This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)

> The government of Barbados is considering plans to make a wealthy Conservative MP the first individual to pay reparations for his ancestor's pivotal role in slavery.

> The Drax family pioneered the plantation system in the 17th century and played a major role in the development of sugar and slavery across the Caribbean and the US. Barbados MP Trevor Prescod, chairman of Barbados National Task Force on Reparations, part of the Caricom Reparations Commission, said the UN had declared slavery to be a crime against humanity: "If the issue cannot be resolved we would take legal action in the international courts. The case against the Drax family would be for hundreds of years of slavery, so it's likely any damages would go well beyond the value of the land."

> The Drax family is the central family in the whole story of enslavement in Barbados.

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So a bill of attainder and corruption of blood.

So I guess it’s time to move. Flys smell poop

Well good luck with that.

The crimes of the father are now visited on the children, as long as there is profit in it?

Or in this case, the crime of your father of your father's father's father's father's father.

We are all descendants of slaves and slave owners.

The profits are.

Some of us inherited the plantation, others are the product of rape.

They still own the plantation…that is extremely uncomfortable. The government’s idea of turning part of the plantation property into affordable housing seems reasonable.

Although, I wonder if the bodies of the ~30,000 children and adults worked to death are buried on the property?

I guess there is a case to say that the land/property aqcuired during the slave period might be considered illegal, but any of the rest would be kept by the MP.

It's like how you inherit debts of your parents if you accept the inheritance in many countries. You don't need to pay anything if you don't accept the inheritance, but if you do then debts must be paid.

The glaring false dilemma makes this a rather poor analogy.

Except this isn't a debt and is an example of a government seeking to steal private wealth, the very thing they are accusing said family of doing in the far distant past.

2 wrongs make a right?

Noone should be punished for the actions of their forefathers.

If the argument turns to people currently benefitting from the slaver actions of their ancestors then consider the following;

The slaves came from Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ghana,the Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Cameroon.

At least some of the people with African descent who currently live in Barbados are likely living a better life than their cousins in some of these countries.

Point being that while slavery is vile, we need to move past it, it happened, Africans were enslaved by Europeans, 2000 years prior to this the Romans enslaved entire tribes of hundreds of thousands of people.

Give them the middle finger and tell them to fuck off.

Bunch of race hucksters.

I'm presuming that Barbados has an eminent domain system in place where they can force the owner to sell his/her property to the government. If so, they can accomplish the same end of obtaining the property, but without setting a very ugly precedent of tossing out individual rights if enough people think it's justified. The whole point of a democratic republic is to protect individual rights from the whims of the majority.