Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who is African American, wouldn’t comment on the recent reparations discussions. The debate about reparations has been ongoing ever since slavery was abolished in 1865. While each reparations program would specifically be between the perpetrators and the victims’ descendants, the conversation to rectify wrongs in history has now become universal. There was even a discussion devoted to reparations, though it didn’t go unnoticed during that talk that last week’s new declaration stopped short of demanding nations must pay reparations to those their government harmed. U.N. officials for Britain and Germany didn’t immediately respond for requests to comment.
