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A Push For Reparations

Mike

Well-known member
Because the Zimmerman trial didn't end the way they wanted, they now want to be paid for Justice. Where does it end?

PHILADELPHIA--The stench of injustice has spilled over with the nauseating smell of institutional murder once again. Left unchanged, this injustice will linger until the next injustice, and the next case…until we finally get it: public policy, in the form of reparations, is the solution to all of our social ills and the injustices that frame our existence. It’s time to rethink our demands and actions.

Reparations is a word to describe what can be done to help victims of chattel enslavement overcome the horrific generational damage that they suffered and the means to give them back their dignity and to make sure that these abuses do not happen again. I’m talking about development-centered reparations in which individuals and communities take control and ownership of the development of their own communities.

For those of you who are waiting for the “great by and by,” God is not going to step in until we step up. God is not going to protect and defend us until we protect and defend ourselves.

There is no one organization that is going to make “Master” change his/her evil ways. Only a mass social movement…will. That social movement of our time is the extant reparations movement.

Our protests for the injustice of the murder of Trayvon Martin, and the release of his killer, must be strategically and logically linked to reparations. As the demand for reparations goes forward, here are some starting proposals to…repair the damage done to descendants of Africans enslaved in America. We need to:

Demand the repeal of all “stand your ground laws.” Demand a war on the import of weapons in urban communities with bounties and rewards. Demand divestment from financial institutions with a history of financing chattel slavery with investments, loans, and accepting deposits of enslavers. Demand that funding for education exceeds funding for prisons. Demand free, quality healthcare and insurance.

Unless and until we make these demands and proposals measurable and available for all African descendants enslaved in America…we will continue to engage in and promote generational insanity.

Minister Ari Sesu Merretazon is co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. My Take is a social commentary feature that allows AFRO readers to share their insight into a range of topics. Please submit your 250-450 word entries, with My Take typed into the subject field, to [email protected] Include your name, age, occupation and daytime phone number. The AFRO reserves the right to edit or reject any entry.
 

iwannabeacowboy

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Traveler said:
Food Stamps and other Government handouts don't count towards reparations? WTF?

Sounds good to me. Lets stop the food stamps, phones, sect 8 and other crap and give them free health care. Could save us trillions. All we have to do is go back to the old system.

Most are dumb enough to not realize they were already getting it.
 

TSR

Well-known member
Mike said:
Because the Zimmerman trial didn't end the way they wanted, they now want to be paid for Justice. Where does it end?

PHILADELPHIA--The stench of injustice has spilled over with the nauseating smell of institutional murder once again. Left unchanged, this injustice will linger until the next injustice, and the next case…until we finally get it: public policy, in the form of reparations, is the solution to all of our social ills and the injustices that frame our existence. It’s time to rethink our demands and actions.

Reparations is a word to describe what can be done to help victims of chattel enslavement overcome the horrific generational damage that they suffered and the means to give them back their dignity and to make sure that these abuses do not happen again. I’m talking about development-centered reparations in which individuals and communities take control and ownership of the development of their own communities.

For those of you who are waiting for the “great by and by,” God is not going to step in until we step up. God is not going to protect and defend us until we protect and defend ourselves.

There is no one organization that is going to make “Master” change his/her evil ways. Only a mass social movement…will. That social movement of our time is the extant reparations movement.

Our protests for the injustice of the murder of Trayvon Martin, and the release of his killer, must be strategically and logically linked to reparations. As the demand for reparations goes forward, here are some starting proposals to…repair the damage done to descendants of Africans enslaved in America. We need to:

Demand the repeal of all “stand your ground laws.” Demand a war on the import of weapons in urban communities with bounties and rewards. Demand divestment from financial institutions with a history of financing chattel slavery with investments, loans, and accepting deposits of enslavers. Demand that funding for education exceeds funding for prisons. Demand free, quality healthcare and insurance.

Unless and until we make these demands and proposals measurable and available for all African descendants enslaved in America…we will continue to engage in and promote generational insanity.

