blood money quests 1
AP WORLD HISTORY: 2013-14
Questions: Blood Money
Name: Date: 10/9/13
Directions: Read the article linked in Moodle and prepare responses to the following questions for discussion on Tuesday, 10/15/13. Please write out your answers to facilitate the discussion, although I will not be collecting them. In addition, please print out a copy of the article at home to bring to class on Tuesday.
1) Who is Baldwin Spencer and what is he demanding?
Baldwin Spencer is the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda. He is demanding that leaders should stop apologizing and “match their words with concrete and material benefits”. He wants people to ACTUALLY do something about it.
2) What other examples of compensation are cited by this article?
Rodney Leon created the “Ark of Return”, a memorial that will stand outside he UN headquarters. The British government borrowed 20 million Euros to meet 47,00 claims for loss of human property. Caricom established an official reparations commission in July. Ukraine has still not sought compensation for those who died in Stalin’s famines and purges.
3) What is the argument behind the claim for slavery reparations?
When slavery was abolished, the most countries (as a whole) did not benefit as much…unlike the slave owners who were given most of the money. He thinks that if any assitance is going to be give, it should be carefully thought about and based on TODAY’S needs not the things we feel was wrong in the PAST.
4) What are the arguments against slavery reparations?
Because of price inflation, slave reparations today would be unfeasible because it would take around 10 times the global GDP to “fully” compensate for this.
5) Read the attached comment from VZVcGvWuAV and summarize his views. (This is a truncated version of his comment. The full version can be found by using the comments link on the “Blood Money” page.)
This is crazy, both because of the complexity of apportioning victimhood and responsibility on a
Questions: Blood Money
Name: Date: 10/9/13
Directions: Read the article linked in Moodle and prepare responses to the following questions for discussion on Tuesday, 10/15/13. Please write out your answers to facilitate the discussion, although I will not be collecting them. In addition, please print out a copy of the article at home to bring to class on Tuesday.
1) Who is Baldwin Spencer and what is he demanding?
Baldwin Spencer is the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda. He is demanding that leaders should stop apologizing and “match their words with concrete and material benefits”. He wants people to ACTUALLY do something about it.
2) What other examples of compensation are cited by this article?
Rodney Leon created the “Ark of Return”, a memorial that will stand outside he UN headquarters. The British government borrowed 20 million Euros to meet 47,00 claims for loss of human property. Caricom established an official reparations commission in July. Ukraine has still not sought compensation for those who died in Stalin’s famines and purges.
3) What is the argument behind the claim for slavery reparations?
When slavery was abolished, the most countries (as a whole) did not benefit as much…unlike the slave owners who were given most of the money. He thinks that if any assitance is going to be give, it should be carefully thought about and based on TODAY’S needs not the things we feel was wrong in the PAST.
4) What are the arguments against slavery reparations?
Because of price inflation, slave reparations today would be unfeasible because it would take around 10 times the global GDP to “fully” compensate for this.
5) Read the attached comment from VZVcGvWuAV and summarize his views. (This is a truncated version of his comment. The full version can be found by using the comments link on the “Blood Money” page.)
This is crazy, both because of the complexity of apportioning victimhood and responsibility on a