Every Black community leader, politician, City Council member, publisher, religious leader, college President, Head of State, and African President, should be aligned with the Reparations movement. There is absolutely no excuse for Black leaders not to have a Reparations agenda within their administration.
Attorney Diedria Farmer-Paielman added more fuel to the Reparations fire when she exposed Aetna Insurance Company with major ties to slavery. She demanded that the number one life and health insurer make a public apology and a Reparations payment from the profits it made insuring actual slaves in America. The company sold thousands of insurance policies that reimbursed slave owners for their financial losses. Her research identified at least (40) other U.S. companies that benefitted and are still reaping the benefits from their mass exploitation. The company did make an informal apology, but like so many other corporations, they have no intention of paying any money to the descendants of slaves.
On January 5, 1993, Detroit Congressman John Conyers kept the Reparations flame burning by introducing a bill to acknowledge the injustice, brutality, cruelty, and barbaric acts of slavery in the U.S. and the 13 colonies between 1619-1865. The bill aims to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery and the economic discrimination against our people. Reparations bill (HR-40) has not been passed.
John Conyers said, “We want the government to examine not only slavery but all forms of discrimination which, in effect, re-enslaved the former slaves and their descendants in the Post Reconstruction era and have effects that dribble down right into the very present. My bill also calls for town hall meetings so that people who do not hold themselves out as experts can talk about this, as people in a democracy are given to talk about subjects that are both simple and complex and give their views.”
Resolutions to set up commissions and public hearings on Reparations must continue to teach and educate the Black masses. Our youth simply don’t know about our call for Reparations throughout the country and the history behind the movement. We have a history of a few pioneering Africans that have prioritized the call for Reparations, and this call must continue.
On March 15, 2000, Alderwoman Dorothy Tillman from Chicago put pressure on 25 council members to sign a Reparations resolution aimed at setting up hearings for residents to learn about our Reparations movement.
Brother Don Ross of Oklahoma introduced legislation that led to the long overdue development of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission.
The commission has documented the record of events of the 1921 massacre and has proposed Reparations to the survivors and their descendants.
The commission also located survivors and taped their testimonies to get an accurate account of property losses and their values.
It also has worked with a forensic anthropologist to locate burial sites to get a more accurate count of just how many innocent Black people got murdered by the bloodthirsty white mobs.
We have also created Reparations commissions to focus on the Black mass murders of the 1917 race, …
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