ArchivingLeftists (@ArchivingLeftists)

"Lenny #Henry wants #Britain to cough up £18 trillion in #reparations because 'all black #British people personally deserve money for the effects of #slavery.' Funny how he skips the part where #Britain was the first major power to ban the slave trade in 1807, then sent the #RoyalNavy's #WestAfricaSquadron to patrol the coast for decades. They seized 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans .. at the cost of #British sailors' lives and huge expense. #Britain didn't just stop its own involvement; it actively fought to end the trade globally. Meanwhile, in #Africa today (per the #GlobalSlaveryIndex), countries like #Eritrea, #Mauritania, #SouthSudan [#Sudan], #Nigeria and others still have some of the world's highest rates of modern slavery .. forced labour, child soldiers, hereditary servitude, trafficking. Millions trapped right now. And Lenny's own roots? #Jamaica (his parents' homeland). It still has notable modern slavery issues too, including forced labour and exploitation. So... demanding trillions from British taxpayers (including black Brits) for 200-year-old history, while #African and #Caribbean nations haven't fully confronted slavery's continuation on their own soil? That's not justice. That's selective outrage and hypocrisy. Focus on ending slavery today everywhere .. not guilt-tripping one country that helped stop it yesterday." #fraud #corrupt #corruption #moneylaundering #UK https://archive.ph/vd56p