FREEDMEN ABSOLUTE

I was assisted in posting this rant by a bottle of Los Vascos Cabernet Sauvignon 2018. A Colchagua Valley Chile Dry Red. Elegant. Serious. Full bodied. Complex structure. Leading in with strong blackberries, and currants. A dry sustain of dark cherries, spice, and chocolate. Going out with faint cherries, elderberries, and coffee. Moderate acidity. Smooth but mild tannins. Long – crisp finish.

“Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned through the perpetuation of injustice. If restitution is not made and reparations not instituted to compensate for prior injustices, those injustices are in fact rewarded.

And the benefits such rewards conferred on the perpetrators of injustice will continue to ‘draw interest,’ to be reinvested, and to be passed on to their children, who will use their inherited advantages to continue to exploit the children of the victims of the injustices of their ancestors. Consequently, injustice and inequality will be maintained across the generations as will their deleterious social, economic, and political outcomes.”

Dr. Amos Wilson

This is a me talking to myself in the mirror rant. Look – I already told you guys that I have mental issues on the “About” page in this blog. I needed to let this one out in print. Yeah, I’m a little all over the place. I’m an old motherfucker. But fuck the nitpickers and armchair editors and critics. That’s what rants are for.

I. Apology And Reconciliation

Apology?

I understand the legal necessity for an official apology. I get it. And we should get it. When I say: “No apologies needed.” I’m talking about that dry-handed, uneasy-feeling, wide-smiled, back-slapping, insincere; you know, Joe Biden type shit. The government doesn’t want to do it anyway. So don’t force it. But we still need that legal apology on paper. OK? No monuments needed. No handshakes needed. No kumbaya moments needed. No “We Shall Overcome” singing needed. None. No “friendship breakfasts” needed. No hand holding needed. Now, if we must do the apology for legal purposes, let’s do it. Ain’t no fucking friendship motherfuckers.

Just pay the debt.

No “Truth And Reconciliation Commission” needed. That’s church shit, and this ain’t church. This is BUSINESS. White people will turn upside down and redo any truth expended by Black people anyway. That’s what they do. A waste of time. As far as I can see, there is not any “conciliation” available to be re-upped. All our reparational demands should be expended with NO CONSIDERATIONS as to how others outside of the Freedmen community feel. “Feel” what? How did lynching “feel” motherfucker? OK? Dogs. Fire hoses. Nightsticks. Tell me about that shit.

There is a clear trajectory from actual slavery then. To actual slavery now.

Everybody that has studiously studied this issue knows that $100 trillion, or more over time is the right number. No more “studies” or “conferences.” It’s check time. Let us get this deal over with. Music. I’m listening to Public Enemy’s “Fear of a Black Planet” while I drink my wine and write this shit. A Great fucking album.

II. Akatas And Divisiveness

Reparations has nothing to do with addressing racism, or “healing.” Or eliminating any form of racial animus. Or being concerned about any potential divisiveness. OK? We did have a certain “unity” at one time. When they had our carcasses tied to a plantation with them for 400 years. When they were whipping us with a real whip every afternoon. When they put their whole foot up our asses on a daily basis. When they were raping Black women in the slave quarters on a nightly basis.

After our so-called emancipation; a great enclosing wall was built that stopped our forward movement and mitigated life-quality at every angle. The South wall was “segregation” – the North wall was “redlining.” “Jim Crow” was at the East wall – and “lynching” was hung on the West wall (no pun intended). They forced that powerful construction. And we couldn’t get out. Isn’t it stunning that the same discriminating collective that built that thick wall, then perfected the deep science of segregation, is now voicing “concern” regarding some “divisiveness” issues at check time? Feasibility flags? “Who” queries? We getting some whiteness now?

Get the fuck outta here.

As an aside: If you have ever closely studied lynching photography, did you see any inkling of “unity” between the lynchers and the lynched? Nope. Divisiveness was OK then. Lynching was one accomplishment of a supreme American good.

Africans and Caribbeans were not here when they were putting fire hoses and dogs on our “Akata” grandparents. They did not have to face the fucking Ku Klux Klan. Never saw no evidence of Nigerian sharecroppers. Never heard of any Haitians being lynched in America. That was just us “Akatas” putting in that resistance, that fight, that work. A deliberate Black counterpoint to racism-white supremacy.

We did not run from our country. Like the way all immigrants Black, white, Asian, and Brown ran from theirs. We are not the immigrants. We stood our ground and fought as the racial epicenter of this dirty American bitch. Right Here. Our Money. You have “Akata” Booker T. Washington stopping the “African Exclusion Measure of 1915.” For Africans. You have “Akatas,” in 1965 coming forward and advocating for positive Caribbean immigration reforms. For Caribbeans. You have “Akatas” absorbing all the abuse and death from merciless white resistance. So that ALL the Black Diaspora may enter THIS America, walk equally in THIS country, as upright human beings. Notice Immigrants: “Akatas” are beautifully fair-minded people.

“Akatas” did all this shit for YOU motherfuckers. And YOU now come here to tow that evil color line? To speak on behalf of racism-white supremacy? To insult our faces like WE ain’t shit? To undermine our justice? To push American Freedmen aside and assume rights to American Reparational entitlements based on melanin? A specific domestic deprivation equaling a worldwide Pan African distribution?

I Don’t Think So.

Example of an “Akata” at work:

“The African Exclusion Measure: The completion of the Panama Canal in November of 1914 provoked a measure injected into the large Immigration Bill of 1915. The United States would systematically exclude any and all persons of the “African or Black race” from the United States hereafter and place them in the same category as criminals and undesirables attempting to gain entry into the country.

Ironically enough, although named the “African Exclusion Measure.” The language in the bill was designed to target the African/ Black population immigrating from the Caribbean, Central, and South America, not the continent of Africa per se. Having used African/Black laborers to complete the Panama Canal, the United States intended to send a clear message on the issue of immigration.

By this time, in the last year of his life; Booker T. Washington was in full political bloom and the combination of his Pan African consciousness, his aggressive campaign in the Black Press and his effective use of the Tuskegee Machine; allowed for defeat of the measure within a week. Washington’s intervention in this case of the African Exclusion Measure had a direct impact on policies targeting the African/Black population and the demographic composition of the African population within the United States forever.”

Excerpt from the Booker T. Washington And Africa Website

After all that work: “Akata?”

Now that we have clarified ourselves, this “informed” Diaspora is spitting in our faces. Those motherfuckers are dirtier than shit. Drawing appeasatory political lines through greasy criticisms. Doing global social media disparagement. Asking stupid feasability questions. Expending obstrustionist talking points. Propagating off-subject Pan African fantasytalk. And openly concurring with racism-white supremacy against our demand. They claim to be worried about “divisiveness” issues regarding a relationship that has never been unified in the first place?

There is No Unity – No Parity in Pan Africanism. Let’s Be Clear.

No African ever sent an escape ship. No Diasporan ever sent us a fucking quarter. No Caribbean ever sent so much as a motherfucking coconut. Do you understand Family? We then have a grift-enabling NAARC* in this bitch. A Dr. Ron Daniels, insisting that the unexpended dividends accrued from that mean, wholly isolated, encapsulated pain HERE; unrelentingly suffered through our 400-plus-year-long abused American lineage HERE; is somehow “owed” to Africans and Caribbeans?

Explain that shit to me.

How does a domestic ass-whupping transmute into international recompense?

Explain THAT SHIT to me.

III. Justice And Friendship

Let me make this shit clear. Reparations are not a solution to the racial divide in America. That is not the purpose for Reparations and cannot BE the purpose. Just like insurance companies are not the solution to traffic accidents. The conditional complexes that cause accidents have to be addressed within disciplines that have nothing to do with insurance. This is coon diversionism. Do you understand?

