Posted on 07/30/2013 6:15:22 AM PDT by YourAdHere
PHILADELPHIA--The stench of injustice has spilled over with the nauseating smell of institutional murder once again. Left unchanged, this injustice will linger until the next injustice, and the next case…until we finally get it: public policy, in the form of reparations, is the solution to all of our social ills and the injustices that frame our existence. It’s time to rethink our demands and actions.
Reparations is a word to describe what can be done to help victims of chattel enslavement overcome the horrific generational damage that they suffered and the means to give them back their dignity and to make sure that these abuses do not happen again. I’m talking about development-centered reparations in which individuals and communities take control and ownership of the development of their own communities.
For those of you who are waiting for the “great by and by,” God is not going to step in until we step up. God is not going to protect and defend us until we protect and defend ourselves.
There is no one organization that is going to make “Master” change his/her evil ways. Only a mass social movement…will. That social movement of our time is the extant reparations movement.
Our protests for the injustice of the murder of Trayvon Martin, and the release of his killer, must be strategically and logically linked to reparations. As the demand for reparations goes forward, here are some starting proposals to…repair the damage done to descendants of Africans enslaved in America. We need to:
Demand the repeal of all “stand your ground laws.” Demand a war on the import of weapons in urban communities with bounties and rewards. Demand divestment from financial institutions with a history of financing chattel slavery with investments, loans, and accepting deposits of enslavers. Demand that funding for education exceeds funding for prisons. Demand free, quality healthcare and insurance.
Unless and until we make these demands and proposals measurable and available for all African descendants enslaved in America…we will continue to engage in and promote generational insanity.
Minister Ari Sesu Merretazon is co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. My Take is a social commentary feature that allows AFRO readers to share their insight into a range of topics. Please submit your 250-450 word entries, with My Take typed into the subject field, to editor@afro.com. Include your name, age, occupation and daytime phone number. The AFRO reserves the right to edit or reject any entry.
Gimme, gimme => racism.
Gimme, gimme because I’m black. Because I want it.
He's still a pimp, IMHO. Thank you Vito Corleone for your insight.
so... does Obama’s white half have to pay ? or does his black half get the handout ?
lol
So is he going to write a check to all the white poeple who had ancestors killed fighting for the Union?I didn’t think so...
Where on planet earth are blacks successful? That way we can what they have lost in the USA.
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Or, there’s deportation.....
In the AUTO Biography of Frederick Douglass, he said he couldn´t REST, until HE PAID HIS MASTER, and got his letter of his manumission. Maybe they need to pay the rest of us for their manumission, someone paid good money for a slave, that they LOST, someone needs to give reparations to slave owners...that´s the way I see it....
Whitey is tired of your racist bullcrap, Ari ... and Whitey is armed.
2007 numbers: $74 billion on corrections, $800 billion on education.
Go ahead & demand. This might just be the final straw for the welfare state.
America fought a bloody civil war over slavery, and abolished it.
People like Ari need to quit being whiny little boys. Yes, that's right. Regardless of his calendar age, Ari is a little boy. He has not grown up, he has not learned to take responsibility for his actions and his life, he has not become a man.
Otherwise, this crap will have no end.
Oh wait, slavery ended here over 150 years ago. I seriously doubt any of either group still survive.
For the people who think others owe them for something that might have happened to an ancestor several generations back, there are no guarantees. I'd love to be able to extract payment from the crooked attorneys who stole half of my great-grandfather's estate. It isn't going to happen. Make the most of what you have, work hard, and make it better. Quit looking for a handout, because it isn't there--and it isn't going to be.
My family didn’t get to America until about 1910 — 47 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. So I guess I’m off the hook.
Yesterday, a black youth attempting to rob a house got shot dead by the black owner. It was in a neighborhood known to be safe. Has it occurred to the JesseJackson and AlSharpton types that their defending Trayvon just might have taught criminally-tempted black youth that those kinds of behaviors should be accepted by victims?
How is that different from what we have now?
Sounds like Obama.
We need this guy out there front and center.
How about the former owners who had their property taken without compensation? Don’t they get reparations, too?
If there is no V with the Bronze Star, it is just an MSM.
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