Reparations for Slavery: A Moral Imperative on Two Wheels The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has issued a scathing rebuke to nations that have long evaded their responsibility, declaring that countries are legally bound to consider reparations for the transatlantic slave trade.
This shift in paradigm is not merely a semantic tweak; it's a seismic recognition of the damage inflicted upon generations of people of African descent. The scale of the trauma is staggering: 12.
5 million Africans were forcibly taken and sold between the 15th and 19th centuries, dwarfing any other forced displacement in history.