Posted on 11/20/2014 8:20:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Reparations, redress for slavery and centuries of suffering, was a major part of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s Holy Day of Atonement address in Jamaica last month.
It was also the topic when the Minister listened to scholars and spoke to students during the discussion “Revitalizing The Reparations Movement” at Chicago State University in Chicago, Illinois earlier this year.
In both messages the Minister spoke passionately and clearly about the Black plight and a willingness to confront the enemy to demand reparatory justice. “When you really think about those who went before us, and the price that they paid to put us where we are, the only thing that comes into my heart right now is to ask this question: What kind of generation will we be to have ancestors that have gone through what our ancestors have gone through, and we’re sitting here today, talking about ‘the revitalization’ of a movement that should never have had to be revitalized,” said Min. Farrakhan in remarks at the Chicago State gathering.
The Minister has also stressed that the masses of the people must be connected with the struggle for reparations and when he comes to Morgan State University Nov. 22 to serve as keynote speaker for the Black United Summit International (BUSI) conference, it will be an excellent opportunity to acquaint Black students with this movement and the need for their involvement.
B.U.S.I. aims to connect students at historically Black colleges and universities and foster collaboration and leadership development at the institutions. It also strives to encourage students to create businesses, pursue education in a serious way for self-determination and, at Morgan State in Baltimore, connect with the reparations movement. “B.U.S.I. is following in the tradition of Real Change where ‘critical thinking’ can be kissed and hugged, as it should be,” said organizers of the upcoming weekend conference.
This is the second year in which the Minister has agreed to speak at the conference and has not asked for any payment. His sole desire is to speak to students.
The deaths of young Black males in recent years—from Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis in Florida to Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo.—is reigniting a consciousness among Black students and youth.
That consciousness, energy and determination has fed protests in Ferguson and nearby St. Louis for over 90 days and has drawn young people from around the country eager to connect with a movement for justice and progress for Black people.
The same energy and determination is needed in the fight for reparations. “We need unity with the people who want reparatory justice. We don’t need unity with collaborators and pacifiers, and people who want to talk it down when it should be talked up strong,” said Minister Farrakhan last spring at Chicago State University. “This means ‘division’ is going to have to come over reparatory justice: Division before unity,” he said.
That division will come based on a new willingness to fight and new determination that Blacks in America, the Diaspora and Africa must go free. Our young people are the ones to lead us into this Promised Land, they just need the right cause and the right voice. Both will be present at Morgan State University on Nov. 21-22 and you should be there too.
So, is an Executive Order for reparations forthcoming?
repartition before reparation
repatriotation
Gobbledygook. They just string phrases together to sound kind of revolutionary or something. It all just translates to: gibsmedat.
How about you move your arse and get a job?
is their white half going to pay their black half? because nearly every black person in America has white blood in them.
Sure, reparations for anyone of the black yutes who have been a slave in the US.
Really, I thought EBT cards were reparations.
You know, I really am sick to death of how badly the black man / woman was treated...
Reparations my ass.
Are they suing Africa? The Chiefs who SOLD their Ancestors into slavery?
I’m part American Indian. The Blacks have been given more than my people have. Don’t start about Casinos, how many years was it before the Red man had the sense to open one?
My people live still on Reservations that support NO ONE.
Blacks live in 2 story houses, get welfare and food stamps, and bitch about it?
Reparations? HELL NO!
With over $4 trillion already spent on black welfare, I think it is past time blacks got off their asses and started pulling their own weight!
I have always thought that they should thank God that their forefathers were brought to this country instead of complaining and feeling ‘entitled’.
Very good......that was very good.
“I have always thought that they should thank God that their forefathers were brought to this country instead of complaining and feeling ‘entitled’.”
It apparently hasn’t occurred to them that had their forefathers stayed in Africa they could not have been conceived and therefore would never have lived.
No “reparations”.
Ever.
These aren’t innocent people seeking redress of legitimate grievances. They’re thieves and robbers.
About the EBT cards? that's what you and all of us get for thinking.
I will gladly pay reparations to any slaves I personally owned. . . . Oh, that’s right, that {expletive} ended about a hundred years before I was born. Gee, sorry, guess that’s not going to happen then.
If you’re stopped at a red light, then it’s doors locked & your weapon within reach plus extreme situational awareness.
Some member of the entitlement community may approach your vehicle seeking “reparations”.
JS
Well, to bad so sad.....obama just gave everything to illegals.
Oh and then there is the $22Trillion already spend on the minority community in the last 50 years.
Now that they’ve been given Obamnesty, I’m expecting Barry’s illegal aliens to start demanding reparations too. Whitey better hold on to his wallet.
It seems the USA is no longer a very safe place to keep your money.
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