Reparations Gone Wrong

The Pay Check

Bloomberg

Society & Culture, Business, Investing

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Reparations for slavery in the U.S. aren't happening any time soon. But there are other countries that have compensated populations for persecution. This week, the Pay Check heads to the U.K., which is in the midst of what it calls a "compensation scheme" to pay back Black residents known as The Windrush Generation. Olivia Konotey-Ahulu and Brentin Mock dig into why it's less of a model and more of a cautionary tale.

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1:07.8	Anthony Williams has been living in the UK since he was about seven years old.
1:15.4	He came over with his parents in the 70s from Jamaica, a former British colony.
1:20.6	He went straight from school to the British Army serving for 13 years, and now lives in Birmingham.
1:26.6	But in 2013, he lost his job as a janitor because he couldn't prove he was a citizen.
1:33.0	To make matters worse, he didn't qualify for unemployment benefits either.
1:37.4	And that's when it all hit the fan.
1:40.2	That I was entitled to any benefits because I wasn't on any system.
1:46.0	That was pure confusion and that's true me.
1:49.0	Anthony wasn't the only person experiencing this rude awakening.
1:53.4	There's a name for the thousands of black people in Britain who, like Anthony, suddenly and for the first time,
2:00.0	found their citizenship status in question.
2:03.1	They're part of a group called the Windrush Generation.
2:07.1	The Empire Windrush was a ship that in 1948 brought hundreds of people, mostly black,
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