How to Calculate What Is Owed to Slave Owners?

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I don't understand why it's more complicated to calculate what is owed to people when there were many things, including their lives, that were taken from them as well. I'm forgetting the emotional calls for reparations, or the reasons why one can repair oneself. If i owe votophone money and a when they come to my house, they doesn't come just for exactly what was owed to them. They come and they can take my television. There are laws in this country. As well. The policing system in the us. Wore systems in place in the us where they would go and take the richest black communities and burn them down. Thank you.

Should there be a broad programme of reparations – not just financial compensation, but acknowledgement of the crimes committed and the lasting damage caused by slavery? Or would this just worsen social tensions by reopening old wounds? That's the theme of this week's Sunday Debate. Arguing for the motion were Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University; and Esther Stanford-Xosei, reparations activist and lawyer. Arguing against the motion were Katharine Birbalsingh, headmistress and co-founder of Michaela Community School in London; and Tony Sewell, educational consultant and CEO of the charity Generating Genius. The debate was chaired by social historian and presenter Emma Dabiri.

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