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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? that's the core of it — that's 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 conversation. the african part of it is a critical part of it, but it goes beyond the african experienc...

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 racism, the colonisation... can you lay all that at the door...? all of that is breaking down to create...

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, it's the symbolism of that kind of act. it's 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 the commonwealth has an admirable record of progressive causes, most notably the struggle against ...

Could be paid under this principle. when somebody like that makes that kind of comment, it invites mockery, doesn't it, that the likes of oprah winfrey should be paid? well, i'm 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 corporations, ought not to be in a position to determine how we perceive reparatory justice. it is f...

We can demonstrate it — we've lost our land, we've lost our businesses, we've had the personal victimisation. we want to have this repaired in hard cash. in the caribbean, we've 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 happened in tulsa — a white community goes into a black town... you're talking about back in the 192...