Students tasked to make slavery reparations, VI independence a reality
Third District Representative and Opposition Leader, Hon Julian Fraser RA laid down the gauntlet to the primary school students at the school's general assembly on Monday, September 12, 2022.
“Unfortunately, after 70 years of continuous reign, the United Kingdom and us the Overseas Territories, Queen Elizabeth II has passed... We now have a new king... When you sing a national anthem from henceforth, some of you probably never sang it before… but you will not be singing God save the Gracious Queen, you will be singing God save the Gracious King.”
Push independence, reparations - Hon Fraser
Hon Fraser told students that growing up, things like the national anthem were sacred; however, it is not being thought of as such since life changed.
Hon Fraser added, “You have moved on and I want you to keep moving on, there are other things on the horizon that you should be interested in. There are things that you should be interested in, and things that you should be looking forward to, and things that you are responsible for making a reality.
“Things like reparations, things like independence. Those are the kind of things that you are responsible for,” he added,
The Opposition Leader told students that in the next 20-50 years from now, such topics will be the responsibility of the next generations to keep it going, “The older class, 6th grader, may not reach that level, but they need to keep it going so that you can pick it up and take it to the next level,” he added.
Hon Fraser said should the challenge be successful, in the future when the people of the VI sing the national anthem, it would sound a lot different.
VI must teach children to seek reparations - Hon Fraser
On August 1, 2022, during Emancipation observances in the VI, Hon Fraser in a social media post said even as the territory celebrated its various emancipation events, it will never be fully emancipated until Britain pays up reparations to the descendants of slaves.
He urged that the people of the VI must also teach their children that reparation is owed, “If we do [fight], even if it takes another 188 years we’ll get it... Let’s teach our kids to teach their kids that it is owed to us/them,” he added.
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34 Responses to “Students tasked to make slavery reparations, VI independence a reality”
People turn to the drug trade, largely, to circumvent externalities which place them perpetually in the underclass.
By the time these children are 18, a wage slave will be anyone on under $20, accounting for inflation.
He and the rest need to go and read their Bible and understand that all in those times slavery existed regardless of race.
Pick the top five countries that lifted themselves out of poverty and none of them embraced a victim mentality. Look at the history of all these countries and they all have a reason to be mad at some other countries for the savagery against their people.
Black people need to learn how to put slavery to rest. We weren't the first group of people to be enslaved, we aren't even the last, as slavery is still going on in the world.
If Virgin Islanders truly want to go independent and move from under England, the best chance of doing so would be to create a population of forward thinking, enlightened, innovative, hardworking people with a strong sense of pride, accountability and responsibility. Create a group of people who truly desire nothing from the UK. You can't negotiate if walking away with nothing isn't an option on the table.
No one takes a petulant child seriously.
I'm black and I think we need to stop all this boohooing. It's not productive and a lot of the mentality is rooted in lies. Black people sold other black people into slavery (and still do to this day). They did it because the concept of showing loyalty to people because of their skin didn't really exist until after the West African Slave Trade. To the Africans that stayed in Africa, they were just getting ride of their enemies and getting rich at the same time. Fast forward to the future and many Caribbean countries have a higher standard of living and longer life spans than their African counter parts, the descendants of the people who sold our ancestors. This is impart due to the knowledge and privilege of the west and benefitting from colonialism. Slavery was bad but it's taboo to acknowledge the good that came form it, good we wouldn't have been able to partake in if our ancestors had remained in Africa.
If I had a child who had to sit through that lecture I'd be pissed as hell. Why not talk to college students or adults who can challenge you and ask questions? At this stage, it's just brainwashing.
The irony is black victimhood is white supremacy. In order to believe that black people are victims to this day, despite all the advancement made in human rights, you would have to teach black children that they are less than or that their lives are worse than white people's and it's all because of something they had no control over. You would have disincentivize them from being creative or hopeful or imaginative or competitive. You would have to convince them to waste their limited time on Earth mourning a past they did not live when they could be building themselves up. They could be building the future.
Some of the kids alive today may be alive in 2100. Why create a generation of children who could potentially be bawling over something that at that point will have had happened literally hundreds of years ago? Imagine our kids and grand kids, even great grand kids in 2134 complaining about slavery after all the travesties that has happened since then. It's ridiculous. We'd be the most backwards set of people by then. Is that what you want? For black people to spend a millennia complaining while the world passes us by? Because there are groups of people who still complain about things that happened hundreds of years ago. Look at their civilizations and see if that's what you want for your people. They stagnant and will remain so until they let things go.
The world is inherently unfair but we all go to start somewhere. There are people who are rising up out of abject poverty and they have a dark past behind them and bright future ahead of them. They don't dwell on the past. The other day I was talking to a Portuguese friend about something that made me mad and he said this to me: Past waters don't move mills. What happened to our ancestors was tragic, but they fought and survived long enough for us to be here to have a better life. I can't think of any better way to show gratitude and embrace the strength passed on to us than by moving on and focusing on our future, not our past.
Slave owners got some form of reparations when slavery was abolished for loss of property
Jews got their reparations for the Holocaust
Japanese got their for the internment camps.
Black people….. still loading
Slave owners got some form of reparations when slavery was abolished for loss of property
Jews got their reparations for the Holocaust
Japanese got their for the internment camps.
Black people….. still loading