(09-21-2022, 06:56 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(09-20-2022, 08:39 PM)mikesez Wrote: 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.

No, and no.  

Not every past sin can be fixed, and ***asking the descendants of the perpetrators*** to compensate the descendants of the victims would do more harm than good.  And it would be so complicated there would be endless arguments about who deserves compensation, and who should pay it.  

Sometimes, you just have to let go of the past and get on with life.