but reparations for slavery is a no-no because it hits the primary banking and financial institutions' pocket (JP Morgan, American Express, Morgan Stanley, Wall St.). apparently it is better to maintain the wealth and not discuss or resolve issue, than give up the wealth obtained from mistreating others. gee, sounds like the philosophy of Venrock Associates
Slaveowner Descendants March in Barbados
Source: Associated Press
10/27/2005
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Bound and shackled, dozens of white descendants of European slaveowners marched through Barbados' capital Wednesday in a symbolic gesture of apology for slavery.
Curious motorists slowed down and peered out their windows as some 50 white men and women wound through Bridgetown under a blazing sun, some with chains around their wrists and ankles and wooden yokes around their necks.
David Pott, a London native who led the group of foreigners and Barbadians, said the march was meant as a symbolic form penitence for the trans-Atlantic slave trade that shipped nearly 400,000 Africans to Barbados between the 17th and 19th centuries to toil on sugar plantations.
"For 200 years ... , British descendants committed unspeakable crimes against people of African descent," Pott said. "We are in a small way apologizing."
The group marched from the Emancipation Statue outside Bridgetown to
Newton Plantation, a still active sugar plantation that once teemed with slaves.
Britain abolished slavery in Barbados in 1834.
Barbados is a former British colony of 278,000 people.