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SHOULD GUILT OVER SLAVERY BE IMAGINARY OR REAL FOR THE COLONIZERS

I saw the Al Jazeera show "Head to Head" where Mehdi Hasan, a prominent British-American journalist, interviewed a right-wing apologist, Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar. In his book titled, "_Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning and Reparations_," Nigel Biggar projects British colonization of other nations as a thing that means more good than bad, and that no reparation should be paid and no need for apologies. Nigel called it the Tyranny of Imaginary guilt. Even though the British took over 3 million Africans across the Atlantic from their homeland into centuries of slavery, replacing slavery with colonization, and today, their museums are still filled with precious arts from their former colonies - mostly stolen. Much of the infrastructure and wealth in the UK for over 400 years of colonization was obtained from plundering the nations they colonized, and Brits today still enjoy those plunders in one way or the other from tourism, taxes, etc.


The fact that the current generation of BRITS did not participate in the plundering and colonization does not preclude them from taking responsibility for the actions of their ancestors... If today this generation of Brits benefits from all the stolen wealth, artefacts, buildings, economic connections through the Commonwealth, and political structures in the former colonies like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Africa, and South Asia, then the current generation of BRITS should be guilty, apologize passionately, and pay reparations.

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