‘Asking British children of immigrants to pay slavery reparations is a grift’

Current attempts to get Britain to pay “reparations” for its slaving past are nothing but grift I’m afraid. Grift attached to a monumental grievance of course, but grift nonetheless. One seemingly certifiable judge at the International Court of Justice has suggested the UK should pay $24trillion – or, if you prefer, two thirds of all the money in the entire world – as a punishment. So, that’s you and me paying literally impossible amounts of money for something we didn’t do, 200 years ago. Seem reasonable to you? No, me neither. Don’t know about your folks but mine were starving to death in the west of Ireland under the jackboot of the English crown at the time. The time Britain was getting around to abolishing the slavery which had served a small number of very evil people extremely well, that is. And of course that small number of people were not just British but Portuguese, French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish… And that’s before we get to the Ashanti Empire in Ghana, the Dahomey Empire in Benin, the Yoruba of what is now Nigeria, the Imbangala in Angola, and on and on… all of whom got rich from selling their fellow Africans...