“They were not the slaves, why should I pay?” - Who really has a claim to reparations

today’s history lesson is a question the world is arguing right now. Across the Caribbean and Africa, nations are coming together demanding reparations from Britain for slavery and colonialism—not as charity, but as justice. But here’s where it gets interesting… Black people in the United States were also enslaved. Our labor built wealth that didn’t stop at American borders—it fed the entire Atlantic world, including the British Empire. So the question becomes: Should Black Americans join this g