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Ms B retweeted
John Amaechi, "The question is provocative" #BBCQT
Lady in red, "Is it fair people in poverty in Liverpool today are being asked to pay reparations for historical injustices they played no part in?"
John Amaechi, "Do we want poor people anywhere to have to pay more? No"
"The British 'we' is so intriguing to me. We are proud of our maritime history.. We become a little bit more callow when we discuss what was in the holds of the ships"
"We become more circumspect when all of a sudden people are saying: extracting wealth form people at any stage will have an impact on them in every stage"
"This is not about guilt. Is there a conscientious way we can consider that wrongs done in the name of the thing we currently have, that we may consider those"
Fiona Bruce, "Should we be paying reparations?"
John Amaechi, "There are sensible ways to consider, whether it be tax relief, or debt relief"
"Because 2015 was when the gilt was finally paid off, that was used to pay the slave owners off"
My view:
Britain paid Β£20 million in compensation to slave owners between 1835 and 1843, around 40% of annual government spending at the time.
Historic England estimates its modern equivalent at approximately Β£16.5 billion.
The enslaved received no compensation.
Generations of taxpayers serviced the borrowing used to compensate their owners, with the associated government bonds finally redeemed in 2015.
Putting poor people in Liverpool on one side of this debate, and poor people in countries affected by slavery on the other, creates a choice we do not have to accept. Neither should have to bear the cost of injustices that enriched others.
Nobody inherits personal guilt. But wealth, land, assets and advantages can pass down through generations.
If institutions continue to benefit from wealth accumulated through exploitation, it is reasonable to ask what responsibility comes with that inheritance.
Reparations could mean those institutions helping fund hospitals, schools, clean water systems and other infrastructure in affected countries.
They could include debt relief, scholarships and investment directed by the communities concerned.
A serious conversation would ask who benefited, who should contribute and what would make a lasting difference.
Concern for people struggling in Britain should help shape those answers, rather than close the discussion.
Ms B retweeted
This is something we can get behind! ππΎ Youth mentor and speaker Michael Jibowu has taken it upon himself to βwage warβ against the mindset that leads young people in the UK towards a life of crime.
Michael spoke about the number of young people being led astray by street culture, with some ultimately losing their lives as a result. He hopes to challenge these influences and show the next generation just how much they can achieve when they choose a different path. ππΎ
#TSBThePeople #TSB
[π₯: michaeljibowu ]
Ms B retweeted
He lived for 33 years, and over 2,000 years have passed, yet He remains the most influential and beloved person in history.
JESUS CHRIST β€οΈ
Our favourite aunty @SholaMos1 π
Delighted to celebrate Black Excellence & Accomplishments at the Powerlist Awards Gala 2026 ππ½ @powerlistmag
King Leopold II is not demonized like Hitler because his victims were Black Africans β and Black lives have never mattered to the people who built their wealth on our suffering.
He killed over 20 million innocent Congolese, and oversaw a regime that amputated the hands of countless Africans.
Leopold was even buried in a Catholic church.
Even worse, Europe still honors this colonial monster with monuments, while his African victims are forgotten.
Imagine an African leader doing this to 20 million Europeans.
Would the world ever let them forget ?
Western hypocrisy is absolutely disgusting.
Ms B retweeted
Since the 80s we've had at least 12 government-backed reviews into racism, specifically anti-Blackness, and they all consistently show it is systemic and deeply embedded in our institutions.
Yet, successive governments repeatedly fail to fully implement the recommended reforms.
