Segragation is what they're doing in this case. They are going backwards... in a different direction, but backwards just the same. The issue of racism will not be solved with segregation.

There are parallel similarities here with the US reparations issue:

[A big issue at the meeting is a plan by black activists from the Caribbean and North America to sue France for making Haiti pay millions of francs for recognition of its independence nearly two centuries ago.

France officially recognised Haiti's independence in exchange for 150 million francs in gold in 1838, 33 years after Haitians defeated Napoleon's army in the first and only successful slave revolt against a colonial power.

The Barbadian Attorney-General, Mia Mottley, said France forced Haiti to make payments between 1825 and 1922. "And then we wonder why the systematic underdevelopment of Haiti," she said]

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If a person or country has severed all ties and rendered a people/country to have gained full independence, then all previous forms of documentation (unless they were actual gifts), that say otherwise should be obsolete. To put any kind of clause, as in the case of France over Haiti, is by no means acknowledging a country independence. (imho)

Marcia