Part of the problem is this automatic assumption of attributing a settling of accounts with monetary reparations and the clearly agenda driven language of "handouts".

So for example when Jamaica asked the UK under PM Cameron about reparations, the UK started to work out a financial solution but Jamaica did not want a penny. For them that was an insult. They wanted an acknowledgement, an apology and a commitment to work together on educational and community projects.

Camerons own ancestor was a white slave owner that not only made a fortune from that labour he was compensated at the end of slavery. An amount equivalent to about three million pounds today.