Edit: Fellow white people, please read the article before just reading the title and reflexively commenting to make it about yourselves, thx
Edit: Fellow white people, please read the article before just reading the title and reflexively commenting to make it about yourselves, thx
Not so sure it’s white people in general. France, obviously yes. I don’t think any other country ever demanded “reparations” for the loss of slave labor. That said, the US has had a complicated and at times troubling relationship with Haiti, intervening on France’s side during Jefferson’s presidency (Jefferson was a slave owner and shit was fucked).
Britain required former slaves to work for 2 years unpaid before they were free to go post abolition. Slave owners received £17bn in today’s money in reparations.
Interesting, thanks.
The United States actually paid reparations to slavers. We paid slavers in DC the equivalent of $9000 per slave.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensated_emancipation
Gotta make an example out of 'em or all our people who are “property” in the USA might get ideas. /s but not really, that was the thinking.
Not all white people…