Insurance is there to monetarily compensate victims as far as possible, FOR the damage and suffering created FROM accidents. That’s It. Reparations AND racial reconciliation are two separate things. To be discussed in two separate rooms. At two separate times. On two different planets. Let’s keep this Reparations issue a clean, clear and straightforward argument. (!) Do the money first motherfuckers.

The purpose of Reparations is to rightfully address in substance plus interest, the well known effects of centuries of government established, promoted, and abetted criminal abuse and deprivation of Black people in this country. As far as monetarily possible. NOT to improve any race relations. This is about dollars. This is about economics. This is about a major financial reset. Not friendship. Race relations? Not the time or place to change the subject. Not the time to absorb offsetting opinions.

We can do coffee later.

Reparations demands are totally independent of how Blacks and whites “feel” about each other. Fuck That. Anyone that tries to make that “divisive” stuff part of the conversation is full of shit. When Reparations does happen, the white folks that hate us now will hate us more. Believe that shit. And the white liberals that don’t overtly reveal any racial animus at present, will start showing some teeth. Watch those liberals. That is just a fact. Don’t forget the bullets. ‘Cause they got um’.

They were mad when we demanded our voting rights. Correct? They were angry when the law enforced open seating on public transportation. Correct? They were irate when the law allowed us to take a piss in any public toilet we wanted. Is That Correct? They were inflamed to the core when slavery legally ended. Correct?

Northerners AND Southerners.

So why shouldn’t they be furious about some niggers rightfully receiving in justice, in rightful repair, a few extra dollars from an indisputably guilty and hypocritical government? Expect that. That only makes sense. Understand that 97.9% of white people do not want racism-white supremacy to end. Especially white liberals. No justice for niggers. And when we do get Reparations, they only want us to get those reparational resources on THEIR terms. Expended with THEIR oversight. Making sure that we get as little as possible. And to do as little constructive with whatever we get as possible. Especially white liberals. Understand that. We also have those that are afraid white folks might start shooting if we get Reparations? OK?

Ahh… They’re shooting now aren’t they? I mean look: If you’re gonna take a cap in the ass anyway – wouldn’t it be easier to take with money, than without it? Ouch! And with money? Can’t we buy some guns and some training? Just Asking…

IV. Symbolism And Shit

Nobody should be insulting us with any “symbolism” talk. NONE. And we need to keep a sharp eye on paid Black preachers. I believe that Christianity itself is a part of the racism-white supremacy power structure (that’s another conversation). OK? Black preachers (not all), are generally opposed to true Black empowerment. They prefer us to keep our eyes up, cloud-watching for Jesus. Black empowerment in any realm is not profitable to the Black church. Observe This. Look at how some Black preachers will speak affirmatively on Reparations. But will always move to take the cash payments aspect off the table. OR – speak on including others in our claim.

Watch.

At the same time, if it is effectively pushed; those same fucking preachers will simultaneously suggest ways to institutionalize any potential cash expenditures. You Know? So they can “officially” run it. So they can “unofficially” pocket it. (“A new jet for reparations ‘work’ Pastor?”) This is the same sneaky-assed shit that NAARC and N’COBRA* is trying to pull with their “National Reparations Trust Authority”* bullshit. “Institutionalization” enables “officials” and “experts” to steal legally right in front of you; with lavish salaries, juicy commissions, grand theft-level expenses, plush retreats, luxury conferences, and lucrative contracts given to friends, Caribbeans, Green Carders, politicians, and others that “play ball.”

Then they give you a “report.”

This Biblically approved and regulated slavery atrocity itself, the slave trade, the Southern Jim Crow, Northern Jim Crow, lynching, discriminatory practices, racist systematics, unjust preferences, and all the deprivative tricknologies done against us? Those were not “symbolic” at all. OK? Therefore, a Reparations Act should be completely real, concrete, substantial, see-able, touch-able, feel-able, and cash-able.

Every motherfucking “apology” from the government, or white-run institutions, or any individual guilt-filled white person should have a check attached to it. I mean every fucking “apology” Man. Yep. We can set up a donatable “National Apology Fund” – tonight. A website – bank account – staff – we got the people. Let’s do it.

One of the power “assignments” from the power structure for Black preachers to accomplish is to “transcendentalize” any serious stuff like Reparations that we are trying to get or do. They know Blacks are susceptible to this kind of metaphysical bullshit. They do this, instead of helping us to keep our eyes straight ahead and our feet on the ground. You know. So we can effectively secure what’s owed, and do the BUSINESS needed to be done. (!) Those motherfuckers take us Up – Up – Up.

To Jesus Niggers! They always take us “Higher.”

At that point, the conversation changes from transitional justice to Jesus. From Jesus to symbolism. From symbolism to no money. Is an “AMEN” appropriate here? “Spirituality” ain’t needed. This is Business. The question of Reparation demands that we not allow racism-white supremacy or its tools to take our minds off of accomplishing our concrete, moneyfied, and on-the-ground business goals through their heaven-assigned proxies. Also known as the Black clergy.

Substantive settlements at the local and state levels could provide some redress for law enforcement abetted pogroms like Tulsa, Rosewood, Elaine, etc. But these local-based settlements are secondary in importance to Federal-level Reparations. To be clear in your own minds – any locally expended settlements and expanded equity fairness in cities and states is not Reparations. Nor should they be labelled as such.

This “Local Reparations” concept, to be clear and truthful, was created to dissipate and then to finally destroy the Federal Demand for Reparations. This creation was a poisonously collaborative effort by the Democratic Party, The NAARC/N’COBRA Axis, and particularly interested and organized elements within the Untouchable community. This Axis tricknology was originally spearheaded by FirstRepair* of Evanston. A NAARC conceptualized entity. To be clear. And that newly-created “Reparations United”* (this organization is a component of “The Axis”) does not exist to “unify the nor any Reparations movement.” (!!!) It only exists to destroy it.

Despite the competent and sincere efforts that were accomplished by the landmark California Reparations Task Force; my position on Local vs Federal Reparations still stands: Reparations for the American Freedmen is properly a Federal project. Why? Because that’s where the fundamental culpability lies – and that’s where the real money is. Local efforts may be restitutional – but are definitely NOT Reparational.

Aside: Reparations cannot be accomplished through lawsuits. It’s about legislation.

V. Other Possibilities?

Reparations could provide some historic redress nationwide for the legally abetted heterosexual and homosexual rape by white predators on free and enslaved Blacks. Reparations could also provide some overdue historic redress for the ugly beatings, robberies, executions, murders, labor extractions, sexual molestations, and rapes of free and enslaved Black children by sexually entitled white men. We will see.

VI. Whataboutisms

Even if Foundational Black Americans did well economically after slavery; without Reparations. Listen. Even if the descendants of American Freedmen were the most prosperous minority group in America right now; without Reparations. Listen Family. That in no way would invalidate or mitigate the rightness or validity of any claims for Reparations. In-group economic and/or net-worth disaggregations are not appropriate here. The legal demand for Reparations is totally independent of our singular and/or collective economic conditions in the present. Listen. At the same time, as a people, our general economic conditions in the present are in their current deplorable state, partly because we never received Reparations. See?

The uniquely precise demand for our Foundational Black American Reparations is also totally independent of the various discussions, complaints, and compensatory demands of other ethnic and racial groups that have been wronged. See? No other group should be part of THAT “conversation.” That needed conversation between us Foundational Black Americans – and our fucking government. Understand? Our case is unique and separate. Unique and Separate. Unique and SEPARATE.

We are not in any way could be, should be, or will be “linked” to anybody else’s shit. Nobody. Where did they get the nerve to offer this disrespectful idea? I know, but we won’t go into that now. It is important for all serious Foundational Black American Reparationists to finely UNPACK and destroy this kind of corrupting “diversity” in their faces, where they stand, where they speak, wherever they piss. That’s Right. Don’t even let those motherfuckers piss in peace. The fuck outta here.

