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.
Yeah, because nothing says "dignity" like getting handouts, being unemployed and unemployable, and doing it with an attitude of entitlement and resentment towards the very people who are being FORCED to give it to you.
America.
Among other places, but America is exemplary.
"Black" people who get off their asses, get out of the ghetto, and do something productive for a living are generally successful. Sort of like everybody else in America.
Since 1965 we have paid more than $7 trillion.
I’m OK with paying more (in a lump sum) as long as it’s the end of it.
Please share your ideas about what “the end of it” would consist of.
1) no more preferences (for example)
They’ll never give up on their enslavement.
The only solution to said "ills" is to cut off all payments and let them pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
“..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. ...
Ahh the commie pieces of sh*t are back with a vengeance, aren’t they... Good luck wid dat, comrade. Especially the disarmament part.
Word, yo...
Over 200 of my ancestors fought in the Civil War, for the North. 17% of them were killed or died from injuries in the war, including some at Andersonville.
We have given already. Enough.
Reparations for White people. A black man is the one who introduced slavery to America.
There were free black men here.
And some of them owned white slaves.
No more black history money, without telling the whole history of slavery.
A black man is the first American slave holder. AND a black man held the highest number of slaves.
And a black man is the one who stole them from Africa.
I want my reparations that they have ruined my the country my ancestors fought and died to for. THEY have stolen my inheritance and I am getting sick of sharing what is left, with them.
How about boats back to Africa for free, instead. (If they can live the American dream, then they can stay)
My family- line has been here since the very beginning- and I am not paying a darn thing. I am not even giving them lip service anymore.
Oh yeah.
snicker, snicker, snort.
Ridiculous. Martin assaulted Zimmerman. There was nothing “racist” about the entire incident. There’s no moral ground to protest the verdict.
When Hispanics become the majority in this country,blacks will be in trouble big time!
“I’m talking about development-centered reparations in which individuals and communities take control and ownership of the development of their own communities.”
Detroit?
Whitey is armed.
More important, Whitey is not only armed but for the most part knows how to use the arms
There have been lots of successful blacks in American history. Look it up.
that was not the question
Keep pushing commies!
Typical liberal BS: throw more of my money at your problem. Since the War on Poverty in the late 1960's, we have thrown hundreds of billions of dollars towards the problems that face minorities in the US. Yet, the GOA released a report last summer that says poverty is worse now than ever before. Why is it that blacks seem to have the most social problems while other minorities are synthesized?
Sorry, Pal, your problems begin in the home and until you straighten your act up, using my money to buy you a free cell phone isn't going to help. Thomas Sowell, Bill Cosby and others have spoken clearly on your problems, yet you ignore what they say because it points the finger of blame where it belongs...at you. If people are biased against blacks but not other minorities, perhaps there's a reason. You need to work on correcting that perception and using my money isn't going to happen. Clean up your own house, then maybe we'll talk.
2 letters, FU
“development-centered reparations” Let’s see. We develop the pig sties they’ve created in the ghettos, and in ten years it will again be pig sties. Yeah, that works.
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