If you don't understand how reparations became a demand and issue then you will continue to assume and make ignorant statements regarding what you think
reparations is about. Reparations is not about blaming white people today for what was done in the past or asking white people today to aplogize for something they had no part in doing. If you believe so you are wrong and have been fed a false narrative. READ THE
#HISTORICAL #CONTEXT before you make assumptions.
Argue with #History and the Government who offered reparations in 1865 not with black people today.
At 8 p.m. on Jan. 12, 1865, days after his “march to the sea,” Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman met with 20 Black ministers on the second floor of his headquarters in Savannah, Ga.
The Civil War would soon end, and the matter at hand that night was urgent.
Sherman had called the Black ministers to confer with him and President Lincoln’s Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. On the agenda were pressing questions:
How would the country provide for the protection of thousands of Black refugees who had followed Sherman’s army since it invaded Georgia?
HOW WOULD THOUSANDS OF NEWLY FREED BLACK PEOPLE SURVIVE ECONOMICALLY AFTER MORE THAN 200 YEARS OF BONDAGE AND UNPAID LABOR ?
Sherman and Stanton asked Frazier
"how he thought the newly freed Black people could best take care of themselves? "
His answer would remain one of the most eloquent arguments for reparations in 156 years:
“The way we can best take care of ourselves is to have land, and turn it, and till it by our own labor — that is, by the labor of the woman and children and old men; and we can soon maintain ourselves and have something to spare.”
Frazier added: “We want to be placed on land until we are able to buy it and make it our own.”
Stanton later acknowledged that this was “the first time in the history of this nation when the representatives of this government had gone to these poor, debased people to ask them what they wanted for themselves.”
Four days after that meeting, Sherman seized the coastline from Charleston, S.C., to St. John’s River, Fla., according to the Library of Congress.
SHERMAN WOULD ISSUE SPECIAL FIELD ORDER, No. 15, CONFISCATING CONFEDERATE LAND along the rice coast.
SHERMAN WOULD LATER ORDER “40 ACRES & A MULE” TO THOUSANDS OF BLACK FAMILIES, WHICH HISTORIANS WOULD LATER REFER TO AS THE FIRST ACT OF REPARATIONS TO ENSLAVED BLACK PEOPLE.
But the order would be short-lived. After Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865, the order would be reversed and the land given to Black families would be rescinded and returned to White Confederate landowners.
More than 100 years later,
“40 acres and a mule” would remain a battle cry for
Black people demanding reparations for slavery.
There's a second layer to the reparations argument to be had as well, that of an unpaid debt to black men for their service in the Second World War. After that war, multiple government payouts were given to veterans in exchange for their service. These came in a variety of forms, from money for education to preferential terms for home loans, all paid for by taxes on this country's wealthiest corporations and individuals. It was the largest wealth redistribution program in American (and possibly world) history, and effectively created the suburbs and the American middle class. However, black veterans were cut out of the deal, usually by discriminatory banking practices that were never prosecuted (although the federal government illegally held some of their promised funding back as well). So the same forces that created the largely white suburbs left the inner cities to rot, creating the ghettos of the 60s and beyond. Some historians have argued that this is an even larger issue for reparations, as the wealth withheld was so staggering in its effect, and generally because it's impact was closer to the present than the end of of the Civil War. PARIS BATTLE
In 1910, about 90% of African Americans lived in the South.
Despite the land that was supposed to be given by the Government many blacks owned land and built prosperous independent towns yet and still poverty has always been a issue as William T Sherman suspected would be taking 1000's of newly freed people Free with nothing saved and no Income those who worked for free for those who was just defeated in war and bankrupt.
The Idea and purpose of land has always been important wars are fought over land . The confiscating of land became a issue for those blacks who did aquire land by those newly poor whites angry about the war and their new found financial status ....gave reason to these angry people "Democrats" to create Laws to criminalize Blacks and send them to Share cropping farms to again work for free in the name of imprisonment forcing them to lose property or having it stolen because of the lack of Man power their to protect it .
The history of this is very well known this continued from just after reconstruction up until the 50s and 60's when the great migration of blacks left the south due to Violence and Poverty so the left land and property for opportunities and safety for the next generations to come .....Creating opportunities for some and Inner city death and pain for others .
The point is had this promise been fulfilled you would not see the confusion and disparity that exist in the African American communities .
William T Sherman's concern to ask what was needed and was told by Frazier is so profound
William T Sherman had no idea Lincoln would be killed and the Democrats come in and reverse this government decision .... Yet it still is a issue and unpaid debt........ That is very relevant and would have prevented any poverty gap ......
Sherman asked about how to protect Black people
And how can we secure there ability to survive Economically. 2 issues that still exist concerning Black citizens of America today.
This is not the first time Congress has recently attempted to address the issue of slavery. The House in 2008 and the Senate in 2009 put forward resolutions apologizing for slavery, but no joint bill passed. Since 1989, prominent African American representatives have proposed larger bills to address America’s “original sin.” While these proposals focus on reparations, it is noteworthy that they start with calls for a formal national apology. WHAT APOLOGY ?
Who said it had to be money ? How about free education to the phd level ,free medical, tax exempt status, clear all debts and raise credit scores ,housing ,farm land ,free trade school education ,o% home loans,Life insurance,Supplies ,tools to build our own this is what was proposed and said initially the opportunity to build our own point being i didn't even mention money ........How much would that cost when initially it wasn't Money .
Free Trade School education
All Credit & Debts Cleared,
Raising of Credit score and History
Low interest business loans
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https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/genetic-quest-leads-african-apology-role-slave-trade-8c11467842
Dr Joy DeGruy is profound.
Trauma with no therapy will definitely leave #residual #impact that can be passed down through #generations.
trauma followed by more #trauma and no therapy thats scary when you think about it ...talk about Mental health issues . #mentalhealth #drdegruy
Holocaust survivors' grandchildren call for action over inherited trauma
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Psychological impact of families constantly retelling stories of horrific events endured by relatives blighting lives of younger generation, says campaigner
Jewish activists in Scotland have started a campaign to support the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors across the world, saying the trauma of the extermination camps continues to haunt the descendants of those who suffered there.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/03/holocaust-survivors-grandchildren-inherited-trauma
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/congress-must-officially-apologize-slavery-america-can-think-about-reparations-ncna1047561
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