Caribbean wins reparations payments

[BigMan]

Dont ask for reparations in cash, ask for it in citizenship. Give them UK citizenship. Let them go there and attend schools and work there.

I'm curious as to why it's the Uni getting it, are they a Govt entity?

There’s a long history and debate about this but why? What’s so great about UK citizenship ? Also if they are citizens they will be taxed

 

[King Frost]

There’s a long history and debate about this but why? What’s so great about UK citizenship ? Also if they are citizens they will be taxed

UK has a better infrastructure than a Caribbean country, better job prospects. They can travel to almost any country without a visa.
Jamaicans need a visa just to go to the Cayman Islands and many other countries. They must pay tax same as "regular" citizens.
If the countries get this money, it's basically guaranteed the Govt officials with siphon it for them & their friends

 

[BigMan]

UK has a better infrastructure than a Caribbean country, better job prospects. They can travel to almost any country without a visa.
Jamaicans need a visa just to go to the Cayman Islands and many other countries. They must pay tax same as "regular" citizens.
If the countries get this money, it's basically guaranteed the Govt officials with siphon it for them & their friends

That doesn’t sound enticing at all to me. A better option would be to negotiate visa free entry for CARICOM Passport holders. Caribbean needs people to stay in the islands not go to The UK. Way better opportunities exist elsewhere

 

[Easy-E]

thecoli.com told me there werent any slaves from the Carribeans.. it was mainly Africans being seasoned down there to come here..

 

[BigMan]

A Nigerian American girl just asked Bernie about reparations

 

[CASHAPP]

UK has a better infrastructure than a Caribbean country, better job prospects. They can travel to almost any country without a visa.
Jamaicans need a visa just to go to the Cayman Islands and many other countries. They must pay tax same as "regular" citizens.
If the countries get this money, it's basically guaranteed the Govt officials with siphon it for them & their friends

What planet do you live on? Jamaicans been running to UK since the 50s or 60s, how would citizenship be anything dramatic for them? Especially when many wasted decades just being in residency status and are now being deported

The point of reparations is for them to use that money and investments to build up Jamaica and stop relying on white countries all their life . That applies to other Caribbean islands also

 

[BigMan]

Bernie fumbled that question woooow

 

[BigMan]

What planet do you live on? Jamaicans been running to UK since the 50s or 60s, how would citizenship be anything dramatic for them? Especially when many wasted decades just being in residency status and are now being deported

The point of reparations is for them to use that money and investments to build up Jamaica and stop relying on white countries all their life . That applies to other Caribbean islands also

I would dispute the “residency” status part, those folks immigrated while they were British citizens before independence

 

[hustlemania]

He is trying to say that because many of the enslaved that came to Colonial America were brought from the Caribbean -- as many were seasoned there and some enslaved there for a period of time-- then sold to enslavers in Colonial America.

Are you talking about the seasoning process during the 1700s, the early 1800s or the mid 1800s?

Slaves coming from the Caribbean would've made up a negligible amount mostly during the earliest years of English colonization of the original 13 colonies, an even smaller amount of those slaves would've actually been BORN in the caribbean.

But to say those people were "Caribbeans" at that point seems like a bit of a stretch. They were more than likely displaced Africans we're dealing with

I guess what im saying is- At what point does the displaced African become caribbean,Afram,Jamaican,Barbadian etc

 

[The Fade]

If Haiti can pay billions to France, these cac countries definitely have enough to FULLY REIMBURSE the ones they have wronged

 

[You_Ugly_on_Skype]

They’ve been trying since 2013

Establishment of The Bahamas National Reparations Committee - Caribbean Reparations Commission

At the Thirty-First Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regular Meeting held 23 July 2013, the Heads agreed on an action plan on the matter of reparations for native genocide and slavery, it was also agreed that National Reparation Committees be instituted in each member state to establish the moral, ethical and legal case for the payment of reparations by the former colonial European Countries, to the Nations and people of the Caribbean Community, for native genocide, the transatlantic slave trade and a racialised system of chattel slavery. The Chair of each committee would sit on the CARICOM Reparations Commission.

 

[xoxodede]

They still would be ADOS - meaning they were enslaved here -- and their descendants are here. I don't get your point. But, OK.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

 

[AlainLocke]

They’ve been trying since 2013

Establishment of The Bahamas National Reparations Committee - Caribbean Reparations Commission

I mention their Caribbean and South American reparations movement every-time I talk about ADOS getting reparations.

They been doing it longer than we have and been consistent about it.

If they never gave up, nor should we.

 

[T'krm]

Yet you still don't understand, or are content on juelzing ur heart away, implying that African slaves touching down on the islands, then shipped to the mainland, shortly after constitute them still being 'Carribean', or that those who've stayed with centuries of Carribean ancestry, arriving in the U.S, mostly from 1950's-1980',considered the same as #Ados

What kinda of bs logic is this? Like saying slaves who sometimes travailed hundreds of miles, and stored in dungeons along the way in multiple modern-day WA countries qualifying for citizenship in all of them.