Formal apologies for slavery only if it doesn’t cost anything.

The following article from Caribisch Newsnetwerk/Caribbean News Network, was written by Pieter Hofmann and concerns slavery reparations. The issue of slavery reparations is a divisive one and emphasizes the need for, Africans in the diaspora in the Caribbean and particularly the former Netherlands Antilles, to create their own political parties and represent their own interest’s, through lobbying of governments on a global scale. Failure to do so will ensure, their continued begging of Europeans for so-called reparations. AMSTERDAM – As the annual commemoration of the abolition of slavery is observed, the discussion on dealing with this highly sensitive subject continues. At the United Nations Summit in 2001, the Dutch government expressed regret for the actions of the colony in the past. According to activist Leroy Lucas the Netherlands must extend formal apologizes. Expre...