Demands for reparation for centuries of slavery from the Caribbean and elsewhere are not about seeking aid or emotional compensation but a quest for fundamental historical corrections, says Sumangala Damodaran, professor at Ambedkar University Delhi, in conversation with Prabir Purkayastha, editor-in-chief of NewsClick.
Anger in Jamaica over the recent British royals’ visit is over atrocities of slavery and how resources were expropriated, but not just that. “The demands for reparations are not just to pay money for what was done to the slaves but for the damage caused over generations that last to this day,” Damodaran says.
Purkayastha and Damodaran discuss the demands of Jamaican activists who have given the British royals a 30-point charter of reparations, including educating the child descendants of those enslaved.
