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AMeasuredBerserker t1_iy6d8gk wrote

The crimes of the father are now visited on the children, as long as there is profit in it?

Or in this case, the crime of your father of your father's father's father's father's father.

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Present-Clue-101 t1_iy79in4 wrote

I guess there is a case to say that the land/property aqcuired during the slave period might be considered illegal, but any of the rest would be kept by the MP.

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Minimonium t1_iy7cq28 wrote

It's like how you inherit debts of your parents if you accept the inheritance in many countries. You don't need to pay anything if you don't accept the inheritance, but if you do then debts must be paid.

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AMeasuredBerserker t1_iy7ip8v wrote

Except this isn't a debt and is an example of a government seeking to steal private wealth, the very thing they are accusing said family of doing in the far distant past.

2 wrongs make a right?

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moodpecker t1_iy65ats wrote

So a bill of attainder and corruption of blood.

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autotldr t1_iy61d36 wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)

> The government of Barbados is considering plans to make a wealthy Conservative MP the first individual to pay reparations for his ancestor's pivotal role in slavery.

> The Drax family pioneered the plantation system in the 17th century and played a major role in the development of sugar and slavery across the Caribbean and the US. Barbados MP Trevor Prescod, chairman of Barbados National Task Force on Reparations, part of the Caricom Reparations Commission, said the UN had declared slavery to be a crime against humanity: "If the issue cannot be resolved we would take legal action in the international courts. The case against the Drax family would be for hundreds of years of slavery, so it's likely any damages would go well beyond the value of the land."

> The Drax family is the central family in the whole story of enslavement in Barbados.

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ilovehockeymoms t1_iy6i5z2 wrote

We are all descendants of slaves and slave owners.

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resserus t1_iy6o1zm wrote

Some of us inherited the plantation, others are the product of rape.

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Czar_Castic t1_iy7e8kg wrote

The glaring false dilemma makes this a rather poor analogy.

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Intrepid_Method_ t1_iy73lvh wrote

They still own the plantation…that is extremely uncomfortable. The government’s idea of turning part of the plantation property into affordable housing seems reasonable.

Although, I wonder if the bodies of the ~30,000 children and adults worked to death are buried on the property?

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moodpecker t1_iybhhse wrote

I'm presuming that Barbados has an eminent domain system in place where they can force the owner to sell his/her property to the government. If so, they can accomplish the same end of obtaining the property, but without setting a very ugly precedent of tossing out individual rights if enough people think it's justified. The whole point of a democratic republic is to protect individual rights from the whims of the majority.

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MaintenanceInternal t1_iy7p8ob wrote

Noone should be punished for the actions of their forefathers.

If the argument turns to people currently benefitting from the slaver actions of their ancestors then consider the following;

The slaves came from Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ghana,the Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Cameroon.

At least some of the people with African descent who currently live in Barbados are likely living a better life than their cousins in some of these countries.

Point being that while slavery is vile, we need to move past it, it happened, Africans were enslaved by Europeans, 2000 years prior to this the Romans enslaved entire tribes of hundreds of thousands of people.

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Ro3oster t1_iy87kbx wrote

Give them the middle finger and tell them to fuck off.

Bunch of race hucksters.

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