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OUR SOCIO-ECONOMIC VISION

Generally, Africana people are amongst the most impoverished sections of society. Ownership of land, property, businesses and industries is comparatively negligible compared to other migrant groups, e.g., Asians and Chinese.

Self-determination and economic sustainability is determinant on the ability for people to organise and control their own modes of production to secure their own survival and development. 

In the UK, there are a small percentage of Africana people who are business owners and are in lucrative roles commanding high incomes. Unfortunately, wealth creation evades the general Africana population.

Asians and Chinese manage to keep between 70% – 90% of the incomes they generate within their own communities, thereby building legacies of wealth to bequeath to the next generation. Wealth creation has facilitated social mobility and brighter futures, with the knock-on effect of

  • high educational outcomes
  • high entrepreneurial patterns
  • high employment rates in medicine, finance and business ownership
  • generational wealth building capacity
  • retention of the majority of Asian pound in Asian communities

OUR EDUCATIONAL VISION

Education is the key to success in any society. Generally, education occurs within the context of culture and nation building. Education is designed to shape society and protect the status quo of the dominant group’s political and social order. Hence certain outcomes are built in, where certain sections of society are positioned to experience poor educational outcomes. The government’s own data demonstrates that children who live in more affluent areas are predisposed to experience better education and employment outcomes.

Yet within the general education data patterns have emerged whereby Asian and Chinese children, irrespective of their backgrounds consistently outperform the dominant Caucasian pupils. Their entrepreneurial achievements and employment status are positive.

The data also contains disturbing information about the performance of Black children – Black boys in particular in that they are consistently at the lower end of education outcomes. They are overrepresented in school exclusions and Pupil Referral Units. Unless there are successful interventions these children become part of the

  • school to prison complex
  • long term unemployed
  • low paid sector
  • precarious workforce

A disaggregation of data shows that African children whose parents are part of the new wave of migrants outperform their African counterparts from Caribbean backgrounds. Some are very successful. The success stories need to spread beyond pockets and become success story of the general Africana children population. A network of Black head-teachers recognise that more has to be done to redress issues of underachievement of Black students.

Parents are the first and primary educators of their children. Parental support and interventions are crucial to the success of their children’s futures.

OUR JURISPRUDENCE VISION

There is a British canon that states ‘equality before the law’. However, ever since the large-scale migration of Africana people to the UK since the 1950s, the canon has been disapplied with regular frequency leading to Africana uprisings.

Generally, the experience of Africana people, particularly in terms of the criminal law and immigration law, equality, rationale and objectivity have not featured and has led to untold injustices culminating in a general distrust of the police (and other state agents with the power of arrest and detention) the operation of the criminal justice systems.

Equitable policing of Africana people has become a matter of life and death Africana people have the highest incidents of stop, search and arrest with disproportionate levels of deaths in custody.

When police routinely break the law in order to abuse their powers to carry out unlawful stop and search, the impact can be devastating on their intended. The trauma that follows cannot be assessed. 

Africana people are entitled to the protection of the law and be empowered to seek redress should they experience police abuse. In 2017/18 out of every 1000 Africana people, 29 were stopped and searched, compared to 3 in every white person. Constantly having to adapt and be on your guard for fear of being unjustifiably stopped and search causes stress and negatively impacts on lives.

OUR HEALTH VISION

Generally, there are three factors that influence health and wellbeing outcomes

  • genes
  • environment
  • education

In the UK, Africana people represent approximately 2% of the population yet feature disproportionately in the indices of chronic, debilitating, malignant diseases, e.g., strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure, HIV/AIDs, obesity, gynaecological disorders, infant and maternal mortality, mental health illnesses.

In terms of assessment and treatments Africana people are disproportionately diagnosed with schizophrenia, compulsorily detained under mental health legislation, admitted to medical facilities and offender patients, transferred from open wards to locked wards; not referred for talking therapies or psychotherapy; prescribed highest doses of medication, receive psychiatric referrals by courts; experience unmet needs.

Data shows that Africana people’s lifespans are in decline from lower childbirth to shortened life spans. Generally, unless things are reversed, there is no longer an expectation that Africana people will live as long their parents.

OUR REPARATIONS VISION

Reparations is a principle of law that has existed for centuries. The right to reparations is a well-established principle of international law. Reparations places obligations on wrongdoers to redress whatever damage they have caused to injured parties. Reparations applies to injury caused by acts of crimes against humanity, including genocide, war crimes, rape as weapon of war/oppression, torture, enslavement, murder, apartheid, persecution, enforced prostitution, etc, etc. 

This is also a fundamental prerequisite of Maat/Ubuntu and reaffirms the principle of justice.

Germany was forced to make reparations to the Jewish people they targeted during the two world wars. Japan was forced to make reparations to women who they forced into prostitution for Japanese men. The US government was forced to make reparations for the 120,000 Japanese people who were living in America during the Second World War.  In 2011 Queen Elizabeth II issued an apology to the Moaris of New Zealand for colonial atrocities in the 1840s. The reparations package included financial compensation and the return of Maori land and cultural redress.

Despite the Africana experience of forced chattel enslavement of some of its peoples, atrocities experienced during the colonisation on the continent of Africa and Caribbean countries and continued racial oppression, UK governments have refused to recognise Africana claims for reparations.  The Pan-African People’s Parliament supports claims for Africana reparations.