Wealthy British family to pay reparations to Grenada for links to slavery

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1. The Fields of Athenry

Well Laura Trevelyan, that’s a step in the right direction acknowledging your family’s role in cruelty to other human beings that were deemed”inferior” to your likes! Lord Charles T., the brit assistant secretary at the time of “The Great Hunger “ in Ireland, referred to as the potato famine, or more succinctly as “Gentleman’s Genocide” ( there was plenty of food denied to the native population while the blight on the sustaining food source , the potato, and Mother Nature could take it’s course in eliminating an “inferior”race). His prejudice, hostility, and disdain of the Irish ( and Scottish during the land clearances) made it easy for the brit ruling class in accepting the starvation and emigration of the undesirable natives. Here’s a quote by sir Charles, “ The greatest evil we have to face is not the physical evil of the famine but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse, and turbulent character of the people.” This is “governing”, when acknowledging mass death as a necessity when carrying out colonial policies. Any monetary amount of retribution for your family guilt doesn’t change its culpability or shame for Black 47 . ... or the role in enslaving human beings for profit.