Take it out of the ridiculously bloated foreign aid budget. Then we can finally wash our hands of the bleating from the professional victims and virtue signallers and draw a line under it all. Oh, to be free of guilt.....
Because of course all black and ethnic students are descendants of slaves. Close down all offending unis and other institutions, sell them off and divide amongst poc of slave lineage. Only then will we be free of guilt.
What happened in the past might be wrong but that's where it should stay not to pay more important issues to worry about
Gib gibs! Need mo gibs!
Is this for real ?🛎🔚
'Reperations' would imply 'repair', ala a reversion back to an untouched state. Minorities are in every single possible metric better off in the West than they would be in Africa. Even so, selling slaves made Africans states, among them Mali, Ashanti, and Kongo, very rich.
WaihigaMwaura I support this fully,let them be paid by educating them.
Can I have reparation from the UK govt for denying me a vote on my future vis a vis the Referendum because I dare to live on the European continent?
Oh dear oh dear!Who actually sold them originally?
Can’t we net the Brexit payment off against the reparations from continental Europeans for the damage they have done through their continued invasions of these islands over the past many thousand years? I’m particularly looking at you France, Germany and Italy! fairsfair
Total nonsense
Hahaha...not reparation to,wipe out IMF debts...rubbish
How about poke it
Ffs, no, no, no. If London uni is dumb enough to pay out of their own pockets, fine, otherwise f**k off.
Piss off.
Puddled!
wiillsjd This poison spread from America
wiillsjd It never ends does it
Generous with other people’s money aren’t they. Or are they funding it themselves? Thought not!
What about our own first get your priorities right
We support all students already!
But...but... Africans were deeply involved in slave trade. They captured other tribes & sold them on to slavers. The Ancestors of these Ethnic students may have been more involved in the Slave trade than ours were. 🤔Universities may be rewarding the descendants of offenders.
Britain colonised South Africa. This didn’t affect me directly at all but enriched my life and I can now speak English too, thanks! Regardless, can I have reparations as well please? :D
Utterly stupid idea. Virtue signalling at its worst.
For goodness sake give it a rest!
peterloo any compensation for them
Yes why don’t we also blame the wonderful young Germans for sending Jews on the train - maybe because they had nothing today with it! This is pathetic
Errrrr jog on
That implies that ethnic minorities are the most disadvantaged in education which isn't true. Also, some ethnic minority individuals are positively privileged. We need to help the disadvantaged and deprived, whatever colour they may be.
So how would university know who was slaveevery black person ?how about dark brown haired people included?.. sounds baseless news..
Will they also support the ancestors of people who were enslaved by the feudal system
I need a safe space to cope with this suggestion!!!!!
All the white people crying over this ever being a possibility is sickening
Ethnic Minority? Black, you mean Black...
Nope if it’s taken you 200+ years to just get your shit together then your not worth helping.
What a load of Marxist crap
Who would we pay it to? And do we deduct money for the Barbary Slaves, and then deduct futher money for the 200 million African lives Britain saved with medicines and vaccinations? Oh and the billions we’ve given in aide. Come to think of it, they owe us, big time.
I read this thinking it was Manchester University at it again. How refreshing to find it isn’t.
Dream on fools. 😁
Ho F Off these Unis need shutting down they seems to live in the past not the future , no one can change t pass only learn from it , honestly these people think there’s a money tree in the Treasury get over your selfs
Why always ethnic minorities, how about everyone else?
This country becomes more ridiculous and grubby every day
And what about everyone else who has a hard luck story?
It’s stuff like this that stops actual social change from happening. How’s equality going to thrive when conservative thinkers are tired from being made to focus on things that happened 200 years ago? There are enough issues for tomorrow that take priority.
Most of the institutions in Britain benefited tremendously from slavery it's about time. Why should that be a problem?
Any other ludicrous ideas today, anyone at all?
Sick of these idiots looking back over history & apologising for everything, obviously nothing better to do with their funding money
How about the half million the Barbary pirate took...
This could only come from London. Biggest load of pish to wake up to!
This thread full of racist. Slavery & British empire where savagery breech of civil rights. British institutions benifited from the back of human suffering. Compensation should be a given
*Eye roll. I think Universities should try and stay out of the news with their ridiculousness for a bit. Give us all a break.
People should just lived their life and stop with the chip on the shoulder university they are becoming a joke
With universitys this retarded no wonder students end up spending their time drinking copious amounts of alcohol and shagging each other
So an increase in the student fee charge to cover it? unbelievable, ffs
Better money spent on better healthcare, schools.
