8. 赔偿对我们的过去和现在同时有着关联性；《德班宣言》明确指出，跨大西洋奴隶制和殖民主义仍然是种族主义、种族歧视、仇外心理和针对非洲人和非洲人后裔、亚洲裔人和土著人民的相关不容忍行为的根源之一。4 美洲国家也承认存在“具有不同族裔和种族血统的混血人口，大多由美洲大陆的殖民和奴隶制历史所造成，而其中还参杂了种族和性别的不平等关系”。5 对奴隶制和殖民主义的赔
8. Reparations concern both our past and our present; the Durban Declaration clearly states that transatlantic slavery and colonialism remain among the root causes of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance against Africans and people of African descent, people of Asian descent and indigenous peoples. 4 States in the Americas have also recognized the existence of “a mestizo population of different ethnic and racial origins, to a large extent as the result of the history of colonization and slavery in the American continent, in which unequal relations of race and gender were joined”. 5