Reparations is the action of making amends for a wrong one has done or benefitted from, by providing payment or other assistance to those who have been wronged.
The CYPA was initiated by children of the Windrush Generation, who themselves were children of former slaves whose foreparents suffered at the hands of those who perpetrated the dehumanising process known as the Transatlantic SlaveTrade.
As British Citizens, often still branding the slave masters name we have been subjected to an imperialistic institutionalised racism that has willingly been wrought on us despite our historical handicaps. This continuous need to keep the black man and woman down was most callously demonstrated by an American police officer murdering George Flloyd. It can be seen more locally in the way police officers took the life of Kevin Clarke.
On behalf of the black british children that make up our community we are asking for the damage to be repaired. We seek reparations from those who have benefitted from the transatlantic slave trade, either directly or indirectly. We aim to use whatever funds are raised to established an independant education centre to provide an education service that meets the needs of our children and young people.
Who has to, or is, paying Reparations.
In 1988, under the Civil Liberties Act, U.S. President, Ronald Reagan, apologized to the Japanese-Americans interned in camps during World War II and agreed to pay $20,000 to each surviving internee in compensation, equivalent to $38,000 in 2019, with payments beginning in 1990. The legislation stated that government actions had been based on “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership” as opposed to legitimate security reasons.
The reparations program was established by the United States with France under agreements relating to the deportation of Jews by the French government during the Holocaust.
Germany to the French and British
The Reparations in the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War 1 required Germany to repay the entire cost of the war that the French and British had spent.
Daniel Kawczynski is the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire, England. He is campaigning for Germany to pay billions to help rebuild Poland from the damage the Nazi party caused in World War II. Experts place the cost of rebuilding at £850 billion in modern currency.
Since 1951 Germany has paid more than 102 billion marks, about $61.8 billion at 1998 exchange rates, in federal government reparation payments to Israel and Third Reich victims. In addition, Germans have paid out billions in private and other public funds, including about 75 million marks ($49 million) by German firms in compensation to wartime forced laborers.
Wartime sex slaves from South Korea, euphemistically known as “comfort women,” won their first legal victory against the Japanese government in a landmark ruling handed down Friday in Seoul. The Seoul Central District Court ordered Japan’s government to pay reparations of 100 million won ($91,300) each to the families of 12 women who were forced to work as sex slaves for the Japanese army during Japan’s colonization of Korea.
During the fifty years since the independence of Algeria France has never recognized its responsibility for the colonial genocide and has tried to stop the Algerian initiatives that recently moved in this direction.