Hmm while I find the price unreasonable the idea is excellent.
Less and less people are buying this shit. Keep walking.
we should never put todays so called vales on our ancestors
What about Rome?
William the conqueror made my G,G,G,G,G,G,G,G,Grandmother scrub floors for 1 groat a year, surely that was shave labour, can I have a million pounds please + interest... not being greedy at all!
That is stupid, that money will not go anywhere else but the pockets of the admin 👨💼 👩🏼💼 and somehow they will became super rich 💰 out slavery 🙄, bad idea, terrible idea... hope it goes nowhere 🛑
So universities found another unproductive way to spend their money... unnecessary buildings/infrastructure and now a fund to perpetuate white guilt and this insane culture of victimhood we’re all surrounded by. Applause.
No one alive today owned slaves or where slaves. The UK lead the way in abolishing slavery. No reparations for anyone. If they are so concerned why not fight current day slavery around the world instead of sniffing farts in the past
I demand reparations from Rome. My ancestors suffered under Roman occupation. Probably.
I want the French and Northern Europeans to pay money to us because they are responsible for our Genes - we couldn’t help it , Also Adam And Eve they should cough up
These universities are at it again!
How will they deal with students descended from the west Africa tribes that captured and sold the slaves to the slave traders in the first place?
FFS... More PC bullsh1t... Tell you what Geoff Thompson, you and your fellow lecturers should donate half your wages if you feel so strongly about it. You have benefited by working at these universities not me
Those students have never been slaves nor have those who are expected to foot the £100m fee ever owned any slaves. So that’ll be a huge ‘hell no’.
Anyone who thinks they have a claim to reparations for things that happened hundreds of years ago are fucking weapons.
Slavery didn’t start and finish with black people. Education will help show this fact to libtards and SJWs.
WHY,they have nothing to do with slavery,it was 100s of years ago
A ridiculous notion from a joke university which shouldn’t even exist.
Ppl need to start thinking it's 2018 and those days r so far centuries back. It's history which happened of the time & UK was not only involved but others as well as those own countries to own ppl.Need to get over as cannot live in history times.
Nooooo this is an absolute joke!! This can't actually be real!?
Liberia gonna chip in on that?
BretWeinstein good idea right?
Africans weren't only slaves others were enslaved white minorities like the Irish white peasants like my family were enslaved to white rich land owners had their rights and land stolen Every nation in the world was in this.noone stays a slave unless they allow it to remain.
How about sending out the invoice for all those Royal Navy anti slavery patrols done by the West Africa Squadron?
Is this a wind up
The Italian govt should make reparation funds to the whole of Europe for the damage to regional cultures done by the Romans conquering everywhere.
Good idea. Then the white kids in Bradford have a chance.
Why don't they seek the funds from descendants of the slave traders in Africa that were equally complicit. Stop wasting more of British taxpayers money on Africans.
Romans enslaved my x 64 Great Nana and grandad I reckon, make Rome pay!
How about the French Norman’s paying money for their invasion, or the Germans paying us £300 billion for ww2 damages and murdering millions, why do u draw the line.
wtf is going on with university’s these days. It’s so worrying that these muppets are the future of this country. Let’s put it towards the NHS instead.
What about reparation for India whose wealth was looted and brought back home by the British. Indians should be given free education in Britain and Indian should require visa to enter UK as the British entered India and surely without any visa.
WE'LL CALL IT THE WAKANDA FUND - FLIGHTS BEGIN NEXT WEEK
You’re taking the piss right?
Don’t social security benefits already do this.
How about a project celebrating the role of the West Africa Squadron in stopping the transatlantic trade or the pressure Britain exerted on other global powers to stop the practice? Or we could maybe look at how the Arab-African slave trade continues to this day?
Send the bill to Scandinavians, French or even Rome. It was the heritage from these invaders that began the ideas of serfdom and slavery in poor innocent Britannia. Personally I demand a mini fortune for my ancestors being forced out of Ireland in the 1840/50s!
Ridiculous
They should ask for much more
As snowflake ideas go, that's actually quite a novel & appealing suggestion ❄
Oh for goodness sake🙄
What about the Church of England? Much of its fortune is derived from slavery, and it initially opposed abolition, until it was paid huge compensation. Furthermore, its plantations in the Caribbean owned slaves, whose chests were branded with the word ‘Society’.
Minimum, after how as they call them the 'minorities' went and continue to go through. Difficult trying to cover the sun with just one finger...