Whenever and wherever inconsiderate bitches attempt to place a Foundational Black American Reparations dialogue into a what-about-ism “melting pot” – Stop There. Understand? Ask this to the bitches: “I look like a carrot to you? We ain’t cooking. What About – My Ass!” That “melting pot” shit ain’t our conversation. And this especially includes the motherfucking Pan Africans. Always including these African and Caribbean aliens in our shit. OK? Putting us Foundational Black Americans into an international “Black Pot.” OK? I don’t care how “Black” those motherfuckers are “supposed” to be. Now, to be fair, those niggers don’t mix us in with the Latinx’s or American Indians. But they might in the future. Who knows?

Give credit where credit is due. OK? Even those bastards deserve credit.

But those fuckers will attempt to transmute a wholly American in-house effected Foundational Black American enslavement, rape, injury, and deprivation into an undifferentiated worldwide Diasporan Reparations distribution. Unbelievable.

Flame all the motherfuckers.

When was the last time you’ve seen Foundational Black American type people impositively inserting themselves between somebody else’s shit and the or their government? Never. And that is because we actually RESPECT others. But others don’t fucking respect us. We respect their rights and sovereignties as grown people to negotiate their own problems and contentions with the or their government, without any unwelcome and unsolicited inputs or impositions from Freedmen.

Right? – But:

Everybody that ain’t us is suddenly “suggesting” shit. Saying what they “think” shit should and shouldn’t “look like.” Or offering “educated” pontifications on what others should or shouldn’t get. Scholarly papers written by Untouchable doctorate holders saying: “No To Niggers.” Unsolicited Arrogance; regarding an issue that ain’t got a motherfucking thing to do with THEM. Incredible people.

I do wish others had the same basic respect for us and our business.

“Concerned” sonofabitches really need to back the fuck off.

We will always understand that Jewish, American Indian, and Japanese American Reparations issues with the government are none of our fucking business. NOT. And if we attempted to enter the rooms where others are discussing their business with the government; they would be well within their rights to tell us to: “Get the fuck outta here motherfucker. Find some business!” SLAM!!! You See?

That’s why you have never heard any American Freedman break breath, raise a Black hand, or mobilize a pen to opine yay or nay in those “none-of-your-fucking-business” type conversations. Right? We Leave. We respectfully leave others to their own Family business. (!) And we stay out. At the same time, supporting the rights of others to make and agitate their own demands. As grown people should.

I implore other groups to have the same respect for us and our contentions with the government that we always extend to them. Others? Lend your distant support for our justice claims. Like we do with others. And with multi-ethnic support – I would hope others that do support will respectfully allow us to shape our own arguments and demands. Express our own pains. And to express those pains in our own way. Without opinionated interruptions. Like we respectfully do in support with others.

Stop placing us with American Indians. They used to own us. Google it.

This is a word to all those “diversity” minded folks. Foundational Black American people will not be caught up THIS TIME in any ignorant, obfuscating, deflectivist, and all inappropriately inclusive “what-about-isms.” Hell NO. OR any other time wasting conversations regarding any of the destructive things that white folks and the government have done to other groups. OK? All other groups must “hold their own nuts,” so to speak. All those other groups are composed of grown people. And as grown people they must take FULL RESPONSIBILTY in agitating against and advocating opposite to racism-white supremacy. They got fire hoses for them too?

It is not the responsibility of Foundational Black Americans to tend to other folks’ business. They business is they business. Our business is our business. And don’t let them lay they shit on us. NO. We will not do the heavy lifting for others. Those daily, nasty, burdensome, sweaty, laborious, and unappreciated times are over.

VII. Pan-Africans Can Fuck Off

All improper Black Nationalists and Pan African motherfuckers can stay the fuck away from me if they are not thinking past their well-educated ignorance, and articulating Reparations to me in the proper Foundational Black American way. OK? If you are not gonna be honest about the role of Africans in the slave trade? Fuck Off Please. If you are not going to admit that our cultural and psychological connection to Africa was commercially severed 400 years ago by the dealings of African royalty and African slave traders with their European and Arab clients?

Fuck Off.

Miss Me with that “kidnapping” shit. That’s “blackwashing” history.

It was a “Slave Trade” motherfucker. We were SOLD.

If you are not gonna stop that “brother and sister” bullshit in reference to us and Africans – because we are not brothers and sisters? Fuck Off. We don’t need any Pan African whatsoever “re-connections” or libation pouring. I assure you. It ain’t happening here. Save your liquor. It ain’t happening between Africans over there. It ain’t happening between Caribbeans down there. It ain’t happening between Diasporans out there. How the fuck is that gonna happen Over Here? “Unity?”

Ain’t no “Unity.”

How in the fuck you gonna put responsibility for Diasporan unification on me?

Niggers. Always trying to take our minds off our American business and directing our Black attentions towards Egypt. “Egypt?” Fuck You. A totally unproductive distraction. Hotep type motherfuckers always trying to tell me to change my name: “That’s a slave name Man.” Damned right it is. I ain’t changing shit. Our NAMES – Johnson, Robinson, Washington, Smith, etc. are the walking, talking, generation to generation existing, night and day reminders, of a cash deprived wealth gap.

Here We Are!!!

Yes motherfuckers. Those slave names are markers. The obvious historic remains of systemic deprivation. Loudly indicative of the owed but undistributed dividends created from a four-hundred-year-long forced investment. So loud, that some white folks don’t like being around us. I don’t blame the motherfuckers. We too loud.

Yes Loud. Can’t help that. Can’t stop that. Can’t turn that down Man. Our NAMES
autonomically function with and simultaneously precede our bodies. (!) Informing within all the spaces and times we enter, as empowered past due notices. When we leave all those sweet spaces and times – the full guilt remains. There it is. (!) Notices in name that are collectively attached to an astronomically expensive invoice. Due! And of those that need to act in fact upon satisfying that overdue notice demand? They know what the fuck they’re looking at. Those folks see every-fucking-body.

And they know who every-fucking-body is:

There’s One. There’s Another One. And That One Over There. All those past-due bills and the possible calls, and the possible letters, and all the possible subpoenas that come with them are irritating as fuck. I know. But the interest on that demand is compounding quickly. Those that know are reminded decade after decade, that they need to act quickly and affirmatively. It’s HOT. Oh – and They WILL stop blowing this shit off. Call MY name motherfucker. I ain’t fucking changing shit.

I’m the Invoice. Time to Pay.

Look Pan Africans: Foundational Black American people will never assent to your Afro-fantasytalk or Diasporan fetishism. Ain’t gonna be no psychological, cultural, or political redirection from America. Not this time. The daishikis have been sent to Goodwill. Gone. Our memberships in NAARC and N’COBRA have been cancelled. We don’t need or want no Diasporan validation. American Freedmen-ism equals politically and economically validating ourselves. Our minds and energy will not be re-projected across the Atlantic to nowhere. To confusion. To absolute nothing.

Not This Time Motherfuckers.

We are asserting our shared ownership of America. Reclaiming our profound and expansive “American-ness.” Right Here. We are demanding our share of the return on that American investment. Here. If YOU want to “return” to Africa? Go. I’ll see you off. It is because of the prodigious involuntary expenditures we’ve made here that I assert “First Among Equals” ownership status RIGHT HERE in America.

Can’t do that in Africa.

I am not voluntarily leaving my portion of generationally produced profits and a 1619 initially forced investment compounding further into the pockets and estates of Twenty-First Century white folks. Why should I? Why should you? And Brother – I am not sharing one motherfucking dime of American Descendants Of Chattel Slavery Reparations resources with African and Caribbean chiselers. Fuck That.

