Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "Church of England announces £100m fund to address its past links with the slave trade | Rakib Ehsan" video.

Let's imagine my great-grandfather ran over someone else's great-grandfather while driving a horse and buggy. A knock on the door in 2023. It's the great-grandson of my great-grandfather's victim, demanding compensation. Does he hold any rights in a court of law? Of course not. No sane legal system would extend culpability across generations and force compensation from the descendant of a malefactor. Yet that is precisely what "slavery reparations" proposes: compensation for an injury that ceased to exist 158 years ago in the US and 185 years in the UK. Using that legal precedent, can my mother reach back and make claim for reparations from the Danes who drove her Swedish grandparents off their land in the 1880s? After all, the injury is closer in time than the end of chattel slavery in 1865, and the direct descendants of those same Danes still possess the land. It makes just as much sense as this, if not more.
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@deformUK-r2x No, they don't. Discrimination on the basis of race was abolished long ago and race presents no special barrier to achievement--in fact, being black gives people special advantages in many situations. Bit hard to argue that black people are especially disadvantaged when one of them was recently Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK and another one is the vice-president of the US. The President of the United States, the most powerful elected leader in the world, was a black man for EIGHT years. The leader of the Democrats in the House of Represntatives is a black man (Hakeem Jeffries). The "slavery still affects us today" argument falls apart under scrutiny and is an excuse by some black people for their own lack of achievement and initiative. Thomas Sowell has written entire books about this.
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It's all about virtue signaling while ignoring the suffering right in front of them from living, breathing human beings. The moral vacuity of the Church is why so many are abandoning it.
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Two inconvenient facts: 1. The slave trade never could have existed without the enthusiastic trading of Africans to Europeans by other Africans; 2. The Royal Navy had to fight for fifty years to suppress the slave trade, their primary opponents being other Africans. Go get reparations from Africa and good luck with that.
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@fred_up My paternal grandfather was forced off the family farm in the 1930s by a bank during the Dust Bowl when there was massive crop failures in the Great Plains of the US. The bank is still in business and that farm today is worth millions, so my family is poorer for not having it. Do we get reparations? Oh wait, we're white. Of course we don't.
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@Floortile Those churches were designed and built by white people, so they must be destroyed. This is all part of a plan.
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