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“There are problems with the resolution also, especially the convoluted eligibility criteria which makes it possible for persons living as white who have African ancestry to receive reparations and the endorsement of [the] egregious HR40 [bill].”
Dr. William Darity – Twitter May 17, 2023
The NAARC/N’COBRA Axis really needs to sit their destructive asses down and retire from this Reparations space. Today. They are sharp tools of the Democratic Party and the double-dealing, two-faced Congressional Black Caucus. Political hypocrites. Full anti-reparationists. Lying Pan African freaks. Did I say that?
Well Yeah. When certain persons or entities are sabotaging my justice claim and destroying my grandchildren’s inheritance – I can call them or that anything I want. Until you or they remove these suchnesses from my good justice issue and account. We are now living in the end times for grifters and slicks. We must stop these people from consistently gaming us for the benefit of the Democrats.
So – what’s the latest game as of this writing? Well, for the fractured and separated collectives of Freedmen, American Descendants of Slavery, and Foundational Black Americans, and all other groups or organizations that are based in lineage-based Reparations politics – we have from U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), this H.Res.414.
Oh Boy…
Before we get into certain highlights from the text of the Resolution, let us get into what certain words mean and don’t mean. And why certain words mean what they mean. And why certain words are supposed to do certain things. And why certain words are utilized contextually to repeatedly stop certain things from happening.
Those words arrived in my smartphone on a warm Chicago evening. Reading and discerning. Negative this and positive that. Seven o’clock – the recurring coda of a gradual – emerging dusk – descending-red in silent commencement. Meditating and reflecting on an ephemerality – within a sweeping stratospheric concert of light and wind. Violet-gold and crimson-blue intermix and unravel – interweaving cause within effect. Endless colors emerging out of colors. There.
Magnificent expressment of Universal Law revealed as sunset…
Stop Motherfucker!!!
You ain’t got no time to be enjoying no sunsets Man. No time for wasting electricity through waxing poetic on this computer. None. OK? Only white motherfuckers got that kind of time – and you ain’t white Dude! You got this H.Res.414 snake oil to deal with. Damn. The NAARC/N’COBRA Axis will never fail to destroy a moment. It’s quite tiring to constantly clean up behind proactively evil reparational toddlers. Every fucking day they are doing this, and doing that. This Is War. Know: There will be no unencumbered – no quintessential understanding of Pure Reparations with and within and around the public as long as they remain a factor in this issue.
Now let’s get back to the words:
Family – there is a profound operating difference between a “resolution” and a “bill.” Just to establish that first. The information given in this section is studied from the http://www.senate.gov (Types of Legislation page) website. Understand that the vast majority of real legislative proposals are in the form of bills. Bills deal with real domestic and foreign issues and programs, and they also appropriate real money to various government agencies and programs. So that we are real clear.
Let us move on to “Simple Resolutions” which is what H.Res.414 is. House simple resolutions are designated “H.Res.” followed by a number. Simple resolutions are used to express the sentiments of the House, such as offering condolences to the family of a deceased member of Congress, or it may give “advice” on foreign policy or other executive business. Simple resolutions are vacant, ephemeral, directionless, and not binding to anything substantial. Understand what you’re looking at.
And Family – simple resolutions are also a way to make a legislator look like they’re “doing something” (at least simple resolutions are useful to somebody).
If you look, Congresswoman Cori Bush has a pretty lightweight record, but she assumed office in 2021. OK. She’s a pastor (problematic). She allies with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (problematic). She allies with Pan African Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (extremely problematic). I don’t know how much she is “invested(?!).” But the fact that she was surrounded by members of the N’COBRA Axis in the photo-ops is a huge red flag – in addition to being nauseating. Watch This: “Simple resolutions do not require the approval of the Senate nor the signature of the president, and they do not have the force of law.” Got That? “So – Rep. Bush had nothing else to do?”
Correct! She used her nothing else time to create – and do nothing.
As my regular readers of this blog should now know; The NAARC/N’COBRA Axis is highly skilled in the art of writing bad bills. HR40 itself has been admired and praised nationwide as an exemplary masterpiece within the genre of “blind alley” legislative proposals. This HR40 has been admired so much that you’ll find many municipalities around this country attempting to use bits and pieces of it to construct their own dead-ended task forces and commissions. And this beautiful Pan African inspired H.Res.414 is just as interesting and just as immoral. Yes it is.
