Should the UK pay reparations to the Jamaica?

[AnthonyGerrard]

I'll start with saying, NO - its too complicated, who exactly owes who. Unless we can find slave owners and their inherited wealth of today. But even then we would need reparations for the practical slavery of the working classes of the UK at the time.
Do the UK Jamaicans pay? Do the decendents of slave owners in Jamaica benefit.
So no.
I may be in the UK now - but at the time my ancestors were in another empire country with British rule, so I'm not quite sure why my tax should be used.

Do Africans have to pay Europeans for their slave taking etc etc.

 

[Frothingslosh]

Yeah, the concept of reparations centuries after the fact gets...messy. We have to deal with it here occasionally as well; every now and then, someone brings up the idea of reparations to black folks or natives. In theory, yes, they deserve some, but in practice how the HELL would you do that? (And what about folks of mixed heritage? How much Native is "enough"? I'd say a good quarter of Americans at this point have at least SOME Native blood, if only a tiny, tiny amount. My own great-great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee.)

 

[kevlray]

I heard several years ago if you were 1/16th Indian (probably Cherokee) and could prove it. You were owned land in Oklahoma. That would be the hard thing for most people to prove that they were at least 1/16th Indian.

 

[AnthonyGerrard]

https://www.ancestrybydna.com/cart/

somewhat there

 

[Brianwarnock]

Hell no, in fact if one takes a look a Jamaica versus most of Africa they should be paying us for saving them.

Brian