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.
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“Chattel enslavement?” Name one American black alive today who has ever been a slave. Except to the tyranny of low expectations.
Dignity? Pull your pants up, speak English, learn some manners, and get a job. Those will go a lot further toward according you dignity than standing in line with your hand out.
As for the rest, it’s the same tired rhetoric we’ve heard for the last half a century. It was bull flop then and it’s bull flop now.
But if we're going to open up a line for reparations, as a descendant of Lenape (Delaware) and Cherokee peoples on my mother's and father's side respectively I'd very much like to have Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Alabama back please. When the feral populations of Atlanta and Philadelphia agree to relocate elsewhere we can talk.
What is being overlooked is the fact that now many of the rest of us are permanently enslaved in working to make a living and to foot the bill for the 0bamaphones, free medical care, food stamps, free meals at school, rent assistance, utitilies assistance, free internet access, free cab rides to and from all appointments to receive the other free things, on and on, ad infinitum. When will I get my reparations?
This is how communists work.
And if you don’t gimme what I want, I’ll use violence to take it.
My wife, who is black, came to the US as a child from Trinidad in the mid-1980’s. After completing high school, she worked at several jobs finally attaining the position of manager of a major retail clothing store by the mid-1990’s. After giving birth to our 3 children, she went to college and obtained an Associate’s degree (2005), becoming an RN. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in 2007 and has obtained other certifications throughout her career. She is recognized regularly by colleagues and higher-ups for her professionalism, thoroughness and overall innate nursing abilities.
All this was accomplished, not because she was black and not despite her being black. Her accomplishments were the result of a desire to achieve, the ability to work hard (including overcoming obstacles of every kind), and the willingness to make sacrifices along the way (the grace of God being generously sprinkled on all this.)
While she encounters prejudicial attitudes at the hands of co-workers, patients, and, sadly, even at the hands of the occasional brother or sister at our local fellowship, she determines in her heart to work/live through these evidences of the sin-nature, ultimately focusing instead on the respect and admiration garnered from those whose opinions she has come to value more.
An Enabling Act for criminals.
I would be in favor of giving it to them if they would denounce their U.S. citizenship forever and move to Africa. I’m sure the people of Africa would sympathize with their plight.
Look into how Liberia came to be.
My ancestors came here in 1730. They left Switzerland because of religious persecution. Their Mennonite Faith considered slavery a sin and historically fought it. But that means nothing.
When a mans life is no longer his own and when a mans property is what the state allows him to keep; I see slavery with the State as master.
The state can take a mans life and torture him but the state can’t make him produce anything of value when he is a unwilling participant.
The pathologies of this group are self-inflicted.
You gotta pay too, whitey.
From Wikipedia: “Today, Liberia is recovering from the lingering effects of the civil wars and their consequent economic upheaval, although about 85% of the population continue to live below the international poverty line.”
Pretty much every ethnic group on the planet has been enslaved at some point or another. And every new ethnic group that migrated to America was marginalized and discriminated against. What did the Irish and Italians and Poles, and Chinese, and Japanese etc, etc etc do? They got jobs, started businesses, built civic organizations, hospitals, universities. Get with the program and earn your place. It can't be given to you.
These people are professional racists. This is where they get the money to pay the rent and buy food. Facts will never matter. It is their cash cow, and it will never stop.
Man, that's some ugly stuff right there and all condensed into a single sentence.
Which satanic church does this one "minister" and what god does he worship?
I wonder if he'll be surprised by what comes for him when his time is up.
You are citing facts? Facts don’t matter to people like this.
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