It just has a different, distractive, and more deceptive purpose.
American history is a timeline of evil converted into legislation.
Now this is an educated speculation Family: Seeing as how Rep. Cori Bush is the main sponsor we could believe that she and her staff were the direct creators of this “Resolution.” Could be. I don’t have empirical proof that that didn’t happen. So don’t take my speculation as gospel. Because for all I know, I might be crazy. A solid possibility. Grains of salt are falling all over the place. BUT!!! I can’t help that I smell the complicating could-be presence of Kamm Howard in this document.
And I think I see the fingerprints of J.A.M. Aiwuyor on this document without enhancements. And I believe I heard that grinding, irritating voice of counselor Nkechi Taifa speaking from between the lines as I read this document. Oh Shit. People get old and slow. Sometimes your retorts don’t launch with enough alacrity. Sometimes your seasoned neurons don’t fire quickly enough for you to organize and deliver your thoughts with appropriate efficiency to an opposing interlocutor in good conversation. In other circumstances? You might see things that aren’t there. Then you may not see things that are there. You Know?
So, let us sharply do what we came here to do. Let us go through the text of this “resolution.” Now, I will not go through the painful entirety of the document. Why? Because of how it was constructed and what it was constructed with. “Well – what is the how and what of its composition and construction OG?” We will take care of that right here Family. (!) There are only eighteen points that are worth focusing on. In that sense, this will be a complete post. And we will focus on those aforementioned points in their entirety. But the rest of the document? Ahh…
Well, the rest of the document is pretty useless. Other than the eighteen points, it is filled with weird N’COBRA-esque fillers, pointless points in history (?), and out-of-context nonsense. (!) “International Law” bullshit. Unnecessary historic reiterations regarding stuff like the Dred Scott decision. Nut repeats about Spanish colonizers. Dumb shit from the United Nations. Ten Presidents as slaveholders. The rape of Black women (as if we don’t know this). Confederate soldiers. The Great Migration. Black Codes. Tulsa. Rosewood. Africa – Africans – Africa – Africans? – What about America and Americans? Turn The Page!
The nonsense continues: Poll taxes. Mass incarceration. Abusive criminalization. Et Cetera. And Et Cetera. Okay! All of this to make it look like whomever constructed this insult is allegedly acquainted with history books. Here Family, the writer(s) are attempting to create a magisterial aura of importance and gravitas that this rag simply does not, and could not have. Twenty-three whole pages! Nice try though.
Next thing: The list below is comprised of the initial co-sponsors of the resolution. These People? Immediately put them on your “do not trust” list. I don’t care if they’ve been cooking every day for your family (without poisoning somebody), and emptying your grandmother’s bedpan every night for the last twenty years. These are race traitors. And they are just as invested in destroying our Reparations claim as the Pan Africans and White Liberals are. Don’t trust them Family.
Here’s The List:
- Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D – New York)
- Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D – Illinois)
- Rep. Barbara Lee (D – California)
- Rep. Delia Ramirez (D – Illinois)
- Rep. Al Green (D – Texas)
- Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D – Michigan)
- Rep. Summer Lee (D – Pennsylvania)
- Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D – Massachusetts)
- Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minnesota)
Every one of the Democrat Party motherfuckers on this list ain’t shit. And it’s about time somebody took the time to call them out, with a special focus on Barbara Lee of California and Jonathan Jackson of Illinois. It is up to the Freedmen Collective to make these people famous for the proper reasons. Proper Reasons? Well Yeah. These folks along with The Axis, Cori Bush, the Congressional Black Caucus, and hidden others, are the team that was put together by the Democrat Party to do a “false flag” move to regain the Black vote. Understand? You can add in Roland Martin and Joy Reid too (got to get that misinformational word out!).
Mark Thompson? Ray Winbush? Al Sharpton is probably around somewhere.
Yes I said it. This is part of a “false flag operation” to fool you and your vote back into the non-delivering abyss of the Biden Administration. Nothing more than slick marketing for votes. There is a presidential election coming up Family. So a new – dressed-up, far-reaching kind of “benign neglect” has to be done in a more precise, creative, promise-filled, and proactive way. “A Resolution? Yeah, those niggers will bite – I guarantee you!” I hope you were not fooled by this near criminal bullshit.
Let us now go into the eighteen points, so we can all see how bad this is:
I
“Recognizing that the United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.”
