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Black activists focus on family, reparations
Houston Chronicle ^ | 7/13/2007 | ALLAN TURNER

Posted on 07/14/2007 12:12:45 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

In speeches demanding government reparations for 400 years of American slavery to ruminations on the revolutionary nature of a rose in a woman's hand, black activists Friday took up the the thorny topic of how best to "resurrect" the African-American family.

Chicago activist Conrad Worrill urged those gathered at the Shape Community Center for the 28th convention of the National Black United Front to continue to push for government compensation for centuries of slavery.

"It's clear they owe us for 400 years of free labor," he said. "They owe us."

Worrill, United Front national chairman, was the opening speaker for the organization's three-day conference. Founded in Brooklyn, N.Y., the group was active in opposing the white-led government of South Africa, supporting Harold Washington's election as Chicago's first black mayor and participating in the Nation of Islam's 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C. In the 1990s, the group lodged allegations of U.S. genocide with the United Nations.

Houston Nation of Islam Minister Robert Muhammad, also on Friday's program, called the United Front the "hardest of hard-core" activists. "We say, 'No justice, no peace,' and mean it," he said.

Today, delegates will tour the Fourth Ward — Houston's "Freedman's Town" — then discuss strategies and experiments in African-centered education.

In an earlier interview, Worrill attributed many of the problems facing contemporary black families to the legacy of slavery, which he said "disrupted, decimated and shut down" black family life for centuries.

Blacks bear the responsibility of "repairing the family internally," he said, but must not stop demanding that government address social ills.

'Apologies aren't enough' Citing ex-slave Callie House's decades-long, early 20th-century crusade to glean government pensions for former bondsmen as a model, Worrill said blacks must push for reparations with the tenacity they exhibited in seeking the end of legally sanctioned segregation. "What we're seeing unfold is that many states have now offered apologies," he said. "Apologies aren't enough.

"Why are blacks any different than the Japanese?" he said, alluding to reparations paid Japanese-Americans held in World War II internment camps.

Ajamu Webster, of the United Front's Kansas City chapter, told delegates about the Fathers for Life program, which provided peer counseling sessions for adult men. The program also endeavored to "lift up brothers," publicizing examples of highly successful fathers.

An effort to "take back Father's Day" resulted in large numbers of men spending the day in the park with their children. In a related campaign, children were encouraged to write essays about their fathers, which they then read over the radio.

Muhammad told delegates that activists in their zeal sometimes "have not taken care of business at home." Citing the teachings of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad said family is "second only to God."

The power of love He admonished the men in the audience to "feel your woman's pain," and to exhibit patience and loyalty. "What's wrong with flowers?" Muhammad said. "Nothing is as revolutionary as a rose in a woman's hand. Nothing is as revolutionary as taking her out to dinner and a movie. Nothing is more revolutionary than going to the park. ... Nothing more revolutionary than a rowboat ride.

"Black power is love power. Black power is family power."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: black; blackfamily; racerelations; reparations; victicrats
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To: Altura Ct.
"Why are blacks any different than the Japanese?" he said, alluding to reparations paid Japanese-Americans held in World War II internment camps.

Cause the Japanese survivors of the camps were still alive?

I'm of the Jewish faith, yet I was born a couple of decades after Germany's defeat. Do I get anything from the German use of Jews for slave labor? Nope. I'm not entitled.

21 posted on 07/14/2007 12:28:43 PM PDT by lowbridge (If You’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
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To: Altura Ct.
I'm just imagining, if reparations actually became a reality, of the zillions in fraud cases that would occur with nonblacks claiming blackness, illegal alien blacks coming here to claim their prize, legal resident blacks who came from Jamaica, Haiti, Ehiopia, or Kenya whose ancestors had no connection to being enslaved, etc.

Other than that, imagine how this would play out. Each "slave descendent" gets a check for $10K, $50K, $100K - whatever.

Knowing what we know about sudden wealth, not to mention ignorant as dirt welfare recipients, combined with human nature, where do you suppose that instant money will go? A new house, new cars, vacations, jewelry, lotto tickets, and drugs.

And then the money is gone. And they will be no better off than before. They will NOT have used the money for education, for investments, for business start ups, or simply for saving for the future.

And the "it wasn't fully funded" drumbeat will begin.

22 posted on 07/14/2007 12:28:52 PM PDT by Lizavetta ( If a liberal speaks, and no one hears it, is it still stupid?)
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To: Altura Ct.

