How can the case for reparations be made even stronger? This constructive critique examines The Sacrificed Are Told to Thank the Altar, identifying opportunities to reinforce the historical, legal and economic foundations of institutional liability while sharpening the causal links between colonial extraction and life-capacity restoration. Read More
If personal guilt is not inherited, can institutional responsibility still endure across generations? This debate examines one of the central questions raised by The Sacrificed Are Told to Thank the Altar: whether continuing institutions may inherit the wealth and prestige of colonialism while denying the liabilities that accompanied them. Read More
What happens when empire presents extraction as investment and the descendants of the oppressed are told they owe a debt to the machinery that exploited them? This Deep Dive explores Dr. Bichara Sahely’s concept of colonial debt reversal, reframing reparations as institutional responsibility and the restoration of life-capacities rather than inherited guilt or charity. Read More
When empire presents extraction as investment and domination as institution-building, the injured are recast as debtors. This essay names that inversion colonial debt reversal and reframes reparations not as inherited guilt, revenge or charity, but as institutional responsibility and the restoration of damaged human, ecological, cultural, political and economic capacities. Read More
Yesterday I stood in the hall of the Durham Union to argue for the proposition: “This house believes Britain owes reparations to its former colonies”. The following is the text of my ten-minute speech, followed by five brief reflections on the opposition’s arguments. Read More
Published on Jun 18, 2017 On Tuesday, June 13, 2017, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, delivered the seventh Annual George Lamming Distinguished Lecture at The UWI Cave Hill Campus’ Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination (EBCCI) in Barbados. Vice-Chancellor Beckles spoke on Britain’s Perfect Caribbean Crime:… Read More
Having come to understand that the short-term profit-maximising love-of-money private banking system is the root source of all our social and environmental ills, does this understanding throw any light on other outstanding issues that may pertain to us as a people? Given that we are all shackled to an economic system that fosters a form of interest-bearing unrepayable-debt slavery with perpetual servitude, is it possible that the private banking system also financed the enslavement of our African brothers and sisters in the Americas?
