Tape 050LondonReel VERDICTJJ

Here's a gift

The words

Up until 2015,

British taxpayers have been paying former

slave owners and their families money,

like in taxes, like we've been paying for the end of slavery.

Are you deep in. This is 2015.

This is recent.

Like, what the British government

did was when they tried to like end slavery,

physical slavery, because let's be honest, we're still in mental slavery

when they try to end physical slavery. What they did was they paid the

slave owners. They were like, you have to free the slaves,

but we will pay you to free the slaves.

It's like, sorry for the inconvenience, but you're not allowed to have slaves anymore,

but we'll pay you for it.

That's backwards.

Like, if slavery is wrong, why are we even paying the slave

owners to free the slaves?

That don't make sense.

And why are we asking British taxpayers to Pay that fine.

SEALED

But we the people are

paying them. Slave owners

and their descendants,

and then more time. If you

even look on the bigger picture, there's black people

in the UK right now that have essentially

paid for their own freedom.

We've been giving slave owners a gift saying,

yo, thank you for freeing slaves.

Here's a gift.

And now black people in the UK have

been paying taxes to those same slave owners

that 200 years ago would have enslaved them.

00:15:56 – 00:17:36JJSealed — withheld at source; never part of this page

The room

The 2015 argument again, months after I first made it, and this time alone, to camera.

When Britain ended physical slavery — and I said on tape that we are still in mental slavery — it paid the slave owners to let people go. Sorry for the inconvenience; you’re not allowed to own people any more; here’s compensation. And British taxpayers were still paying for it until 2015. If slavery was wrong, why were we paying the people who did it? It doesn’t make sense. Which means there are Black people in this country who have, in effect, paid for their own freedom: a gift, from them, to the people who two hundred years earlier would have owned them.

In April I had said the same thing to the interviewer. The number hadn’t changed; I had. I said it slower, and I put it in the finished video where anyone could find it.

The receipt

Words

Fireflies · diarised audio transcript

VERDICT transcript, the cut · Speaker 2 · turns 00:15:56 + 00:16:44 + 00:16:44

Speaker 2 = JJ · anchored on 3 lines

Time

FCP captions · the cue lines

VERDICT captions, the cut · 00:15:56.0–00:17:36.1

Provenance

The canon index

VERDICT master index v1.1 · V3-18, V3-19

DivergenceMinor only — try or tried.

Testimony, not fabrication.

The echo

Spring 2021

the same argument, months earlier, to an interviewer → Tape 015

The decode

GIFTa reading of the word — not of the passage

The word · EXCALIBUR

GIFT

Gematria 42 · root 6

Open on the instrument ↗

The seat · OVAL TABLE

7B F Major

Camelot wheel 24 seats

Open seat 7B ↗

The element · MATTER

Mo Molybdenum

Atomic № 42

Open Mo ↗

🔒 verified bridge 19b871bf A reading, not a claim. Read any word →

The mesh

THE FILM · A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AM I REALLY FREE? decoding FREEDOM itself Enter the question