Unless we address and effectively answer that question, our quest for reparations would be flawed and incomplete. We must therefore look into the nature of the old existing global order and see what needs to be done to change it for the better. The hallmarks of the old global order, which was initiated by the voyage by Columbus may be summarised as a propensity for perpetrating holocaust, a devotion to exploitation, and a passion for necrophobia. To end this dreadful condition and to make all the appropriate repairs, i.e. reparations, we need to move from this old global order, where holocaust happened to us, to a different global order where holocaust will never happen to us. We need to move from this old global order. which is permeated with negrophobia, to a new global order that is cleansed of negrophobia, one where we would live in dignity and equality with all the other races of humanly.
Reparation is mostly about making repairs.
For the sad truth is that five centuries of holocaust have made our societies brittle and unviable. And as the great Marcus Garvey warned over 50 years ago, if we continue as we re, we are heading for extinction. We cannot hope to change the world without changing our ways o seeing the world, our ways o thinking about the world, our ways of organising our world, our ways of working and dreaming in our world. All these, and ,more, must change for the better. So, reparation, like charity, must begin with ourselves, with the making of the new Black person, with he .making of a new Black World.