A stolen watch doesn’t become yours just because you pass it down to your children. So why apply a different rule to stolen labour, wealth and land? Reparations are about inherited benefit and inherited loss. Time doesn’t erase injustice.

Oct 23, 2026 · 1:03 PM UTC

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You stole our land, social housing and benefits.
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yes, all the black people who aren't in slavery owe Britain money for ending the slave trade
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Are you asking for reparations from the Arab world too ?
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Worth knowing the history here. In 1833 the British people paid £20 million to buy 800,000 people their freedom. Britain even paid an African king a salary to stop selling people. If you want to find out more about the story, it's here 👇 nitter.cf/ProudofusUK/status/211…
Proudofus.uk (@ProudofusUK) profile pictureProudofus.uk
@ProudofusUKOct 23
209 years ago today, Britain ARMED an African king. 🇬🇧 Muskets. Gunpowder. Ten thousand gun flints. Four hundred red coats. 💂 British sergeants to train his army. A salary in gold and silver, every year. 💰 Britain wanted him to win. 👑 Valley after valley. Chief after chief. Until two-thirds of Madagascar was under his rule. 🗺️ On purpose. 👀 Why? 🤔 Because on that island, chiefs raided villages and sold the people. To French slave ships. To Arab dhows. To other African kingdoms. ⛓️ Then they bought guns with the money. To raid more villages. 🔥 Guns for people. People for guns. 🔁 Britain had banned its own slave trade in 1807. But it couldn’t guard every beach on an island nearly a thousand miles long. 🌊 So a sergeant from Cork travelled 28 days, by canoe and on foot, to reach the king. 🛶 For two months they bargained. Then he made an offer nobody had authorised. 🤝 Every gun the slave trade gave the king, Britain would give him free. If he stopped selling people. ✋ On 23 October 1817, the king signed. Selling his people abroad would be punished by death. ✍️ Then Britain helped him take the island. Port after port, every one closed to the slave ships. ⚓ They teach you Britain profited from slavery. 📚 They never teach you how we got them to stop selling their own people. 🤫 Britain armed an African king. On purpose. 🇬🇧 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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No White person alive in Britain today has owned a slave. No Black person in Britain today has been a slave. The idea of reparations is collective guilt as punishment, and that is always the hallmark of extremism.
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You're right , Dawn . Nigeria and Ghana , the ones who "stole" the slavesand sold them on , should pay reparations .
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Er, no. I have never owned slaves. You have never owned slaves. I have never been a slave. You have never been a slave. So I'm paying you nothing for something neither of us have ever been.
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You’ve all had your reparations in benefits.
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We deserve reparations for subsidising you
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The difference is that you weren't enslaved, and nobody alive today enslaved you. A stolen watch has an identifiable owner and a thief. You want to replace individual guilt with inherited guilt and individual rights with racial entitlement. You're not seeking justice. You're seeking to profit from ancestral victimhood by making innocent people pay for crimes they never committed. That's racism masquerading as justice.
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When will white people receive reparations for their enslavement?
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You claim to be British Dawn. Would you be receiving reparations or paying reparations?
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So if we pay you X, you promise to STFU forever after that? Or would we pay you X and you'd keep on with the victimhood routine anyway, and we'd have to continue with the endless wealth transfers and special privileges in employment and education? Why aren't you embarrassed?
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We want our reparations for ending slavery. It cost us the equivalent of £3b today so who's paying us that back?
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Don’t steal watches
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So when do the African kingdoms that captured and sold the slaves, the Arab traders who ran the market for centuries, and every other empire in history start writing the cheques? Or is stolen labour only a problem when it points one direction?
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You'd be shitting in the woods without White people
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Reparations from who? Aren't you British?
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Here’s some white privileged children for you Dawn. 👇🏻 Fuck your reparations. I have never owned slaves. I can trace my English lineage to the 14th centuary- none of them owned slaves. You can fuck off.
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Dawn "I'm as British as the next person" Butler wants reparations from the Brits? For what exactly? Buying what the Africans were selling?
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Time for you to pay Dawn. Why black people like Dawn Butler owe white British people reparations. Black people are owed nothing. They have not paid us back yet. So Dawn lets deduct the cost of ending slavery that my generation was still paying the debt for via our taxes. And, all the financial benefit black people who claim to be descended from slaves enjoy that they would not have otherwise if their ancestors or them had gone back to their third world African shit holes. And, the cost of giving safe haven to Africans running away from wars they started and people they oppressed in their own countries who came UK for asylum. People like you, owe white people money for saving your ancestors. This flag freed them and gave you everything you have taken.
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Ask your African brothers and sisters who sold yas into slaveryfor reparations. Also, the White man ended slavery at immense cost and many lives were lost as a result. If anything it's the blacks that owe their host countries reparations. And that's without even getting into the current misery blacks put their country, economy, people etc through.
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So she's British when she wants political power and black again when she wants reparations No, this charade cannot continue for much longer
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Your job is to represent the British people. Do your job.
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A stolen watch has an identifiable owner and an identifiable thief. Collective guilt and collective entitlement dissolve the basic requirements of restitution: a specific wrong, a specific wrongdoer, and a specific victim who can be restored.
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These people stole no land, their descendents owe you NOTHING.
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You've never been a slave, and the only slave owners in the UK are immigrants. But aren't you British/English anyway? Doesn't that mean that you should pay too? Or could it be that there is something to English/British ethnicity? What will you do, revert back to your Jamaican heritage once the money starts flowing?
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Many people your age have grandparents from the UK who were miners, or steelworkers, or factory workers. Some died in wars. They didn't steal any watches. Demanding their grandchildren cough up Rolexes for the activities of others, decades or centuries ago, makes no sense.
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Tim Acheson (@timacheson) profile pictureTim Acheson
@timachesonOct 23
🤡 Socialist politician calling for reparations. It was ancestors' own people who captured and sold the slaves. Britain spent blood and treasure ending the global slave trade started by her own people in Africa.
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You’re absolute right. The African nations which pursued slavery, which Britain paid blood and treasure to end, should pay reparations to Britain.
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Does that include the theft of South Africa from the Bushmen by the Bantu?
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cool let’s start from MP’s wages and go from there
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The whole speech lacks logic and reasoning . . .
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So are you saying that there really is an ethnicity that is British? That's what it sounds like you're saying. By that logic, you shouldn't be running the government any more than you would consider it proper for white people to run governments in Africa. Let's at least be logically consistent.
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Are we still talking about this? What exactly are you suggesting my family stole off you? Pretty sure Britain ended the slave trade and paid a heavy price for it.
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This is the dumbest argument I have ever heard 😂😂😂 I know you think you said something deep and profound and meaningful. But you didn't. The ironic part is that black people in Britain, like Dawn, expect to be recieving this free money. But don't expect to be paying it. What she is actually proposing is an indiscriminate tax on white people. Which is objectively racist. Despite racism being something she claims to passionately fight against.....
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