What is the president for modern-day human traffickers, how does one repair stealing a child from their family, using them as a slave whether sexually or labor and how do we repair the psychological damage is done to that person, the physical damages done to their bodies against their will, and most of all how do we financially repair the damages overall and the opportunities missed for that family. This is the question of reparations, and the human traffickers are America in its Union army of faceless people of privilege who refuse to acknowledge how it began. This question is for descendants of slaves, they’re disenfranchisement, their financial impoverishment and their deliberate destruction and marginalization who will never reach the levels of their white counterparts without some level of leveraging these disparities of slavery origins. Reparations of past harms of historic disparities of the black communities in the United States relating to the victimizing actions of the United States and many of its policies after emancipation. The wealth Gap, educational disparities, health and housing disparities and social marginalization are , today, legacies haunting the African-American community. Katrina Forrester notes that in her book reparations, history and the origin of global Justice (, 2019), “American proponents of reparations for slavery disagree over what they would look like: pecuniary or non-pecuniary; one-of cash transfers of individuals, as in South Africa, or compensation in the form of transfers or pensions, like in Germany’s reparations to Jewish victims of Nazism; public investment; group specified banks, trusts or funds, the return of land; job guarantees for black workers….etc.” Since 1865, there has been a fight for slavery reparations that have gone ignored. Forester further notes “there are disagreements over the reparations what they are for and how they should be calculated: whether they should compensate unpaid slave labor, unjust enrichment of slaveholders, wrong suffered in the Jim Crow south or wrong suffered because of institutional racism – in home buying, segregated education and so on – in the North.”. Although consistently advocating for Justice for only 13% of the American population today, reparations has largely gone ignored simply because there were so many atrocities to be repaired, the country would have to be given to black people in order to make that course correction obvious. And that is the greatest fear of those in power. And rather than a lack of options for reparations, with the given statutes of the 20th century, there is rather a lack of intention of correcting the ills of Black America stemming from slavery. And so with so many other things, it is ignored… And in its being ignored, it festers, fermenting and nurturing the seeds of racism which is truly whites of European descent fearful that the descendants of these slaves will soon wake up, stand up, and rise up to seek equity in blood for retribution! Then, f*** civil f**** liberties for everyone, and f*** human rights if the black humans aren’t considered in these in franchisements of rights. Thus ignoring it is bidding growing tensions in the landscape of American racial politics and setting the stage for a different kind of civil war for Liberty, and justice, for all of us too!
The 13th amendment, was not a sanctuary for the civil liberties of these emancipated citizens, it was a linchpin for the reinstitution of slavery under the auspices of government and law. With this and many others the United States government have made no reparations for slavery or the following impingements upon the black community in America. The 13% of the American population that are considered descendants of these slaves free with this emancipation proclamation, don’t have to agree on what reparations would look like, the government has made absolutely no amends since 1865. In fact those impingements have become more pervasive and uncomfortable in the dominant forces that preside over the lives of African Americans of slave descent to this day. Although, this author does not believe that number is accurate, it’s probably more like 30%, however, the numbers are dwindling with consistent incarceration and murder by police overseers that go unchecked and unpunished and limit the number of black men in the community and the concerted effort of the Eugenesists to do exactly what slavers did not do, eliminate the Black people if they no longer serve a purpose to the white supremacist who believes that they are only here for their eminent domain under the auspices of divine right. This belief is the core of white supremacy in its nature, and its nature of European superiority over people in lower regions and most primarily they’re darker brother on the continent of Africa that they have attempted to call and dominate, usurp and enslave for the past 780 years in an effort to eradicate the Moorish domination over their regions for the previous 700 years, culminating in the origins of slavery in the West, The Crusades.