Repatriation? I ain’t left shit in Africa but a headache.

VIII. Reparations Politics

Even though Reparations must be accomplished through politics; Reparations in itself is not politics folks. Reparations is a non-negotiable economic infrastructure demand that is justified, was promised, but never put in place. Plus interest. This is BUSINESS to be accomplished through politics people. And we don’t have to be nice about it. Getting it? Legislators are either for us or against us. We know what to do with politician type motherfuckers that move against us. Right?

We don’t need preachers offering up moral mumblings or Biblical invocations or “divine guidance” to do this. Family. This is Business. Not Church.

Now – there are some things regarding government that ARE political, and some things that are not. Like our water and highway systems. The planning, building, and maintenance of those infrastructural necessities are the responsibility of the government. But the question itself of getting those systems planned, built, and running is not a political one. They HAVE TO get done. The politics, if any, isn’t about figuring out HOW to get those things done. The politics is about WHOM is going to be put in place to do it. And how much it will cost. And what might have to be cut to get it done. That’s the politics. It is the same case with Reparations. We must be politically motivated, strategic, educated, and wise at the same time.

Let’s get this done Family. Our futures depend on it.

Reparations is NOT Politics. Reparations is NOT Race Relations. Reparations is definitely NOT regarding Reconciliation. Reparations is the justified, demanded, and justified recompense from a taken Economic Infrastructure. Accomplished.

NAARC = “National African American Reparations Commission.” Governing entity for The NAARC/N’COBRA Axis. Everything is conceived, planned and ran from here. A grant-grab coordinating operation headed by Dr. Ron Daniels. Pan African presenting. This entity is filled with doctorate holders and lawyers that are not Foundational Black Americans. Folks from the Caribbean and Africa fill its ranks. Tight associations with white liberal and Untouchable financial backers like the MacArthur Foundation among others that are actually against Reparations. Dangerous to the movement. Strongly connected to the Democratic Party.

N’COBRA = “National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America.” A Pan African presenting “Reparations” organization. A grant-grab operation formerly headed by Kamm Howard (He is now president of “Reparations United” – another fine grant-grab organization). Check this Wikipedia excerpt: “Since at least 2017, N’COBRA has advocated for reparations compensation to be in the form of community rehabilitation and not payments to individual descendants of slavery.” That means advocating NO MONEY for you. And this “community rehabilitation” bullshit whatever on top of that should be managed by them? I don’t think so.

FirstRepair = A NAARC conceptualized entity. A part of The Axis. Headed by Robin Rue Simmons (a former city official in Evanston Illinois). This organization was the first to pull off the “Local Reparations” trick bag in the City of Evanston. Ms. Simmons flies around the country selling dead-end “advice” regarding “local reparations” programs to municipalities and states. It is financially supported by the Untouchable community and the Democratic Party. The “local reparations” program she started in Evanston is falling apart both socially and legally.

Reparations United = A new addition to The Axis headed by Kamm Howard. Heavily connected to the Democratic Party. They are part of the Democrats “Black voter recovery program.” Its other function is to interrupt and disrupt any real Reparations efforts done by sincere grassroots individuals and groups. “Uniting” the Reparations movement? Please. Expect to hear more from them in the future.

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“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

Booker T. Washington

Motherfuckers are always saying crazy nigger stuff to me like: “Give me my reparations in land Man.” Another motherfucker tells me he wants his shit in gold. Please. Like the average Black person knows what to do with “land” once they receive it. I may be wrong, but I think that most folks Black or white wouldn’t know what to do with “land.” Correct me if I’m wrong folks. When it comes to property acquisition and management through reparations, I think I may have a better general idea. I call it “Blacklining.” Read before you judge. 

My explanation of that is below.

Call me names and/or roast me AFTER you’ve read the motherfucking post please. OK? This ain’t gospel. It’s just a fucking suggestion.

This post was written prior to the ADOS schism.

What is “Blacklining?”

Right now, a suggestion. Let me start with suggesting the fair transference of certain government owned lands and residential properties (city, suburban, and rural ADOS Homesteads), to satisfy “land” niggers. OK? And the prioritized granting of unencumbered permissions and licensing in specified commercial areas (like gambling or cannabis endeavors for example) to ADOS individuals and/or ADOS owned business entities that are qualified. Federal and state media licenses, bandwidth, and spectrum set-asides for qualified ADOS and ADOS owned entities should be sold at 75% lower than the current market price.

Certain urban neighborhoods should be “Blacklined” (my word). Meaning certain
protected and prioritized districts within certain cities (we’re segregated anyway – with the proper handling, that could be a good thing), reserved exclusively for the commercial and residential use of ADOS and (registered population percentage limited to 12%) non-ADOS Blacks. Property taxes will be subject to pre-established limits. If there are any revenue shortfalls to local governments due to capped property taxes in “Blacklined” areas – those shortfalls will be covered and/or subsidized by local, state, and federal government entities.

Government representation for these areas will be ADOS only.

These areas will be prioritized to receive federal and state expended urban improvement grants, Tax Increment Financing, and various business development grants. Residential and other properties can only be transferred between ADOS and non-ADOS Blacks. Businesses cannot be established without community approval and falling within the guidelines. Businesses that have some non-Black ownership in these areas must be at least 75% owned and controlled by ADOS residing in that same community. This is the community keeping ownership tight and controlled.

Multi-unit apartment buildings and commercial properties that are currently owned by whites and other non-ADOS entities and individuals in “Blacklined” areas will be sold (by law) at assessed value to ACIT’s (ADOS Community Investment Trusts) established and operated by that ADOS community.

Any other community approved companies (like Starbucks, McDonald’s, Whole Foods, Walgreen’s, etc.) – their equity shares [stock] must be publicly listed and traded. So that they may be potentially owned by ADOS on the back end, via direct stock market purchases or indirectly via mutual funds and ETF’s with those purchases transacted and owned by ADOS individuals, ADOS owned businesses, and ADOS Community Investment Trusts. Locking in investment from both ends.

And those aggregated franchised entities (single stores like a McDonald’s) within those districts must be at minimum 75% owned by ADOS in that community. Those (publicly listed corporate) single stores (like Walgreen’s, Starbucks, etc.) must be housed in commercial facilities that have been built-to-suit and leased from ADOS individuals, ADOS business entities, or ADOS Community Investment Trusts that own those facilities. No exceptions. No workarounds.

No white, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American originated business entities that are 100% privately owned by non-ADOS (franchise or otherwise) should be allowed in these areas. We should have teams of checkers deployed to verify the ownership and capitalization sources of entities intending to open in Blacklined areas.

These areas should have an emphasis on “Intrification” (my word). Meaning that all private improvements to these areas will be ADOS initiated, financed, executed, and owned by those that live in those areas. This done – along with government infrastructure improvement funding for public areas. Also, local policing in these districts should be done by ADOS and non-ADOS Black officers that live in the district they police. With an emphasis on foot patrols and engaging residents.

“Blacklining” would also serve as a “firewall” against any potentially encroaching “gentrification” – meaning gradual white takeover through the investment of and “moving into” by whites into certain properties and areas. There should not be any outside private investment by law. Outsiders that try will be prosecuted.

Why “Blacklining?” Well, with reparations, our asset picture will be vastly improved. That could mean community ownership and improvement where we already live. More opportunities to exploit profit where WE live. Most white people – conservative, indifferent, and liberal, don’t want to live next door to Black people anyway. And that’s fine, as far as I’m concerned. I don’t like living next to white people anyway. Most of the time, those Black folks with some means, will move into predominantly white areas for better living conditions and amenities. Not necessarily because they want to live next to white people, or are particularly interested in “diversity.” For some Blacks, living near white people has resulted in many unpleasant encounters. “Blacklining” can stop this.

