CASTRIES, St. Lucia– The St. Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC) says it welcomes the public interest generated over the visits of the British Royal Family members to member-states of the Commonwealth Caribbean to observe Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, after 70 years on the throne.
The Earl and Countess of Wessex are due to arrive here on Friday as part of their Caribbean visits to Antigua and Barbuda and St Vincent and the Grenadines in continuation, and the NRC said that the reparation committees in those islands “are also planning to ensure they see and hear the Reparations message.”
The NRC said that it has undertaken to do likewise and welcomes the opportunity to continue its reparations advocacy through related public education actions during and after the visit.
“The NRC will explain why the Royal family and the British government owe apologies and reparations to Caribbean descendants of enslaved Africans and the intrinsic historical relationship between the Royal Family and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
“The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), of which the NRC is a member, holds that the Royal Family and Britain owe every former West Indian colony “A Full and Formal Apology” for their roles in Slavery.”
The Queen was represented by Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton on earlier visits in March to The Bahamas, Belize, and Jamaica, during which, in each case, they came face-to-face with reminders of the outstanding call by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments for reparations from Britain and European states that benefitted from the slave trade.
The NRC said that while Prince Charles expressed sorrow for slavery in Barbados in November last year and Prince William did likewise in Jamaica in March, “CARICOM’s leaders insist that royal sorrow and regret expressions do not represent the equal will to repair that comes with an apology.
“A Full and Formal Apology” is indeed Number 1 in the CRC’s 10-point Plan for Reparations, which outlines what CARICOM Leaders first called for in their 2013 joint call on the UK and the European Union (EU), 180 years after the supposed abolition in Britain, for which enslavers were compensated with 20 million pounds (sterling), but not one cent for the enslaved, who after that provided six years of free labor through apprenticeship.”
The NRC said Britain, the Royal Family, and the European nations that built empires off the backs of enslaved Africans “are avoiding making full and formal apologies because they still don’t want to plead guilty despite the United Nations declaring Slavery a Crime Against Humanity in 2001 and because they are not committed to Atonement and Repair.
“The NRC holds that CARICOM leaders must now press Buckingham Palace to lead the way with The Queen making the first apology for the Royal family’s role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and urging the British government to follow suit.
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The Free African slave labour from the English Caribbean allowed England to become the first industrial nation on Planet Earth.
The Anglican Church; the financial power of the City of London and England’s Banking and Insurances Houses were all made strong from the wealth generated by the African slaves in the English Caribbean.
However, Her Majesty’s Parliament created a special Cabinet Envoy to represent Caucasian-Jewish people and their concerns in 2009. Her Majesty’s Parliament has dedicated a day in January to honour Caucasian-Jewish German interwar persecution. Her Majesty’s Parliament in 2017, with the backing of England’s last five Prime Ministers, gifted £75m to England’s influential Caucasian-Jewish Political Lobby to build a museum to honour and celebrate Caucasian-Jewish people’s German wartime persecution. All this from Her majesty’s Parliament to England’s Caucasian-Jewish heritage people, whilst nothing has been done to aid Her Majesty’s African-Caribbean heritage subjects.
Indeed, the West Indian Ex-servicemen Association was forced to self-fund a statue at England’s National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, to honour the 90,000 Caribbean military service men and women who volunteered their lives for Her Majesty’s during England’s 1939 Trade War against Germany.
England does not have a day to honour the massive contribution of African Caribbean slaves; whose wealth made England the most powerful nation on Planet Earth for a century.
England’s African-Caribbean heritage people have asked for an explanation for the disparity from Her Majesty’s Parliament, but their request have been ignored.
Prime Minister Cameron addressing the Jamaican Parliament in 2015 responded to Jamaica’s request for Reparation by telling the Jamaican people to “move on from the painful legacy of slavery,” whilst Mr Cameron eagerly championed England’s £75m gift to honour Caucasian-Jewish heritage people’s wartime persecution.
Her Majesty’s Parliament’s clear disparity of treatment must not be tolerated by England’s African-Caribbean heritage Subjects or England’s Commonwealth Caribbean nations and people.