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money-grubbing scumbag, don't it?
Jamaican activists, as well as prominent professors, politicians and
other leaders, have rejected a visit by the duke and duchess of Cambridge, calling on the United Kingdom to apologise and pay reparations for hundreds of years of slavery.
Britain’s Prince William – the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II – and his wife Kate landed in the capital Kingston on Tuesday afternoon as part of a wider, week-long Caribbean tour.
The royal couple’s trip coincides with the 60th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence and the 70th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. It also comes at a time of growing scrutiny of colonial-era British conduct in the Caribbean and elsewhere.
In an open letter published on the weekend, 100 Jamaican leaders said they saw “no reason to celebrate” the Queen’s coronation “because her leadership, and that of her predecessors, have perpetuated the greatest human rights tragedy in the history of humankind”.
“During her 70 years on the throne, your grandmother has done nothing to redress and atone for the suffering of our ancestors that took place during her reign and/or during the entire period of British trafficking of Africans, enslavement, indentureship and colonialization,” the letter read.
Slavery ended in Jamaica 188 years ago -
well before it did in the United States.
Dozens of people also gathered on Tuesday outside the British High Commission in Kingston, singing traditional Rastafarian songs and holding banners with the phrase “seh yuh sorry” – a local patois phrase urging Britain to apologize.
“I am a descendant of great African ancestors, I owe it to them to be here,” customer service worker Hujae Hutchinson, 27, said at the rally, where activists read out 60 reasons for reparations.
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Those clowns should be repatriated back to Africa on one-way tickets after their passports are revoked.
ReplyDeletePlease do give them reparations but with the caveat that they all go back to Africa.
ReplyDeleteRoyalty in high heels walking down the stairs of an airplane, something our own 'royalty' is unable to do on regular shoes.
ReplyDeleteSlavery ended in Jamaica 188 years ago, so give me some money.
ReplyDeleteThey should be saying thank for getting out of that dangerous place, and bring us to this sunny island.
Nothing here wants to eat us.