Do They Get Half Payments Instead of Full Payments?

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There are various web sites out there right now, in 20 19, where black people are getting white people to donate money for reparation. So i'll read out one of these sights to you. It's a real sight run by a black american woman who right now is collecting cash from white people because of reparations owed to her. The conditions were horrific. My illiterate grandmother might have told you all about this herself. Had the poverty and environment that engulfed indian, indentured labor s and the caribbean not been so grotesque that she died when my father was only six years old. But i'll forget that story because my father's mother and their people weren't slaves

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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