“The royal family did nothing to stop it”, he said.
In June, a new study revealed that “Dutch rulers received the equivalent of €545m ($595m) in today’s money between 1675 and 1770 from colonies where slavery was enforced”.
It is good that he made this apology. “After acknowledgment and apology, we can work together on healing, reconciliation and restoration,” the King added.
Heh, nice, subtle juxtaposition there.
Reminds me of this little something I saw on a traffic light in Utrecht the other day:
(In Dutch, sorry.)What’s it mean in English?
EDIT : Thanks everyone for the translations!
Google lens gives:
hello i am the king and you are a subject and i have money like water and you are the tap and you have big worries and I have another million and I’m going to tell you that we do it together
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hello I am the king and you are a subject and I have money like water and you are the tap
and you have big worries and I have another million and I’m going to tell you that we are in this together
Thank you for enabling the lazy of us.
And at the same time, in 2023 this pointless family recieved a larger amount of tax payers money than before
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Agreed, they deserve reparations, but the slavers also deserve to be punished.
If they’d behaved after the civil war it would be one thing, but they were monsters with Jim crow and the kkk and they never once properly apologized.
Unless you want to count thousands of statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest and everybody flying the confederate flag to be an apology, which I don’t.
Now let’s focus on reparations.
