
“The royal family enslaved(奴役) us! Apologise now! Reparatory justice now!”
“王室奴役了我们!现在就道歉!现在就实现赔偿正义!”
King Charles and the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, will be greeted with messages as they travel through Antigua’s capital, St John’s, to attend meetings at the Commonwealth leaders’ summit next week. On billboards, placards and T-shirts, in letters and at a candlelight vigil for the thousands of Africans trafficked to Antigua and Barbuda during the transatlantic slave trade, the message from the Caribbean will be pervasive: slavery reparations is not an issue they “are going to be able to dodge”.(从广告牌、标语牌、T恤衫,到信件和烛光守夜活动,加勒比地区传递的信息将无处不在:奴隶制赔偿是一个他们“无法回避”的问题。)
查尔斯国王与英国首相安迪·伯纳姆下周前往安提瓜首都圣约翰参加英联邦领导人峰会会议时,沿途将看到各种标语信息。从广告牌、标语牌、T恤衫,到信件和烛光守夜活动——后者悼念跨大西洋奴隶贸易期间被贩运至安提瓜和巴布达的成千上万非洲人——加勒比地区传递的信息将无处不在:奴隶制赔偿是一个他们“无法回避”的问题。
James Knight of Citizens for Reparatory Justice, which is organising some of the demonstrations, said the king and UK government had made protest necessary.(“公民争取赔偿正义”组织的詹姆斯·奈特参与组织部分示威活动,他表示,国王和英国政府让抗议成为必要之举。)
“公民争取赔偿正义”组织的詹姆斯·奈特参与组织部分示威活动,他表示,国王和英国政府让抗议成为必要之举。