What about poor white families, invaded by the Vikings in AD 793, ffs, Danes.
What about compensation from The Romans I don’t think we ever did get over that invasion
All races have been enslaved by other races. Anyone who understands the world history of slavery knows that the slave trade was not exclusively directed at the target audience of this article. Slavic people that were enslaved by the otoman empire were not black.
Fuck's sake the world really has gone mad
No,
These people need to get off the plantation and playing the victim when it's their ancestors that suffered and rose. Democrats and liberals are mentally ill
stgeorgeiscross Sod off
Is that for the bodies to be dug up as the slaves have passed away . Why should we pay now Political correctness gone mad .
Are they seriously trying to cause tension between the two groups. Sorry but no way can this happen!
Bull crap having to pay for history
Ha hahahaha
I want reparations for the roman empire's slavery of my ancestors.
It won't help.
What about support for the students who are able but just can't afford to go to university that force them to move away from home. If your middle of the road you don't get support but don't earn enough to support you in lodgings.
Eff off
Still waiting on the reparations for the highland clearances
Then I want a bimbo reparation fund to compensate me for being a natural blonde. The world has truly mental and needs locking up!
Horrific wrong-doing acknowledged. BUT we are never going to move on if we don’t ever ‘actually’ move on.
The British were one of the first nations to abolish slavery and with the Royal Navy helped to enforce that around the World. We should be applauded for doing so. Slavery was still endemic in Africa years after and in the USA.
Stupid is as stupid does.
They should support the black kids in US with those money because that's where the slaves were sold to begin with
Total and complete madness.
You need to put a fund together for the taxpayers (slaves) that have to fund the left’s ridiculous welfare dependency and open border policies.
I hope no one is taking this rubbish seriously. Utter drivel.
Where is the money coming from?
Erm, didn’t we already pay to end slavery? Didn’t that cost billions that was only recently paid off.
Maybe we should go after the Scandinavian countries for the Viking raids a thousand years ago.....? 🙄
Nothing is too ridiculous, don’t wait for other people to make demands for theirs and try and poopoo on their ideas.Make your claims now ppi
The British Empire nearly went bankrupt buying slaves to free them.
Can we get the Nordic nations to send us whiteys reperations too and whilst we're at it can we get Saudi Arabia and other Arab/North African nations to send us reperations for the raids they committed on our coasts and taking our women as sex slaves Thank you
It seems rather backwards to provide money to minorities who want to be treated equally in the modern world. Why should they get rewarded for something that had little to no effect on them?
Universities should ensure their lecturers left their biased Marxist far left politics at home. University students are trying to change history by destroying statues, burning books and now want the British tax payer to make historical payments to dead people.
The TV Licence needs to end the Ministry for Propaganda has been turned against us!
And they want to legalise drugs. 🤡
No. We've only just recently paid off the debt from the money we borrowed in order to end slavery. If anything they should be paying us as a thank you.
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What about reparations to people who are taxed to fund benefit recipients lifestyles so they can retire.
Oh just fook off BBC
Let's put it towards the cost of their flights home.
No....
How dare they. There are no descendants of slaves here. Chattel slavery did not exist in the UK. This is just another attack on white people. This is just more anti-white agenda.
What a great idea. If this 'professor' can find any evidence that any of the minority students has ever been personally enslaved then not only should he report to Police, but under English Law they may be entitled to Tort. Of course they will need evidence ...
University of East London. Is that even a proper university?
Give it a fuckin rest man
Them Vikings were quite nasty to my lineage, I think I have ptsd...how much can I get in compo?
stgeorgeiscross Pathetic.
Why not pay them the same as your lecturer's £66000 pr yr and chancellors £500000 pr yr? No wonder these universities don't want to stop IMMIGRATION. this 100 million will keep them in clover, regardless of the fact its RACIALLY MOTIVATED?
Oh FFS. Another soft in the head numpty who feels we all need to apologise and pay for the African slave trade from over 150yrs ago that has not affected anyone living. It happened. It's history. MOVE ON PLEASE!!!!!!
Just when you think you’ve read it all, this shit comes up! 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Not all slaves are ethnic nor do they all have the title slaves.
Is this article for real. Enough money is wasted on ridiculous causes. It’s time money was directed where it’s needed. Not for some form of sorry for slavery! The fact is, slavery paved the way for a future of many generations. It was wrong and abhorrent.
The only upside to all the BS is that very soon there will be nothing left to be outraged about..