and 2014 Tanahasse Coates wrote the article in regards to reparations for slavery, who is later asked to testify on a hearing in 2017 regarding reparations. In 2019 the debate was reinvigorated and said to trial for inquiry by these authors and many others being used as references for the argument for repair to the black American community. However no reparations Bill had ever been presented to Congress for the sake of America making amends for slavery two people of color who are the descendants of those slaves. Additionally in 1921 to 2001 the legality Of slave era lynching act was upheld by the Jim Crow era Republicans and the Senate has never attempted to overturn it. Drapedomania instituted as a psychological dysfunction of a need for personal freedom. The study of sociology has been built on these erroneous and ridiculous notions. For the eugenics movement this was one such categorization of the dysfunctional person who desires their freedom from oppression and bigotry, but they were considered undesirables in society, and thus were on track to be eliminated. With this presentation of white’s eminent domain, and the divine right of these slavers who use Christianity and the recessed God-complex of white men (who, themselves had previously been oppressed by their own in Europe,) seeking their superiority found the perfect solution in people of a different color or culture. Effectively, the human trafficking crimes of slavery, must be brought to Justice and remunerations exacted to those affected.
America has remanded extensions of reparations to Jews who were never holocausted by this country, so they gave them an entire country that didn’t even belong to repair damages that Germany inflicted. And because these are the European counterparts and ancestry homes that tracks. For the Japanese Americans $20,000, ceremony of apology and memorial and the bill the civil liberties act, 1988 signed by Ronald Reagan. A national apology to people of Japanese descent in america. Now that’s a lot less than was extended to the native American community 45 years before, in 1946 to 1978 the Indian claims commission, however poorly run and defunded, Harry Truman the made sure that tribes and Nations were given five years fans to file complaints regarding the claymation of land by America. 176 tribes and nations were awarded 1.3 billion dollars, and from which $1,000 was given to each native American family or descendant. The Secondary repair in 1971, a separate agreement was made with Congress to offer $962 million worth of Alaskan land, about 44 million acres, was given to native Americans in the Alaskan land grant vi in exchange for them giving up on 100 years of land claims over the remainder of the land in that state. Regional and commission beneficiaries were given shares of stocks in the corporations that bought and took over the land instead of giving them direct land claims or financial reparation. So this establishes the pattern that the United States government has made amends and reparations to certain racial groups for their mismanagement and mishandling of the World War II era propaganda for Japanese internment camps, and the horrors and atrocities as well as the thefts and genocide of the native American people who inhabited this land before the European settlers came. There is no repair for that truly, and the efforts were minimal at best, but at least there was something..
Definition of reparation
1a: a repairing or keeping in repair
breparations plural : REPAIRS
2a: the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury
b: something done or given as amends or satisfaction
3: the payment of damages : INDEMNIFICATION
specifically : compensation in money or materials payable by a defeated nation for damages to or expenditures sustained by another nation as a result of hostilities with the defeated nation —plurality of race of people not included, because black people are not a nation, and until we identify this legal fact, we will live in the fiction that we are citizens. One must respect the efforts of the Nation of Islam for attempting to identify and repair this matter to request reparations. However due to its religious polarization, there can be no ultimate unionization of all the descendants of unpaid laborers, who suffered the atrocities of slavery. Even if it’s purpose was to break completely from the brainwashing effects of the eminent domain of the white man’s dominance over the minds of former slaves with Christianity and it’s white Jesus on the cross of divine right, at its core; we did not claim to be a nation of blacks which elimited our rights to claim for reparations as a nation.
The Holocaust eventually netted the Jews billions of dollars in reparations from both germans, Americans and the land grant of Israel however illegal. There are estimates of about 89 billion dollars being paid to this group for the horizon atrocities that did not last a decade. German banks and financial institutions, through the Germans reparations program in 1952 included the Luxembourg agreement. Even up until 2012 new regulations and this program was open to survivors who lived under German and Soviet rule extending the reparations to 80,000 more people in other countries, and financial payments of nearly 3,500 per family afflicted in previous generations.
The South African Truth and reconciliation committee was established to create reparations against South Africa’s racialized violence under apartheid in 1994 under Nelson Mandela leadership. Ok this was nationally televised from 1995 to 2003 the testimonies of 21,000 survivors shed light on the government systematic abuses of the black population and the indigenous people’s rights to civil and human liberties. However it did not address their return to their land and was extremely limited in their reparation payments even though the TRC, during their hearings in London in 1996 had 2,000 public hearings and 7,112 amnesty applications. The financial reparations promised were extremely limited, as 18,000 survivors were extended a stipend of about $4,000 each. This didn’t occur until 2003, and the remaining monies would be invested in development programs for all South africans. I’m much more limited approach to reparations than is fair, however these examples identify reparations are possible, even if insulting.
