Posted on 10/09/2017 8:00:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
David Comissiong, chairman of the Caribbean Pan-African Network, has penned a 12-point explainer outlining the campaign for reparations for the legacy of crimes against humanity perpetrated against the sons and daughters of Africa by European nations, the United States and other North American governments.
During the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent from 2015-2024, the 12 points read as follows: No impunity; validation of our humanity; knowledge of our history; completion of the emancipation process; compensation must be proportionate to the crime; reparations must produce the just society; we Africans must exercise autonomy throughout the process; we must repair ourselves; self-repair will generate mass support for reparations; reparations must be a broad movement; the mass of our people must be intimately involved; network and establish new international legal structures.
Resistance to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was so organized and pervasive that Jean-Baptiste Durand of the Compaigne du Senegal attested that white slave traders had no other choice but to build fortified forts and barracoons along the west coast of Africa to provide protection “from the Negroes living in the country.”
Queen Nzinga, Samori Toure, Abdoul Kader Kane, King Menelik II, and other African leaders led the resistance movements against these slave incursions. Kader Kane, leader of the Futa Toro region in northern Senegal, wrote a letter to French authorities in which he stated: “We are warning you that all those who will come to our land to trade in slaves will be killed and massacred if you do not send our children back.”
The Rastafarian community in the Caribbean has long called for reparations. Former President of the Caribbean Rastafari Organization Ras Bongo "Wisely" Tafari has been championing the cause for decades.
“There is a lot of work that needs to be done and we, the people, need to take it on our own to do it. We cannot just leave it to the politicians. Now is the time for us to really sit down and take reparations to another level. Don’t just leave it as if it is a cause solely for Rastafarians,” he said.
In reference to the 10th and 12 points detailed in the reparations program, human rights activist, author and Harvard Law School graduate Randall Robinson commented on how the slave trade practiced in the Americas was not restricted to national boundaries.
“Harvard Law School was established and made possible by a man named Isaac Royall Jr., who endowed the law school from proceeds he had gotten from the sale of slaves on his Antiguan sugar plantation. Our forebearers, with their appropriated labor, endowed Harvard Law School,” he said.
Citing other well-respected Ivy League schools, private corporations and even the construction of the U.S. capital city, Washington D.C., Robinson said, “So much of the U.S. institutional wealth has its roots in slavery.”
Comissiong concludes his reparations explainer by noting that “the time has come for the African and African descendant people of the world and their Governments to finally present their Reparations Bill to the current day successor Governments of those national Governments of Europe and North America that organized, facilitated, legitimized, financed, and benefited from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the associated system of racialized Chattel Slavery.
Onwards to the achievement of Reparations in this United Nations International Decade For People of African Descent!”
Watchu problem Honky....U no U r da problem ! Dem muzzys B r friends now—helpin us 2 get yur honky reperashuns ! /sarc and LOL
It comes down to who gets paid? Not so easy.
Are we paying blacks who can verify an ancestor was actually a slave? Or blacks without that history as well? Blacks whose family only arrived in the 20th century?
What % African ancestry is required? At least 50% ? 25% ? 5% ? Those who simply self-identify? (Hello Rachel D.)
And how much money per person are we talking about? $10,000 seems somewhat trivial. $100,000? $1.0 mil? The bill would be ugly.
Where does this money come from? Tax? Who are we taxing? Everyone? Caucasians only? Hispanic and Asian too? Everyone but blacks? Are we excluding certain low income levels? At what level? So we’re taxing the rich? Middle class?
And what of blacks who have been very financially successful and are millionaires? Paying them too when the money could legitimately help out much lower income levels better?
Or is this not just about slavery but discrimination? Do nearly all races but Caucasian suddenly lay claim?
Any payout formula could get messy fast, if it could even be agreed upon to begin with.
Utter bunk.
Prior to the development of modern vaccinations and antibiotics, the life expectancy of a non-African in central Africa was under a year.
The Atlantic slave could have not existed without the enthusiastic cooperation of the stronger, more aggressive Africans who enslaved and sold their weaker, less-aggressive neighbors.
The only acceptable reparation would be repatriation. Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
Notice the author leaves out South America, which also had a thriving slave trade. The South America, the average slave lived 10 years, compared to 30 years in the US.
Well, that settles it. If Cuba gave him an award, he must be a good guy.
I think the slave-owners and -traders did the Africans a huge favor, bringing them to the New World and introducing them to civilization.
I think African-Americans owe US reparations.
“Money for Nothing and the Weed’s for Free”
h/t Mark Knopfler
” who cannot find someone whose ancestors were not wronged, by slavery, genocide or other heinous acts by another.” << “
Don’t recall the VIKINGS being victims too much, nor trading in the mdse of topic here ....
Might just be that I haven’t read the appropriate books ?
Consider, that if captured enemies could NOT be sold into slavery, that there would be no incentive to take prisoners. The incentive would be to just kill them all and take their land.
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The Vikings were the most ancient “indigenous people.”
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Shoulda picked our own cotton.
Current income**
-453.60 USD*
Total
If the total is greater than $453 then you are making more than the folks living in Guinea. Consider that your reparation.
If the total is less than $453 (negative) we will cut you a check to make up the difference.
**To include social payouts
* Annual Per Capita Income in Guinea (Just a random West African Nation where many of the slaves may have come from)
Blacks have had trillions in welfare as reparations.
We need to cut them off just like we don’t feed the bears because it makes them dependent.
“Notice the author leaves out South America, which also had a thriving slave trade. The South America, the average slave lived 10 years, compared to 30 years in the US.”
IIRC ~90% of the slaves from Africa were sent to South America.
The number of military deaths has been revised upward to 720,000. That does not take into account the tens of thousands of Southerners killed by Federal troops in the South due to shelling of cities, collateral deaths, and just thug killing.
I think I read some were its $30 trillion. That seems like an exaggeration, I would like to know how that figure (or any figure!) representing the amount was put together.
/s
Well...it WOULD buy a lot of Nikes, Hip-Hop and bling. For a couple of weeks, they’d be livin’ the dream. When the money was all gone, whose fault would that be? The Sharptons would stir up a bunch of bellyaching again.
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