Before you say get over it...ask yourself (1) Do I fully understand what transpired during the African Holocaust? (2) Was there reparatory justice? (3) Have other atrocities been acknowledged with reparatory justice? Then with that acquired knowledge, you can then give an informed opinion on the matter. We regret and condemn the iniquities of the historic slave trade, but these shameful activities belong to the past. Governments today cannot take responsibility for what happened over 200 years ago - William Hague DID YOU KNOW? The British government paid out £20m to compensate some 3,000 families that owned slaves for the loss of their property when slave-ownership was abolished in Britains colonies in 1833. This figure represented a staggering 40 per cent of the Treasurys annual spending budget and, in todays terms, calculated as wage values, equates to around £16.5bn. Germany has paid - primarily to Jewish survivors - some 70 billion euros in compensation overall for Nazi crimes since the agreement was signed in 1952.and continues to pay out more millions. The Barack Obama administration has offered to spend $3 billion (£1.8bn) to settle a long-running lawsuit with native American tribes that claim they were swindled out of billions of dollars in royalties for oil, gas, grazing and other leases dating back more than a century. #maarifacircle
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:03:17 +0000
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