Watch the choice of words. No. The United States has a legislative and economic obligation to provide Reparations to people that are lineaged from those that were enslaved in the United States of America. “Moral,” is a word that is concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character. What is “moral” does not belong in the path of any questions of potential legislation. Why? Because what is “moral” is something that is variable according to the beliefs of each individual. And each individual has the right to believe that his “morality” is the right one. Because “morality” is usually religion based.
And that’s a problem.
Examples of moralism dynamics include questions as to whether homosexuals should be married or not. Whatever your personal position – that turned out to be a constitutional question. Hashed out and resolved at a Supreme Court – not a church. Women initially not having the right to vote had a religious basis – that was congressionally resolved – not decided on at a church. The decision to abolish slavery was a congressional decision – not a moral one. Remember – the Bible supports and regulates slavery. If you are honest about what the scripture actually says. That problem disqualifies “morals” as a reparational basis or component.
Why?
Some believe it is “moral” to pay reparations. Some believe it is “immoral” to pay reparations. Believed in all sincerity on both counts. The question should simply be about identifying what assets were taken, and precisely identifying whom those assets were taken from, and negotiating what assets should be returned along with interest penalties if any. Any introduced “moralities” have absolutely nothing to do with it. All reasons for, decisions to, and the means to pay reparations should be based in and on strictly secular constitutionality and previously done legislation.
And any new legislation should of course have a constitutional basis, and from that – a legislative genesis and conclusion. Laws are not established from the standpoint of “moral” questions. This is stupid and non-productive verbiage. Those laws that have been established on that [moral] basis tend to be dismantled in Federal courts. This reparations issue is about economic repair done through concrete legislation. Economic repair is about doing objective business. No slippery moralities needed.
“Legal obligation?” Well, this reparation cannot be done in any court. And legal things don’t become legal until a proposed legality actually becomes a legal law first by its creation through a bill. Moving along, you have that bill’s endurance tested through debate and constitutional concurrence, and then its eventual release to the floor (or not) through the decision of The Speaker of the House or Senate Majority Leader (depending on which chamber the bill is in) for a vote. With the possible further injection of outside support or protest. Moving along again, that bill now becomes actual legislation (it’s not just a proposal anymore) through accomplishing a majority representative approval (or not) through the floor vote.
And finally (if it gets that far), the head of a Federal or State Executive Branch signing that legislation (or not) into law. That’s how it’s done.
There is no Reparations law for American Freedmen existing at this time. OK? So, there is no “legal obligation” that can rightly be fulfilled at this time. Therefore, no legitimate “provisions” can rightly be made. See? Laws cannot be made in courts. Only laws that exist can be enforced, nullified, upheld, or overturned in courts. Whoever wrote this resolutionist confusion is legally mixed up and legislatively messed up. “Africans and Black people?” Which Black people? What Africans?
II
“Whereas reparations are defined as a victim-centered process by which survivors of atrocities and serious human rights violations, and their descendants, have the right to seek restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and guarantees of nonrepetition for past and ongoing harms…”
Ahh No. Reparations must be defined as a lineage-centered process. Any time you see a term like “victim-centered,” that is a slick attempt by the writer or speaker to make this a “race” issue – rather than a “lineage” issue. Watch the words Family.
The other thing, I not only want you to notice the words that are there, but also the words that are not there. This part of the resolution defines “victim-centered process,” and “survivors of atrocities,” and “their descendants,” and “serious human rights violations,” and “the right to seek restitution,” and so on. OK?
But the ask at this point is: “Whom is the writer talking about?” And then we ask: “Where is the writer talking about?” Understand Family. This section – what you are now looking at is Pan Africanism by omission. Yeah (“Kamm Howard – is that you?”). The atrocities and human rights violations mentioned here also happened to enslaved Black persons in the Caribbean and South America as well.
Whenever these kinds of statements are uttered or written, I am looking for specificity in every instance. In every document or paragraph directly produced or indirectly influenced by the Axis.
III
“Whereas to meet the international legal obligation of reparations, the Federal Government must compensate descendants of enslaved Black people and people of African descent in the United States to account for the harms of chattel slavery, the cumulative damages of enslavement, and the epochs of legal and de facto segregation…”
Watch the language Family! Watch the motherfucking language!!! OK. So we got two kinds of people here: “…descendants of enslaved Black people” AND “people of African descent.” Two check boxes here. Which one do you check?
