00:00An appeal from King Charles III for everyone to learn from history and to move forward in modern partnership is
00:08not sitting well with TNT-based civil society group, the Freedom Project.
00:13Anything short of an apology from the King of England, a sincere apology, we see as, you know, all those
00:25platitudes, deep sorrow, personal sorrow, etc., etc., all the different versions that we've seen over the years, we see those
00:36things as contempt now.
00:39And so we are, anything short of an apology, a sincere apology for us is just not good enough in
00:48the 21st century.
00:49Earlier this year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historic resolution declaring chattel slavery as the gravest crime against
00:59humanity.
01:01And Kambon notes, its effects continue to undermine African development.
01:05The 1833 Act, Abolition Act itself, which, you know, which compensated the slave owners and not the Africans themselves.
01:17And in the process sort of honored the idea that we were not fully human beings.
01:27They had a right to us in property as chattel and locked us into a system of inequality, of second
01:39-class citizenship, which lasts to the day.
01:42The legacy of those things is what is the racism and discrimination and disadvantage that we see up to today.
01:51That's what makes it, that's one of the things that makes it the gravest crime against humanity.
01:58However, Kambon believes that all is not lost.
02:02He says recent developments point to the delivery of reparations someday.
02:08I don't think the King's statement is the beyond, I'll end all of this meeting.
02:15What I think the community should look at very carefully is the statement from the Prime Minister of England that
02:24he is now ready to discuss the matter and to consider an apology.
02:31That's a massive development.
02:33This is the century of reparatory justice.
02:35Those of us, you know, across the region who've been following this history understand that well and we are absolutely
02:44confident in those who have been selected, you know, to represent us, to see this through.
02:55Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.
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