Question

Reasons for reparations to be paid to territories like the Caribbean

Answer 1

Reparation for health justice is a call for returns to past and present countries which have benefited from the exploitation of African and Indigenous Peoples and our resources. Reparations for health care are for Africans who have been forcibly taken abroad, and for those who have remained on the continent, all live through the pain of family separation, sorrow and loss. Reparations for health equity need to be addressed in local, regional, and transnational contexts, and between non-profit, corporate, and profit organisations.

African descendants of our societies have debated reparations since at least the abolition of the slave trade of Britain in 1833. Reparations for health care may also be used to help indigenous peoples living in the Americas who have suffered horrific persecution because of it and are struggling with ongoing health struggles. Globally, reparations can be seen as a way to cope transnationally with state-sanctioned abuse and injustice towards our populations. African and Indigenous Peoples living in Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Australia, Europe and North America, including Canada, are seeking redress for the ongoing pain, deprivation and violence endured.

Reparations for health care provide payments and reparations for mental, emotional, physical, legal, economic, moral, and financial damages. The effect of cultural genocide needs to be resolved by requiring the enslaved to speak the colonizer's languages and be re-named by those colonizers.