π¨ NEW: The Government has accepted all 27 recommendations from the report to end antisemitism in schools and colleges
1. Recognise antisemitism as a distinct form of hatred, not just general racism
2. Strengthen political impartiality guidance, including limits on teachers wearing pro-Palestine badges
3. Establish a national hotline for school leaders dealing with antisemitism
4. Improve teaching about contemporary antisemitism and modern Jewish life
5. Teach pupils to recognise and challenge antisemitic conspiracy theories
6. Include antisemitism explicitly in school safeguarding policies
7. Train teachers to recognise and tackle antisemitism
8. Work with the Home Office and the Prevent programme to help schools identify when antisemitism may be linked to radicalisation
9. Encourage schools to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism
10. Improve procedures for reporting antisemitic incidents, including signposting
11. Ensure antisemitic bullying and complaints are investigated and acted on consistently
12. Make clear in staff conduct policies that antisemitism is unacceptable
13. Strengthen Holocaust education, including antisemitism's role in the Holocaust, and encourage schools to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
14. Create more opportunities for pupils to engage with Jewish communities, including visits to synagogues
15. Make sure Judaism and modern Jewish life are properly represented in religious education
16. Improve media literacy so pupils can also identify online antisemitism
17. Provide better resources for teaching the Israel-Palestine conflict fairly and sensitively
18. Ensure schools have clear policies for dealing with antisemitism involving external speakers
19. Ensure education unions have clear antisemitism policies
20. Establish a dedicated support service to help schools, colleges and councils deal with antisemitism
21. Use some of the Government's security funding to help Jewish schools and colleges undertake educational visits safely
22. Run a campaign to tackle antisemitic behaviour at transport hubs near Jewish schools and colleges
23. Provide Jewish school and college leaders with mentoring and more security advice
24. Strengthen accountability for schools that fail to deal properly with antisemitism
25. Enable Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate to assess how schools tackle antisemitism
26. Make local councils identify local patterns of antisemitism and help schools respond
27. Share effective practice and guidance between schools and colleges
Ms B retweeted
In Burkina Faso π§π« a 14-year-old kid just built his own AI called FasoNova. - His name is ChΓ©rif Kounta. He started messing around with tech when he was four after his dad gave him a tablet. By 10 he had already made an interactive calendar, and at 11 he built an AI tool to fight fake news. Now at 14 heβs released FasoNova, an AI made specifically for people in Burkina Faso and the rest of Africa instead of the usual one-size-fits-all stuff.
What makes it different is that it doesnβt just answer questions. It has a βmission modeβ that walks you through your goals until you actually finish them. Want to open a small shop? It can help you estimate costs, list what you need to buy, and suggest suppliers. For students, it explains the method first before checking your work, instead of just handing over the answer.
He also made privacy a priority. Your data is encrypted, stored on private servers, never used to train other models, and even he canβt access it.
The name comes from βFasoβ (for the homeland) and βNovaβ (meaning new).
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πΆ βWalking Past My Hatersβ¦.β πΆ
LITERALLY!!!!!!! π³π³π³
π³ @Catsinacradle24
#HarryAndMeghanInNottingham
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You gotta parent white boys like this bc they turn out to be scapegoating menaces otherwise
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Imagine being able to figure out how to βmake a car flyβ but not being able to figure out how to feed hungry children with a trillion dollars.
Ms B retweeted
They burned our libraries. Stole our gold. Cut off our hands. Castrated our men. Raped our women. Worked us to death. Stole our children. Drew borders through our families. Erased our names. Banned our languages.
Then wrote books saying we had no history.
These heads are not decoration. They are memory. They are witnesses.
Ms B retweeted
Let's get one thing straight: Meghan Markle did NOT discover philanthropy when she married Prince Harry. She already had a documented history of humanitarian work, charitable involvement, and advocacy while building her successful acting career. π
π 2014: Served as a counsellor for One Young World, engaging with young leaders working on global challenges.
π 2015: Worked with UN Women as an advocate for women's political participation and leadership, including speaking on gender equality.
π 2016: Became a Global Ambassador for World Vision Canada. She traveled to Rwanda to highlight access to clean water and girls' education and hosted a fundraising event supporting a clean-water project.
π 2017: Visited India with World Vision to raise awareness about barriers to girls' education, including inadequate sanitation and menstrual health challenges.
All of this was happening BEFORE she became the Duchess of Sussex in 2018.
Meghan was already using her celebrity platform to bring attention to important causes. Her marriage expanded her visibility; it did not create her commitment to advocacy.
So the narrative that Meghan only started doing charitable work because she married a prince simply doesn't hold up against her documented record.
She didn't marry into a commitment to philanthropy. She brought one with her.
The receipts existed long before the royal wedding. π
#MeghanMarkle #MeghanSussex #DuchessOfSussex #PrinceHarry #WorldVision #WomensEmpowerment #Philanthropy #FactsOverFiction #TheHipReview
