Caribbean wins reparations payments

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you're trying to find some gotcha moment for ADOS. The biggest takeaway here is Caribbean people did their own work and got reparations for themselves and not a single ADOS thinks we deserve any piece of their pie. And like I said, I hope they go after Duke, since they have a specific claim with Duke.

And at the end of the day, ADOS is about if your ancestors were slaves in the USA, the black people that can prove that their ancestors were chattel slaves here at any point are ADOS, this doesn't mean all people from the West Indies are now ADOS. Please stop with the loopholing.

Breh, some people have low comprehension skills, doesn't matter how well you explain it

 

[Jhoon]

The Queen bytchass need to come up off some of dem jewels

That’s the person who needs to cut my check.

 

[Jamal514]

Happy to see this as a Carribean.

Should be more though

 

[Samori Toure]

In what is being represented as a major victory in the fight to make Europe pay reparations to the Caribbean for the brutal transatlantic slave trade, the umbrella University of the West Indies is reporting that the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom has agreed to begin making reparations payments in the near future after talks with a regional commission.

Dr. Hilary Beckles, the UWI vice chancellor, this week reported that agreement had been reached with the U.K. school to pay the value of Sterling 200 million for its part in the English slave trade to the Caribbean.

The announcement comes as regional governments continue to press governments in England, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Denmark and others to attend a summit to discuss reparation payments to the 15-nation Caribbean Community and to decide whether the region should take the case to court to force those who benefited from the slave trade to compensate today’s descendants.

“The University of Glasgow has recognized that Jamaican slave owners had adopted the University of Glasgow as their university of choice and that £200 million of value was extracted from Jamaica and the Caribbean,” Beckles said in an announcement on Jamaica News Network program, “Insight,” as the workweek began. Beckles is the chairperson of the umbrella Caribbean Reparations Commission, which has been mandated by regional governments to force Britain and other European slave traders to own up and pay up for their role in genocide.

Governments had sent demand letters to European governments in the past year, urging them to sit down and talk about the past. Britain and France were among the most strident in their refusal to cooperate in any meaningful way with the commission. Critics say the move by the university will certainly undermine its position because the school is now acknowledging its role in the slave trade.

Beckles said the school had recently delved into its records only to find that there was “a massive influx of grants and endowments from Jamaica.” The two schools are now drafting a memorandum of understanding that will govern the reparation payments and relations going forward. The term “reparatory justice” is expected to be included.

“We are not on the street corners asking for handouts,” said Beckles. “We are looking for partnerships and development.”

The money will come in cash and kind, scholarships, exchange programs and other activities. “They are looking at the possibility of partnering with us and having a massive institute for chronic disease research that is going to prevent the proliferation of these diseases in the future,” said Beckles.

In browsing through its records, researchers found that the university had benefited directly from the Caribbean slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries, equivalent to Sterling 200 million at today’s value. Researchers had worked for approximately two years on the project.

In a previous discussion on universities and the slave trade, Beckles named North Carolina and Georgetown University in the Washington, D.C. area as those whose trails lead back to the Caribbean.

“The people who owned Dukes plantation in Barbados had split their money between Barbados and North Carolina and founded Duke University, the owners of which recently donated land to UWI for a major agricultural project,” said Beckles. “Meanwhile, when Georgetown University was going through bankruptcy in the 19th century, it sold 200 of the more than 400 slaves it owned in order to get back on its feet.”

He added, “A slave trader who originally lived in Antigua fled after a slave revolt there and moved to Boston and provided the initial funding for the Harvard Law School.”

Caribbean wins reparations payments

Georgetown University tries to make amends for profiting from slavery

 

[Jamal514]

Not one ADOS came in here hating......

Great leadership fam

I hope ADOS can get thiers too. Ya'll are way overdue

 

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[havoc]

I'm impressed

 

[CASHAPP]

"The money will come in cash and kind, scholarships, exchange programs and other activities."

What about economic empowerment? Like a Marshall Program so they dont have to depend on Napoleons/chinese/and whites for basic necessities?

Well its a start. But dont let up.

They are Caribbeans, they are infatuated with education and only education. They won't push for anything else. They think only education matters in life

They dropped the ball so much with this that they didn't realize they missed an opportunity to have them give them money to fund universal health care all across the Caribbean.

 

[Artenche]

Reparations are not going to happen in the US.

Our best shots are scholarships, charities, community spaces, employment programs, black business, and other means of support started within the community.

It is up to us to save ourselves... But sure... Keep waiting for the government ran by cacs to do it brehs.

 

[CASHAPP]

In this event Jamaica still seeks reparations from the UK proper, correct?

I would assume so because this 200 million is a joke amount and in my opinion does not do enough.

I think you will see Jamaica seek reparations more when they see the UK continue deportations like has been happening on a regular basis

I get the feeling the UK was always a little bit ahead of the curve than the US on certain issues. I don't see this same scenario playing out in the US too soon. I apologize for being a Debbie Downer on the subject.

UK isn't ahead of anything. They been deporting many Caribbeans as of late. The thing is that UK and their EU friends hide their dirt from mainstream media alot more.



Also remember from this story its mainly university related. I would not be shocked if the UK government told some people to give them this bandaid to get the bad press they been getting the past month over the deportations.

 

[CASHAPP]

13 mill per island?

Exactly this is some pathetic negotiating. There are white people living in all the tourist spots around the Islands that have far more money than that. Its sad when people do not know they are being played.

 

[MikelArteta]

all these countries got rich off the backs of slaves, and all these old universities were built with slave labour.

 

[NinoBrown]

If they can do it, we should be able to....but idk with how cacs are running things...

 

[skeetsinternal]

In Jamaica the Chinese will benefit

 

[KingJay]

260mil usd divided among the people is nothing, but can go a long way if pooled together and properly invested for the sake of the entire community.

As someone who strongly believed we would never get reparations(and still don't think we will), is this the better route? There's something like 42 million of us in the US, how can we all reasonably get reparations? It would cost 4bill to give each of us just $100... If we got a huge amount of cash and poured that into our infrastructure for example though, that could be a more feasible and effective plan.