Reparations demands: Should Britain pay for slavery in Barbados? | Foreign Correspondent

[@Beautiful-Sickening-Rolex]

gimme a break...who will pay for the past of nearly every country on Earth?

[@King_Neptune]

Britain (and other western European countries) didn't become rich through fair trade or diplomacy. It plundered its "colonies" creating irreparable damage to social structures in these countries waging wars and creating famines. Now western Europe acts so high and mighty and the moral centre of the world, giving out 'loans' to the same countries that were mercilessly plundered.

[@chapmansbg]

Barbados would not even exist without the Portuguese, Spanish and British. There were no black people there prior to British colonisation. The would not have been a nation without the British, it is in fact the people of Barbados that owe a debt to the British and not the other way around. Even in modern day, if tourist stopped coming to Barbados what would they have? They owe a debt to the visitors and not the other way around.

[@Zeebad_1st]

It was hunderds of years ago, nobody alive today suffered from it, get over it. How about focussing on modern slavery, where do you think the rare earth metals come from for you 'eco friendly' car?