However, there is nothing more insulting than acting like you never happened ignoring the facts, surrendering any justice at all to police officers who will later abuse you and treat you like the slave they want you to remain and beat your children, kill your husband and incarcerate your son!
Preparations can be made in a number of ways, and these disparate examples here identify a number of ways however it effectual this can be fomented and the effort made. So let’s discuss the value of repair made to the native population of Africans brought to this country against their will and ultimately an international human rights criminal act supported by a corporate industry. This industry as well as all other industries in this country have been promulgated and propagated by the international slave trade of people of color on the land that is now known as the United States of america. This land grant was not given but stolen, the labor was not given, it was stolen, and the rights of the humans upon land has been parsed into colorism from people whose culture and legacy have been stolen.
Yeah abolition of slavery did not bring it into the suffering of those people. In fact it increased the responsibility of an already broken population who were mentally, physically and psychologically oppressed and terrorized by an entire nation known as america. This oppression and demonization have not been limited to slavery. In fact since the time of the emancipation of a population of people who should never have been put in positions of Labor without compensation, there should be reparations for that labor. However much like the banks that are too big to fail, or billionaires who are too big to go to jail, slavery was too big and to egregious and offense to be repaired.
Thus this contentious and outrageous argument of the United States having no responsibility for the enslavement of millions of people in this country rages on. During the surrender of Appomattox, Sherman special field order 15, offered the repair of 40 acres and a government mule for every slave that was freed since they didn’t know what to do with these slave populations now roaming the countryside. 40 acres and a mule is now a common nomenclature for reparations and the most basic debt owed to people of African-American descent in this country. at the end of the civil war Lincoln proclaimed the freedom of the slaves, Sherman and his special field order number 15 authorized Charles City South Carolina and 40 miles back from the sea that the country bordering the St John River in Florida are reserved as a part of the settlement for negroes and no white person was allowed to reside there upon except the military who was left to protect them. From Savannah Hilton Head to Jacksonville those people of emancipation were allowed to remain in their custom vocation free of white settlers or those who would demonize and destroy their culture. They were extended tools, boats clothes and articles necessary for livelihood by the military and left to their own devices. Additionally, it was stated that when three respectable heads of families convene on a property or an island of locally cleared defined land that the inspector of settlements and plantations or his designated appointee would give license to these newly Free people for them to settle such Islands or districts and afford them the assistance to enable their establishment of a peaceable agricultural settlement on fertile arable lands. These three parties named were supposed to subdivide the land under the supervision of the inspector amongst themselves and allow others as they deem fit to settle there as well. So each of these families were sure of plot of land of no more than 40 acres of tillable ground and when it’s borders were reached the next families plot would begin. This field issue was established on January 16th 1865, Sherman was a union general and the Secretary of war Edward Stanton met with 20 black community leaders in Savannah Georgia for a 4-day retreat for conference on what to do about the newly free negroes presumably now United States citizens. as a pastor and representative of his people, Reverend Garrison Frazier escorted as saying the way we can best care for ourselves is to have land, and turn it until it by our own labor.. and we can soon maintain ourselves and have something to spare. We want to be placed on land until we can buy it and make it our own. Insinuating that we should purchase the land that we had built with our blood and bodies for 300 years. While it might have been a brief misstep or miss speaking, this was the origin of disregarding the land grant. Another member of the 20 in that conference suggested that these newly freed black citizens should be placed on their own land and self-run communities to avoid the prejudice of the Southern Confederate landowners who who were allowed to maintain their freedom as well as their property rights.. and this despite their treacherous and traitorous conspiracies against the United States as it was known at that time. The Union. The offering of the 40 acres and a mule was actually applied for the government to weekend the stronghold of the southern plantation owners, former slaveholders and those who fought to maintain their racial dominance in power.
