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I agree the injustice certainly doesn’t feel right. I’m just not sure what corrective measure there should be given the ancestors have benefited but did not take the action.
The land issue seems equally troubling, islands (I don’t know the history of Barbados) are often contested occupied by various people at various times and who “owns” the right to it.
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Dunno. Something. I don’t know about the UN convention, but I do know that massive wall alongside the A31 and everything within it was built with money made from not just slave labour but the actual slave trade and that doesn’t feel right.
I understand there has to be limits on what we can reclaim as blood money with hindsight but the fact this family are still venerated and power-making in parliament in 2022 is tragic and it’s hard to see how we’ll ever make it as a fair country with such families involved in making the laws.
If I were the current Mr Drax I’d wake every day to shame over what my ancestors did and do at least something to make amends. Acceptance and an apology would be a start.