You have to be careful dealing with Axis-influenced documents produced by questionable politicians. Now, I’m gonna assume that “descendants of enslaved Black people” indicates American Freedmen. And “people of African descent” indicates all folks from the African Diaspora. I guess? What is she talking about here? This should be irritating. I don’t know how long us American Freedmen are going to keep tolerating this insistive and open disrespect.
Due to the fucking Pan Africans, Freedmen have to endure in quiet anger the brazen language involved with this fusion of the legitimately injustified with those that by any reasonable examination are justifiably ineligible to anything reparational here. There is no “international legal obligation of reparations.” HERE. The only thing we need is an obligation to a concurring constitutionality with the Constitution of the United States of America. HERE. In America. That’s It. International “norms” can be rightly cited because they do have a degree of universal validity. They just don’t apply HERE unless WE make them apply HERE from within domestically. Within a constitutional concurrence. Understand?
A good example of a valid “international norm” that could be domestically internalized would be the “Five Components of Reparations” as spelled out by the United Nations. They are: 1. Restitution. 2. Compensation. 3. Rehabilitation. 4. Satisfaction. And 5. Guarantees of Non-Repitition. Along with all Reparations expended being appropriate and proportional to the gravity of the violations that were done, and the harm that was suffered. But Again. We must make them apply HERE from within domestically. In accordance with American constitutionality.
Hopefully, we as a people will reach a hard and irreversible breaking point. And from that point, loudly and aggressively doing something about it.
So Family – if we have this here: “…descendants of enslaved Black people and people of African descent in the United States to account for the harms of chattel slavery, the cumulative damages of enslavement, and the epochs of legal and de facto segregation?” —— This is nothing but an inappropriate and duplicitous conjunctioning in a place where no conjunction needs to exist. Where does the African Diaspora fit into this issue constitutionally? How? Explain…
IV
“Whereas reparations must be administered by the Federal Government to descendants of enslaved Black people and people of African descent for sanctioning the kidnapping and trafficking of human beings, creating and maintaining a racial hierarchy, embedding slavery and other methods of economic exploitation into the fabric of society, and emboldening White supremacy with legal, social, and economic tools of control…”
In this section we have more of that “enslaved Black people AND people of African descent” nonsense. But wait a minute! What happened to the “call” for that “National Reparations Trust Authority” bullshit? What? Because “must be administered by the Federal Government” sounds like a call for the creation of a “Freedman’s Bureau” to me. Come on Dr. Ron Daniels! Y’all mean to tell me that you guys were not able to convince Rep. Bush to put that bullshit in this resolution? This was your chance Pan Africans! Or maybe things are getting better?
Who knows?
Kidnapping? Ahh… No. This “kidnapping” nonsense is another dishonest way in which The NAARC/N’COBRA Axis tries to “improve” and clear the real history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Kidnapping may have happened anecdotally on the here and there – sometimes. Totally plausible because of what was going down and because white people were involved. OK. But! The Transatlantic Slave Trade was probably called a “slave trade” – probably because motherfuckers [Black Africans] were “trading slaves.” OK? Let’s keep going: When human beings are being sold – “trafficking” is an integral and essential part of the process. You don’t buy people only to keep the bought in the same place. Right? You gotta move them from there to elsewhere. Right? Does that make any sense?
The vendors – the Africans, are more culpable in this case than the buyers.
The problem is that the fucking Pan Africans always try to move the obvious and substantial weight of responsibility from the actual slave vendors to the slave buyers. The buyers were not the vendors. The vendors were African royalty and professional African slave traders. That’s who they were. Period. And if you’re smart and discerning, you will never allow some kufi-hatted, pseudo-intellectual jerk-off take you off that factual square. The facts regarding the “trade” are well-researched and well-published. Yep. The correct information is out there. So there is no excuse to be taken in by good Pan African salesmanship.