Stanton and Sherman had other reasons for allocating this land, this was a solution of how to provide for the millions of black people who had either follow the union into battle or had been set free by the emancipation proclamation. The actual text is broken into seven parts with three main focal points. The first section discusses the southern lands associated with the borders between South Carolina and North Florida encompassing the entire border of Georgia, he set aside for these newly minted United States citizens. The second section discusses the management of these settlements by the people for themselves under the office of the inspector of settlements and plantations. Section 3 reference the allocated plots being up to 20 to 40 acres out of the 400,000 acres seized from the southern insurrectionists. Sherman later offered a loaner mule from the government access to each new settler which is where the mule comes from with the 40 acres. Special field order 15 was quickly approved by President Lincoln, it was also short-lived after his death and assassination by Andrew Jackson one of the most racist and bigoted presidents of American history.
However 40 acres in a mule with forever be the symbol of reconstructive repair for people of African enslaved descent in America. Andrew Jackson as a sympathizer of the south, overturned that issue and return the land to plantation owners who originally possessed it. Thus, relegating this to another forgotten promise of the United States to people who built it… Because they had no legal standing in the law which a white man was found to respect. Much like the Palestinians whose land on the Jews were placed on, had no legal standing even though they have been on that land for thousands of years, their only contracts being of the bible. This was the last offering of reparations to the entirety of the descendants of slaves and Americans who still suffer the effects of 250 years of slavery. The lack of a Nation relegated the black population of freed slaves as a lingering body apart from the citizenship of america, relegated to second-class citizens at best.. however it’s only lasted for the years of reconstruction and my short-lived in each iteration, dotted and tackled by the atrocities brought upon black men and women and children of color throughout the remainder of American history. Only by the advent of the film and the camera to indicate how abusers were caught on film, were we able to categorize and captured documentation for these acts of supremacy by whites who are covered by the justice system in America! In fact, there were further atrocities the United States government would inflict upon these survivors and descendants of slaves. An example of this is the Tuskegee syphilis study as just one of those which followed the medical atrocities of the South Carolina medical apartheid inflicted upon freed slaves who were being experimented upon and deliberately infected with diseases as a entire city of blacks were used as guinea pigs under the office of small freedoms in a segregated environment. They were used as a control group to study the effects of other diseases and medical experimentation. (The syphilis project of 1932 to 1972 were well proceeded by people like the father of obstetrics who was really a Frankenstein of sorts). Health disparities past and present as a study discuss these atrocities that were only considered worthy of repair because they were notably documented by Jean Heller in 1972 after the public backlash relating to the syphilitic studies and all of the partners and children who were affected by it. The response to this was a $10 million settlement to the survivors of this medical gruesome experimentation. The US government also provided healthcare and burial services to the men affected and later provided healthcare and other services to their spouses and descendants. President Clinton issued an apology for the government’s role in this cruel experimentation in 1992. And the 1990s John burge and his crew of officers in Chicago tortured 200 black men into giving confessions to crimes they did not commit. Over $125 men were found to have been tortured and disenfranchised by birds and his police officer brute Force. In 2015 5.5 million dollars was approved for the settlement of these crimes to the survivors of those crimes and their families. The city of Chicago settlement included money paid directly to the families, wave tuitions to city colleges of Chicago and mandatory CPS curriculum about Burgess crimes and a public memorial which has yet to be built.
With court documented reparations for such infractions as police brutality, unlawful medical experimentation and the previous discussion on the theft of culture, genocide of a people and their heritage as well as the incarceration and internment camps of settlers who were considered American citizens born in this country, what does that say about the ignoring of the reparations for slavery and how we’re blithely allowed these terrorists who parade as politicians, wealthy plantation owners and settlers looking For freedom themselves. How do we reconcile ourselves as a nation 140 years later still oppressed, disenfranchised, marginalize and demonized by the very oppressors who made such promises and then retracted them for the benefit of the secessionist treacherous terrorists who launched a war against these United States to maintain their privilege of white supremacy to this day. How do we reconcile our existence with that of our ancestors who experienced the worst atrocities known to humanity in modern history.. the most uncivilized display of human subjugation was wrought on people with black skin as a measure of control over their legacy, ownership of their children, the destruction of their heritage and languages and religions.. the decimation of anything that is recognizable from who they used to be, so that they would never have a home to return to and would always be a people locked to this land where they bled, we’re beating, murdered and mangled, experimented on and fractionally monetize to benefit the Union and the country that they weren’t even allowed to be citizens upon after 25 years of emancipation. 50 years after emancipation they weren’t allowed to vote and the cities and towns they had created under reconstruction were systematically burned, bombed and destroyed by mobs of angry and hateful unidentified mongrels of white European descendants. With this devilish Creed these people continue to harass, terrorize and destroy people of African descent brought to this land to create the country that they had grown to love and disregarded by the government as it changed hands and thus loyalties rapidly.
