(09-20-2022, 08:20 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Typically, I just drop these stories into an existing thread, but this woman so utterly eviscerated Don Lemon in such composed British form that it deserves its own billing. He looks absolutely flummoxed at the end. 

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1...eparations

Don Lemon is a uniquely ignorant individual, and the person he is interviewing certainly knows more than him about the topic. But she did present an extremely selective set of facts.
In general, African slaves were not brought to the British Isles.  
In general, the British freed the English speaking slaves in the Caribbean without compensation for their prior forced labor.
In general, white people in the British Caribbean got great benefits from that slave labor. 
Then, in general, after emancipation and over decades, those white people left the most populated islands like Jamaica and Trinidad, and ended up in Canada, or the British Isles, and spent/invested their fortunes there.
While this was going on, the British made efforts to improve the lives of black people in the Caribbean with public works projects, and also with efforts to re-settle them in the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Virgin Islands, and Sierra Leone.
Obviously these efforts were mixed at best 
Do they make up for the centuries of slavery, or is there more that the white Brits and Canadians should do? I don't know.  But it is a reasonable question.

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