Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "The Case for Reparations: As told by the descendent of a slave master \u0026 his slaves" video.

I'm afraid you're asking for your money back long, long after the expiry date. I am not responsible for the actions of my parents and grandparents. In any case my ancestors were up in the rigging of the slave ships and dying at much the same rate as the slaves in the holds. Either that or they were agricultural labourers living in conditions not dissimilar to those on sugar plantations. Just a few generations previously, under the feudal system, they would have been no different at all. It's time to put race behind us. Miscegenation not reparation is the answer, and it is one which will win through in the end. In the meantime let's stop harping on about the past and get on with trying to live together as human beings.
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Their freedom?
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@VorosMedve In terms of modern thinking perhaps. But the money was not compensation, it was simply a means by which the British government bought the slaves from their owners - and then freed them.
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@MrRishik123 You seem to be missing the essential point. The huge amount of money spent by the British government was not intended as compensation to the slaves for their suffering, but simply as a purchase price given to their owners. We literally bought their freedom. And yes, it took this wonderful country of ours up until 2015 to pay off the money spent. What you must sit back and ask yourself what we got for it.
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@sugerbear586 Thank you. I have read several. We are just arguing terminology. The government bought the slaves from their owners, and then freed them. A commercial transaction. This is different to paying reparations to the descendants of slaves.
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