The partnership between the 55-member African Union and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) of 20 countries will aim to intensify pressure on former slave-owning nations to engage with the reparations movement.

Delegates also announced the establishment of a global fund based in Africa aiming to accelerate the campaign.

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      Why not?

      Just to reiterate the context. Freed black slaves did not flock back to their home countries. They mostly stayed where they were freed.

      Talking about reparations for actual descendents of slaves is one thing.

      Talking about reparations for the descendents of the ones that sold their brothers and sisters into slavery is bonkers. Straight assinine.

      Slavery was horrible. Slave owners were horrible. Black leaders started the whole thing (in the context of the black slave trade).

      These fuckers aren’t looking for reparations. They are looking for a renegotiation because they don’t think they charged enough.

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          The ones who made money enslaving people and selling them into the slave trade OWE reparations. They are not owed reparations.

          Decendents of slaves deserve reparations, not decendents of people who enslaved people.

          These countries should be paying INTO funds to provide reparations to decendents of slaves.

          What part are you struggling with here?