Why aren't financial reparations part of the solution needed? The linked-to article at https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-netherlands-slavery-mark-rutte-suri

Why aren't financial reparations part of the solution needed? The linked-to article at https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-netherlands-slavery-mark-rutte-suriname-3d4f0226706c3109080a687ae67858c4 https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-netherlands-slavery-mar... says things like: > “Slavery was a terrible period, and degrading acts were committed,” he said as he called for financial reparations to be spent on education, health and other public benefits. “We remained poor.” > Irma Hoever, a 73-year-old retired civil servant who lives in the capital, Paramaribo, said that the Dutch “do not understand what they have done to us.” > “They still enjoy what their ancestors did to this day. We still suffer. Reparations are needed,” she said. and: > Activists in the Dutch Caribbean territory of St. Maarten have rejected the anticipated apology and demanded reparations, too. Why do you know better than they do?