I’ll start: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are 3 years older than Guns N’ Roses.

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      Another government related one. The UK government were until 2015 still paying compensation to families that made their wealth in the slave trade, for it’s abolition. Another way to read this is that some wealthy families accepted tax payers money as compensation for their ancestors no longer being able to profit from the abuse of humans.

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        And people foam at the mouth at the idea of reparations being paid out to descendants of slaves…

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        Good point, slightly inaccurately made. They weren’t still paying compensation in 2015. That was the year they finished paying off the debt taken out to pay compensation.