{"id":1395983,"date":"2022-03-23T09:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395983"},"modified":"2022-03-23T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:59:54","slug":"jamaicans-protest-demand-reparations-during-royal-visit-from-prince-william-and-kate-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jamaicans-protest-demand-reparations-during-royal-visit-from-prince-william-and-kate-middleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaicans Protest, Demand Reparations During Royal Visit from Prince William and Kate Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjamaicans-protest-demand-reparations-during-royal-visit-from-prince-william-and-kate-middleton%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) \u2013 Protesters in Jamaica raised their fists Tuesday as they donned T-shirts emblazoned with a pair of shackled Black wrists surrounded by the phrases \u201cSeh Yuh Sorry!\u201d and \u201cApologize now!\u201d as they demonstrated just hours before Prince William and Kate arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The protest in front of the British High Commission in Kingston comes a couple of days after dozens of prominent leaders in Jamaica publicized a letter demanding that Britain apologize and award its former colony slavery reparations. They also decried the weeklong Central American and Caribbean tour that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge embarked on Saturday, which coincides with Jamaica\u2019s 60th independence anniversary and the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s coronation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cKings, Queens and Princesses and Princes belong in fairytales, NOT in Jamaica!\u201d read one poster held aloft by a young girl who joined the protest.<\/p>\n<p>The royal couple\u2019s trip, which began with a stop in Belize followed by scheduled visits to Jamaica and the Bahamas, was organized at the queen\u00b4s behest as some countries debate cutting ties to the monarchy like Barbados did in November.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20330939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239427694.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, greet members of the Jamaica Bobsleigh team as they tour the Trench Town community in Kingston, Jamaica, on March 22, 2022. \u2013 The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in the capital for a three-day stop on the island, part of a larger trip by the royals to the Caribbean in recognition of the 70th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. (Photo by Ricardo Makyn \/ AFP) (Photo by RICARDO MAKYN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mike Henry, a veteran Jamaican lawmaker, said in a phone interview that while the topic has been discussed, he worries that demands for an apology and reparations would be rendered moot if the island stopped pledging allegiance to the queen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Maziki Thame, a senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies, noted that Jamaicans have been seeking reparations for decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a new cause,\u201d she said in a phone interview as she prepared to join the protest. \u201cThe question is whether it will get any traction\u2026whether the British are ready to contend with their history.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jamaica to Petition Queen for Billions in Reparations over Atlantic Slave Trade <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zgm4UJDMV7\">https:\/\/t.co\/Zgm4UJDMV7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1414932625660121089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The British empire controlled Jamaica for more than 300 years and forced hundreds of thousands of African slaves to toil the island under brutal conditions. Sugar replaced tobacco and cocoa as the main crop, with some 430 sugar estates reported by the mid-1700s, up from 57 nearly a century prior, according to Jamaica Information Services, a government agency.<\/p>\n<p>The group protesting the royal visit noted in its letter that the British raped and killed thousands of slaves as it sought an apology for 60 reasons, including \u201cfor refusing to acknowledge the historic trade in Africans as a crime against humanity,\u201d and for \u201cpretending that the British led the abolition movement, when our ancestors worked, prayed and fought hard for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tames, the university professor, said she and many other Jamaicans are not celebrating what is known as the queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t speak to us in the way they might imagine that speaks to us,\u201d she said. \u201cIn the 20th century, Jamaicans have moved beyond celebrating the crown.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">U.N. Rights Chief Demands Reparations for \u2018Slavery, Colonial Rule, and Racism\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bDaNttpwCM\">https:\/\/t.co\/bDaNttpwCM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1414586342055546884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prince William and Kate are scheduled to spend two days in Jamaica, where they\u2019re expected to meet with government officials and tour Trench Town, the gritty birthplace of rocksteady and reggae where Bob Marley grew up.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of their trip, Jamaican singer Beenie Man told TV show Good Morning Britain that the U.K. still controls the commonwealth of Jamaica: \u201cIt\u2019s all about the Queen, and the Queen serve and the Queen this and that \u2013 but what are they doing for Jamaica? They\u00b4re not doing anything for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The monarchy has said that Britain and Jamaica have a strong trade relationship, with the island exporting goods including rum and raw cane sugar to the U.K. It also noted the creation of programs targeting poverty, security, natural disaster management, social issues and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 55,000 British citizens live in Jamaica, while some 800,000 people of Jamaican descent live in the United Kingdom. The relationship between the two countries soured in recent years after some Caribbean people who had long lived in Britain legally were denied jobs, housing or medical care, with some deported because they didn\u2019t have the required paperwork. Britain has since apologized and pledged compensation.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) \u2013 Protesters in Jamaica raised their fists Tuesday as they donned T-shirts emblazoned with a pair of shackled Black wrists surrounded by the phrases \u201cSeh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}