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.
Harpers can pay whatever they feel is appropriate, but leave the rest of us alone.
Inflation plus “interest” in some bizarre formula using the guesstimated “eligible population” probably.
Isn’t $100 trillion much more than the entire GDP of the whole world?
Indeed! If Galaxy of Horror is any precedent...
Sounds like Obama math he is the trillion dollar man.
Give them Compton and declare the socalled reparations accounts settled. . ( They’ve already ruined Compton anyway )
Weimar Germany. Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of the story.
Yikes.
Or, zombie boobage ala Peter Jackson’s “brain dead” aka deadalive.
Give them reparations only if they deport themselves to Africa and never return.
The Rev. Meri Kha Ra of Krst Unity Church
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Obviously ‘they’ bought too many vowels for the Rev and not quite enough for the church????
I will take a stab at it..
Some one in the fambly(sic) was a Mary Kay salesperson and they were cheering her on????
I agree sir. Anyone who can prove they were slaves, working mostly in the fields, deserves reparations. To them I say rots a ruck MO FOs.
*whip barely moves, zombie slaver sorta wobbles and drools*
“Tooooograaaa. Ur naaa eh toooooograaAaa.
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A Black gunfighter went down and his last words were
You Muther..
The townspeople couldn’t understand what he meant but figure he was calling for his mother and decided to name the town for such a loving son.
Since they weren’t sure of his name, they chose....
Thus, in its shortened version, YUMA Arizona was born....
reparations my ass , how about repairing right on back to mama Africa ?
Great.
Now I have the image of zombie slaves wandering around going”yuuuumaaaaaa”.
On top of the scene already described.
Not a lot of action as everyone is a zombie in this version.
Reparations were paid in blood when 700000 white men slaughtered each other over the question of slavery.1861-1865
Tens of thousands of others gave arms and legs in the same cause.
Pay’em in bitcoins!
Not only do they need to, they actually DID.
The modern pity party began with the “Great” (ptui) “Society.” That thought millions, then billions in redistribution, quite apart from embracing the Lord, could make anyone “great.”
Wait a minute! 4,000 years ago my ancestors were enslaved for over 400 years by Black Egyptians. Instead of the blood of 600,000 soldiers and un-counted civilians it took a number of acts of God to free them a cruel slavery. Where’s our money plus 4,00 years of compounded interest and a heart felt apology?
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