TRIGGERnometry Heated Debate: Slavery, Reparations & Colonialism with Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Kehinde Andrews
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Sep 29, 2025 
Kehinde Andrews, Britain's first professor of Black Studies, and historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo engage in a robust debate over slavery, reparations, and colonialism. Andrews argues that the harms of slavery persist, advocating for systemic reparations to benefit Black communities. Heydel-Mankoo counters that modern claims lack legal standing and emphasizes the idea that history's wounds have healed. The discussion explores the duality of colonial impacts, the notion of 'whiteness,' and whether historical injustices should dictate today's responsibilities.
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Slavery As An Unhealed, Continuing Injury
- Kehinde Andrews frames reparations as healing an ongoing wound that never received justice after abolition.
- He links slavery, colonialism and modern racism as a continuous, traceable harm that sustains global inequality.
Create Funds Not Individual Checks
- Kehinde Andrews advises against individual payout models and recommends funds to develop black communities.
- He suggests nation-to-nation funds or development mechanisms rather than direct one-off payments.
Reparations As A Contemporary Legal Argument
- Rafe Heydel‑Mankoo argues slavery is a historical injustice but not a present legal tort because there are no living victims.
- He frames reparations claims as politically motivated and contrasts them with modern slavery issues.