A Few Resources:
- The Slave Trade: The Story Of The Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 – 1870 (Hugh Thomas) ISBN: 0684835657
- The Slave Trade In Africa: An Ongoing Holocaust (Simon Webb) ISBN: 1399094076
- The Slave Trade in Africa: The History and Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and East African Slave Trade across the Indian Ocean (Charles River Editors) ISBN: 1976075645
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Captivating Guide to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Stories of the Slaves That Were Brought to the Americas (Captivating History) ISBN: 1637161891
- Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: (David Eltis – David Richardson – David W. Blight) ISBN: 0300212542
- Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade (Randy J. Sparks) ISBN: 0674724879
- Sins of the Fathers: The Atlantic Slave Traders 1441-1807: (James Pope-Hennessy) ISBN: 0785815945
The books on this short list are available along with plenty of other resources both printed and online. Don’t be taken in by Pan African influenced bullshit. Really? Kidnapping? Don’t allow the Pan Africans to “clean up” what really went down. And don’t leave this beautiful read behind: “My Great-Grandfather the Nigerian Slave-Trader.” — That should go down well with your coffee.
V
“Whereas the full length of legalized slavery’s impact on Black wealth creation and well-being today, including the nearly 300 years of chattel slavery from the year 1502, when enslaved Africans were brought to Hispaniola and later their descendants brought to the United States territory, to the 1789, when the first Congress met, must be recognized and fully accounted for…”
“Whereas over the course of nearly 300 years, at least 12,500,000 Africans were kidnapped from their homelands by European traders and forcibly brought across the Atlantic Ocean in one of the largest forced displacements in human history, and at least 2,000,000 did not survive the horrifying, brutal, and grueling journey across the Atlantic, also known as the Middle Passage and Maafa…”
“Whereas forcibly separating Black families, often with members being transferred to the Caribbean, was a murderous and tortuous reality for millions of enslaved people who had to endure separation from loved ones they could no longer talk to or keep in contact with, perpetuating deep psychological and emotional trauma…”
“Whereas Spanish colonizers brought enslaved Africans to modern-day Florida in 1565…”
A Repeat: “Watch the language Family! Watch the motherfucking language!!!”
What you are looking at in the four sections reproduced above are exactly 194 double-clutched words that have nothing to do with us. Absolutely Nothing…
What whoever wrote this is attempting to do is to make a case for the inclusion of Caribbeans in this American reparations claim. A true and educated American Freedman Reparationist that is advocating for a lineage-based justice in America for those that are descended from American slaves should not give a fuck about any import, logistics, or re-shipping activities that formally went on in Hispaniola.
Where did your antecedents FINALLY LAND? It is true that 12,500,000 enslaved Africans were imported to the entirety called the “New World.” But only 388,000 people were ultimately brought to the North American entity designated as “The Thirteen Colonies.” Watch the inflationary finesse. Fuck all that other shit.
The only thing that counts is whether the feet of your antecedents landed HERE and that lineage went through slavery HERE and remained and identifiably lasted as a personhood and a peoplehood HERE until 1865. And then again to be counted HERE again and recorded in 1870. And we move on from THERE. And THAT’s it.
What you see above is slick back-and-forth language designed to groom the uninformed into an unjustified mindset that seems fair and inclusive. With fine legislative language, the Pan Africans will trick you into tricking yourself.
Let’s be clear and hard about the correct eligibility standard with no ambiguity.
VI
“Whereas enslaved people were prohibited and denied the right to maintain their indigenous languages, faiths, and cultural practices and traditions from Africa…”
I am not so sure about this one. It was the “cultural practices and traditions from Africa” that caused our ancestors to be enslaved and sold in the first place. Those “practices and traditions” are literally the “First Place Cause” both historically and materially that put our ancestors into the initial position of being enslaved. And by extension in the long-term post-slavery position that we are in now. Something that we did not, and do not need to maintain. Languages? English is working just fine for me right now. Faiths? OK. Well I personally don’t do “faith.” But whatever gods and spirits that were possibly doing divine stuff in Africa at the time certainly were not of much help. And unquestionably not helpful at all to their descendants.
Oh – and by the way… Africa owes us Reparations as well. But that’s another subject for another time and place. That will be covered.
