My Challenge to the Reparations Movement

In an older post, I have already given my personal feelings on reparations.

However, I believe that live Africans are more important than dead Africans. Don't you?

At this moment, the government of Sudan is waging a war against Black Africans. You can read the posts below that address the situation.

Years ago when apartheid was in style, we marched, protested, yelled, screamed, got arrested at South African consulates, etc. We were determined that Black South Africans would not be under the rule of a White minority government. Now there is no more apartheid. We left the Black Africans to fend for themselves. Now it has one of the highest crime rates in the world. But we are not paying any attention to that.

While we are trying to get our 40 Acres and a Black Lexus, Black Africans are being slaughtered.

Are not lives worth more than any amount of money?

I challenge the Reparations Movement to suspend their current mission and to unite to focus on trying to stop the bloodshed and genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Is not the life of one Black African worth more than any amount of reparations money?

Many in the Reparations Movement claim to have love for African people. Do you really? How much love do you have for your people? Well, this is the perfect opportunity to put that love into action and save hundreds or thousands of Black African lives. I challenge the Reparations Movement to use the same energy we used to protest and fight South African apartheid. You know what I'm talking about. Now we are directing our energies to the government of Sudan.

Apartheid was horrible, but genocide is worse, don't you think? People are being murdered by the thousands now. That did not happen in South Africa under apartheid as bad as it was. Am I wrong? Does that not mean we need to fight the Sudanese genocide harder than we fought apartheid?

What does your common sense tell you? The time for talk is over.

Just do it.