Big firms who profited from slavery should apologise to black people worldwide, says soul singer Mica Paris. Mica visited plantations in Memphis, Tennessee, as part of a BBC gospel documentary with fellow chart star Stormzy.
She said: “It made me angry, like a Jewish person going to visit Auschwitz. “This is why, as black people, we need that acknowledgement, for JP Morgan to come out and say, ‘Yeah we benefitted from you, you know we need to say sorry’. “It needs to happen.
Just like we had the Nuremberg trials, we need that.” JP Morgan, America’s biggest bank, did apologise in 2005 for its subsidiaries’ part in the slave trade 200 years ago, admitting that it owned hundreds of slaves as loan collateral.
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