WHY REPARATIONS?
Black Americans in the United States have been labelled Negro, Mullato, Colored, Black, and African-American, and disconnected from pre-existing tribal and ethnic identities, nationalities and birthrights. More than 400,000 of their ancestors were enslaved in the United States, and during the Reconstruction Era after the American Civil War, Black Americans were promised Special Field Order No. 15 and the Freedmen’s Bureau Act to grant them 40 acres of land and a mule, food, housing, protection, education, health care, employment contracts with private landowners including the distribution of land, schools for their children, and military courts to ensure these rights. These actions were revoked and disbanded by President Andrew Johnson and President Ulysses S. Grant, along with millions of dollars in capital and assets procured in Freedmen’s Banks being stolen.
Whereas reparation is legally defined as compensation for an injury or redress for a wrong inflicted, Black Americans deserve reparative action for human rights violations and injustices they have faced as a result of various U.S. government actions such as the 1740 Negro Act, 1793 Fugitive Slave Act, 1820 Missouri Compromise, 1865 Black codes, 1872 Amnesty Act, 1907 to 1970 Sexual Sterilization Acts, 1924 Racial Integrity Act, 1956 Highway Act, sharecropping, convict leasing, suffrage, redlining, gentrification, gerrymandering, torrens titles, emigration, taxes, displacement and inadequate housing by government housing policies that include discriminatory VA/FHA practices including “Urban Renewal” and a variety of localized and federal “affordable” housing programs, 1922 Compulsory Education Act, Jim Crow Laws until 1964, War on Poverty since 1964, War on Drugs since 1971, 1984 Crime Bill, and more including:
- Pseudoscientific subordination to civility, humanity and society;
- International kidnapping and global human trafficking;
- Physical torture and corporeal exploitation;
- Bondage, sadism and masochism;
- Religious manipulation, spiritual duress, and iconoclasm;
- Ravage adulterating and progenitive bastardization;
- Racial antagonization and ethnic appropriation;
- Defamation of character to peoplehood and identity theft;
- Standardized eugenics, sterilization, and genocide;
- Compulsory and coercive medical malpractice;
- Illegal and unlawful seizure and destruction of land and property;
- Asset annihilation and capital bankruptcy;
- Economic repression and financial depression;
- Governmentally enforced dislodgement and displacement;
- Environmental toxification and degradation;
- Ecological opiating and inebriation;
- Accredited miseducation and authorized misinformation;
- Endorsed racism and municipally sponsored prejudice;
- Exonerated lynchings and absolved massacres;
- Overt vilification and unjust criminalization;
- Corrupt policing and mass incarceration;
- Excessive convictions and exaggerated sentencing;
- Social inequality and justified incivility;
- 4th amendment illegal and unlawful search and seizure violations;
- 5th amendment private property not taken for public use without just compensation violations;
- 6th amendment no judgements by impartial juries violations;
- 8th amendment non-excessive bails and inflictions of cruel and unusual punishments violations;
- 14th amendment rights sections 1 & 2 for no creation and enforcement of laws to abridge the rights of naturalized citizens of the United States, deprivation of life, liberty, and property without due process of law, and unequal protections of the laws violations;
- 15th amendment right to vote violations for 94 years.