Minister Ari Sesu Merretazon is co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. My Take is a social commentary feature that allows AFRO readers to share their insight into a range of topics. Please submit your 250-450 word entries, with My Take typed into the subject field, to [email protected] Include your name, age, occupation and daytime phone number. The AFRO reserves the right to edit or reject any entry.


My ancestors were probably serfs, think I can get any money from some European gov'ts???
 

Whitewing

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If the average afro-american had the opportunity to travel to the "homeland" to see the conditions in which his "brothers" live today, he'd fall to his knees and shout, "god bless those who took my ancestors out of this shyte-hole to give me the opportunities that I have today".

Of course, I'm just a realist.
 

Steve

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My ancestors were probably serfs, think I can get any money from some European gov'ts???

morally I can see your point and feel that you can easily get part of the profits,.. since most EU countries are heavily in-debt,.. just write the check for your portion and mail it to them,.. I am sure they would gladly accept it. :shock: :lol:
 

Steve

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first we need to look at the promises made by a politician,..

they are not worth the paper they were written on... comes to mind...

but for the sake of the disagreement lets look at them anyways..

Compensation

President Lincoln advocated that slave owners be compensated for emancipated slaves

On July 14, 1862 President Lincoln sent a bill to Congress that allowed the Treasury to issue bonds at 6% interest to states for slave emancipation compensation to the slave owners.

ain't going to happen... period.. sorry southerners you don't have the political pull to get a cent, let alone compensation... (which means both Barack and M will not get any money either) unless they claim to be a farmer,.. then they might.. :roll:



but seriously lets look at the Lincoln plan for freed slaves..

ongress gravitated towards this plan in mid-1862, and Lincoln appointed Kansas Senator Samuel Pomeroy to oversee it. Pomeroy promised 40 acres and a job to willing Blacks.

well that might work out but it never really was implemented.. well I a can't say never.. they did try it..

453 freed slaves departed for the island,... Poor planning, an outbreak of smallpox, and financial mismanagement by Kock left the colonists under-supplied and starving, according to early reports. 292 colonists remained on Ile a Vache in 1865; 73 had moved to Aux Cayes on Haiti.[40]The United States Navy arrived rescue survivors after less than one year on the island

well considering today's lack of goverment leadership,..and how Haiti looks today.. that still wouldn't be a good plan....

but the point is they were not only promised 40 acres,. but a job as well,.. just not here...

so to qualify.. the recipient must pay all his debt to the US back first..

that alone would make many eligible applicants cringe...

now I still agree that any slave may have a rightful claim to the rest.. a cruise,.. a piece of land and a job...

but like then,.. no one is willing to take them...
if we could just find a nation that would take them we could fulfill Lincoln's promises.. a trip somewhere else, a piece of land and a job...

( keeping the land, the job, as well as a trip back is on them... )

heck I am in favor of giving every one of them the job now as a show of good faith.. :shock: :shock: :lol:
 

Mike

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Liberia is the only country in Africa rooted in U.S. colonization. Beginning in 1820, the region was colonized by blacks from the United States, most of whom were freed slaves. These immigrants established a new country with the help of the American Colonization Society, a private organization which believed that former slaves would have greater freedom and equality in Africa. African captives freed from slave ships were also sent there instead of being repatriated to their countries of origin. In 1847, this new country became the Republic of Liberia, establishing a government modeled on that of the United States and naming its capital city Monrovia after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States and a prominent supporter of the colonization. The colonists, known as Americo-Liberians, led the political and economic sectors of the country.
The country began to modernize in the 1940s following investment by the United States during World War II and economic liberalization under President William Tubman. Liberia was a founding member of the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity. A military coup overthrew the Americo-Liberian leadership in 1980, marking the beginning of political and economic instability and two successive civil wars that left approximately 250,000 people dead and devastated the country's economy. A peace agreement in 2003 led to democratic elections in 2005. Today, Liberia is recovering from the lingering effects of the civil wars and their consequent economic upheaval, although about 85% of the population continue to live below the international poverty line.
 
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