The billionaire demanding slavery reparations from Britain
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Denis O'Brien is the founder of the Repair Campaign, which is working with Caribbean countries to develop reparations plans from Europe.
"It is the single biggest issue in the Caribbean for the entire population," he told the Sky News Daily.
On this episode, Kamali Melbourne sits down with Mr O'Brien to ask what needs to be done to ensure reparative justice is successful.
Plus, Kamali speaks to Dr Angelique Nixon, of the University of the West Indies, about the ongoing impact of the slave trade's legacies on Caribbean communities, and Dr Cassandra Gooptar, from the University of Hull, who shares how she saw British institutions changing their outlook on the legacies of slavery following the Black Live Matter movement.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews producer and additional production: Melissa Tutesigensi-Charles
Promotions producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:07.6 | I'm Kamali Melbourne, and this is the Sky News Daily. |
| 1:13.9 | Now, today's topic is one that has long fascinated me. My family, a Jamaican, I was born there and came here as a toddler. I've been back many times. Some has spent at my |
| 1:18.5 | grandparents' house as some of my happiest memories. I'm also fascinated by the region's history, |
| 1:24.2 | a place where people, my ancestors, were forcibly taken. |
| 1:29.4 | As I've gotten older, read more, learnt more, I want to understand the impact of the largest |
| 1:34.9 | forced migration in human history. |
| 1:37.7 | 300, 400 years later, and in particular over that colonial period, we don't value the places and the spaces and the |
| 1:46.1 | cultures that we come from our heritage. The call for reparations from nations in which |
| 1:51.4 | chattel slavery operated is not new. Intellectually, it's as old as the end of the trade |
| 1:56.3 | itself in the 19th century. Reparatory justice was given a framework in 2014 when Caribbean nations, |
| 2:03.9 | collectively known as Karakom, adopted a 10-point plan laying out what is needed for the victims |
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