As Kamala Harris declares herself open to paying reparations for slavery in a desperate bid to win more black voters, the debate about redressing historical injustices has been once again reignited. California has passed a raft of new proposals “as part of a reparations legislative package” with policies on education, housing, and criminal justice for the benefit of black people. New York has created a commission to study the harms caused by slavery with a view to paying reparations. In Oklahoma a commission has been set up “to study how reparations can be made.”Similarly, in the United Kingdom, the Church of England is making plans to fund reparations for slavery.The Church of England should create a fund of 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion) to address its historic links to slavery, an
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