CNN’s Zain Asher: Considering Royal Family Profiting from Slavery, Many Want Reparations

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ASHER: "I mean, I think it's going to be really interesting to see whether this sort of Commonwealth experiment survives the new King. I mean, I have no idea what's going to happen, but I think that -- you know, you saw last year Barbados, for example, removing the Queen as head of state, you are seeing growing calls for Republicanism in various other sort of Commonwealth -- Commonwealth nations, especially in the Caribbean. And I think it's this idea that there is now an understanding of how much money the royal family may have made from slavery. Their involvement in sort of colonialism. And there are calls for reparations, right? And --"
HARLOW: "Mm-hmm."
ASHER: "-- even if the reparations are unlikely to happen, you sort of do get this sense that, you know, it's unfortunate that there's no apology. And that's what people really do take issue with, I think, at this point in time."