‘It is Africa that owes Reparations’- Sandra Phillip-Hodge
According to commentator, local author and prayer warrior Sandra Phillip-Hodge, arguments abound regarding the issue of the Atlantic Slave Trade; however, one of the less discussed aspects of it is the fact that Africans sold Africans into slavery.
‘A bitter pill to swallow’
In a social media post on Friday, August, August 4, 2023, Phillip-Hodge said it is like a bitter pill to swallow, but research shows that some African countries have admitted to selling their own African brothers and sisters into slavery and have apologized to the African descendants in the Diaspora, even to the point of offering Reparations.
She said countries such as Ghana and Ethiopia have extended the olive branch for Black people to return to the Motherland, if they so desire, and will ensure that they are accommodated with property on account of the history of how their ancestors were exported from their native land.
Africa ‘owes reparations’- Sandra Phillip-Hodge
“This is not a well-known fact. But in all honesty, it is Africa that owes Reparations to those who think they deserve it.
“However, few today wish to take up the offer to "repatriate" to Africa, but they want to be paid in money. How much money is an open question, as they will now have to calculate a price on the head of the dead who died hundreds of years ago.”
According to Phillip-Hodge, intellectuals and Heads of State are seeking to discuss the issue of reparations during the "Emancipation season", in an ongoing effort to gain from those they blame.
‘Forgive & forget’
She said it will be interesting to hear their arguments, “but for peace of mind, and less stress, it is advised that we simply forgive and forget all that went down in the past and focus on being better people towards each other today,” Phillip-Hodge concluded.
It was last month that cultural icon and former legislator Eileene L. Parsons, OBE revealed that she does not believe the Virgin Islands (VI) should be fighting for reparations for slavery, and instead should just be grateful for where it has come.
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66 Responses to “‘It is Africa that owes Reparations’- Sandra Phillip-Hodge”
However, the Europeans would take is evil practice to a whole other level of evil by introducing… cattle slavery - A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. A chattel slave is an enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved.
I truly doubt that these African leaders could comprehend the extent of the wickedness of the inhuman psychopaths they were trading their neighbors and people to. Plus, keep in mind that not all African leaders were involved in slave trading..there were some who greatly opposed it.
look around our neighborhoods blacks gunning down blacks. When you leave your cell phone in your automobile and that phone missing 99% of the time some black person now have it. Missing stuff from inside your house U can bet a black person gone with it(these are all substantiated facts)
documented evidence shows blacks on the West Cost of Africa sold their very own skin colour during the transatlantic period of slavery
In this territory when last you heard another race gunned down their own class or creed: we have over 100 different nationalities residing in this territory(most black on black)
just for your information: the SLAVE TRADE moved away in 1834 and we here chatting piss in 2023: stop disgracing my little country: we were labeled a bird sanctuary and our people overcame that: we came out of grant-in-aid back in 1975 meaning this territory moved away from the monetary handout from London. little Road Town have done so well over the years that London here knocking on our Door: slick moves like that C.O.I and the undercover Scotland Yard Police just targeting our own people……..wake up and Live
Africans sold other Africans, true that was a practice from tribal wars, they were POWS not slaves. They had no idea what the evil Europeans were doing after that fact. Get off the YT man’s sacks with justifying his evil ways all throughout history
This Sambo is telling us it was okay for slave traders, slave owners, and colonialists to purchase slaves and transport them across the Atlantic in the most horrific conditions imaginable, strip them of their humanity, worldly possessions, curtail their freedom, exploit and expropriate their labour for dizzy profits, separate them from their families, culture, customs, heritage, courtesies, religion, etc, work them from sun up to sundown to near death, fed them very little from scraps, house them in horrible conditions, rape the women, brutalize them, murder them with no accountability(Arthur Hodge was the exception; are they related? Blood lines are strong), lynch them, rob them of their freedom, deprive them of the ability to read and write, and other unimaginable atrocities and have no responsibility for reparative justice?? That is load of bullshit, Sambo.
