Lammy: 'Slavery reparations not about transfer of cash' – BBC Africa

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Lammy: 'Slavery reparations not about transfer of cash' – BBC Africa


UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said the concept of reparations for former colonial nations affected by slavery “is not about the transfer of cash”.

In his first comments since 56 Commonwealth leaders signed a statement saying the time had come for a conversation about reparations, Lammy told the BBC that was not “the debate people are…

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@ninadaly7639

Oh god! If reparations were shot down in the US, it ain’t going to happen!

@JulianDowen

So people alive today should pay for history. 😅

@roberw1912

Why is he entertaining this, even engaging in talking to these grifters.

@PhilopForest

This man is a sellout

@avenue8822

"Slavery reparations are about transfer of cash'
Fixed
Youre welcome

@segunaiyetan8274

The UK is pushing to sustain the neocolonialism in Nigeria and ignoring the Yoruba Nation self determination and full sovereignty process using hypocrisy… The Yoruba foundational spirituality led by Oduduwa under the authority of Olodumare should be called upon to use Russia and the BRICS plus geopolitical bloc to liberate the Yoruba Nation from the British imperialists under the UN charter

@matmatt6568

Mr Lammy must be suffering from Stockholm syndrome ! Just nauseating ! I hope France Haiti all the wealth used to build the Eiffel Tower leaving Haiti in the worst poverty ever after the independence !

@melissacooper6448

love black people but some of y'all need to stop with making yourselves seem like the victims all the time. Not a good look. I'm Jewish and the term "ghetto" is actually from the Holocaust where Jews were put and ostracized into poor area to live and then not long after the Jews were taken from the ghettos to go into concentration camps where we were raped, beat, shot, poisoned in gas chambers, experimented on in labs,and tortured to death by the MILLIONS for a decade, but you dont see us whining demanding reparations from Germany. Why is that? Because we know the Germany today is not the same Germany from back then. The people today are not at fault because of their grandparent's sins. How do you blame and ask for dues because of slavery that happened hundreds of years ago??? The Holocaust tortured millions of us Jews and that literally was less than a hundred years ago but we dont go blaming the new generations for something that was not their fault!!!

@barnaclelevi

Africa, grow yourselves with with BRICS..

@_TheRam

Doesn’t this guy think he’s English 😂😂😂

@_TheRam

British and African relations is well and truly over on all levels….!!! 😂😂😂

@rochehanou2141

Slavery is choice you are the prove thank you

@ThinWhiteDude

What a clown. 🤡

@jasonhogan9315

What about the people who are uk citizens whos families were in work houses and young kids working for rich ass hole's in the UK if you can tell who was a slave you can tell who had slaves therefore they should pay any reparations not the taxpayers who have been robbed by the uk government giving our money to any contrey who wants it except the uk citizens

@UCMICU

😂 Africans hunted, captured and sold other Africans. Without African tribes and kingdoms like Benin, there would have never been a transatlantic slave trade.

Africa does not owe the world bank or imf… give it at least 10 years to sink in.

@shaggy0000

You'll be old news too, soon enough 😂😂😂

@Jessjill

Stupid man

@Jenny-e4v

Where are my ancestors buried? Which country in Africa were they from?

Caribbean' people speak English because Colonizers changed the African languages to English.
They gave us English names

Why weren't slaves compensated?

@jamesbanda7069

Sudan should stop killing each other period

@MT-kx2uc

Talentless sell out.

@post_eternity

Let Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait others pay reparations for Trans Sahara slave trade first

@millwalltony65

Wait for me to see you ok promise you that 🎉

@BobbyJobling

What a useless individual, good luck with the USA.

@michaelpcoffee

Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations.
It is looting.