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!”
But it was the oil-rich Allah-worshipping folks who bought and sold the black citizens of Africa. Why is nobody asking the Arabs for reparations?
“Consider, that if captured enemies could NOT be sold into slavery, that there would be no incentive to take prisoners.”
Unless they planned on cooking the captives for supper once they got back to the mud huts. The ones sent off on slave ships by the neighboring tribes would at least avoid being the main entree on the nightly menu.
The following case, though relating to savages, is well worth giving from its curiosity. Mr. Winwood Reade informs me that the Jollofs, a tribe of negroes on the west coast of Africa, "are remarkable for their uniformly fine appearance." A friend of his asked one of these men, "How is it that every one whom I meet is so fine-looking, not only your men, but your women?" The Jollof answered, "It is very easily explained: it has always been our custom to pick out our worse-looking slaves and to sell them." It need hardly be added that with all savages, female slaves serve as concubines. That this negro should have attributed, whether rightly or wrongly, the fine appearance of his tribe to the long-continued elimination of the ugly women is not so surprising as it may at first appear; for I have elsewhere shewn[4] that negroes fully appreciate the importance of selection in the breeding of their domestic animals, and I could give from Mr. Reade additional evidence on this head.
This site says $20 trillion for LBJ's Great Society alone.
Statistics say 22% of blacks are poor and make up about 22% of all poor.
But blacks receive nearly 40% of welfare payments.
What do you think, would that amount to "black privilege" or even reparations?
Indeed
I tried to get food stamps after Katrina, something that was automatic for the New Orleans refugees. I was laughed out of the building.
Only one point is needed;
You got money. We want it.
So South American governments get a free pass?
Needs to be said often, just remember that speaking the truth is not very popular these days.
Great summation.
Excellent questions that have probably not been thought of by those making this proposal.
Well...those are certainly inconvenient numbers for those making this proposal. Of course it will not stop them from making the proposal, it just means more work will have to be done to cover this up.
Yes, very good summation.
Is that Captain Obvious on his button?
Why don’t the rest of us get reparations from African Americans for the lethal wave of violent crime our citizens are often subject to?
I cannot argue with men dressed so magnificently. Give me my checkbook.
See, white privilege!
You should be ashamed of yourself.
</sarcasm>
My one word reply.
No.
Take it to the Islamic countries, Spain, Dutch and Brits
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