Moreover, racism flowed from the slavery institution. Race is the primary construct on both sides of the pond( Atlantic) , especially in the US and UK. As such, whites have labeled blacks as a permanent underclass, an out group , a non competitive group, etc, ranking them the lowest on the social acceptability human scale, if they treat them as even human. They have structured the system to avail of themselves of special privileges, entitlements and racial superiority. Further, under the 1833 Abolition Act, the UK authorized and appropriated £20M to pay some 3000, slave owners for lost of their chattel property and highly profitable source of income. Incidentally, the £20M was borrowed money, equated to 40% of the UK’s budget at the time, and was paid off in 2015. Nonetheless, up to this microsecond, neither slaves nor their descendants have yet to receive even a simple apology. What are they afraid of? Is it that they know that the crown/parliament legally sanctioned slavery? Hmmmm! Further, why did UK, etc, did not go to Ghana and other west African countries to pay the slave owners reparation ?
The colonialists have found a mumu, a Sambo, Benedict Arnold friend to advocate their cause. Sambo get some help. Have you no shame, pride?
LYRICS AND ONLY CERTAIN PARTS OF OUR AFRICAN HISTORY THEY DRAMATISING / WHO ARE THEY TRYING TO FOOL AND WHY ( SOME PEOPLE CAN TELL YOU WHAT WENT DOWN CENTURIES AGO ) BUT WHEN ASKED HOW THIS ( ISLAND PEOPLE ) DRAMA CAME TO BE , WHY AND WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF IT , SOME PEOPLE LIKE Mr * E LIE ON NERD * CANNOT TELL US THAT PART OF HIS OWN HISTORY ~ THAT IS STILL BEING USED TODAY IN HIS OWN LAND OR THROWN ON OUR OWN CARIBBEAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS / IF THAT AINT HYPOCRISY •¿• THEN TELL IT LIKE IT IS
The slaves who were forcibly transported to the Americas were subjected to the brutality of being kidnapped, possibly facilitated by individuals manipulated into participating, often for meager compensation or through deception. However, it's essential to recognize that these manipulated individuals were not the masterminds behind this sinister scheme, but rather the victims of a more cunning force.
Esteemed speaker, it's crucial to acknowledge that many African nations were plundered from their rightful owners, wrested from the hands of their true custodians, and claimed by the very same individuals you argue shouldn't bear the responsibility for their transgressions. It's historically documented that, in some instances, entire nations were traded for nominal sums or trivial commodities such as a bag of sugar.
Madame, by advocating that the individual who received a mere bag of sugar be held accountable for an entire nation's ordeal, while absolving those who colonized entire territories, the narrative becomes skewed. Slavery had the devastating impact of indoctrinating many into a mindset where acquiring their owner's name translated to an illusion of freedom, masking the shackles that had shifted from limbs to the psyche.
I got to really laugh
- we always like to party..
-we are taking education less serious (most Africans study stem majors)
- they do not like our Caribbean accent/slangs
-they will suppress a Caribbean person
- Nigerians/Ghanaians and other Africans will lie, manipulate and be with Caribbean people (who are british citizens) especially if they want to stay in England.
-they don’t really like our food
-they will call you sister/brother..only to use/abuse you…they don’t mean it
—they don’t like how we dress
THEY DONT CARE ABOUT CARIBBEAN PEOPLE..they just care about the opportunities they can get from a Caribbean person and they will kiss your ass to get what they need to get
Wake up!!!!
You dey craze….dey go plan for ya life without knowing..
Dey go plan for ya life….
They will never tell you of any opportunities…most times they will only come to you with problems for you to fix..
These women who feel having children with locals entitles them to speak on behalf of Virgin Islanders worse than Karen.
Why don’t she talk on living in that woman house and the many forms of elder abuse?
Questions and short insights:
Why did the slave masters when slavery ended did not decide to forget and move on? They fought and sought reparation for the lost of ill gained wealth and they were compensated. Haiti had to pay France is one of such example.
Why are the jews whom are descendants of holocaust receiving monetary reparations up to this day from Germany? Did they simply forget this astrocity and moved on?
The above are only a few, whatever is good for the goose is also good for the gander. Many persons descendants of the blacks slaves sees it only right that the same treatment be given to them. Further, they have their heads on their shoulders and not floating in the air, kookou land nor in their behind.
"THE SIMPLE STEP OF A CORAGEOUS PERSON IS NOT TO TAKE PART IN THE LUE. ONE WORD OF TRUTH OUTWEIGHS THE WORLD."
You can't be free and still living in truth-denial syndrome. Get over it. Keep singing "we shall overcome". When? Only when we stop playing ignorant and hating people for speaking truth.