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30 Hamline J. Pub. L. & Pol'y 89 (2008-2009)
Race Rights Reparations: Exploring a Reparations Framework for Addressing Trade Inequality

handle is hein.journals/hplp30 and id is 93 raw text is: Race Rights Reparations: Exploring a Reparations Framework for Addressing Trade Inequality Fernne Brennan* Introduction Tearing people from their families, communities, culture and economies for the purpose of commerce, underpinned by racial discrimination is clearly a moral wrong that the legal system should correct. When it comes to the African Holocaust, however, the narrative shifts. Why rake up the past? Why should Europe carry the guilt? Pay? The relevance to contemporary problems is minimal? I beg to differ. This paper argues that the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was an African Holocaust' due to its systematic *This paper is dedicated to Tony Brennan, Professor Janet Dine, Hamline University School of Law and Alex Klein. All mistakes are mine. 1 Holocaust is a word derived from the Greek holokauston that means a burnt sacrifice offered whole to God. See Holocaust, Dictionary.Com, available at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Holocaust (last visited Jan. 28 2009). The word holocaust was used to signify the work of the Nazi regime during the Second World War in using crematoriums and open fires to exterminate people of Jewish descent. See Holocaust, Encyclopaedia Britannica, available at http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-904082 1/Holocaust (last visited Jan. 1, 2009). African Holocaust (Maafa) comes from the Kiswahili for terrible occurrence and its modem form is used to depict the suffering of people of African heritage through Slavery, Imperialism, Colonialism, Oppression, Invasions and Exploitation. See African Holocaust, African History Restored, available at http://www.africanholocaust.net/htmlah/holocaustspecial.htm (last visited Jan. 1, 2009); see also Gerene L. Freeman, What About My 40 Acres and a Mule? IV Racism and Nativism in American Political Culture, YALE-NEW HAVEN TEACHES INSTITUTE, (1994) (arguing that there is a persistent resistance to acceptance that there was an African Holocaust but we should call it what it was).

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