Jesse Jackson must be running out of money and ideas in his dotage.


23 posted on 07/14/2007 12:28:56 PM PDT by hgro (Jerry Riversd)
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To: Altura Ct.
“...how best to “resurrect” the African-American family”.

Teach the shorties:

1.Stay in Skewl...even though it’s not kewl to be smart.

2.You poke it, you impregnate it, you father it, you own it.

3. For G_ds sake, stop blaming whitey and take some personal responsibility with your life.

24 posted on 07/14/2007 12:29:21 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Does that include finding out who the fathers are baby daddy is?
25 posted on 07/14/2007 12:29:34 PM PDT by TheZMan (Texas is no place for pansy-ass liberals. Ya'll move back to California er Mexico er somethin')
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To: Truthsearcher

Ha, well, only problem is that you’d just be creating more illegal aliens. Would have to secure the borders first.


26 posted on 07/14/2007 12:29:49 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger
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To: SampleMan
For every ten black families I deal with, perhaps one has a father in the house.

The other nine have an uncle in the house.Uncle Sam.and on the first day of each months he sends at least one check "home" to support his "nieces and nephews".

27 posted on 07/14/2007 12:30:24 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: Altura Ct.

Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have repeatedly written articles that refute the assertions that the legacy of slavery continued to disrupt the black family. They have shown that the black family was quite strong until the advent of the socialistic “Great Society” crap of LBJ kicked in with the govt taking over the role of the black husband and father.


28 posted on 07/14/2007 12:32:24 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Lurker
If they want to insist on being "African" I suggest they go back there. They should be thankful they are here in America today, and they owe this nation a great deal.

... There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French o before the hyphen.

Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic.

The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."

Excerpt
Theodore Roosevelt, 1915

http://www.rpatrick.com/USA/americanism/

29 posted on 07/14/2007 12:35:58 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Altura Ct.
"It's clear they owe us for 400 years of free labor,"

Where do they get 400 years from?

May 14, 1607, the Virginia Company explorers landed on Jamestown Island and there wasn't a single black slave on board.

30 posted on 07/14/2007 12:36:05 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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To: Cowboy Bob

hahahahaha, ‘finding out who the fathers are.’ You are BAD. Evidently you have not been re-educated??


31 posted on 07/14/2007 12:36:49 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: Altura Ct.
Find me anyone living who was a slave in the US and I will agree that person does deserve reparations. Everyone else who was never a slave can STFU about reparations.
32 posted on 07/14/2007 12:36:52 PM PDT by mnehring (Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit)
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To: Altura Ct.
"It's clear they owe us for 400 years of free labor," he said.

1619 to 1865 = 246 years.

Even if you accept his dubious logic.

We're still 12 years short of blacks having been here (under English or US governments). Black slaves were present in NM and FL prior to this under Spain.

33 posted on 07/14/2007 12:38:10 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)
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To: lowbridge

Wait a minute, I’m part German. My great-grandmother’s feelings were hurt, being here and being called a Kraut. They owe ME.


34 posted on 07/14/2007 12:38:20 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: razorback-bert

owe us? Who’s us? What this person is seeking here, is reverse slavery, non-black forever subject to slave tax


35 posted on 07/14/2007 12:38:48 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Gay State Conservative

This happens in white housholds too. I think I once figured that a single mom with three illegitmate kids can get 35K a year from uncle sam in benefits if all benefits are applied for properly. This is assuming she works and has a good reccord, financial and criminal.


36 posted on 07/14/2007 12:39:51 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Those that can do, do. Those that can't do, teach. Those that can't do either, run for office)
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To: Altura Ct.
"It's clear they owe us for 400 years of free labor," he said. "They owe us."

Payable in Zimbabwe Dollars.

37 posted on 07/14/2007 12:40:18 PM PDT by surely_you_jest (I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers)
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To: bboop
I’m a mutt.. I deserve reparations from everyone for everything..
38 posted on 07/14/2007 12:40:21 PM PDT by mnehring (Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit)
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To: bboop
Wait a minute, I’m part German. My great-grandmother’s feelings were hurt, being here and being called a Kraut.

Wait a minute, I was merely asking him to pass the sauer.....kraut.

39 posted on 07/14/2007 12:40:59 PM PDT by lowbridge (If You’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
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To: Altura Ct.
'Apologies aren't enough'

Ok. I don't apologize.

40 posted on 07/14/2007 12:42:28 PM PDT by ExtremeUnction
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