I applaud the University of Glasgow for commissioning the research that revealed historic connections with Atlantic slavery (and allowed me time in institutional archives). I also applaud the institution for the reparative justice strategy - it was a brave, paradigm shifting move

I accept this should attract international headlines. But lets not forget that the University of Glasgow was a recipient of slavery-derived income from the 17th century onwards and continues to hold and benefit from such capital as I type this.

It would have been a very different and smaller institution had it not been for the labour of enslaved people - and the exploitative Atlantic merchants of Glasgow and Scottish diaspora who made sure the wealth reached a white institution.

And also - this project was the direct result of anti-racism work and Black activism over several years. Glasgow Anti-Racist Alliance (now Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights) opened up the conversations about the city's connections with slavery from 2001.

And in 2016 @FlagUpScotJam asked a direct question to the University of Glasgow about historic income from slavery. Thus study, and the reparative justice strategy would not have happened without that activism in Glasgow.

Amidst a lot of corporate and academic congratulations since the report was launched in 2018, as ever, I always try to remain humble and acknowledge the (usually disregarded) labour that has got us here over several centuries.