The law is the latest step in a process of healing colonial scars — but these scars cannot heal while bones and bodies of grandmothers and grandfathers still fill up museum exhibitions.
The pillaging of Africa’s resources by some of our nation’s most revered companies serves as a brutal reminder that even with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, American corporations do not practice this formal equality beyond its borders. With the onset of globalization, they have merely transferred their system of exploitation overseas.