Reparations 101 : Because there are Two Americas
This week I am thinking of both President Abraham Lincoln and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two of their most famous speeches. Both speeches at their very essence are, in my view, suggestive of the need for reparations for people of African descent though they do...
American Society Masked and Unmasked: A Call for A National Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Last week, Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., gave a moving speech at the funeral of Rayshard Brooks who was shot by a police officer on June 12 in a Wendy’s parking lot in Atlanta. In a funeral which heeded COVID19 guidelines, she referenced...
VIOLENCE IS NEVER THE ANSWER: THE ANSWER IS YOU…AND REPARATIONS!
Martin Luther King Jr and Fannie Lou Hamer This week was a week of pain and tears. To watch a fellow human being crushed to death in real time as bystanders begged for his life is a pain that no words can truly describe…. but still, I have hope. As some of you know, I...
Reparations 101: Harriet Tubman and the Reparations debate
I wrote the piece below a year ago which I am reposting because it shows how even Harriet Tubman’s story speaks to the rationale for Reparations. Almost 200,000 slaves fought in the US Civil War and less than half of them received pensions for their war...
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