{"id":48820,"date":"2025-01-22T17:53:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/?p=48820"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:08:35","slug":"real-reparations-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/real-reparations-1\/","title":{"rendered":"REAL REPARATIONS (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"48820\" class=\"elementor elementor-48820\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1fe92f15 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1fe92f15\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14137b47 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"14137b47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #7a7a52; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; padding: 2em; max-width: 1200px;\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div style=\"background: #b9b9b9; margin-top: 15px; width: 100%; padding: 20px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; border: 20px solid #824b4b; -webkit-border-radius: 80px; -moz-border-radius: 80px; border-radius: 80px;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">CAN REAL REPARATIONS<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> BE ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">DECOLONIZING <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>THE AFRICAN MIND?<\/span><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blondex3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16250\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/blondex3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blondex3.jpg?fit=864%2C402&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"864,402\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"blondex3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blondex3.jpg?fit=300%2C140&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blondex3.jpg?fit=640%2C298&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16250\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blondex3.jpg?resize=640%2C298&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blondex3.jpg?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blondex3.jpg?resize=300%2C140&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blondex3.jpg?resize=768%2C357&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blondex3.jpg?resize=700%2C326&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\">It is easy for the victim of Chattel Slavery to get excited at the prospect of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">getting<\/span> righteous reparations<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> from those that robbed and <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>enslaved him for centuries&#8230;<span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">a task very similar to that of turning a Vampire<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> into a vegetarian &#8230;given the fact that White Satan The Devil hasn&#8217;t changed, and the racist mindset is a white pandemic that seems to have<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> no cure.<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>But the idea of <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">internal-reparations <\/span>(decolonizing the African mind, or undoing the psychological damage that colonialism has done)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>is a far less attractive idea, because <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"> it involves<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">changing the self.<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28pt;\">It involves changing something that you are not aware of when you are still under its spell.<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">In other words, it involves changing<\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">the slave-broken and colonized mind-set <strong> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong> that you have been trained <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> from childhood to accept<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\">as<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">the normal you,<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">in the same way that you have been<strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong> trained from childhood to accept<strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">the silly white European names <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>which signal to the whole world your racial inferiority to Europeans. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30487\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=30487\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?fit=1440%2C896&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1440,896\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"anatomy of a racially subjugated species\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;colonization of the mentality&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Anatomy of a racially subjugated species&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?fit=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?fit=640%2C399&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\" wp-image-30487\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?resize=587%2C365&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Anatomy of a racially subjugated species\" width=\"587\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?resize=700%2C436&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?resize=768%2C478&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?resize=1064%2C662&amp;ssl=1 1064w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?resize=716%2C446&amp;ssl=1 716w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?resize=480%2C299&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/anatomy.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>So this changing of self means coming to terms with the truth that centuries of Chattel Slavery and colonialism left a lasting negative impact on the African psyche that has to be eradicated in order for the African to become great and whole again.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>Naturally, this idea of <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">decolonizing the African mind,<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> does not evoke a great amount of enthusiasm, <span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">even though it is<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">the most important part of the reparations process.<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 28pt;\">In fact, it is the only part of the reparations process that has the potential to truly make Africans <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>great again.<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 24px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> continued in next posting<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 24px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; 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