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The Sunday Debate: The West Should Pay Reparations For Slavery

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The Legacy of Slavery

Esther: We have to redefine the languages that we use and stop infusing Eurocentric ideas into essentially what is an issue about us as African people. Kehinde: Every successive generation of African people from the beginning of Chatelling Slavement in the 1400s has championed reparations. And I explained what reparations mean in international law. You cannot reduce reparations to money and compensation. So those that resisted enslavement were seeking their freedom, which was restitution of their dignity, their humanity, and their right to be free.

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