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.
Absolutely. The price paid by the loss of generations of families on both sides, resulting in a literal “dead end” of family trees-— this is incalculable.
The price was paid. If these people think they are due money because they are black— they are insane— because they assume they are all of slave descent, and it is not true.
GIMME DAT
Unlike with illegal immigrant amnesty, BHO has no personal stake in “ reparations for American blacks.” So , he won’t “ order” it. Sorry, American black people.
With amnesty, soon to be broken welfare/medicaid system and a flood of uneducated workers Farakan’s people are in deep stuff.
Watch D’Souza’s new movie. Half of the slave owners WERE BLACKS. And they owned half of the slaves. Get your reparations from Jesse and Al.
Reparations
Already going on.
Bronco is creating a class of voters called the masturvoter that votes for self gratification. Last six years have been good real good for them on our borrowed money trillions.
This says it all:
“This means ‘division’ is going to have to come over reparatory justice: Division before unity,”
Inciting blacks to rise up and force money from whitey. Fomenting animosity and division. Oh but yes this is what many of them are good at. It is all they know how to do. It’s not enough that they are equal and even favored in some places(affirmative action.)
Where are my reparations for how my Irish ancestors were treated when they came over here? How about ancestors on my dad’s side, some of who were sent to concentration camps and never came out? What about reparations for what one of theirs has done to the country? Slavery was a bad thing no doubt about it, but it’s laughable that they want cash from innocent people to somehow erase the wrongs committed by others in the past, which don’t even affect them today.
On Being Brought from Africa to America ~ Phyllis Wheatley
‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
“Their colour is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.
There’s something really ironic about a black muslim gibbering about “reparations” when islam and slavery went hand-in-hand for 1,000 years.
1400+
It is still going on today.
Get your damn reparations from the illegals.
Nope. White peopl can get them too.
I'd have to agree. Slaves in Africa were routinely worked to death.
you got that exactly right.
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