“Diversity” has always been a money losing proposition for Blacks. Plantations were “diverse”, if you really think about it. Understand? “Diversity” always means that others (white women, Asians, Jews, Latinx’s, some Black immigrants) record the ideas, fully appropriate and reconstitute those ideas, undercompensate any Black labor involved, and coldly take those extracted assets home. They will then package and monetize those assets. Then partition ADOS Black folks away from the profits. Sometimes those assets are disproportionately extracted by other groups through “good management” and “fair contracts” and “better deals.” That’s how “diversity” actually works. Every time. So, NO “diversity” in “Blacklined” areas.

A people with backbone and self-interested purpose does not need “diversity.”

We must “manage” and “inside-network” our own business, talents, and creativity.

We could make the living conditions in “Blacklined” areas as good as or better than
predominantly white areas in all respects. WE could create the ultimate in upper middle class living, for ourselves. No more white folks calling police for breathing, eating, or walking while Black – where you live. No more crappy attitude from the white cashier at the corner store – where you live. No more contemptuous looks from the Korean at the local beauty supply – where you live. No more abusive loudmouthing from the Arab motherfucker at the nearby liquor emporium – where you live. You don’t wanna kill a sonofabitch in the name of Allah? Right?

Prison.

No more Japanese waitresses rushing you out of the Japanese restaurant before you’ve finished eating. And Japanese motherfuckers do that shit all the time, where you live. Putting the fucking check on the table in the middle of your meal. Rushing niggers out. No more Vietnamese bitches handing out ass-whoopings at the nail salon, where you live. No more imported caste system nonsense from the East Indian at the Dunkin Donuts by the bus stop, where you live. No more stinky-faced – got nothing else to do “Karens” fucking with you because they feel like it.

Also, these abuses can rightly be looked upon as business opportunities to be noted and then exploited by us in “Blacklined” areas. For example – Black people have been exposed to cuisines from all over the world. At the same time, people of other ethnicities (Greek, Asian, Ethiopian, etc.) really don’t like Black people patronizing their establishments. They don’t. They just tolerate our patronage, so they don’t run afoul of discrimination laws. Like being “tolerated?” I don’t. You shouldn’t either.

Black folks could open restaurants that feature different international cuisines. But, prepared, presented, and sold by Black people. We can learn and sell any cuisine we want, but then, these cuisines could be enjoyably consumed and beautifully socialized over without any imported discriminatory bullshit. For a change. Right? Even African immigrant owned restaurants prefer white patronage over African American patronage (that’s why most African restaurants are located in white neighborhoods). Sushi, Korean barbeque, tempura, Greek cuisine, Indian cuisine, Mexican cuisine, French cuisine, Moroccan cuisine. Chinese cuisine. We can do – AND SELL – AND SERVE all those cuisines OURSELVES. Fuck Em.

Again – we could learn and do any cuisine we like BETTER than the originators.

The other thing that can be done in “Blacklined” areas is the recapture of the multi-billion DOLLAR Black beauty supply business. The liquor store business. The gas station business. The nail business. ALL “trade” type businesses. Plumber. Tailor. Electrician. HVAC. Landscaping. Diesel Mechanic. Roofing. Web Design. Masonry. Remodeling. Welding. Top to bottom. All of this motherfucking shit. All of it.

Reset and Patronize YOUR community network Family.

No more isolating indifferences, “good-morning-less-ness,” and superiorist arrogance from your white neighbors – where you live. No more isolating indifferences, “good-morning-less-ness,” and superiorist arrogance from your immigrant neighbors – where you live. More community. More networking. More family. More tranquility. And, if we can get the fratricidal Mr. Pookie in practice, and the Rap music industry in spirit, to stop assisting the police and the racists in trying to gun down all Black people from the face of the earth. More humanity.

The “Blacklining” concept is not to say you cannot live anywhere else you choose. You can, and you should, if that is what you’d like to do. We paid for it. But, it would be nice to have exclusively Black urban “homelands” to retreat to, that are relaxed, beautiful, welcoming, clean, crime free, chaos free, tension free, racism free, Confederate flag free, bullshit free, and devoid of white, Asian, and Hispanic people (except those others that are visiting through and spending good money in Black owned businesses, then leaving).

And no “Karens.”

Lastly, “Blacklined” areas should be federally protected by law and in fact. We can’t have another Rosewood or Tulsa conflagration anywhere. White folks get upset at autonomous Black success. Black happiness offends whites. Racists and others (including other Black people) that seek to do, or actually accomplish assault of persons, theft, robbery, or destruction of property, criminality in any of these areas, should receive harsh federal penalties. Including the death penalty, if appropriate. No “gang” activities will be tolerated in Blacklined areas. None. And Period. And people, don’t forget: the stand your ground interpretation of defensive rights bestowed by the Second Amendment would be available to you as well. Fuck the bullshit.

Aim – Click – POW!!!

Now Family, could this be a better idea? I am open to suggestions.

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This is just my opinion folks. Not Freedmen gospel or guidance.

“We feel strongly that direct payments must be a major component… The preponderance of the funds must go to individual recipients. And they must go in such a way that we, in fact eliminate the racial wealth gap.”

Dr. William A. Darity Jr.

Doesn’t that quote from Dr. Darity feel good?

I have heard a lot of very small, inadequate, and inappropriate numbers, ideas,
proposals, strategies, and programs, and this, and that and all of that, about what
reparations should look like. Let’s get one thing money straight folks. Now.

The American Freedmen type people are owed at this time, I believe, a non-negotiable $100,000,000,000,000 [100 trillion bucks] in minimum money, set-asides, income tax exemptions, and considerations done over four generations. If you really think about it – this is a deal. With a seventeen trillion dollar down payment to immediately close the wealth gap. Starting from now.

No politics here.

Harper’s Magazine – a reputable white folks publication, estimated that the total of
reparations due was about 97 trillion DOLLARS. Based on some 222,505,049 hours of forced slave labor between 1619 and 1865, compounded at 6% interest through 1993. Now that’s just for slavery motherfuckers. Just for goddamn slavery.

But, what about the compounded trillions in painful losses accrued from the post-slavery period? What about compensative damages potentially expended for maximum visceral and mental pain, lynching, economic destruction, domestic spoliation, rape, and continuous full-scale suffering? Post-slavery till now?

What about the time and effort and resources and lives lost trying to secure, practice, and enjoy ALL OF the benefits and protection of the rights that the Constitution stated that we already had or were supposed to have as citizens?

Post-slavery till now?

What about the monetary repairs needed, as a result of the special and precise unconstitutional laws and policies that were enacted and enforced against us? In every state, county, and municipality. Post-slavery till now?

Those were all unnecessary costs that were heavily imposed and dearly paid. But aside from that – this Harper’s Magazine calculation shows that white folks in general are well aware of the true history. Of course that amount would never be paid, but that number is important to display because it is illustrative of the horrific magnitude of the crime. And them [white people], logically concluding from that awareness – being fully cognizant of what this country owes us in substance and justice. That something is owed. Freedmen Reparations? Not deep or complicated.

Real Simple.

You took something. You need to return that something. Plus interest. Plus
protection. Plus set-asides. Plus motherfucking plus. Simple. If you hear any opposition to reparations, whether that speaker is white liberal, American Black, avowed racist, Black immigrant, or otherwise. Understand this – I don’t care:

ALL anti-reparations statements are anti-justice statements.

Cash payments as part of a Reparations program is in no-brainer territory. How do you do Reparations without it? Do you see all those zeroes? That’s what real
Reparations look like in an overall reparative sense. The carefully researched and respectfully calculated conclusion of twelve to seventeen trillion dollars as an initiating baseline is beautiful. That’s a start. Forty Acres and a fucking Mule was nowhere near enough compensation in 1865 if you think about it. THEN.

