Conservative MP Richard Drax
This is so funny. They actually targeted a specific guy – who is in the government! – to make him pay money to the blacks.
The government of Barbados is considering plans to make a wealthy Conservative MP the first individual to pay reparations for his ancestor’s pivotal role in slavery.
The Observer understands that Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, recently travelled to the Caribbean island for a private meeting with the country’s prime minister, Mia Mottley. A report is now before Mottley’s cabinet laying out the next steps, which include legal action in the event that no agreement is reached with Drax.
Barbados became a republic a year ago after it removed Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.
The Drax family pioneered the plantation system in the 17th century and played a major role in the development of sugar and slavery across the Caribbean and the US.
Barbados MP Trevor Prescod, chairman of Barbados National Task Force on Reparations, part of the Caricom Reparations Commission, said the UN had declared slavery to be a crime against humanity: “If the issue cannot be resolved we would take legal action in the international courts. The case against the Drax family would be for hundreds of years of slavery, so it’s likely any damages would go well beyond the value of the land.”
Countries in the Caribbean community (Caricom) have been campaigning for the payment of reparations by former colonial powers and institutions which profited from slavery. This is the first time a family has been singled out.
Among the plans being considered are that 17th-century Drax Hall is turned into an Afro-centric museum and that a large portion of the plantation is used for social housing for low-income Bajan families. There is also a recommendation that Richard Drax pays for some of the work.
Drax Hall
David Comissiong, the Barbados ambassador to Caricom and deputy chairman of the task force, said that besides Drax, other families whose ancestors benefited from slavery are being considered including the British royal family: “It is now a matter that is before the government of Barbados. It is being dealt with at the highest level.
“Drax is fabulously wealthy today. The Drax family is the central family in the whole story of enslavement in Barbados. They are the architects of slavery-based sugar production. They have a deep historical responsibility. The process has only just begun and we trust that we will be able to negotiate. If that doesn’t work, there are other methods, including litigation.
“Other families are involved, though not as prominently as the Draxes. This reparations journey has begun. The matter is now for the cabinet of Barbados. It is in motion. It is being dealt with.”
These black island nations are all funny. Well, not Haiti – that one is just sad.
This is going to be a huge media story, and blacks in every white country are going to start making these demands.
Frankly, it was rich people – particularly the Jews, but also a lot of rich whites – who created this narrative about blacks being oppressed. Basically, you should only have to pay the blacks if you have already gone out there and talked about how they are oppressed.
In real life, blacks are oppressed by the Jews in various ways. It is the Jews who go out there and do all these things destroying their communities.
Watch this Jewish rat music producer Lyor Cohen, head of Def Jam Records, on The Breakfast Club explaining why he promotes drug use and violence to the blacks.
He says “I got people to feed.”
Like, why is that Jew running black music? It’s outrageous.
But yeah, white people didn’t do anything to these blacks. Even if you go back to slavery times, most slave owners were Jews, and the whites who owned slaves only had one family and treated them like their own family.
This will be a very interesting case to watch as a lot of British families with 'old money' became wealthy through the slave trade.
Former Prime Minister David Cameron and actor Benedict Cumberbatch have both acknowledged their family's shameful slavery past.— Lorraine King (@lorrainemking) November 27, 2022
If I'm to be honest I can't see it happening.
You shouldn't be punished for your forefathers' sins.
That's unfair.— Lorraine King (@lorrainemking) November 27, 2022