I see reparations as not just about money. They’re about giving us the dignity and the freedom we’ve always deserved.
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Even though we didn’t directly experience chattel slavery, it still affects us. The societies we live in are shaped by its legacy.
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“The conversation gives us the dignity of agency which has been deprived of us by the actions of the Church of England.”
However, the Task Force wishes to make clear that as admirable and praise-worthy as this project is, we do not consider it to be a reparations or a reparatory justice project. Rather, we consider it to be a social justice project that is, no doubt, rooted in the strong ecumenical outreach and principles of the USPG.
The Haitian government has appointed Fritz Deshommes, the rector of the State University of Haiti (UEH), as the country’s representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission, tasked with ensuring reparations and restitution.
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England’s most senior cleric has declared that the £100 million fund, established to address the past wrongs of the Church and its role in slavery, must be managed by the descendants of victims.
Fergus said, “Reparations for genocide and enslavement of native peoples is the natural culmination of the struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism…”
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Reparation without re-education is of no use to the black community. The goal should be to un-indoctrinate and then re-educate our children. So that when we finally get what we fought for, we will spend reparations the right way.
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This process was so horrendous that 43% of all enslaved Africans died within 3 years of their arrival at the Codrington plantations in Barbados from 1741 to 1746.⁵ Moreover, the life expectancy of an enslaved person from birth was between 20 to 29 years on average, whereas white persons in Barbados had a life expectancy of about 35 years on average, similar to that in England.⁶
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“The Government of Grenada calls upon the Bank of England to make reparations to Grenada on account of the direct involvement of the Bank of England in the 1780s in the enslavement of Africans and their descendants in Grenada.”
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Rev Dr Michael Banner’s book, Britain’s Slavery Debt: Reparations Now!, estimates Britain owes over £200 billion to Caribbean nations, based on enslaver compensation claims post-abolition.
The Portuguese president’s timely speech should be leveraged by reparations advocates to redouble efforts to rouse the hibernating consciences of other European Union members.
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