VII
“Whereas the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Bureau, also known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established to provide economic and social aid to formerly enslaved Black people in 1865, but was eventually looted and corrupted by White politicians and businessmen, resulting in its demise in 1872, and in more than 60,000 Black people and organizations losing their deposits and having to wait years for only a fraction of them to be returned…”
This is a dirty shame. The Pan Africans are so focused on Mansa Musa – so focused on Zululand Boo Boo, that they can’t get obvious Black American history straight. OK? So are they talking about the “Freedmen’s Bureau” which was a government agency that was established by congressional decree in 1865 and was closed as an agency in 1872? OR – are they talking about the “Freedman’s Bank” (“Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company”) which was was established in 1865 and dissolved in 1874? Which one? Folks – you can loot a bank for sure, but (in most cases) not a government agency. Right? I’m quite surprised the word “Freedmen” was used in any capacity (even on paper) by Pan Africans. It is obvious that the writer of this section is either profoundly dyslexic or he or she straight up just doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
VIII
“Whereas, under fundamental international human rights law, governments have an obligation to provide full and effective remedies for violations of human rights, including acts of racial discrimination, and victims of human rights violations have the right to pursue such remedies…”
I don’t understand why the Pannies and their associates are always bringing up things like the “United Nations” and resolutions and other things produced by them. Or, citing “international law” as if those legislations carry any weight with the United States. When they do that, take that as overscholarized smoke and mirrors. Any “international” talk is basically a waste of time. Can the “World Court” materially penalize the United States with their judgements? With what guns? OK? What? Our eyes, our attention, our actions should always stay within the context of the Constitution of the United States. And that’s it. Don’t trust any so-called Reparationists that bring up any international shit. Can’t be used here.
IX
“Whereas the racial wealth gap is a direct legacy of chattel slavery in the United States and the continued displacement, exploitation, and sanctioned theft of formerly enslaved Black people and their descendants…”
“Whereas the Federal Government must eliminate the Black-White racial wealth gap as it is a direct legacy of chattel slavery and the cumulative impact of legal and de facto segregation that followed…”
“Whereas financial reparations must be paid by the Federal Government for an amount that respected economists have estimated totals, at minimum, $14,000,000,000,000 to eliminate the racial wealth gap that currently exists between Black and White Americans…”
Now I know they’re not dapping up Dr. William Darity in this part? Wow! Some of the more prominent Pannies have told me that Dr. Darity didn’t know what he was talking about. But here he is, paraphrased point by point in full color. It’s accurate too! Did they copy and paste this from one of Dr. Darity’s books or articles? Or did they come to some kind of independent enlightenment? What happened? Maybe this was accidentally put in by Rep. Bush’s staff. Because the rest of this document’s orientation is intentionally race-based. Dr. Darity himself is properly lineage-based.
Who knows?
X
“Whereas scholars have estimated that the United States benefitted from 222,505,049 hours of forced labor between 1619 and the end of slavery in 1865, which would be valued at $97,000,000,000,000 today…”
OK. These numbers are from Dr. Thomas Craemer. In 2015 the professor published a paper on Estimating Slavery Reparations (Social Science Quarterly, Volume 96, Number 2, pp. 639-655). That $97 Trillion figure is the result of a model calculation designed “to wrap our minds around the magnitude of the injustice” – as Professor Craemer puts it. But he never said that this is the amount to be paid back.
At the same time he asserts that capital extracted from American slavery provided the startup loan that the United States then used to develop an A-rated economy. And it took that loan by force from American Freedmen. He does feels that at some point, there is a need to start paying back the loan though. The sooner, the better. But I am not sure why this verbiage is here. What is the point being made here?
The other thing. Our Reparations claim in all respects must start from 1776. We are legislatively going after the economic-political entity duly established as the United States of America – in 1776. I wish we could go after a pre-1776 appropriated labor claim. But constitutionally we cannot sue something that didn’t exist. OK? And this country won’t allow it. So we must be advocationally and legislatively intelligent.
XI
“Whereas the Federal Government must compensate the descendants of enslaved Black people and people of African descent in the form of direct monetary reparations for the harms and vestiges of chattel slavery and its evolutions, as well as with other targeted benefits…”
Is this sentence sincere? Now – the part that says: “…direct monetary reparations for the harms and vestiges of chattel slavery and its evolutions” was wholly taken verbatim from grass-roots lineage-based groups and organizations. A Tossup!
But the “descendants of enslaved Black people” and “people of African descent?” OK? Which enslaved Black people? From where? And “people of African descent?” From where? At this point the resolution goes back into a race-based mode. This congresswoman by now should understand that nothing race-based would ever pass judicial scrutiny. Ever. Any person with even a rudimentary constitutional understanding knows this. I have to question the motives of Representative Bush.
