Author of the article: Larry Elder
Publishing date: Mar 07, 2021 • March 7, 2021 • 3 minute read •
This photo taken on May 5, 2006 shows the liberation from slavery statue in a street leading to the House of Slaves on Goree Island, just off Dakar, Senegal, where thousands of African slaves were held before being sent to the Americas. Photo by SEYLLOU/AFP /Getty Images
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With reparations, there is the issue of who pays. Do African countries owe reparations to Black Americans? After all, Harvard’s director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Henry Louis Gates, wrote that 90% of those enslaved and shipped to the New World were sold by Africans to European slavers. All whites? Only whites? Nonwhites? Are payments owed before the United States became a country?