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Greetings Positive People, There
are many positive points to reparations. First African-Americans can study
and reclaim their traditional forms of spiritual worship, cultural heritage
and family values. Second they will have a chance to recuperate from deep
psychological wounds and social and economic setbacks due to racism/white
supremacy and slavery. Upon group recovery blacks will be inspired to forgive
those who harmed them and the healing process can begin. The fact of the
matter is that most blacks and whites do get along. The problem is blacks do
not have their own land or institutions to provide the necessities of life to
take care of their people themselves. Reparations will enable
African-Americans to secure land and acquire the resources that are necessary
to create an infrastructure for those purposes.
Blacks
and whites can use the Five Phase Plan to formulate a Reparations Package
that will provide enough resources, to maximize the potential in each of the
three models of reparations, which are Improving Integration, Establishing
Repatriation and Creating Sovereignty. As you all know improving integration
would mean to enforce laws and policies set forth for blacks to have equal
access and receivership of benefits from institutions in integration, mainly
for prompt and fair social and family services and student, home and business
loans. An area for NąCOBRA to lead.
Repatriation
means blacks who choose to go back to Africa or some other part of the
Diaspora where Africans were enslaved and/or exploited, will do so with ample
resources. They will join the native people to rekindle and embrace extended
family relationships and develop the native land. They will claim the natural
resources for sustenance and distribute the wealth as they draft initiatives
for the colonials to slowly leave the native lands. This is promoting
nationhood and autonomy including the indigenous natives and blacks from
other parts of the world. An area for the Sankofa Repatriation Movement to
lead.
Sovereignty
means African-Americans will get their own reparations land right here in
America on prime property, in close or relative proximity to large black
communities. For the first time in the history of this nation blacks would be
free of racism, form their own government and build institutions to provide
quality housing, employment, health care and education for themselves, (which
is an infrastructure). Something blacks have earned from slavery but are
lacking today. An area for the RULA to lead.
Reparations
represents the continued struggle to finish the battles for equality that
grew into the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements of the 50s and 60s.
Black and White Americans fought those battles together. Black and White
Americans should come together again at the highest levels of government
along with the Christian and general population to produce solutions for the
current economic crisis and bringing justice to blacks for slavery and other
crimes they endured. All Black and White Americans should initiate the
process to eliminate racism and facilitate racial healing through
reparations.
African-Americans
have a long and rich tradition of contributions that has and still does
benefit America . Reparations will allow us to expose this part of Black
History that has been excluded from the educational system and social
settings. That was a major crime of omission that caused severe damage to
self-esteem and created harmful misperceptions that must be addressed. We
must remember reparations means to repair the damage done to a people.
Slavery has been labeled a crime against humanity. No one can argue the
legacy of slavery and segregation is seen today in institutional racism and
various forms of discrimination. These are past crimes that have caused great
damage and reparations are in order.
There
are present issues that are causing just as much damage to blacks as past
crimes, such as AIDS, the War on Drugs, Police Brutality, Gentrification and
a host of others. One day America is going to have to answer for racism,
slavery and other vicious crimes that have caused massive damage to
African-Americans. In knowing this and recognizing good whites have said the
government should apologize to blacks for slavery, acknowledging blacks
should get reparations, there is no reason for any black person to refute
reparations.
But
there are always going to be sell outs among us who will refute reparations.
They will say and do anything to get in good with massa ! We must log their
names and statements into the Reparations Data Base so we can be sure they do
not get any benefits or utilize any resources from reparations. So please
send me the names and statements of any African-American or black group
refuting reparations for entry into the data base. The masses are tired of
seeing sell out blacks cause them harm with no accountability and have
requested the RULA to have a group of brothas in place to enforce this
policy.
It
is going to take a joint effort on the part of the masses and reparations
groups to win reparations. It is good to know that we will not be fooled in
reparations like we were with reconstruction, integration, bussing and
affirmative-action. We will divide the reparations package up in a way so
that no one reparations group will have control over reparations resources or
programs for recovery, rehabilitation, restitution or compensation. That was
one of the most important reasons for writing the Five Phase Plan. We will
not let those who oppose reparations infiltrate one of the reparations groups
with sorry or prominent and influential people to line their pockets while
the masses continue to suffer.
In
memory of our ancestors, |