The Principles and Praxis of Reparations
Submitted by Ras Jahaziel
The campaign to achieve the “payment” of Reparations to the nations and people of the Pan-African World for the atrocities committed against their ancestors and the damage inflicted on their civilization during the centuries of European-imposed slave trade, slavery and colonial domination is well and truly underway!
Not only do we now have a CARICOM Reparations Commission representing 15 national governments and nation-states of the Caribbean, but we have also witnessed the recent establishment of such important Black civil-society institutions as the National African-American Reparations Commission and the European Commission For Reparations, and we are aware that similar Brazilian, Canadian and continental African initiatives are currently in various stages of preparation.
Read full text – THE PRINCIPLES AND PRAXIS OF REPARATIONS
Barbados Underground 
We have stated previously that the reparations initiative is misguided. We have argued that the current attempts are informed by wrong motives. We have expressed disappointment in the setting up, leadership and operations of this project.
We have suggested that instead of ‘reparations’ we should be talking about restitution as a legal construction.
Reparations is based on a particular epoch in world history. The larger and more fundamental case for restitution rest on the civilization of Amexem by African people for tens of thousand of years before 1492. Indeed, these lands have always been owned by African peoples.
The reparations discourse is a mongrel which presents a begging bowl to the colonial masters in order to balance current budgetary shortfalls, however masked. This ill-conceived project will further screw the people of the Caribbean and is destined to keep the old colonial systems approach in tact.
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I do not know if the motives behind the reparations for the people of African diaspora are to viewed with some measure of suspicion? But what I do know however, is that the mere fact that we are having a discussion, as well as the organizations that are designed to inquire as to how best to go about this process, is in my view, a step in the right direction. Now, although it is of little comparison to the genocidal -colonialization of people of the African diaspora, the Japanese Americans and Japanese from South America have already received a 6.1 billion dollars in reparation for the suffering their had endured during the war of 1939-1945. This 6.1 billion dollars reparation, seems somewhat pale in comparison to the suffering and deprivation these people have had to endure in the sweltering deserts of the America’s. Also bear in mind that the Italians as well as German Americans, weren’t subjected to the same treatment as the Japanese Americans because of their appendage to the White race of men. Feel free to call it institutional-racism if you so desire people.
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I am an avid supporter in reparations.Barbados will never move forward unless there is land reform.The idea of persons or institutions begging for cash or investment is ludicrous.We came here to work the land and we worked it.Time for payback.
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Why do we want the blood money gained on the heads of our ancestors? The best thing we can do is forgive those who were involved and move on.
The good book says forgive those who have done you evil. why would a person want the money of a man who became filthy rich from raping, killing, and humiliating they family members?
The white man had a purpose to fulfill because we were in Africa serving all kinda strange gods which in many areas still continue today. Note that everything coming out of Africa isn’t necessarily good.
The white man brought us back to Christ which is more than we deserved though his version of Christianity was corrupt.
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Money will never emancipate the BLACK MIND. Give that governing lot in Barbados B$52. as compensation for that island and ask them what they’ll do with it… Look at the people with money and their stinking bahaviour. Money can never right the wrongs of the past. They take your blood, sweat and tears, then your wealth from under your land and you want their paper to buy back more of their useless shit as compensation? The more money we get the more debauched we’ll become. And that money would only serve the interest of a few anyway.
Pachamama’s last para speaks volumes.
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Hopi, I do agree that money cannot correct the historical wrongs committed against the people of African-extraction, but it wouldn’t hurt having some right about now because let’s face it: the bill must and ought to be paid brother.
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Hopi, if not money what are you asking for? Blood? God forbid! Or do you fancy to repose in perpetual anger again the man?
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OBSERB LIFE
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Third World
Third Generation
Situation want
Reparation For
Now Generation
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Black Liberation Warriors
Legal Reparations
has been quiet
Black Liberation Struggle
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