richaveli83
Veteran
Sounds like something a cac would say....
Barbados coming for Benedict Cumberbatch's family for reparations over historical links to slave trade
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Cacs have been pushing this false narrative for a while now. I remember even in Black circles it was a common thing, and I'd always tell people to never repeat that shyt again because they won't like where it'll go and here we are.
Family Lives Matter
#FLM
Mother fukk doctor strange
He nor his family is ever going to pay. Maybe they are hoping he will pay something for PR purposes. Maybe they are trying to establish a legal framework for pursuing certain institutions and/or remaining old world companies that made slavery a cornerstone of Capitalism. I can't imagine pursuing individual descendants/families of slaveowners will ever be successful. It's a non-starter politically in most nations. In fact that's a surefire way to kill any popular support for reparations in a western nation. Too many murky moral and legal questions that would have to be resolved by those most likely to have their feet closest to the fire.
its possible tho... BMW AND OTHERS paid out the ass to the descendants of the holocaust for their role in it...
You have enough friends in high places enough economics behind you anything is possible. if the govt of barbados can prove his estate willfully was behind slavery there then they can make his estate pay. im sure bennedict cumberbatch (nothisreallastname) has inherited wealth... also his kinfolks gotta pay up too if they inherited that wealth.
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The coli resident milic00ns told me non-fba from the caribbean weren't eligable for reparations
Benedict Cumberbatch's family could face legal pressure to pay reparations over historical links to Barbados slave trade, report says
Joshua Zitser
Sat, December 31, 2022 at 10:25 AM CST
Benedict Cumberbatch attends the EE British Academy Film Awards 2022.Samir Hussein/WireImage via Getty Images
The family of Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch faces the prospect of facing demands to pay reparations for slavery over historical links to a sugar plantation in Barbados, according to The Telegraph.
- A Barbados task force is seeking reparations from the descendants of wealthy slave owners.
- A task force official did not rule out targeting Benedict Cumberbatch's family, per The Telegraph.
- Cumberbatch's ancestors owned a sugar plantation in Barbados that housed 250 slaves.
The Caribbean nation of Barbados is starting to hone in on the wealthy descendants of slave owners as part of a campaign to get reparations for slavery.
Barbados's National Task Force on Reparations, part of the Caricom Reparations Commission (Caricom), previously focused on seeking reparations from colonial powers and wealthy institutions that made hefty profits from slavery, The Guardian reported.
Recently, however, it singled out a specific family for the first time, targeting the British Conservative MP Richard Drax over his family's ownership of a vast sugar plantation on the island, per The Guardian.
David Comissiong, the Barbados ambassador to Caricom and deputy chairman of the state's task force, told The Guardian last month that Drax and other families could face litigation if they don't agree to pay reparations.
"It is now a matter that is before the government of Barbados," he told the newspaper. "It is being dealt with at the highest level."
Now, the Cumberbatch family faces being targeted for a reparations claim. When pressed by The Telegraph on whether Cumberbatch's family would be pursued, Comissiong did not rule it out.
He said: "This is at the earliest stages. We are just beginning. A lot of this history is only really now coming to light."
David Denny, a leading campaigner for reparations and the general secretary of the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, told The Telegraph: "Any descendants of white plantation owners who have benefitted from the slave trade should be asked to pay reparations, including the Cumberbatch family."
Cumberbatch's ancestor, Abraham Cumberbatch, bought the Cleland plantation in the 18th century. According to The Telegraph, it housed some 250 slaves until slavery was abolished in 1834.
Per The Daily Mail, the Cumberbatch family made a fortune from the plantation. After slavery was abolished, the family received a payment of £6,000 from the British government — a sum worth approximately $1m in today's money.
The actor has spoken publicly about his family's slave-owning history. He told The Telegraph in 2018: "We have our past – you don't have to look far to see the slave-owning past. We were part of the whole sugar industry, which is a shocker."
Cumberbatch previously portrayed a slave owner in the Oscar-winning 2013 movie "12 Years a Slave." He also portrayed William Pitt the Younger in the 2006 movie "Amazing Grace" about the battle to abolish slavery in Great Britain.
According to The Daily Mail, Cumberbatch viewed the role in "Amazing Grace" as a "sort of apology" for his family's role in the slave trade.
The newspaper also reported that Cumberbatch's mother once advised him not to use the family's last name professionally in case it made him the target of a campaign for reparations.
Cumberbatch did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
its possible tho... BMW paid out the ass to the descendants of the holocaust for their role in it...
BMW is a company though and thus takes away a bit of that "personal responsibility" that white people will find a bit too hard to confront, particularly if it's potentially financially detrimental. Also, what do you do with the descendants/families that don't have any wealth? Do you put them into debt? It'd place a significant financial burden on the economy in all honesty. Suing individual descendants and families for reparations would pretty much be the straw that'd break this sick camel's back. It would definitely lead to civil war and we still would never get what's owed to us anyway. The Federal Government is really the only entity that can afford to pay fair reparations to us. Any surviving business entity that could be pursued would be bankrupted by the damages owed to us.
They definitely should. The West Indies slave trade was one of the most horrific slave trades in history.
Maybe but single families wealth is nothing compared to the corporations mirred in slavery that exist today. I'm sure alot of white families have substantial amount of inherited wealth they can be sued over... but one case at a time ya know...
need to focus on these banks and insurance companies behind it too. get our weight up...MoshpitMazi
Moshpit Gxng/ Anti Fash
Enjoy that cross in ya name
MuzzyP
All Star
Who would the money go to? Are they hoping media support would pressure him into paying someone? If he did, who determines the beneficiaries and how much?
Low End Derrick
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Another British cac whose ancestors owned slaves has donated £100,000 in reparations in Grenada:
Laura Trevelyan quits BBC to campaign for reparative justice for Caribbean
Decision comes after Trevelyan family apologises for ownership of more than 1,000 enslaved African people
www.theguardian.com
beenz
Rap Guerilla
so my man was simply drawing inspiration from his real ancestors when he did 12 years a slave 
