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.
When are they going to repatriate to me for my dead ancestors that died to free their ungrateful asses?
We have already paid out trillions of dollars in reparations. It was called the war on poverty. In fact, we are still paying it.
Agree to that and we have a deal.
yep
thugs with bigger goals
never will happen of course
Why not throw “cure cancer, invent a free energy source” and “help us travel to the stars” in there while you’re at it?
Sorry, blacks.. Obama’s all about the Mexicans now.
It be all ‘bout the Benjamins yo, fo’ shizzle mah nizzle!
Maybe if a number of us went to some basketball courts on our breaks close to our work places tomorrow and signed over our homes to some playuhs, they might take a break from being whining, petulant, demanding painsintheasses.
How many black youth can even pronounce “reparations”, let alone spell it?
Darren Wilson had some reparations coming for Michael Brown, for the harms done to his own self...
On my mother’s side, our family never owned slaves, and, in fact, my great-great-grandfather died in the Civil War, helping to set the slaves free. So maybe I am owed some money. On my father’s side, my grandfather didn’t even come over on the boat from Sweden until the 20th century, so we certainly don’t owe anything there.
OK, give them the reparations.
But, deduct from that the monetary equivalent of the advantages they accrue from living in the only country in the world that people from 3rd world ****holes are scrambling to get into.
Deduct from that the fact that they don’t have to live in grass huts or shantys made from scrap wood and rusty sheet metal, that they have safe water to drink, they have indoor plumbing, and a telescreen to keep them company.
And deduct that the opportunities that they have to advance in life, opportunities they would never have if they were still in Africa, opportunities they could take advantage of if only they would get off their backsides and get to work instead of blaming someone else for their own failures.
The net result? They owe the US big time, but they will never be asked to pay the difference.
And yet they still want more. Go figure.
Start setting aside money for this.
100% certain the lesser of 2 evils crowd will fight 24/7 for greater evil in 2016 and 2020.
My ancestors probably owned slaves at some point, since we got here in 1632. What does that have to do with me?
Tell you what: I’ll pitch in a few bucks on airline tickets back to Africa for any wanting to go back home, as long as you promise to stay there.
I wonder how many blacks in the US are even descended from US slaves? I bet a lot of them, if not most, had ancestors arrive here AFTER slavery ended.
Oh, I guess most of them are descended from slaves—not Barry, of course. Even so, they themselves are not slaves, and there are no slave-owners still around, last I checked.
600,000 to 700,000 white boys slaughtered each other over this issue and you call for WHAT?
Reparations have been paid in full in WHITE lives, blood, arms and legs lost,1861-1865.
Keep on promising more free sh!t that will never happen...
They will use Michael Brown for this push.
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