News: Brit Prime Minister: Move On From Slavery Jamaica

JonathanLGardner

Reposted WITHOUT my opinions but this SHOULD remain up. This is an important world issue. Closing this thread says "The ATRL mods only care about race issues affecting Americans"

Jamaica should 'move on from painful legacy of slavery', says Cameron
British prime minister ducks official calls for UK to apologise for its role in the slave trade or pay reparations

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David Cameron has called for Jamaica and the UK to “move on” from the deep wounds caused by slavery but ducked official calls for Britain to apologise for its role or pay reparations.

Speaking to the Caribbean country’s parliament, the prime minister struck a defiant note as he spoke of his pride that Britain had played a part in abolishing the “abhorrent” trade, without highlighting its historic involvement in the transfer of slaves from west Africa and ownership of slaves in the Caribbean.

He called for the two countries to “move on from this painful legacy and continue to build for the future”.

His trade trip to Jamaica, the first for 14 years by a UK prime minister, has been overshadowed by the issue of slavery. Cameron was warmly received by a military band playing God Save the Queen on arrival at the airport and received a hug from the country’s prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller.

However, during the trip, high-profile politicians and campaigners drew attention to a distant relative of Cameron’s, Gen Sir James Duff, who was compensated for losing 202 Jamaican slaves in 1833 when the trade was abolished.

MillionLights

You probably shouldn't repost a thread that's already been closed.

But the UK already gives international aid to Jamaica and is paying for a new prison to be built there. Does that not count as reparations and investment in their economy to help Jamaicans get ahead?

Dessy Fenix

Your link doesn't work for me.

Butters