If I did something wrong, it doesn’t matter what anyone else did, I am responsible for my own actions. There is also something deeply liberating in embracing the truth of our failures and making reparations.
A very interesting video has gone viral that supposedly humiliates CNN reporter Don Lemon. Lemon is largely a corporate mouthpiece, but this time he poses a legitimate question by asking a spokesperson for the British Crown about reparations for colonialism. He queries as to why some people remain obscenely wealthy in Great Britain while the vast majority suffer financially.
Perhaps the issue is that we no longer understand the difference between accountability and blame shifting. If I did something wrong, it doesn’t matter what anyone else did, I am responsible for my own actions. There is also something deeply liberating in embracing the truth of our failures and making reparations.
In the same way, I feel morally obliged as a Canadian citizen to embrace the 94 Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to heal the deep wounds inflicted on our country by what most scholars would now call a genocide of our Indigenous populations. If we were honest about our crimes of colonization, I do not believe that it is overly idealistic to expect that more Russians would demand reparations for the Holodomor, the starvation of over seven million Ukrainians by Josef Stalin in 1932 and 1933.
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