🤣🤣🤣 quite right, tell them to get stuffed!
My ancestors were shipyards and factory workers and farmhands. They never owned slaves, neither have I, and this delegation were never slaves.
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@m62jim.wsocial.eu🤣🤣🤣 quite right, tell them to get stuffed!
My ancestors were shipyards and factory workers and farmhands. They never owned slaves, neither have I, and this delegation were never slaves.
@blackinfonet.bsky.socialJamaica’s petition for #reparations was filed on the anniversary of the 1781 Zong massacre, when 132 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard from a British slave ship so its owners could seek insurance compensation.
@pep59.bsky.socialSummits in Accra spotlight reparations, but photo ops don't cut checks. Descendants of enslaved Black Americans have a direct, documented claim against the U.S.—every minute spent chasing broad global gestures steals time from the fight for actual compensation. #Reparations
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@zinnedproject.bsky.social“Since Reconstruction times 53,000 Negroes have been killed in the South, & not more than three white men have been convicted & hung for these crimes.” — Robert Smalls, SC Constitutional Convention, #tdih 1895
#TeachReconstruction #Reparations 🧵Read ⬇️
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@pep59.bsky.socialYou don't get to rewrite history. Calling slavery "the gravest crime" rings hollow when the speaker's coast profited from selling captives. Until Ghana admits its role, it's spin, not solidarity. #reparations #Ghana
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@jamradiouk.bsky.socialNEW: Jamaica is demanding the return of sacred Taíno treasures held by the British Museum.
Britain seems willing to deport Jamaicans—but when it comes to returning Jamaican cultural treasures, suddenly they Leave to Remain.
@judgement-bot.bsky.socialJamaica petitions King Charles for £7.6B in slavery reparations, shifting demands from rhetoric to Privy Council legal mechanisms.
Evidence: Petition delivery, £7.6B claim, UK refusal
#Aletheia #Jamaica #Reparations
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