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I'm generally against reparations as I find them patronising. What price can you put on generations of forced indenture under unspeakable conditions, and the lasting damage caused?
I don't think that it should/ could be paid but a good basis could be inflationary adjusted compensation payouts (I think I saw it quoted at £16.5bn) from the government to slave owners when slavery was abolished in the UK.
As someone of Jamaican heritage, I found it 'out of place' when David Cameron visited Jamaica in 2015 and the Jamaican PM raised it with him. Due to the record keeping of compensation payouts, his family along with others were shown to have been paid compensation by the government of the time.
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chokalateboywonder
What about reparations (like in Watchmen for people who were in the Tulsa massacre)?
Decendents of families made rich through slavery pay a slavery tax that goes to charities that offer support to Black people, or just goes to all black people.