Posted on 03/02/2014 7:17:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
COMPTON Reparations for African-Americans who endured 200-plus years of slavery in America will be among the topics featured at the second annual Reparations Day event March 6 in Tragniew Park here, organizers said.
The Rev. Meri Kha Ra of Krst Unity Church and Minister Tony Muhammad of the Nation of Islam will speak during the program, hosted by the Compton National Reparations Day Committee.
The event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., also will include live entertainment and student essay contest winners from local area high schools.
Reparations is an internationally recognized principle of payment that a group or nation receives as a result of pain, suffering, damages or death.
The concept of reparations for U.S. slavery has gained momentum in recent years as the Washington, D.C.-based National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) has aggressively argued that all beneficiaries of slavery including the U.S. government and corporations should financially compensate the descendants of former slaves.
In 2000, the New York-based Harper's Magazine reported that the United States owes African-Americans more than $100 trillion in reparations.
But the issue of reparations goes far beyond dollars, said Compton event organizer John Peoples.
What is Reparations? Repair. What is repair? Whatever it takes to make us whole, Peoples said. Reparations is not about money.
Tragniew Park is located at 2121 W. Alondra Blvd.
Information: (310) 632-0577 or email NationalReparationDay3613@gmail.com.
Yes. Sad.
And reparations will not solve the problem. No doubt about it. It will only enrich people like Jackson and Sharpton while the people they claim to protect continue to suffer. Why, because the root of the failings have to do with the destruction of the family. Which the likes of Sharpton and Jackson seem to ignore.
Exactly. States rights.
Make em fly to Nigeria on their won dime to pick it up and refuse re-entry to this country, after confiscating their passport.
Republicans should send them a bill for the costs of the Civil War.
Now that is perfect!!! In lives as well as materiel!
“Shouldve picked our own damn cotton.”
As if white families weren’t picking along side of them. That is the dirty little secret liberals either don’t understand or won’t admit!
You could probably do that, make up a simple bill to the NAACP with a dollar amount on it, payable to “The Republicans”, for “the slaves with a war against the Southern Democrat Slavers” make a few hundred copies and get it to every ghetto household in the city.
Make sure the NAACP doesn’t get one.
The family is one of God’s major blessings, so yes throwing a monkey wrench in it will hurt people. Quite agreed. The bible itself speaks of turning the hearts of the sons to the fathers and of the fathers to the sons. And even secular psychologists have recognized these truths, if not always grasping very well the finer points of family.
White servants and slaves were, but the slave taint didn’t apply to their progeny.
The sin of presumption to white superiority has remained, and today’s liberals tend to carry it. They condescend, not in sympathy but in dehumanizing caricatures of pity.
Then why is it that such an important societal foundation is ignored and sometimes attacked? It could be that people avoid the subject because it is taught in church and some believe that church can be preachy. I disagree.
Or maybe they are embarrassed because a failure of the family is probably something that many people have known. It is painful and people don’t want to “throw stones.”
Who knows.
Bold liar....
Well, I do believe there is a devil and that this devil is busy with, well, deviltry.
The devil doesn’t care who he hurts, or how. He’s prosecuting a grudge against God. And God in turn lets him have some scope in order to teach people that good and evil matter (and also that through Him, evil can be fought).
He could mean it’s about principle, but he’s forgotten the principle that God owns the whole creation. As the song goes, He has the whole world in His hands.
$15 trillion has been spent on the war on poverty
A policy analysis released by the Cato Institute in April shows that despite nearly $15 trillion in total welfare spending since President Lyndon Johnson began the “war on poverty” in 1964, the poverty rate in the United States has remained relatively constant.
Very well said. :)
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