XII
“Whereas the Federal Government has provided compensation and other forms of redress to other communities against which it has committed gross human rights violations, including Japanese Americans pursuant to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, who were forcibly removed and incarcerated in concentration camps in World War II…”
Oh. Okay…
XIII
“Whereas the Federal Government abdicated its responsibility time and time again to adequately acknowledge and provide redress for the crimes of enslavement and the continuation of racial subjugation and never enacted resolutions formally apologizing for slavery or H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act…”
An advertising break to market what I am sure to be one of the worst conceived and constructed bills ever produced in American history. This is one of the few times I can actually appreciate government inaction in regards to Freedmen.
XIV
“Whereas, in 2021, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged the United States to end anti-Black racial discrimination, violence and systemic racism against people of African descent by providing comprehensive reparations…”
“Whereas, in 2022, the United Nations Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination recommended implementation of a Federal reparations commission to develop reparation proposals as key strategy for achieving racial justice…”
“Whereas, in other countries, including South Africa, Canada, Columbia, and others, poorly designed reparations processes have not only failed to bring complete justice, but have created new forms of harm…”
Oh Stop. I don’t know why the Pannies keep doing this. Everybody that has some understanding of international politics, especially in regards to the United States relative to other countries, knows that international entities like the United Nations and the World Court carry no weight with this country. None. So why fill up space with this kind of shit? Is it to make folks think that you know what you’re talking about? To sound impressive? What? In all respects, when it comes to all endeavors regarding a Reparations claim Here – it is better to keep your whole mind and all Reparationist activities Here. Anytime you are listening to anyone speak on these Reparations, and the word “international” intentionally or unintentionally falls out their mouth. In most cases, that is a warning flag that a bunch of bullshit is about to follow. Just prepare your ears. It’s coming…
XV
“Whereas reparations are fundamentally a justice and accountability process that should carry more symbolic and practical power than traditional social policy; and
Whereas reparations programs should be distinguishable from the Federal Government’s responsibility for people’s general welfare, including routine social services and development aid…”
What is this? In the first section here, if proper Reparations legislation were being constructed, the only power that mattered would be practical. Any symbolism would be a tertiary effect at best, and something that most Freedmen would not be proactively concerned with. Cutting that beautiful check itself would be enough.
In the second section – I don’t know what the writer means by “traditional social policy.” What is that? Social policies are necessarily disaggregated and tailored to whatever particular social issue needs elimination, assistance, or transformation.
Any proper reparations program is and in itself automatically “distinguishable from the Federal Government’s responsibility for people’s general welfare…” OK. Is this shit overscholarized filler? Or just Pan African babble? Hard to tell.
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“(2) encourages support, passage and implementation of H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African-Americans Act, which has been introduced every year since 1989, via Congress or the executive branch…”
The fact that this resolution encourages the passage of HR40 or a commensurate Executive Order being signed automatically disqualifies this document as serious. But HR40 is still useful as a political means to show that you “support” the Black community. Especially if you’re a White liberal or “Blue” conservative. It has a sort of “political convenience” in that respect.
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“(5) acknowledges the significance of and momentum brought by legacy organizations as well as additional grassroots and national organizations leading the modern-day reparations movement…”
Oh!!! How Sweet – a moment of inclusivity…
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“(6) encourages the creation of local, State, and Federal initiatives to identify sources of reparations demands arising from chattel slavery and its long-standing impact on Black people…”
This section is a slow and sneaky way to implant the idea of state and municipal level “Stakeholder Authorities” and a “National Reparations Trust Authority” at the federal level. This right here exposes what they said in Part IV of this post: “…reparations must be administered by the Federal Government” as mis-connected political bullshit Family. This or That? What exactly do you want to do Pannies?
Don’t be fooled by the word “initiatives.” That’s not what they mean.
CONCLUSION
OK. Three barf bags in – I made it. By now I hope you do understand that this resolution is not anything to be taken seriously by anyone not residing in a mental facility. This is another attempt (a “false flag”) by the Democratic Party to reel all you Black political defectors and stragglers back into active votership for President Biden. And if he is re-elected it is a good chance the sonofabitch will expire in office (just look at him). And then we’ll be stuck with that raggedy-assed disaster otherwise known as Kamala Harris. I’d prefer we have Trump’s ass back in office over Jim Crow Joe, if that’s what the choices came down to.
Family! You got my as-best-as-I-could breakdown. Ya’ll asked me to do it – at this point, I’m just asking you to think.
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