With every iteration of turnover to new leadership the issues of slavery were pushed further and further down on roster of popular responsibility and repair to the nation of emancipated people.
The tractors of the argument for reparations office site that no one alive today was responsible for the enslavement or financial responsibilities associated with the crimes committed prior to emancipation. However they are still the recipients of all of the provisions that are related and allotted to their ancestors and predecessors. This is patent white supremacy that lends itself to the patent white privilege, only unobserved by whites experiencing that privilege. Much like self-observation, this requires time and attention to one’s own existence and how it came to be. With that honoring of truth, one would find there is no other obvious reasoning available that would supersede the most clear fact, White privilege is based on white supremacy which is based on slavery. Moreover, as in the previous examples of reparations paid to The descendants and the remaining offended of the Japanese internment camps, the Jews of Auschwitz and other endurment camps and the native Americans who experienced the theft of their country and a genocide of their people, reparations can be paid in some portion, however insufficient it may in fact be. However, even as all of those involved in the original act have passed away whether whether slave or slaver, reparations can be meted out and if it were demanded to be remanded.
Where the tables turned, the poor whites of the South having been turned out and not allowed to remain in the Union at all, in fact possibly put in internment camps or concentration units where their secessionist and treacherous at may have been seen as criminal and thus they could have been treated like the slaves they were so willing to treat inhumanely, this would have been a kind of repair. That, merge with the consensual fact that each person of color who had been held in captivity as a slave should have been at least given the value they were worth on the books individually from every slave master that held them. If not that then a portion of land equal to or greater than their personal monetization. In addition to that reparations could have been remitted to each of free slave by offering severance as back pay for the years of service, this would have also been resulting in a land grant for the value of their work and time served as slaves. This could have been the most at a fairness at the time, although for the many mothers and fathers who lost their children, the people who lost their heritage and the many people who lost their dignity, their sanity and their lives there is really no repair for that. Which is why the two big to fail construct seems to be applicable here by detractors of the reparations request and requirement of the black nation in america. Unfortunately there are too many black people who refuse to follow the leader in loyalty to each other. And so we remain divided on this matter of reparations and apology, let alone a grand memorial in each City that it was propagated as law and venerated with confederate statues of secessionist traders. Justice cannot be served here, there is no way for America to truly pay back the debt it has to the people who were dragged from their Homeland to serve as milkmaids, foot men, land laborers, prostitutes, bucks and mares, medical apartheid survivors, and the economic structural backbone of everything America lives on today. There is no repair for that truly! The only thing that we can expect is a kind of modification that essentially would only act as a Band-Aid on a gaping wound that is American racism. And to this day the disparities socially educationally and medically don’t even compare to the economic and social legacies left by outcroppings of those secessionist traders retrieving the land on which these men and women worked for no pay. Where were our feminist ideas then, where were our Justice for Laborers then, where was our liberal perspective on life liberty and the pursuit of happiness when these people were freed from bondage and then left to their own devices to then be tortured and treated as second class humans under the auspices of racial ambiguity and legal racism. The follow-up from reparations was Jim crow, Jim Crow was then followed by civil unrest for lack of Rights, 100 years after slavery was abolished civil rights were still being fought for in the courts for African Americans to receive rights they were given upon emancipation. The dred Scott decision, which fomented the origin of the Jim Crow laws and black laws, we’re just an extension of the slavers perception of eminent domain over people of a different culture and race, firmly fomenting their racial superiority in the law. As in the examples you listed above for @Native Americans, Japanese Americans and Jewish Americans reparations can in fact be paid posthumously to those affected generationally as a legacy of terror, torture and enslavement of what are now indigenous Americans of color, black people.
Since these people have no origin in this country of legacy or note, due to the fact that slavery erased that association.
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