This Geoff Thompson 🙄
No surprise at all coming from liberal indoctrination camp.
Great 👍So can the Irish get a £100m genocide reparation fund too?
No
that is a far better choice for youngsters in london than joining a gang
As my ancestors faced starvation and destitution in support of the fight to end slavery, can I and my children have some of that fund?
from whom - the descendents of the original traders ? GET REAL !! the money is long gone...
More appropriate to fund research into understanding the extent, mechanisms and remedies of modern slavery. 40.3 million people approx are in modern slavery; 10 mill kids, 24.9 mill in forced labour, 15.4 mill in forced marriage, 4.8 mill in forced sexual exploitation.
Why no one alive today is responsible for the slave trade. No.
Peak 2018
🤔🙈🤡 Move on. Look after everyone who needs a helping hand into education.
What about the Irish slaves. And the English slaves?
The establishment will never go for this... That would mean that Britain would have to acknowledge its negative historical impact on the world, and be humble. Unsurprisingly most of the comments here are similarly lacking in humility. Wonder why Brexit is happening...
Maybe we should be talking about how African tribal leaders sold their own people into slavery?
Will they differentiate between students whose ancestry is in a direct line to Western Africa and those whose African ancestry is via the Caribbean/Americas, given that the former's ancestors sold the latter's ancestors to European (and Arab) traders?
Do you REALLY mean ethnic minority? Because in my part of London, the ethnic minority is caucasian English person.
Maybe we British should be asking for reparation from the Viking countries for their enslavement of our countrymen and women?
Hahah! Bullsh*t! Should all world nations have a reparation fund to support peoples whose ancestry was enslaved? We are all products of some form of historical slavery. GetAGrip
Reparations? Anything for free cash . Pathetic. OK.. we want cash for the Roman slaves ...
Maybe the university could pay! Great idea.
This is identity politics at its finest. Nobody living today was ever a slave nor a slaver. By all means help poorer students who can’t afford tuition, but help ALL poor students, regardless of race. michaelshermer you may find this one interesting.
What about stoping the slavery in the modern world ? what about remembering and recognizing the British who abolished and outlawed slavery and died protecting anti slavery laws. What about mentioning where the slavery trade started and still continues to this day.
Is this a joke
Awesome!
The seems to be really pushing identity politics - this nonsense isn’t even worthy of reporting, but it is a deliberate policy of the BBC to repeatedly push the most bizarre sociological theories as serious news. Enough already!
Straight A's at school but had to get a job to support my parents, so no uni life for me. I'm doing ok now, despite not going to Uni. Rather my taxes help those who cannot/will not go to Uni.
Great Britain faught for and funded the end of slavery. As well as buying their freedoms, we gave former slaves money to start a new life. The money borrowed to pay for this caused a huge debt, that was only fully paid off in 2014, meaning people alive today, paid to end slavery
Europeans, Don't be ashamed of your history. Don't be ashamed of your ancestors. Don't be ashamed of your racial identity. All races have been on both ends of the slave trade. White people ended the practice! our history & heritage is more than what the media & academia shows u
That make sense hope their is fairness in the distribution of this funds
Idiots
Bollocks
Why can't they pay like good old whitey
Ha!
Country’s gone crackers! In 50 years time it will be ran by snowflakes.
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What Slavery happened to their great great great grand daddies...they got to university because they DIDN’T use it as the go to excuse for everything bad that happens
Wheres my reparations? xD people seem to forget most of our ancestors black, white or whatever were slaves or serfs at some point, plus I'm part Irish so gimme 'I'm a victim of things that never happened directly to me' moonies?
Start with all the Africans who sold their own people then the Arabs who trafficked them.
students should spend more time studying. we did not invet slavery, its still going on. what about them making reporation.
What about a call for a reparation fund to support ethnic Britons whose ancestors where forced into slave labour after the Normal invasion in 1066?
Which slavery are we talking about here, the white slaves, Egyptian slaves, black slaves, oriental slaves, all the other slaves there has been, oh sorry we must only pick one moment in history and focus on those slaves, how far they have come, just criminals in London now.
people today are not guilty of the crimes of their ancestors, really not very hard to understand. there are already measures in place to reverse inequality. just stop.
Load of bollocks!!! 😂😂😂
Putting my claim in for what Longshanks did to Scotland....and others....
This is the worst kind of post modernist nonesence pushed by the radical leftists at the BBC.
