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The Sunday Debate: The West Should Pay Reparations For Slavery

Intelligence Squared

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The Black People Should Take Responsibility, but the West Shouldn't Take No Responsibility

I appreciate that you have a difficult argument to make. I just never thought I'd hear it made in that manner. Malcolm X actually says very clearly that self-help is one thing. We need self-help, but we have to understand that we are in a position where we've been wholly disadvantaged. And so in order for us to help ourselves, we need to be given what we are owed. It's simple, isn't it? Once we are paid what we owe, we will go away and do exactly what we need to do. To invoke them is just, I'm sorry, the Black Power Movement, this is where reparations comes from.

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