This is a good question. Tangibly, I think reparations would look like debt forgiveness at both a domestic and international level. The end of border infrastructure which criminalises the movement of people from formerly colonised countries. Suspending patents and IP rights... https://twitter.com/HMCato/status/1352885882303475713
on green/renewable tech and medicines for the Global South. An end to the arms trade, and restitution made to communities torn apart by the racialised war on drugs both at home and abroad. And money put into educational projects about the real history of slavery and colonialism.
I think Chidera is perfectly entitled to be paid for her work as an influencer (whether she should receive damages from Florence Given should be left up to lawyers imo).

But white people giving money to a successful author so she can purchase luxury goods isn't reparations.
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