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Can you lay all that at the door? all of that is breaking down to create a new frontier for the 21st century. but can you lay all of that to the slave legacy, you know, discriminatory policing practices? thats the core of it — thats the core of it. really? i mean, what happened in india with the destruction of the indian 19th—century industrial economy by britain, what is happening all over africa, what happened to the indigenous people of the new world, all of this is part of the same conve...

The british working class people, the majority of british people do not know anything of significance about what they did to other people in other parts of the world in order to secure their enrichment. so, yes, we have this diversity of opinion, but this is why reparatory justice is much more than a conversation about the african people specifically. what you are talking about is the unravelling of modernity, the crumbling of the structures that supported modernity, the white supremacy, the rac...

And what did the queen do? she came to barbados to visit a sugar plantation that was owned by her first cousin. and here is the earl and the queen on the sugar plantation in barbados in february 1966. a plantation that was bought by the family of the earl in 1782 with 300 slaves! so, its the symbolism of that kind of act. its a powerful symbolism! what about the commonwealth, though, because there are many who say that it... philip murphy, director of the institute of commonwealth studies, says ...

Could be paid under this principle. when somebody like that makes that kind of comment, it invites mockery, doesnt it, that the likes of oprah winfrey should be paid? well, im not sure it does. what it invites is a call for understanding. what we do know is that we are all united around the reparatory justice movement. what we also know is that there is a diversity as to how and to where and what have we. but the beneficiaries of those crimes, the western states and the institutions and their co...

We can demonstrate it — weve lost our land, weve lost our businesses, weve had the personal victimisation. we want to have this repaired in hard cash. in the caribbean, weve not taken that path. we have said our reparatoryjustice model is about development of our infrastructures. we want more schools, we want public health infrastructures, we want to have systems to allow development to become endemic within our societies. and that is the focus of our reparation. take, for example, what happen...

A white community goes into a black town... youre talking about back in the 1920s in the united states? yes, burned the town to the ground, hundreds of families lost their cash and their capital. it was a very middle—class, affluent african—american community. they were rising up from slavery, pursuing development. lost their capital. that has to be compensated for in the context of cash repayments and compensation. in the caribbean, we are looking at a different circumstance. we have the hi...

They were enslaving. they were agricultural people, they were teachers, they were artisans, they were politicians — all kinds of people were scraped up in the slave trade and brought to the sugar plantations. they didnt consider the diversity of occupation and wealth at the time, so why should they be concerned about it today? it has always been a feature of the victimisation of the black community. all right, but how do you make the case now? look, here we are in barbados, its a middle—inco...

Reparatory justice. it is for us, the descendants of the victim class. and all of us are victimised as a race. if you consider the slave trade, when the europeans went into africa to kidnap and to pillage the labour force of africa, they were not looking at the income distribution of the peoples they were enslaving. they were agricultural people, they were teachers, they were artisans, they were politicians — all kinds of people were scraped up in the slave trade and brought to the sugar plant...

Absolutely. is she right? absolutely. listen, reparatoryjustice has always been about the gap between what the victims know and what the rest of the world is willing to admit. and there has been this schism between self—knowledge and public knowledge. however, the george floyd circumstance converged the two. the world saw for themselves what we have been seeing all along in our communities. but that has been taking place all over the world. weve seen it in south africa during the anti—aparth...

We all know what we want, but there are different ways to conceptualise it, different ways to proceed. there are multiple roads leading to the roundabout. and we dont want necessarily to have everyone walking like sheep down a narrow path. we are a community of multiple experiences and diversities. in the us, for example, theres a very strong argument that says we want cash in hand as part of the repayment of the plunder of the african—american community. we have been plundered. we can demonst...