Judge Patrick Robinson on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery

Judge Patrick Robinson, of the International Court of Justice, discusses a powerful and comprehensive new report on the scale of compensation owed for transatlantic chattel slavery; the forms that reparations should and should not take and how reparations might emerge in the wake of the demise of affirmative action as a deeper and more historically grounded justice movement; and how his experience growing up in Jamaica inspired his commitment to the cause.

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Musical interlude: “Redemption Song,” by Bob Marley & The Wailers.

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