For 400 years of 1619 overall slavery on the American continent? For 246 years of 1776 direct legal slavery over, under, and within this United States Of America construct? Forty acres and a mule? Understand Family, that shit wasn’t enough then or now. Let us do a full, justified, and DONE reparations package. Today.

100 Trillion Dollars – Four Generations.

And part of it has to be – Actual Cash Payments. You know – FEDERALLY CUT AND DISTRIBUTED CHECKS. You Know. Money. Right? Money. Distributed quarterly (4 generations overall to the group). Money. Reparations would not feel like reparations without cash being distributed. Money. You know. Money.

This has to be done at the FEDERAL LEVEL. Trying to squeeze this kind of money out of states and municipalities is a waste of time and a distraction. They simply don’t have the money. And “local reparations” schemes are nothing but Pan African trick bags. There are other things that states and municipalities can do to assist with reparative efforts like the actual establishment of equity policies and actions. Any extractions from states and municipalities will be properly dealt with by a special office of examinations after the Freedmen’s Bureau is re-established.

But!!!

Every-Body-Else worldwide that was properly reparated got CASH as all or part of their reparations package. Why should we be any different? Cash works for the originally abused American Indians and their descendants. Cash worked so well for American Indians, they were able to use cash to build successful gambling casinos and other businesses. Cash worked for the formerly interned Japanese Americans and their descendants. Every-Body-Else-Family! Cash distributions are still working internationally for Jewish Holocaust survivors, their descendants, and the relatives of those that did not survive. Every-Body-Else-Motherfuckers!!!

Cash distributions is the foundation of all Reparations.

But some folks say we shouldn’t get cash.

When our great-great-great-grandparents were sold and shipped for international
commerce purposes. And our great-great-grandparents were enslaved and boxed-in for domestic free labor purposes. And our great-grandparents were Jim Crowed and strung-up for existing and breathing. And our grandparents were head-kicked and barbecued for being commercially competitive and academically curious. And our parents were professionally redirected and financially circumscribed to no end – everyfuckingbody else made CASH off that. You know. Money.

Folks sold tickets to lynchings. Hustlers sold fucking sandwiches and drinks at those events. You had slave auctions. Slave brokerages. Slave-breaking specialists. Slave insurance companies. Slave finance companies. Slave logistics. Slave contracting and outsourcing. Slave brothels. State enforced peonage. “Might-as-well-be-slavery” type sharecropping. That shit. “Sharecropping.” Stuff was “cropped” – but never “shared.” Our grandparents were federally fucked.

How ’bout some MONEY?

Let’s do some convict leasing. Slave breeding farms. Slave catching contracts signed with American Indians. Kidnapping agreements, slave trading co-ops, slave shipping partnerships, and raiding contracts signed with the royalty of certain African tribes. Inhuman medical experimentation. Business burn-downs. Farm burn-downs. Town burn-downs. Systematic property devaluations. Racially differentiated purchase restrictions of all kinds. High finance charges and fees that were charged to Blacks only. OK? Charged to Blacks, not “People Of Color.”

CASH MOTHERFUCKERS.

How about some redlining? Let’s stick in some land robbery? Predatory land contracts? Everybody cool with slavery and post-slavery invention and intellectual property theft? Or segregated, substandard health care? Or NO health care? Would you like a serving of unacknowledged and uncompensated culture appropriation? Or how ’bout some federal, state, and municipal agency policies – cheating Black people out of rightfully earned and entitled Social Security and GI Bill benefits?

CASH

Let’s do some predatory management contracts for Black entertainers and professional athletes. Let’s add-in a few racial covenants. Black men being drafted into the military to fight for foreigners rights OVER THERE. At the same time, receiving no citizen’s rights OVER HERE. Let’s do that. And let us suffer those niggers 100% taxation for zero percent representation. For zero percent justice under the law. For zero percent protection under the law. For zero percent anything under the law. Let’s do some unequal pay for more than equal work. Codified by the government. Enforced by a free and vicious white society. Enthusiastically practiced by business. And let’s do some slick Machiavellian housing policies at every stinking governmental level. How about that?

Every-Body-Else made money.

But somehow. We. Their progeny, their rightful inheritors, should NOT be entitled to cash? Is that so? Well – that’s what certain Black legislators in Washington are saying. Presidential candidates. Degreed-up Black professors. Intellectually assured Black journalists. Think tank Black conservatives. Certain white and Jewish liberals. All white and Jewish conservatives. NAARC and N’COBRA type folks.

Look at Julianne Malveaux (a standing member and commissioner of NAARC) – she knows best because she has a fucking Ph.D in economics:

“I don’t care about a personal check being made out to Julianne Malveaux or anybody else. But how about we fully fund our Historically Black Colleges and Universities…”

Julianne Malveaux

Fully funding HBCU’s will suffice as reparations. That’s what Julianne Malveaux of NAARC thinks. She got that degree. So she knows best. Then you got paid Black clergymen. Anti-Black, anti-reparations, banana boatistas – of all kinds, colors, tribes, and ethnicities saying shit. And that’s the shit they’re saying. And when they do talk in numbers, a lot of them are stuck on a 500 billion dollar tip as reparations.

That “politically feasible” bullshit. You Know…

This is a paternalistic incredibility, and each one of those well-spoken people should use their well-educated paternalism for purposes that are constructive for a change. That’s what I’m saying. We are not their wards, and they are not our guardians. Understand people – there should not be, and cannot properly be Any Exceptions to this cash stuff when it comes to the American Freedmen. That beautiful entitlement. THE MONEY – belongs to and needs to be equally expended to us as well.

Gotta Have It. You Know – green, crisp, lovable, spendable, saveable, holdable, stashed- in-the-bra-able, kissable, trickable, foldable, CASH. No civil rights leader-type “symbolic” stuff. No food stamp-ish “substitutions for” cash. No “programs” paternalistically doling benefits out. And no condescending “Baby Bonds” shit.

Did I hear “HR40?” Toilet paper. “HR40 toilet paper? Hmm…”

Ahh… CASH

Slavery, Jim Crow, and post-Crow systematics was all about THE MONEY. Reparations HAS to be about the money and ALL of its associated extensions. Cash Baby, that’s what I understand. That’s what you understand too. The same thing that the Pan Africans are paid in by concerned white foundations to run around the country and fuck up Reparations. MONEY. Now let’s do some real Reparations.

NOW FOR THE RANT

I want to direct a positive word to the well-respected and butter-biscuited nigger paternalists that are “worried” about what individual Freedmen will do with their reparations checks. Let me make this simple: “None of your fucking business!”

Yes, some Freedmen will trick their money off. OK? Guy buys himself 7000 pairs of Jordans, woman purchases a semi-trailerload of weave for personal use, brothas making it rain, and rain, and rain at the strip club, the bar, the hoehouse. OK? And that’s their business. OK? They are gonna DO IT. That’s for sure. Every race on this planet have certain members of their various tribes that will trick off money. We good Freedmen have our share as well. Each family has as least one. OK?

At the same time – we also have a substantial percentage of Freedmen that will:

Pay off their mortgages, purchase homes, improve their homes, finance their businesses, start businesses, make investments, pay off long standing debts, improve their credit, get more education, purchase certain medical procedures, donate to certain constructive causes, travel the world, do volunteer work, do something different with their lives, etc. Same shit white folks do. You see?