Hilarious. All the people that are calling for this with Mickey mouse sociology degrees and £50k of debt are more than welcome to have a whip round themselves. Better still, take the loan out and give it And your place at university.
'Oh dear, you seem to be a minority as you're a different ethnicity, here, have some money! We understand it must really affect your education having to remember your real distant slave relatives, who you never knew and in no way affect your livelihood today' utterly ridiculous!
We all know none of the present generation are responsible for the atrocities of slavery but we can't deny you have all benefitted either directly or indirectly. I think the focus should be on creating a more equal society rather than reparations.
Interesting why would that demographic need reparations?
Take £100 of that money and get him a one way ticket to DR Congo
I’m going for those bastard Romans’ who invaded and subjugated my selgovian ancestors and sold them into slavery. I have been traumatised by this historical hurt and it blighted my education. Yeh right, do one.
Very many were bought from muslim slave traders, they were trading them for 100s of years before the brits. Maybe chase Saudis for some cash?
As if taxes weren’t already high enough in the UK.
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Issa great news by BBC
Hell no!!
What a load of b******s. Bless their hearts but this is student showboating. Righting a f****d up world. How about a £100M fund for ALL deprived students. How are we all supposed to live together when we are constantly being told we're different. Leave us all alone.
All you white kids who didn’t enslave anyone and are literally generations away from this don’t get hand outs, you have to pay ! Yeno because of your skin colour
Probably the most ridiculous idea I’ve ever heard!
Putting my claim in now for what the Romans did for us...
Would a head butt suffice
What about reparations for descendants of the working classes exploited during the industrial revolution? Or the rural poor forced off the land by enclosure?
Ffs, where's my reparation money for the white slave convicts sent from Britain to Australia and their decendents from 1788? Everyone needs to move on.
The attack from the “progressive” left starts in universities
It can go straight to the navy for reparations for ending the slave trade
FRO
Conplete abd utter shit this is!
Ridiculous!
Let the students of London university pay it from their salaries for enjoying a privilege education.
Geoff Thomson is paid a lot of money to come up with ideas like these. Money well spent I say....
I think the key phrase was 'previous centuries' This is fucking rediculous!
What next, appropriation of white families homes. This is ridiculous.
What about supporting Indian students as well!
That is good
What rubbish! If that’s the case I want the Scandinavian countries and Italy to pay for my kids education because of the rape,pillaging and slavery they caused on my ancestors
I once had a job potato picking let me know where I should apply.
By paying reparations for people that suffered long ago, it'd be creating handouts for those who didn't suffer it and taking money from investment elsewhere, thus making others pay the price. Sure, invest in getting rid of and fighting inequality but not positive discrimination.
Who is going to pay this? The tiny number of people that owned slaves in the UK are long dead, it has NOTHING to do with, nor any responsibility of anyone alive today.
From African slave traders who sold to Europeans?
While we're at it, let's demand compo from Norway for the Viking invasion, or France for the Norman Conquest. Is there anyone in British universities remaining with an IQ that's into double figures? Morons.
Do I get reparations? I mean my DNA test ...
No No No
Virtue signalling!
Anyone else getting physically ill through an overdose of insane, white hating virtue signaling?
Damn ... Unbelievable money still made out of slavery
I thought this might be some Students' Union crap but no, this guy really means it.
It was only 40 acres and a mule 150 years ago? Wtf inflation is a bitch
Why should someone pay for the sins of a long dead relative
maybe Scotland should do the same to the English government for all the taxes levied on whiskey and all the other stuff, ya know for reparation for the Scottish descendants
Start here!
Reparations instead of generational welfare might be the way to go. Wealth begets wealth. A “wealthy” minority class might solve the poverty cycle.
Agreed. I also think universities that have taken donations from aristocrats should create special grants for students from non-aristocratic families to compensate us for the exploitation of our ancestors by their feudal lords for hundreds upon hundreds of years.
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Well I’m here. I’ll be waiting. Got 0.70 p in the old empty bank account.
Yeah make them honkies pay 😂😂😂
Perhaps they might consider, if they're successful, it's likely to come out of the budget that supports non-ethnic minority students.
Can we please stop with this shared guilt BULLSHITE.
Hahahaha
There is not one person who was actually effected alive today. Totally ridiculous.
The higher up the more stupid they are
It's all just copying the USA- our students these days are pathetic. The state has nurtured them and they hate it. Britain gave civilization to the world.
£100m lol
Keeping feeding the mushrooms on fake news. They love getting worked up about nothing
😂😂😂😂😂 fucking good luck with that