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UK owes 205 Billion Pounds in slavery reparations to Caribbean Nations says academic
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And with how multicultural the Uk is these days, a lot of the taxpayers being forced to pay reparations would be black or brown people who might well be descendants of slaves themselves, it’s just ridiculous to put that sort of burden on current British people who had nothing to do with the slave trade
You could conceivably have people with ancestry on both sides of the equation or even double on either side. Barbary pirates, by no means the only North African group to do so down the centuries, kidnapped and sold into slavery many a European and a huge number of the Africans shipped across the Atlantic were caught and sold by other Africans. So there will be people who could have their lineage encompass both being a slave and enslaver or doubly enslaved or doubly a slaver, maybe even more multiples thereof. If fairness is meant to be at the heart of any such proposals, working out who should and shouldn't have to contribute and to what extent would be an impractical nightmare.