Reparations
rep·a·ra·tion
1 a : a repairing or keeping in repair b plural : REPAIRS
2 a : the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a
wrong or injury b : something done or given as amends or satisfaction
3 : the payment of damages
See also REDRESS: Seeking
Reparation for Torture Survivors
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Sample Reparations news items:
Blacks
rally in nation's capital for slavery reparations (Aug 17, 2002)
Press Release:
National Black United Front (NBUF)
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The Durban 400 announces a Millions For Reparation
March, Protest and Demonstration
The Durban 400, a group lead by NBUF and the December
12th Movement at the World Conference Against Racism
and that influenced the "Declaration" that the Trans
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery was a crime Against
Humanity is calling for a Millions For Reparations
March, Protest, and Demonstration in the Nations
Capital, Washington, D.C. on August 17, 2002. This
demonstration will honor Marcus Mosiah Garvey on the
115th Anniversary of his birth.
The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, and Jim Crow
set the stage for the 21st Century. The policy of
entrenched racism has emanated from all branches of
the United States government, from the days of the
auction block to the recent United States walkout of
the United Nations World Conference Against Racism
held in Durban, South Africa. The United States
government has relentlessly held on to its white
supremacist ideology.
The exploitation of African people in this country has
taken many forms through the years. The centuries of
chattel slavery laid the foundation of our
relationship to America. From the sharecropping fields
to the factories, African labor built the "super
power" that is the United States. In return, we have
endured the terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan, systematic
lynchings, chain gangs, plantation prisons, police
torture and murder, poverty, miseducation, inadquate
housing, unemployment, welfare WEP programs, ACS child
kidnappings, voter discrimination, crack, heroin,
Rockefeller drug laws, Political Prisoners, and the
assassination of our leaders. However, we're still
here!!!
The demand for reparations for African people is just
and simple. It is simply an attempt to "repair," to
"make whole" the descendants of the victims of the
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, which was a CRIME AGAINST
HUMANITY! Crimes against humanity have no stature of
limitations. And our people still suffer from the
vestiges of their enslavement and colonization.
We are going to the Capitol of the United States,
built on slave labor, the rightful and only place to
declare our human and legal right to REPARATIONS.
THEY OWE US!!!
We must Struggle for Self-Determination !
We must Fight for Liberation !
Every African in American owes it to him/herself to
support the fight for REPARATIONS
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EMAIL:
Date sent: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:48:37 -0400
From: "Deborah Weiner" <DWeiner@uua.org>
To: "News from the Unitarian Universalist Association" <uua-l@uua.org>
Subject: [UUA-L:802] General Assembly Action of Immediate Witness supporting reparations in Tulsa gains media attention
Send reply to: DWeiner@uua.org
(July 18, 2001) The Oklahoma Eagle and the New York Amsterdam News,
the largest black-owned and operated newspaper in the United States, have
called for support of the Unitarian Universalist Association's
recently-passed Action of Immediate Witness, encouraging reparations to
victims of the Tulsa Race Riots of the early twentieth century.
The Amsterdam News, in its July 12 coverage of the UUA's action, recalled,
"During the riot that ensued from May 31 through June 1, 1921, thousands
of whites raided Greenwood [OK], looting and destroyed over 1,200 homes,
35 grocery stores, eight doctors' offices and five hotels. "Black Wall
Street" never recovered. Over 300 African-American residents were killed,
and property damage was estimated at about $1.6 million in 1921, which
would amount to over $16 millions today.... Recently in Oklahoma Gov.
Frank Keating signed a bill into law apportioning $750,000 for a Tulsa
Race Riot Memorial. With that act, Keating helped accomplish one of the
goals of the Tulsa Reparations Coalition. But there is still much work to
be done, and the [Tulsa Reparations] coalition has been meeting and
working with various individuals and organizations across the country to
carry that work through."
The Oklahoma Eagle's July 12 editorial on the subject said, "We have
learned that while racial tension did exist in Tulsa in 1921, it was greed
for valuable land on part of whites, including businessmen and some
official positions, that paved the way for the disturbances that followed
on May 31, continuing into June 1, 1921. Tulsa's shame has finally been
exposed for what it really was. Eighty years is indeed long enough to
bring about healing."
For complete coverage on this story and a link to the Action of Immediate
Witness passed by the 2001 General Assembly ("Reparations for the 1921
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Race Riot"), go to http://www.uua.org/news/index.html and
follow the story headed, "Black Newspapers Call for Support of UUA Stance
on Reparations for Tulsa Race Riots."
Deborah J. Weiner
Director of Electronic Communication
Unitarian Universalist Association
25 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
dweiner@uua.org
voice - direct: 617-948-6104
FAX - 617-742-7025
http://www.uua.org
