If The Slave Trade Had Never Happened ....

[naomi24]

.... would those demanding compensation - the descendents of people rounded up in Africa, sold out of Africa and bought from Africa - now be better off?

[royfromaus]

Possibly.

They could be in a 4 star hotel in one of numerous cities in the UK instead of slumming it in the Caribbean 

[10ClarionSt]

When you actually look at society now, I don't think black people have done too bad. I often wonder what they're whingeing about. Especially BLM, who now have huge funds to be used entirely for "recreational" purposes.

[William51]

 It is hard to know but they would have been more peaceful and healthier.

[1ozzy]

Possibly not, but you and your family may have been a tad less wealthy.

[1ozzy]

//would those demanding compensation - the descendents of people rounded up in Africa, sold out of Africa and bought from Africa - now be better off//

Is this another case of white supremacy?

If we didn't enslave your ancestors you would now be suffering a terrible life in Africa?

Oh, how high and mighty some can be!

[Old_Geezer]

How intelligent to spot the flaw in the unreasonable demands some can be.

[Khandro]

Donald Trump (whom God preserve) was right when responded to some black idiot whining about how he should be compensated for slavery when he said, " The best thing that could have happened to you was that your ancestor was brought to America as a slave, otherwise you would now be living in some ***-h*le of a place in Africa!"

[douglas9401]

There seems to be an alternative view of slavery to the hitherto accepted one, ie, a bad thing.

[fiveleaves]

Millions died because of the slave trade

[andy-hughes]

Why ponder hypotheticals, it's almost always pointless.

[jno]

funny how people who've been paying compensation to descendants of slave owners most of their lives without a whimper suddenly get exercised about paying it to descendants of slaves.

[douglas9401]

It clearly pays to have the whip hand.

[andy-hughes]

I have no direct connection to slavery.

 

But if I did, I would not feel inclined to apologise, much less pay compensation, for something I have not done, to someone I have not done anything to.

[mibn2cweus]

Any compensation due slaves can only justly be paid by those who practice and/or defend slavery. Compensation demanded from anyone other constitutes further enslavement of the innocent.

[Zacs-Master]

Given the propensity for African nations to have corrupt leaders, it could follow that a few of them might have been better off whilst the vast majority would live in the squalid shanty towns, as they do today.