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<p>The [[land back]] movement is an example of a movement that demands returning a meaningful amount of land to First Nations, Inuit and Metis people, so that they can rebuild their connection to it, and to each other.</p> | <p>The [[land back]] movement is an example of a movement that demands returning a meaningful amount of land to First Nations, Inuit and Metis people, so that they can rebuild their connection to it, and to each other.</p> | ||
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=== Black populations <ref>https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/bigideas/why-we-need-reparations-for-black-americans/</ref> === | === Black populations <ref>https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/bigideas/why-we-need-reparations-for-black-americans/</ref> === | ||
Black people have not received reparations for state-sanctioned racial discrimination, while slavery afforded some white families the ability to accumulate tremendous wealth at the expense of the labour, health and lives of enslaved Blacks.<span> Today, racial discrimination, intergenerational trauma and a racial wealth gap continue to exist. </span>The case for reparations can be made on economic, social, and moral grounds. | Black people have not received reparations for state-sanctioned racial discrimination, while slavery afforded some white families the ability to accumulate tremendous wealth at the expense of the labour, health and lives of enslaved Blacks.<span> Today, racial discrimination, intergenerational trauma and a racial wealth gap continue to exist. </span>The case for reparations can be made on economic, social, and moral grounds. | ||
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Reparations describe a system of redress for grave injustices; a payment for harm and damages. - Rashawn Ray and Andre M. Perry
Examples of Reparations
Indigenous Peoples [1] [2]
Indigenous Peoples should receive reparations through land and billions of dollars for being forcibly exiled from their lands, killed in masses, and stripped of their culture, language and way of life. Canada was ordered to pay billions to compensate First Nations children who were unnecessarily taken from their homes and put into the child welfare system. [3]
The land back movement is an example of a movement that demands returning a meaningful amount of land to First Nations, Inuit and Metis people, so that they can rebuild their connection to it, and to each other.
Black populations [4]
Black people have not received reparations for state-sanctioned racial discrimination, while slavery afforded some white families the ability to accumulate tremendous wealth at the expense of the labour, health and lives of enslaved Blacks. Today, racial discrimination, intergenerational trauma and a racial wealth gap continue to exist. The case for reparations can be made on economic, social, and moral grounds.
- ↑ https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/bigideas/why-we-need-reparations-for-black-americans/
- ↑ https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/canada-indigenous-foster-care-settlement/
- ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-human-rights-tribunal-20-billion-hearings-1.6582832
- ↑ https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/bigideas/why-we-need-reparations-for-black-americans/