Posted on 09/08/2022 7:58:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
KINGSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -The accession of King Charles to the British throne has stirred renewed calls from politicians and activists for former colonies in the Caribbean to remove the monarch as their head of state and for Britain to pay slavery reparations.
Charles succeeds his mother, Queen Elizabeth, who ruled for 70 years and died on Thursday afternoon.
The prime minister of Jamaica said his country would mourn Elizabeth, and his counterpart in Antigua and Barbuda ordered flags to half-staff until the day of her burial.
But in some quarters there are doubts about the role a distant monarch should play in the 21st century. Earlier this year, some Commonwealth leaders expressed unease at a summit in Kigali, Rwanda, about the passage of leadership of the 54-nation club from Elizabeth to Charles.
And an eight-day tour in March by now heir-to-the-throne Prince William and his wife, Kate, to Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas was marked by calls for reparation payments and an apology for slavery.
"As the role of the monarchy changes, we expect this can be an opportunity to advance discussions of reparations for our region," Niambi Hall-Campbell, a 44-year-old academic who chairs the Bahamas National Reparations Committee, said Thursday.
Hall-Campbell sent condolences to the Queen's family and noted Charles' acknowledgment of the "appalling atrocity of slavery" at a ceremony last year marking the end of British rule as Barbados became a republic.
She said she hopes Charles would lead in a way reflecting the "justice required of the times. And that justice is reparatory justice."
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The Bee strikes again!
...What?!?
“Reparations”
Compensation for The Lazy
What’s the over/under on when the Commonwealth dissolves? Three years?
Or they could declare independence from the British. We did.
It's probably easier for them to gripe and snipe from afar.
Why do they allow these savages to continue on as part of the Commonwealth? When you have a hemorrhoid, you treat it.
It won’t. But a few countries might drop Chuck as head of state.
Calls for Britain to pay slavery reparations???????
LOLOL.....Always at the feeding trough for more of more. Reparations/ Nonsense.
Calls for Britain to pay slavery reparations???????
LOLOL.....Always at the feeding trough for more of more. Reparations/ Nonsense.
I totally agree. Same with the US reparations. Yep, just prove you were a slave to Queen Elizabeth II and a check is in the mail.
I’ll be expecting my refund of all the college tuition I, Mr. b paid on time and in full for ourselves and our kids. Wait, that check will never be in the mail?
Dear Carribean,
Piss off.
Yrs, King Chuck
And the blame on Charles. Love it. Haha. I seriously think Charles should do his king for a day and pass it to William. Charles will never get the love of being a king. Maybe if he stayed married to Diana and she lived. But Camilla won’t help him in popularity. William has Kate which is huge!
Everything is an opportunity for the “gimme stuff” crowd.
They can console themselves during their "worship" services as they partake of their ganja sacrament.
Well I can see why they wouldn’t want to be ruled by Chuckles, but Reparations may be a ‘bridge too far’...
In fact, they should be kissing Charles’ hiney..... he is probably the only one dumb enough to consider giveing them reparations.
That didn’t take long
Reminds me of when Jamaica wanted Independence. Great Britain knew a good deal when they heard it, “sign here, here and here”
Most beautiful shit hole tropical island you will find, went there once and never need to go back
Yup. How does one say, “Gibmedat” in Posh English?
and so it begins? /s
Yes. And that’s scary.
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