Marlene Ellis

Reparations can be defined in the following ways.'While the cases of Reparations granted to other peoples that are normally cited, e.g. the Jews, Japanese-Americans, British POWs’ in Japan and the Inuit, should continue to be upheld as precedents in the spirit of which can be legitimized our Afrikan demands, we must understand that such restitutions have never threatened the Eurocentric global establishment of White racist supremacy in the way and manner true Reparations to Afrikan people will result in the Black empowerment of Afrikans and their galvanisation of the revolutionary transformation of the present unjust order of the World' (Kofi Klu).'The most important aspects of Reparations is not the money the campaign may or may not bring; the most important part of Reparations is our Self-Repair; the change it will bring about in our understanding of our history, of ourselves and of our destiny; the change it will bring about in our place in the World, for 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 sucks resources out of our veins and piles debts upon our head, to a different global order in which our enormous resources shall serve our own prosperity; we need to move from this old global order, which is permeated with Negrophobia [and Afriphobia], to a new global order that is cleansed of Negrophobia [and Afriphobia], one where we would live in dignity and equality with all other races [peoples] of Humanity' (Professor Chinweizu).