Fw: Proper and Justified Reparations Have Yet to be Acknowledged and/or Discussed – News With Views
Jacob Andoh
As recently as 2009, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution belatedly apologizing for this country’s oppression of African Americans: “The Congress (A) acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws; (B) apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws.”
Sadly, these mostly white senators added a disclaimer explicitly barring African Americans from seeking reparations for the role of the government in this officially recognized oppression.
A legal basis for reparations could rest in the concept of unjust enrichment, an idea traditionally associated with relationships between individuals. Unjust enrichment involves circumstances that “give rise to the obligation of restitution, that is, the receiving and retention of property, money, or benefits which in justice and equity belong to another,” according to Ballentine’s Law Dictionary. One can extend the idea of restitution for unjust enrichment to the conditions of large-scale group oppression.
Implicit in the idea of unjust enrichment is the counterpart idea of unjust impoverishment, the condition of those suffering at the hands of those unfairly enriched. From the 1700s to the mid-1800s, white families and communities were enriched directly, or by means of economic multiplier effects, by slave plantations and related economic enterprises. Economist James Marketti once estimated that the labor stolen from enslaved African Americans from 1790 to 1860 was worth in the range of $2.1 to $4.7 trillion (in 1983 dollars), after taking into account lost interest.
Those who have attacked the idea of owing back wages to African Americans, arguing those are too-distant debts, ignore the huge damages done to African Americans during the century of near-slavery during Jim Crow segregation. Millions alive today suffered severe losses under Jim Crow and can actually name who did much of that discrimination and unjust impoverishing. The current worth of all black labor stolen by whites through the means of slavery, Jim Crow, and discrimination (plus interest) is estimated by some economists in the range of $6 to $24 trillion. And this figure doesn’t include compensation for great physical and mental suffering and millions of untimely deaths.
Proper and Justified Reparations Have Yet to be Acknowledged and/or Discussed
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 9:54 AM, 'abtr...@aol.com' via MLKEducationCoalition<mlkeducati...@googlegroups.com> wrote:What you depict is indeed just one part of what parents are objecting too.If you have been in this battle since the very beginning you would know that those images at Board meetings of parents objecting to their "white children" being made to feel guilty about America's injustices were often persons paid to appear in these venues. I've even seen footage of the same people appearing at meetings across the country.Race is what drives America and we can't ignore it. To suggest that the obscenity piece, which I agree is horrific, is what parents are objecting to is totally inaccurate- but I don't think that you necessarily were saying that. It is a piece of the problem, but many try to erase the central focus of what these bans are about- Black erasure and truth telling- they don't want their children to know- This is white denial and obfuscation at the highest level.Be Well and stay vigilantEQOn Monday, October 23, 2023 at 08:25:51 AM EDT, Tom Neumark <tneuma...@yahoo.com> wrote:I don't think that's a fair way to describe what's happening now. Parents are objecting to books in school libraries that show pictures of explicit sex acts.SHOCKING: Images from book 'Gender Queer,' which is stocked in school libraries across Iowa - The Iowa Standard
SHOCKING: Images from book 'Gender Queer,' which is stocked in school libraries across Iowa - The Iowa Standard
Please do not show children these images. These are intended for mature adults so that they understand know exactly what is in “Gender Queer,” a book in schools across Iowa. Scroll down to see the images. If you are not over 18 years old, please clos
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 2:02 AM, 'abtr...@aol.com' via MLKEducationCoalition<mlkeducati...@googlegroups.com> wrote:We've been in this place as a country before.....Early 1900s and McCarthy era.Banning of books during McCarthy era included having people like Langston Hughes testify at Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations. Chief Counsel- Roy Cohn (The same person who was very much an architect in Trump's rise to political power) Cohn was also Rupert Murdoch's attorney.Knowledge and political participation and freedom go hand in hand in a democracy. Denying that goes hand in hand in a democracy that's sliding towards fascism. Many ask why are banned books being handed out. The answer: Handing out banned books and education to voters is essential because “when racism is unspeakable, then democracy — a full multiracial democracy — is unachievable.”Here's several of my favorite clips: https://youtu.be/RjTu1NmQLP8?si=jAwJr9jBQzjY3jiWHere's a great panel that was hosted by Sundance that helps one frame who and what we are as a nation: https://www.youtube.com/live/e9hdB3i2SDE?si=tMGNaf8bciJjh7Q1 THIS IS FIVE STAR DISCUSSION !!!!There is a true intersection between many of the spaces that brother Strother alludes to but most can't see them because of the way these oppressions are managed and and orchestrated by the billions of dollars that are funding these attacks- that's right not millions.Here are some articles that might help with the proper framing since our media does such a good job at distorting truths.The heartbeat of white supremacy endures and gives life to new and brutal forms of repression and denial. As its staunial chest defenders pretend it doesn’t exist, it eludes apprehension from those who have convinced themselves that the utter destruction that white supremacy enables couldn’t quite happen here—even though it already has.EQCritical Race HistorianProfessor- Johns Hopkins UniversityBoard Member of The African American Policy Forum (aapf.org)
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