So we do not need “overseers” to make sure that we handle OUR money to their
liking(s). The same folks that will presume to know what to do with our money better than us – would tell any person that attempted to do the same to them to:

“FUCK OFF”

Why is it that many well educated Black persons of note like Julianne Malveaux, that will speak affirmatively on Reparations, always say conversely, that they don’t want money, or this is “more than just a check?” When slavery, Jim Crow, and racist systematics was ALL about white folks, American Indians, Arabs, Jews, Black African slave traders, and Black African elites making money. Making money LITERALLY off our grandparents backs. And none of that made money being inherited to us. All of that extraction eventually and forcefully bequeathed to us in the form of perpetual poverty and lack. What IS THIS??? Have they taken leave of their logic? Do they have any sense of Black group gainfulness? Any sense of justified inheritance? We’ve had enough paternalism through “programs.”

Do those weirdos understand that slavery and post-slavery racist systematics was all about the Money? Do they get that – AT ALL? Why is the question of money always taken off the table by these Christianized – “We Shall Overcome” type folks? And its acceptance said to be “Beneath Us”? And that cutting checks is “Racially Divisive?” And we “Gotta Include Everybody”? And “Social Justice”? And other anti-cash bullshit. That’s “scared-assed niggerspeak.” They don’t want to make their paymasters upset. Well – that’s too motherfucking bad. Bitch!

The main people, the American Freedmen that are the most recognized, most Black-leaderized, most listened to, most broadcasted, and allegedly most capable in potentially voicing our right to access. Access to OUR money and resources that has been permanently embedded within the economic essence of this country – doing this. These Confusing People. Openly, intentionally, making appeasing cases, while the insidious and inquisitive racism-white supremacy watches and listens.

To suggestively push away the very money and resources that is legitimately owed to us? Whom are they trying to appease? Amazing.

How do they not see that all others – both foreign and domestically domiciled that have been reparated at any level are getting some motherfucking direct payments? But they never say that others should not get direct payments. Just Us. I personally have never heard them regarding cash payments in the negative when it comes to others. American Indians, Japanese, Jews – Nobody. 

At the same time, the Freedmen American descendants of this present, whose uncompensated grandparents indisputably built this country – should not get the direct payments due that are provided by their right to rightful inheritance? This country sure did get their direct labor. Labor that was monetized, invested, compounded, and then inherited up till now. Better fucking believe that.

Why should we be the exception to the best Reparations has to offer?

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“There is no such thing in the nature of white people as justice and freedom for Black people; especially not for Blacks in the Western Hemisphere. Now their anger is running them mad and they are attacking and killing each other. There is no such thing as peace among them, nor can they produce peace for others.”

Elijah Muhammad – “The Fall Of America.”

This post was written prior to the ADOS schism.

With any movement that is for and by Black people, we always have to deal with the usual Black obstructionists within our own ranks. You know the list:

Anti-Reparations Preachers
Black Conservatives
Jack And Jill Niggers
Boule Niggers
Black Talking Heads on Liberal Media
Black Talking Heads on Conservative Media
Instructed Columnists
Directed Scholars
Unenlightened Athletes
Empty Think Tank-ers
Vacuous Rappers
Steak-lunch-eating Civil Rights Professionals

Chicken-lunch-eating Civil Rights Professionals
Bought and Instructed Politicians
Scared Religious Negroes
Black Apathists
Tap Dancers
Shoe Shiners
Obstructionist Black People Married to White People
Negropeans
Certain Black Immigrants
The Can’t-Be-Done-ers.

And now the “Why-Now-ers?”

The shocker to me though, was the viciously negative reactions of many Pan Africanists. Whom I thought were supporters and activists for Reparations. Blew my mind Family. You don’t always get what you expect. Right? Specifically, the two that I was very surprised with, by name, Dr. Umar Johnson and Dr. Conrad Worrill. I was also surprised with (the very intelligent) Professor Michael Eric Dyson suggesting that Reparations should take the form of guilt-ridden white people opening “Individual Reparations Accounts(!?)” – and paying a little extra to their lawn boy(s) being sufficient as reparations. If Professor Dyson meant that “I.R.A.’s” should be done in lieu of or in addition to Federal Reparations, I am not clear on the either/or because he did not expound further. I did look.

The disappointments have been piling up.

Below – I will give three full blown responses to words pointed in my direction from the late lineage-Reparations obstructionist and N’COBRA official Dr. Conrad Worrill. Details about Dr. Conrad Worrill (d. 2020) can be found on Wikipedia.

ANSWER ONE

Conrad Worrill: The emergence of lineage-based activism in the Reparations Movement through social media is causing a great deal of confusion for people who sincerely support the demand for Reparations. Lineage-based reparationists have asserted themselves into the Reparations Movement in America with no apparent historical context of reference to the on the ground work that has taken place the last thirty or forty years. They are operating in a historical vacuum.

Arthur Ward: “Social Media?” The best way to communicate ideas today. Shows the organizers of the lineage-based movement have a good sense of efficiency. And that is probably why it has caught fire in the way that it has. “Confusion?” I don’t think so. The ordinary Black person on the street may not have the detailed policy analytics or deep historical knowledge that you and your associates may possess. At this time, political education is slightly more important than a deep knowledge of history that does not provide some immediacy of legislative and legal utility.

At the same time, the average Black person has enough overall understanding of the genesis of the issue. The right-now directly and historically experienced pain caused by the issue, and what the probable and fair solution to the issue should be. So Sir, there is no “vacuum.” People are just not willing to wait another thirty to forty years for ground games, policy creation, law establishment, and payouts to happen. Not at this point. And if a lineage-based movement does bring about the final solution, I would say that YOU should be proud of being part of the process and heritage that brings us HERE. To this great historic moment Sir.

I would suggest that you stop being an obstructionist to the fruition of your own work. And if you want to continue your obstructionism in this sphere, I would like to ask; “Why?” Everything you’re doing is counterproductive.

“Lineage-based activism has asserted itself into the Reparations Movement in America?” What do you mean by that statement? Yes – lineage activists have asserted and moved. But does N’COBRA, Dr. Conrad Worrill, or other Reparations movements or organizations established prior to the lineage-based movement somehow own this issue? I mean – do they?

Do you or others hold options, copyrights, or patents on this? If you do, please show me the paperwork. Do The Black Panthers own the rights to Black folks defending themselves against the police too? We did not know we needed your permission to petition for what is rightfully ours. We did not know that the Black community had to come to you for your blessing. Glad you let me know Sir.

ANSWER TWO

Conrad Worrill: I despise your Reparations advocacy that is anti-African immigrant and anti Pan African. And for the record, we are not scared at all. We are freedom fighters who disagree with you and the divisive nature of your tactics. Try all you want, but we will continue to challenge the absurdity of your positions as we continue to help press for the Reparations Demand for African people in America. By we – I mean N’COBRA and all of our good reparationist supporters.

Arthur Ward: How is any lineage-based advocacy anti African immigrant or anti Pan African? Really? What is there to “despise?” How is an American domestic issue between specific American entities [Black Americans and the United States Government] “anti” anything to third parties that are inappropriately inserting themselves into a contention that has nothing to do with them? That is none of their Pan African business? Where is the “absurdity?” The only division is lineage-based activists rightfully pushing back through telling others to: “Mind your business.” Understand? When others mind their business, there is no division. Believe me.

Pan Africans seem to have an inability to separate the philosophy and scholarship of Pan Africanism from an effective legislative and legal strategy to accomplish Reparations in America. Pan Africanism and Reparations are two different – two unrelated things. Not seeing that unrelatedness is the problem. That’s the division.

Too much “history.” And not enough “operationality.”

We don’t live in Egypt.

So Sir, instead of “challenging the absurdity of my positions,” that critical energy would be better spent challenging the absurdity of political professionals opposing, deflecting, minimizing, and politicizing my position. Which is the lineage activist position. The correct position. You See? Better spent making constructive, scholarly, and well thought out legal and legislative suggestions on improving policy. Your challenge statement is interesting though. What is the “real deal” with that Sir?

