Reparations is a conversation about a ‘debt that is owed.’ Reparations is NOT a handout NOR welfare. Reparations is an OWED payment to an entire people group who literally and figuratively built the United States with its own hands.
Reparations is biblical, just and it is necessary.
Reparations is as it is implied: A repairing of an unjust action against African peoples that lasted for 244 years, 100 plus years of Jim Crow, domestic terrorism, police brutality and an unjust criminal system.
Reparations is a restorative process that enacts a repayment process to men who were lashed, sold, beaten, castrated, mutilated and subjected to slave labor until the day their heart gave out. There was no escape from slavery.
Reparations is a restorative process that enacts a repayment to women to were taken, shackled, used as human bed-warmers for house guest, raped, taken from their families and forced to produce children who were fathered by their oppressors who wanted nothing to do with their care taking and upbringing.
Reparations is a restorative process that finally acknowledges the utter trauma that racism has caused to the black psyche in America. The trauma that leads, in 2019, to a quicker death, more severe health problems, a higher mortality rate for pregnant mothers and a PTSD syndrome that has genetically warped itself into the DNA of Black Americans.
Reparations is a restorative process that seeks to finally empower a group of people who have been economically stripped of their right to prosper since the first Africans were brought to this country in chains. Since our arrival to this country black people have been (for 400 YEARS) the most economically disallowed and disenfranchised people group that has ever existed in the American economy.
There has NEVER been a time black people (as a whole) rivaled the wealth of our white neighbors in average household income. Why is that? There has NEVER been a time that the average white household did not have less than ONE THOUSAND PERCENT more wealth than the average black household. Why is that? There has NEVER been a time where black people have benefited from government sponsored programs to the same degree that white people have benefited from government sponsored programs. Why is that?
Reparations is necessary because America has stolen the bloodline, dignity, personhood, identity, bodies and freedoms of black people since before the United States was established.
Learn about American history. Read about jubilee in the Old Testament. Read Luke 4 and see Jesus himself address the issue of social renewal as the first public declaration of his ministry in the book of Luke.
“The time is always right to do what is right.”-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Reparations is biblical, just and it is necessary.
Reparations is as it is implied: A repairing of an unjust action against African peoples that lasted for 244 years, 100 plus years of Jim Crow, domestic terrorism, police brutality and an unjust criminal system.
Reparations is a restorative process that enacts a repayment process to men who were lashed, sold, beaten, castrated, mutilated and subjected to slave labor until the day their heart gave out. There was no escape from slavery.
Reparations is a restorative process that enacts a repayment to women to were taken, shackled, used as human bed-warmers for house guest, raped, taken from their families and forced to produce children who were fathered by their oppressors who wanted nothing to do with their care taking and upbringing.
Reparations is a restorative process that finally acknowledges the utter trauma that racism has caused to the black psyche in America. The trauma that leads, in 2019, to a quicker death, more severe health problems, a higher mortality rate for pregnant mothers and a PTSD syndrome that has genetically warped itself into the DNA of Black Americans.
Reparations is a restorative process that seeks to finally empower a group of people who have been economically stripped of their right to prosper since the first Africans were brought to this country in chains. Since our arrival to this country black people have been (for 400 YEARS) the most economically disallowed and disenfranchised people group that has ever existed in the American economy.
There has NEVER been a time black people (as a whole) rivaled the wealth of our white neighbors in average household income. Why is that? There has NEVER been a time that the average white household did not have less than ONE THOUSAND PERCENT more wealth than the average black household. Why is that? There has NEVER been a time where black people have benefited from government sponsored programs to the same degree that white people have benefited from government sponsored programs. Why is that?
Reparations is necessary because America has stolen the bloodline, dignity, personhood, identity, bodies and freedoms of black people since before the United States was established.
Learn about American history. Read about jubilee in the Old Testament. Read Luke 4 and see Jesus himself address the issue of social renewal as the first public declaration of his ministry in the book of Luke.
“The time is always right to do what is right.”-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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