reparations

The constant calls for Britain to apologise for slavery miss one hugely important fact: that Britain was almost single-handedly responsible for abolishing the abhorrent trade, at immense cost to itself.
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The billion-pound slavery atonement proposed by the Church of England is slammed by Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph, as yet another instance of British national self-loathing and Americanised symbolic virtue-signalling.
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The first museum to display the Benin bronzes in 1897 became the first to 'give them back' in 2022. But the truth is these 'returned' historical artefacts are vanishing into the ether.
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Have black Americans really inherited 'weak genes' from their enslaved ancestors? That might sound like racist pseudoscience, but, bizarrely, it's a central claim in the current clamour for reparations in the U.S.
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Green billionaire funders are mobilising their forces to promote the idea that climate 'reparations' must be paid by the countries that were first to industrialise ahead of today's opening of COP28 in the UAE.
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Scotland's crisis-hit NHS is to begin a "programme of reparations" to Jamaica and Africa – paid for out of existing healthcare budgets – in a bid to "make amends" for slavery links dating from the 18th century.
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California voters overwhelmingly oppose the idea of cash payments for black descendants of slaves by a 2-to-1 margin. The majority simply says it’s unfair to today’s taxpayers for injustice in the past that they had no part in; those polled also agreed that it is wrong to single out one group for reparations.

Evanston is expected to pay 140 mostly elderly black residents $25,000 each in reparations by the end of the year in what it is calling a 'test run for the whole country.' The payments will be funded by marijuana and real-estate transfer taxes that will affect prices in the real estate market.

Parents in Oakland are struggling to feel much sympathy for striking teachers. They're not striking for better pay and conditions, but to advance the causes of reparations and environmental justice.
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California's Reparations Task Force recommended taxpayer-funded payments up to $1.2 million to qualifying black residents. The proposed payments could top more than $800 billion. Governor Newsom announced in January that the state is facing a $22.5 billion deficit in the 2023-24 fiscal year.