" In a passionate, eloquent address, Bennett asked for reparations for "the greatest crime in human history"--"The 500-year ordeal of Africans and African-Americans, which consisted of three major events: The 400 years of the African slave trade, which coincided with the 205 years of American slavery, followed by 100 years of forced labor and sharecropping" Bennett, author of the Black history classic Before the Mayflower: A History Of Black America and the new critically acclaimed book, Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, pointed out that the resolution "calls for an end to the time of weeping and cursing and the beginning of healing and reconciliation." He said that "if it does that, the price of reparation, however astronomical, will be a bargain." Bennett emphasized, "We must make amends by, first, apologizing for the slave trade and slavery and the forced labor of sharecropping." The next step, Bennett said, should be "establishing a schedule of payments. There's been a lot of discussion about how difficult this would be, but it is not hard to give away several hundred billion dollars; and it's not hard to create a panel representing all major Black interests to define priorities which, I hope, would include economic development plans for Black communities and GI-bill-type disbursements for scholarships and home purchases."
Make your reparations check payable to Leronne Bennett, nolu chan. I'm sure he'll get the money where it will do the most good.
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[civil rights] What Lincoln said about integration reprinted by popular request. Shreveport Journal, Shreveport. no date, the 60s, Single leaf on lightweight stock, 8.5 x 6.5 inches, reproduces the editorial page masthead with six lines specific to this handbill, then the brief "editorial" --about 300 words. Edgeworn, a little scorched, by age or heat uncertain.
The Shreveport Journal is pleased to reprint--by popular request--its recent editorial.. the demand for extra copies has been so great that our supply of Journals for that date has been exhausted.. Lincoln quoted as "not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes .. physical difference .. no greater calamity than assimilation..
Price: $10.00 Cat.No: 67544