It’s the thought that counts.
Telegraph- Is the Church paying reparations on a false premise?
Between 1720 and 1723, it is true, the Bounty did invest £14,000 (about £2.4 million today) in the unsplit company and so, for a time, could have profited from slavery. As it happened, however, it did not. When Parliament divided the South Sea Company in 1723, it split the Bounty’s shares equally, too. The Bounty sold off its trading company shares quite quickly but retained and greatly expanded its annuities.
Discreditably, the Bounty’s managers in 1720 appear to have felt no moral qualms about the slave trade. Subsequently, however, they did not further invest in it or make money out of it.
I do not care. Not a dime to anyone who was not a slave. I have zero guilt about that which I did not do and will not pay anyone who did not experience it. F O A D, each and everyone.
As someone of Norwegian descent on my dad’s side, I probably owe most everyone in Europe a pile of money by the standards of the reparations racket.
As a descendant of both Saxons and Vikings, I suspect that I owe myself some serious reparations and a trip to the liquor store will soon be undertaken.
“The report’s foreword spoke of the modern-day Church’s “commitment to truth-telling” to attain “Sankofa”, a Ghanaian word meaning “looking back to move forward to a better future”. But is the history contained in the report true? ”
There is that stupid word again… Has Ghana ever taken responsibility for the 1 million + slaves it exported from it’s ports for the transatlantic slave trade? Have they paid reparations to the tribes they harmed and slaughtered?
the last (both meanings of the word apply, ie the most recent, and, no more to follow) chuch (note the contempt expressed in a different spelling) l attended
-turned me down a dozen times offering to help with a big addition despite 1000s
manhours left.
-some made me distinctly feel uneasy, an unwelcome thing
-refused permission by the ladies despite their meeting hadnt begun, to use a
washroom in the bldg before departing to a men’s retreat,
not knowing how long th car ride
-chronic, constantly interrupted
-only person in 7 years the entire place, EVER got snapped at ‘GET TO THE POINT’ (an ensuing arguement took 5 times longer than ‘getting to the point’ would have)
-generally yet another nest of holier-than-thous
–unable to get permission do my testimony despite sitting thru some of the worst organized verbal presentations ever ever heard.
——eeeeeeeet cetera
so, burn them down for all l care about ye ‘caring christians’