#reparations

#reparations

"Germany previously acknowledged the genocide in 2021, yet reparations have proved elusive despite Namibia's calls for justice for the tens of thousands killed."

A House Democrat plans to introduce a resolution calling for the U.S. to spend trillions of dollars on reparations for Black Americans this week.

If slavery and colonialism built the world and its current basic scheme of social injustice, the proper task of social justice is no smaller: it is, quite literally, to remake the world.

"Ever since the United States government's unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American '40 acres and a mule' after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nation's legacies of slavery."

"Every whip slash inflicted on their backs ironically gave them strength to carry on their shoulders the burden of trickery, treachery and conformity. Let's not forget the burden of you dismantling the Black family and using Black babies to breed human machinery. Machinery used to provide centuries of privilege and stability for your offspring."

Coates emphasizes that basing Black self-worth on historical greatness or ancestry is a mistake, suggesting that it perpetuates a narrative defined by those who enslaved them.