Now, according to you, my position is “absurd.” We need to clarify what the actual “absurdity” is. Because my position IS to “press for the Reparations Demand for Descendants of American Slavery in America.” While you intend on challenging me on that position – YOU will continue to “press for the Reparations Demand for African people in America?” Oh, Okay. I’ll be looking forward to that challenge Sir.

ANSWER THREE

Conrad Worrill: We just disagree. There is nothing in-house about the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the capturing of African people in the Western Hemisphere. We [American, Caribbean, and South American slaves] were impacted by the same forces and we [the Western Hemispherical Diaspora] have now SOLIDLY united in our demands for Reparations for all African people worldwide.

Arthur Ward: Dr. Worrill, I would have expected a little more from you than just: “We just disagree.” That was a sincere and respectful question [how you would improve the lineage-based conceptualization and approach]. You’re an elder with this issue. And I’m working real hard to respect you because of that. I really do want to understand in detail why you aggressively disagree AND what from your perception and understanding we can do to improve what we are doing?

Like I said: “… we are trying.”

You are correct when you say: “There is nothing in-house about the Transatlantic Slave Trade… YES SIR. But, everything that happened to our ancestors en route was definitely flipped to an in-house situation once we landed Right Here in what became the United States of America. Brazil, Haiti, Dominican Republic, France, Spain, etc. – those countries had nothing to do with AMERICAN policy on how to deal with slavery or with the creation of post-emancipation policies. And America correctly had nothing to do internationally with slavery handlings done in other countries. Because if America did, why didn’t they intervene in Haiti?

Each country was partitioned from other countries in the way that each of them handled slavery. Conversely, those other places also had nothing to do with Jim Crow, redlining, American-style lynching, domestic spoliation, the KKK, American white on Black American pogroms, White Citizens Councils, racial segregation, etc. These things were all done “in-house.” So what would we be “uniting” on?

Do you understand OUR history?

Everybody else had their own ways and issues and handlings and time lines when it came to slavery. They all had different policies and laws in their post-slavery situations. Clearly, these are all different countries that are better dealt with as an international disaggregation by their own citizens, for their own specific, local benefits and justice claims. Internationally, each solution HAS TO BE different, uniquely focused, and strategically done within and per country. Each government must be dealt with by its own citizens, through their own constitutions and articles, under their own decision, power, and determination. And finally reaping their own results. That would be the most practical, effective, and correct way.

This cannot be a daishiki party.

I also think that what we accomplish in America can serve as a general blueprint for other African Diasporans similarly situated around the world.

HERE’S THE INDEPENDENT FREEDMEN BREAK:

I have came to the conclusion that the Pan Africans themselves don’t believe that Reparations can happen. This may have lost hope over time about the possibility of Reparations. I do not think that NAARC and N’COBRA are agents. But they do not have to be agents to do the destructive work of agents. Like coming up with and putting into action all kinds of counterproductive ideas, such as “local reparations” and “reparations triage.” They are doing the work. But where that “work” will take us? Ahh… OK. Unbelievable shit coming from supposedly intelligent people. Their hopelessness has partly manifested in “grant grabs” – as in: “We might as well get something out of this.” Just a speculation. Shit don’t look right.

Could this be intentional hustling?

I do not know if it is intentional. It sure looks like hustling though. I can never understand how, with so much well-educated brain power in the Pan African community that in their well-educated minds, American Reparations is or can be an international issue. That an “international” demand can be taken seriously in the white supremacist and unashamedly nativist United States? Really? They can’t see that? A United States that turns up its behind to all international bodies, courts, resolutions, and agreements? Both Democrats and Republicans. All the time?

They don’t know what they’re doing. Or – they may know exactly what they’re doing, and this is some kind of long-game hustle. On us. The Pan Africans do have a lot of Ph.D’s and Masters degreed people. They are not dummies. Who knows what kinds of slick shit they are up to? They do have connections to the power structure and prominent people that us Freedmen do not enjoy at this time.

We have to change that.

We also have to make all political associations with Pan African reparations organizations a contagion. They are actually afro-international grift enablers.

As long as a justice demand in this country is presented to legislators as based on “international law” (“international law” – meaning in this context, can be used to expand and clarify domestic legal meaning – but not to be domestically “based” upon) or is an “international demand” (!?) – our legislators will continue to look at American Freedmen Reparations as a joke. The Pan-Africans need to pick up a copy of the U.S. Constitution. And never forget, Reparations accomplishability is United States Congress-centric, not Executive Branch-centric.

White legislators will never assent to Caribbean and African immigrants receiving American reparations. Or the stupid-assed Pan African “internationalizing” of this very domestic – in-house issue of American Reparations in any way. Those racist motherfuckers ain’t going for that shit. I do not get why all the Ph.D’s that are so common in the Pan African community cannot collectively process and/or accept effective legal and legislative strategy. There is some kind of impenetrable blockage (maybe that’s intentional). A lot of ignorant and retrograde scholarship (maybe that’s intentional too). Confused. No understanding. They don’t care to look up from their Kemetic books and listen to good sense – that is actually good sense.

No American Reparations for Caribbeans. Let Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and The Netherlands pay their own Reparations bills. Those are not for America to pay.

United States-based Pan Africans have grossly distracted us with, and mis-directed our cultural mental energy towards Africa. With a kind of delusional “aspirational black ethnocentrism.” Where are YOU African? Take a good look “redbone.”

Where?

There is nothing there for us. Zero. We have never given the full attention to African American history that it deserves because we’ve given too much adulation to Mansa Musa. To Egypt. As if we have not done greatness here. Greatness. Up against the unrelenting viciousness of American racism-white supremacy? Please. American Freedmen have done the greatest of greatness here Man. Pan Africanism has us pedestalizing and romanticizing the very African kingdoms that sold our grandparents to the Europeans. This done, via carefully curated histories told through a distorted Pan African marketing perspective. A Bad Perspective.

Our history as Africans was permanently switched to a new American beginning – a new identity starting in 1619. After AFRICANS sold us. Not kidnapped. SOLD.

Get That Straight.

They let us sail away, disappearing beyond the horizon to eventually land at the shores of a 400-year-long history of Pain. Of Dispossession. OF Shit. American Freedmen have a singular and non-sharable heritage. This is not about a Diasporan heritage. It is unique heritage and ours alone. It is not just the fault of Europeans for purchasing us. I will actually place more culpability on the motherfucking Africans for putting us up for sale in the first damned place. The Europeans just queued up at the “Niggers For Sale” sign. (!) A particular and unique separation occurred after that first sale. A perdurable break. Gone. Every African should recognize that. As far as I’m concerned, that ineradicable division in history, lineage, culture reset, vision, and thousands of nautical miles remain. And Persist.

And Remain.

1619 permanently establishes that continental BREAK.

Our legal standing on the American continent began in 1776. “All men are created equal.” Remember that “Declaration” and “Independence” shit? That’s where the white folks fucked up. That statement inadvertently included us. Yeah US. The Niggers. Shouldn’t have put that “equal” shit in there. Should have focused that “equal” by writing down clearly: “All White Men are created equal.” At the time – that’s what motherfuckers meant. At the time – Niggers were not regarded as Men. OK? The Founding Fathers still should have clarified that shit. Less Confusion.

Because the wrong motherfuckers might eventually understand that line literally. And the wrong motherfuckers might do something about making it real rightfully and constitutionally, accomplished upon that written and ratified basis. The American descendants of chattel slavery are the great but isolated exceptionalism within the vast African Diaspora. “The Ones” within this America. We Are the Foundational First Among Equals in these United States. Our blood, bones, pain, heritage, and uniquely extracted investment lie here IN THIS Motherfucker.

Get it straight Pan Africans. OUR SHIT – IS IN THIS Motherfucker. 

And we have nowhere else to go – without a need to think on anywhere Else… 

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