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Jay-Z sued for $5bn for ties to slave trade and apartheid

Roc-A-Fella mogul, New Jersey Nets owner and sometime emcee Jay-Z has had a lawsuit filed against him and affiliates for $5bn following their support of the $4bn Atlantis Yards property development in Brooklyn and its apparent profiteering from the African slave trade and South African apartheid.

How? Having sold the branding rights to the Nets' relocation to the New York borough to Barclays Bank, the Def Jam CEO (real name Shawn Carter) has become embroiled in a longstanding accusation that the bank previously profited from the exploitation and discrimination that's blighted Africa's past (more here and here).

Also accused of co-operating with the bank by activist Clive Campbell (of no relation to DJ Herc, with whom he shares the same name) is property developer Bruce Ratner, who suggests that Ratner and Carter have involved themselves in “a conspiracy dating back hundreds of years and [continuing] to oppress black people, enslave them, [and] unlawfully deport them to all corners of the Earth.”

Jay-Z, who released American Gangster (review) toward the tail-end of '07, was recently confirmed to headline this year's Glastonbury Festival. Does this tie Michael Eavis into benefiting from the slave trade? You'll hear here first, munchkins.


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He's got 99 problems

and it would appear that an impending law suit relating to alledged links with the slavery trade is, in fact, one of them

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potd you cynical gits.

Half of America was founded on slave labour and trade

Well, this will be an interesting case to watch.

america

is just a mental mental place innit

I suppose by asking for no bacon on a bacon cheeseburger, one is allying oneself with Muslim fundamentalists and, possibly, laying oneself open to suit as a co-conspirator in 9/11, along with that Rudi Giuliani

good work

companies being liable for their past misdeeds?

omfg it's MENTAL!!! you can argue about statute of limitations, but there's nothing wrong in holding a company accountable for their actions.

Filed by who

Exactly?

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