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National reparations commissions in the region will also approach Lloyd’s of London and the Church of England with demands of financial payments and reparative justice for their historic role in slavery.
Honest question: Is there any legitimate expectation of them actually paying up?
Probably not, and even then it’d be taxpayer money, which is totally unfair.
Is there precedent for this? What happened in the US for example? Or Belgium? Or Portugal?
Wasn’t Belgium one of the countries that had the biggest hand in slave trade? I remember reading they were horrific. Yet, they’re barely spoken about in the same sentence.
That’s nothing. You should hear about what the Vikings did. And the Romans. And the Sumerians.
Who gets reparations from them?
Guess we should be demanding reparations from Italy and Türkiye