Inscrutable Brits

 

Rosemarie Mallett pictured in 2016 as vicar of a church in London's Brixton district. She is now Bishop of Croydon, overseeing several suburbs on the outskirts of the UK capital. From CNN.

"The Church of England has welcomed a report that calls for it to spearhead the establishment of a £1 billion ($1.3 billion) fund to address its historical ties to slavery.

The document, released Monday, recommends that the church’s initial commitment of £100 million ($127 million) to the “Fund for Healing, Repair and Justice” should form the nucleus of a bigger initiative that would target assets of over £1 billion."

Having read a lot about Africa and visited the Portuguese Castles along the coast, I feel surprised by such British mea culpa. English protestants were the force that forbade the slave trade, and the Royal Navy patrolled the coast till it was universally extinguished. England should be proud of its anti-slave history, not paying reparations for slavery. The idea is more amazing today when millions of Africans are voluntarily risking their lives to move into civilized countries to work as kitchen help, as de-facto slaves.