Reparations in Fanon and the US context

I talked was also thinking to compare Fanon’s notion of redistributing wealth to calls for reparations in the United States. The argument calls for reparations for African-Americans in the U.S. to compensate for a painful history of slavery and discrimination. This is similar to Fanon’s argument asking for compensation for a history of exploitative colonialism. Fanon and supporters of American reparations both note that the exploitation of marginalized people does not have a definite endpoint. For example, Fanon writes, "Colonialism and imperialism have not settled their debt to us once they have withdrawn their flag and their police force from our territories.” And discrimination against black people—social, economic, judicial—certainly continues today, after the abolition of slavery in the United States, which we might consider analogous to the withdrawal of a colonial power. Both cases suggest a considerable debt owed to marginalized people.