Then they paraded down the street in Trench Town, riding in an open-topped Land Rover, dressed in white, William in the “No. Yet it seemed feeble, coming from a prince whose family derived a lot of wealth from the slave trade. He made a point of meeting with David Harewood–the British actor who played CIA honcho David Estes in Homeland –to talk about slavery reparations. King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has commissioned an independent study, complete with academics and a human rights expert, on the Dutch royal family’s involvement in slavery and colonialism. We aren’t supposed to imply that the Founders, many of whom were slaveholders, weren’t always paragons of virtue.

Source: The Guardian May 22, 2023 11:16 UTC