- Oct 2024
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1.) Reparations, romanticized, loyal evangelists, exploitative, colonized, history, slavery, emancipation, property, psychological violence, obedience, narrative, industry. 2.) Short history of rum and sugar industry, slavery and exploitation in the Caribbean on the basis of skin color and production of rum. Modern impact of colonizer influence follows, which focuses on its effects in the corporate aspects, being that people of color are not allowed into the higher levels of rum companies, financial inequity, and lack of Caribbean representation in positions of power in outsider-owned spirit companies operating in the Caribbean.
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“Everything was stolen from the people of the Antilles: their land, their labor, their skills, their lives,” Summers said during the Clubhouse discussion of the numerous rum companies that have benefited from colonialism and slavery. “It isn’t enough to say, ‘We have black people in our company’ if none of them are on your executive boards. It’s fair to ask any company about its plan to undo its own complicity in colonial capitalism, who owns the equity and who owns the land. Decolonizing means ‘give it back.’”
This is representative of the argument, as it lists the acts committed against the people, the reason why current "reparation" actions being taken are not sufficient, and what the people want.
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