighting the Brits?
We have already apologised…years ago.