Qasim Rashid, Esq.Apr 16, 2023

Today is the 161 year anniversary of the Compensated Emancipation Act. On April 16, 1862, Washington D.C. paid reparations for ending slavery—to the enslavers.

Yep—white supremacist enslavers got reparations for giving up the people they enslaved. The enslaved got nothing. Ever.

To this day the enslaved or their descendants have received zero reparations for building the foundation of America under centuries of enslavement, torture, rape, & murder.
#ReparationsAreOverDue

Show threadDenis BuckleyApr 16, 2023
@QasimRashid
And the same thing happened here in 1832 when slavery was outlawed in the UK. MP, Richard Drax, from Dorset, antecedents were gifted vast amounts of 'compensation' for the 'loss' of their enslaved human beings. He's still hugely rich. Our soon to be crowned 'King' is deeply implicated in profiting from slavery too. Only ex-BBC Laura Trevelyan has stepped up and offered to fund reparations as well as she can.
Show threadBen Evans

@wellingtonrock @QasimRashid

At least king charles is funding research into the monarchies ties to slavery. Whether he will do anything about that knowledge is debatable.

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Show threadAgoraApr 16, 2023
@Benevans @wellingtonrock @QasimRashid He doesn't have long to live then. The firm will make sure. He is gone “woke”
Show threadBen EvansApr 16, 2023

@Agora @wellingtonrock @QasimRashid

Ok, so "Woke" now means understanding the history of your own family??

Man, this word "woke" has got a shit ton of meanings. It's almost like it's a meaningless insult used by morons.

Show threadAgoraApr 16, 2023
@Benevans @wellingtonrock you are preaching to the choir here.
Show threadSouthern LeftistApr 16, 2023
@Agora @Benevans @wellingtonrock @QasimRashid Go back to bed.
Show threadAgoraApr 17, 2023
@south_lib @Benevans @wellingtonrock @QasimRashid I am shocked at how many people here don't get sarcasm🤦🏾‍♀️
Show threadAgoraApr 17, 2023
@south_lib @Benevans @wellingtonrock @QasimRashid I even have woke in quotations, meaning I don't respect the word or its application.
Jeez!!
Show threadSouthern LeftistApr 16, 2023
@Benevans @wellingtonrock @QasimRashid
I thought the monarch was stripped of power since the House of Commons' formulation.
Show threadDenis BuckleyApr 17, 2023
@south_lib @Benevans @QasimRashid
Stripped of power, yes.
Stripped of immorally acquired wealth, no.
He/They hide their wealth assiduously behind veils of special privileges granted by past arselicking Parliaments.
Show threadSouthern LeftistApr 17, 2023

@wellingtonrock @Benevans @QasimRashid
Time for a United Democracy instead of a worthless crown.

As I resist the tentacles of conservatism and mindlessness, I know one thing: the greed, the hate, and the blind are the plight of this world.

Greed: destroyed planet, lives, and corruption of government.

Hate: failed nations, economies, and 4th Reich.

Blind: sycophantic enablement of the preceding 2.