Millions of Blacks Coming to DC for Reparations Rally

The Black World Today ^ | June 9, 2002 | Conrad W. Worrill

[Telit Likitis]

"Maybe not, but 2 Wrights make an airplane..."

That's Orville!

-Telit

[abishai]

Actually, reparations MAY be a great idea. If the "African American" community was given reparations for years of servitude and oppression, then everything for them should be considered settled. There would then be no need for Rainbow/PUSH, NAACP, and all organizations of that ilk. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Kwiese Mfume could all step down, their jobs finished. Racial quotas, welfare, affirmative action, all other minority programs designed to help African Americans would be abolished. All those who have descendents stolen from Africa would be repatriated back to their homelands. The playing field would be equal for all and no one would ever whine or complain about oppression or racism again! I would even shell out a few bucks for that.

[missycocopuffs]

...the 14th Amendment that allegedly made African people citizens of America was imposed on us. We were never asked if we wanted to be citizens.

Dear Mr. Worrill,

You and your brethren, by living in the United States as citizens, are making a choice daily to "be" citizens of this country.

[patriot_wes]

let's see, Aug 17....... 2 weeks till the next welfare check is due, don't have to go to work in the morning,.
....might as well go do some screaming in D.C.

How many honkys died in the civil war to free those people anyway?

[mrustow]

This is the same group that destroyed Cincinnati, and seeks to destroy all of urban America:

Cincinnati, 2002: Return of the Lynch Mob

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Oh...h...h, boy, I mean, brother!

[kcvl]

Marcus Garvey

In the years following the organization's first convention, the UNIA began to decline in popularity. With the Black Star Line in serious financial difficulties, Garvey promoted two new business organizations — the African Communities League and the Negro Factories Corporation. He also tried to salvage his colonization scheme by sending a delegation to appeal to the League of Nations for transfer to the UNIA of the African colonies taken from Germany during World War I.

Financial betrayal by trusted aides and a host of legal entanglements (based on charges that he had used the U.S. mail to defraud prospective investors) eventually led to Garvey's imprisonment in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for a five-year term. In 1927 his half-served sentence was commuted, and he was deported to Jamaica by order of President Calvin Coolidge.

Garvey then turned his energies to Jamaican politics, campaigning on a platform of self-government, minimum wage laws, and land and judicial reform. He was soundly defeated at the polls, however, because most of his followers did not have the necessary voting qualifications.

In 1935 Garvey left for England where, in near obscurity, he died on June 10, 1940, in a cottage in West Kensington.

[Don Myers]

"What would the response be to an even larger "gathering," demanding racial spoils?"

CNN will run a special outlining the grievances of the Blacks. Bush will call for calm and understanding of the Black culture, and tell us that only a few blacks are extremists. The schools will intensify their diversity indoctrination. Black leaders will be featured on all of the media outlets telling the nation that whites are responsible for the outbursts. Black churches will do the same. People like the Rev. Jackson will climb back onto the soap box. We will import a few thousand more Africans to increase the diversity in our population. In other words, condition normal.

[Don Myers]

"Fine, all "non-citizens" can have a one-way ticket back to that paradise Africa."

From what I see, they are all coming over here.

[Don Myers]

"If there are "millions" (of blacks) who turn out for this, I will eat my hat."

Well, they will probably see this as another chance to riot and do their shopping from looting the stores. They might have a decent turnout for this event.

[kcvl]

The National Black United Front (NBUF), under the leadership of Dr. Conrad Worrill, launched a "We Charge Genocide Campaign," which with the support of the New York based December 12th Movement (D-12), significantly contributed to the popular education of Africans in America about the underlying causes and rationale for reparations. NBUF and D-12 collected thousands of signatures on petitions and presented them to the United Nations. Minister Silas Muhammad and his followers also gathered signatures and took them to the United Nations. In the most recent period, Deadria Farmer-Paellmann broke new ground with her pioneering research on the role of U.S. corporations in perpetuating and/or profiting from slavery (Ms. Paellmann recently sued Fleet Bank, Aetna Insurance Company and CSX Corp. for reparations).

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[The Iceman Cometh]

1. The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery - The United Nations World Conference Against Racism declared that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery were Crimes Against Humanity. Crimes against humanity have no statute of limitations.

Can someone please point out which of the African countries will also be participating in reparations? Without the friendly tribes of Africa, there would not have been any slaves to purchase.

[Windsong]

"Then get the f$*k out of the country"

Or perhaps more appropriately...go back to their OWN country if they hate America so much. In S. Africa, it is literally Hell on Earth. Sometimes I think THEY owe US something.

sheesh..

[CIB-173RDABN]

Reason number 1 why the REPARATION MOVEMENT is going nowhere:

(14th Amendment) Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. Source

[TomGuy]

Da gits raparrations and dis heer white boy'z buyin' some black shoepolish, shinin' dis white body into a nice tan, and gittin' dezs hans in dat dar han out line, he is...

[biblewonk]

I will NOT write a reparations check to anybody, unless I had something to do with the evil committed.

Don't be too sure about that. If you pay federal income taxes than there are probably a lot of people that you are paying that you would not approve of paying. Fortunately I don't pay federal income taxes.

[finnman69]

YEAHHHHHHH BOOOYYYYYYYYYYYY!

[kcvl]

Farmer-Paellmann not afraid of huge corporations

By James Cox, USA TODAY

Deadria Farmer-Paellmann has spent five years digging for evidence that ties Corporate America to pre-Civil War slavery. She confronted Aetna in 2000.

NEW YORK — Her husband, who's German and white, didn't believe her. So they played a game.

They'd go to a store and each make a purchase with a credit card. Inevitably, she had to produce a picture ID and give her address; he was rung up, no questions asked.

"Sometimes I tell (sales clerks), 'Hey, slavery's over. Black people have money now,' " says Deadria Farmer-Paellmann.

Slavery is anything but over for Farmer-Paellmann, 36, a researcher and mother of one. For five years, she has spent hours online and in archives hunting evidence that ties Corporate America to pre-Civil War slavery.

Farmer-Paellmann says she has identified about 60 companies that profited from slavery. She says she has taken her findings to nine — banks, insurers and a textile maker — and one estate. So far, none has made a public apology or agreed to her suggestion to put together a reparations plan.

If corporations with slaves in their past ever do pay reparations, Farmer-Paellmann can take much credit, says Charles Ogletree, the Harvard law professor heading a group looking to file reparations lawsuits.

Farmer-Paellmann says slavery lives on, its legacy seen in everything from housing discrimination to racial profiling to police brutality. The quest for compensation and an apology "torments a lot of African-Americans. And it's not because of the money. Our ancestors were kidnapped, whipped, tortured, forced to breed."

Farmer-Paellmann is negotiating with law firms and may file lawsuits separate from those brought by Ogletree's team. She hopes to pick a firm that could represent her as a plaintiff, bring her on to help with research or both.