This post to the leaders of the Reparations Movement.
I have my personal feelings and questions about reparations posted earlier somewhere on this blog. The Chicago Defender even published my own reparations plan which I believe is fair and equitable.
(I'm not a Bush supporter but it is funny that people are slamming "evil" Bush for being against reparations, but President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore were both against reparations. Did you hear anyone slam them? Who said "I'm waiting on Bill Clinton, our First Black President, to give me my reparations" as I heard someone say "I'm waiting on George Bush to give me my reparations.")
However, if you read other posts on this blog, you will see news of present-day slavery. The Reparations Movement is bringing attention to the Tranatlantic slave trade and to 200 years of forced labor in the southern United States.
It seems to be that the Reparations Movement should be on the very forefront and on the front lines of bringing attention to modern-day slavery, especially on the African continent in Sudan and Mauritania. Slavery has been going on in Africa for 1400 years.
The Reparations Movement decries slavery in America, our Black ancestors being held in bondage. Should not the Reparations Movement decry slavery now, be the most vocal in the world, especially when Black Africans, brothers and sisters, are in bondage now?
For your edification, go to www.iabolish.org and www.antislavery.org.
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Booker T. Washington said:
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
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