Jamaica should 'move on from painful legacy of slavery', says Cameron
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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.
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This makes my blood boil
You see it's bull like this why black people don't feel appreciated in the UK. How many Carribeans came over and saved the UK after the world wars? But they must FORGET about the slave trade and the long-lasting effects they and their children deal with DAILY, whilst we remember 9/11 and the Holocaust?
Sorry, genocide is only worth remembering when the victims aren't so dark.
Why does Britian expect a pat on the back for helping abolish slavery? That's as logical as killing the majority of someone's family and saving their baby and dog out of goodwill.
How do we live in a post-racial society when our prime minister is a relative of a slave-owner who was COMPENSATED when the slave trade was abolished? The apple never falls far from the tree.
Oh and one more thing why he is Cameron forking out British money for a Jamaican JAIL? Like of all the things you could give to Jamaica to say 'sorry' for slavery you send money to help IMPRISON the population? The irony.
