I think the effort to gain reparations from the British and/or Spanish for chattel slavery will be unsuccessful and prove to be a grand waste of time. When will people stop fantasising and attempt to hold up others as indisputable moral exemplars?
Mankind creeps along morally, advancing at a snail's pace, and thank God we have reached this position today, which is a far cry from the days of the savage maurauders who enslaved Africans for forced labour in the New World.
Sad to say, but it was Africans and Arabs who were the first aggressors in this regard, descending on the Iberian Peninsula in 711 AD, and from there spreading destruction and slavery in Europe; remaining there for 700 years until expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain in the late 15th century at the battle of Granada. Columbus, thereafter, received financial support from these royals to find a new, shorter route to be able to exploit the wealth of India. But his famous navigational "mistake" led to Spain taking the lead to open up the New World for European exploitation. The African/Arab troops even demanded 100 white virgins per annum for their harems; which led to the "Third Race" in Europe, in effect the "browning" of many areas. Beethoven, Goethe, and Haydn were noted products of this. The history books were purged of much of these events, but we still have Othello and the remarks about the dark mulatto complexion of Charlotte, wife of George III to contemplate,
inter alia.
Some may say this is merely tit for tat, but other than that the English Euros are likely to feel, and say, "Well, yes, that was a horrific wrong, but you inherited Jamaica, and what have you done with it? We hear it is the murder capital of the world, and moreover we allowed immigration in fairly large numbers, why did you not grasp opportunities with both hands and feet for that matter? Some immigrants even tried recently to burn down London."
I think we better get busy fixing our problems ourselves and stop waiting for a magical handout.
Cathy Brown
cathy291181@yahoo.com
History will absolve the need for reparations
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Mankind creeps along morally, advancing at a snail's pace, and thank God we have reached this position today, which is a far cry from the days of the savage maurauders who enslaved Africans for forced labour in the New World.
Sad to say, but it was Africans and Arabs who were the first aggressors in this regard, descending on the Iberian Peninsula in 711 AD, and from there spreading destruction and slavery in Europe; remaining there for 700 years until expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain in the late 15th century at the battle of Granada. Columbus, thereafter, received financial support from these royals to find a new, shorter route to be able to exploit the wealth of India. But his famous navigational "mistake" led to Spain taking the lead to open up the New World for European exploitation. The African/Arab troops even demanded 100 white virgins per annum for their harems; which led to the "Third Race" in Europe, in effect the "browning" of many areas. Beethoven, Goethe, and Haydn were noted products of this. The history books were purged of much of these events, but we still have Othello and the remarks about the dark mulatto complexion of Charlotte, wife of George III to contemplate,
inter alia.
Some may say this is merely tit for tat, but other than that the English Euros are likely to feel, and say, "Well, yes, that was a horrific wrong, but you inherited Jamaica, and what have you done with it? We hear it is the murder capital of the world, and moreover we allowed immigration in fairly large numbers, why did you not grasp opportunities with both hands and feet for that matter? Some immigrants even tried recently to burn down London."
I think we better get busy fixing our problems ourselves and stop waiting for a magical handout.
Cathy Brown
cathy291181@yahoo.com
History will absolve the need for reparations
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