The Telegraph has a piece by the peer and educational consultant Anthony Sewell – Baron Sewell of Sanderstead, CBE (pictured). He’s also Chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. In ‘The slavery reparations scam has a dirty secret’, Sewell flags up the hypocrisy of a Caribbean ruling elite who, despite having benefited from a first-class British-type education themselves, are bent on turning the younger generation into disaffected grifters while failing to live up to their people’s expectations:
In their manic drive to persuade Britain to pay reparations, a cohort of Caribbean activists and leaders is lobbying for the cleansing of the curriculum to make it less ‘Western’.
In particular they want the curriculum to reflect the history of slavery so as to foster resentment in a new generation that will continue lobbying Britain for reparations.
It’s interesting that this campaign is being led by Mia Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, who has been at the forefront of demanding reparations. She has argued that this new emphasis on slavery reparations in the curriculum should help the Caribbean “reframe its identity”.
What Mottley forgets is that her own country, Barbados, has one of the best education systems in the world. For years Barbados topped the region in terms of its O-level and A-level results, and continued to top the league when it came to the new Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) exams.
At the heart of Barbados’s success, however, was the dedicated following of a traditional British education – she and her peers being the beneficiaries.
The dirty secret that Caribbean leaders won’t tell you is that their post-independent countries have been kept from anarchy because of the great British legacy of ‘school’ and ‘church’. They have provided not only a moral integrity, but enabled the great outpourings of literature and the arts that have come from the region.
At the heart of the activism of today’s Caribbean leaders, however, is a kind of self-hatred, which sees some of them rejecting the British influence that helped shape their islands. This is fundamentally wrong.
In Jamaica there are no big protests from the young calling for reparations. For them, they want to know why so many of their community leaders never deliver on their promises. They are smart enough to realise that, like young people in Britain, they need an education which can take them to jobs and a secure future.
Tony Sewell’s piece is worth reading in full.
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I have a 4th-great-grandfather who came to England in 1780 as a black slave from Barbados. The rest of my forebears were still in Ireland and Scandinavia. I’m left scratching my head on what reparations I’m either due or must pay. Maybe Sir Lenny can advise me.
The problem is that our jellybaby politicians fail to shut this down and leave the door open for the black grifters to keep coming back. A firm ‘No – eff off’ and ‘Was there anything else?’
Will the Soros Open Society be somehow involved in all this?
The UK government gives around 1.6 billion to Africa and between 35 to 50 million to the Caribbean every year. Then there are all the UK based charities giving aid which Google can’t give data for. Independence should mean independence, not still attached to the great white nipple.
At the time slavery was abolished only about 2.5 percent of the population could vote, none of them women. So why should the descendants of non voters be taxed to pay for something over which their ancestors had no control ? As it is now, even though we all have the vote successive governments have ignored it and continue to allow invaders in which taxpayers are expected to pay for
Not just non – voters, but on top of that people who were further disenfranchised by way of their conditions of near – slavery in the mills of the North. Slaves were actually considered to be more valuable, as they had to be maintained, because when workers such as my ancestors died thanks to overwork and appalling working conditions, there were plenty more where they came from, at no further cost to the mill owners.
I think we should give them whatever amount of money it is that they’re demanding. It’ll never be enough.
Then strip their islands of absolutely everything & anything that wasn’t there before we arrived.
Then, ship ‘em all back to their original homelands and let them start all over again, without our nasty, racist, white colonialist interference…
Will I have to pay too? I was born in Eastern Europe, in a country that never had any colonies.
How about black British people?
What if you are half black?
Whites enslaved by Arab invaders?
Britons enslaved by the Romans?
Who cares. I’ll be honest , I’m pretty sick of the constant whining coming from black people these days.
I presume they’ll be coming crying back to the white man when they’re starving to death and hacking each other to bits…
”ohhhh help us, this is all your fault, but help us anyway, give us your money…”
We have a gigantic state that confiscates trillions of pounds every year. And all sorts of people are lining up to try to get a piece of it. And there is no shortage of people offering to represent some group or other to try to get as much of that pie for their group. Politocians, bureaucrats, NGO workers. Basically the army of gridters that make up our “establishment”.
Never a truer word spoken!