Partus Sequitur Ventrumis the U.S. legal doctrine in chattel law which promulgates the child welfare law of the acquisition of goods, or rather children, but the U.S. has yet to offer any apologies, or remove these laws from the books.
*This information is presented to intentionally throw a monkey wrench into the reparations movement by those who choose to subscribe to the pseudo-scientific asset classification, hierarchical social construct of property ownership concept, of the slave manifest terms, under the one-drop rule, making it necessary to conduct DNA tests on all humans who wish to fall under this class of being black, because you can never tell just by looking at someone and we would never want to disqualify anyone their to collect that check for being a descendent of a slave.
Brussels – The Belgian government has apologized for the country’s role in kidnapping thousands of mixed-race babies from their African mothers during colonial times.
Thousands of children in what are now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi were taken away and raised in Belgian institutions.
Prime Minister Charles Michel said in a statement Thursday that “on behalf of the federal government, I present our apologies to the mixed-race children born from Belgian colonization and their families for the injustice and suffering they were subjected to.”
He expressed “compassion for the African mothers, whose children were torn away from them,” and concern for the emotional stresses the children went through.
Michel said he hoped the government recognition would be a step toward a collective national reckoning of Belgium’s colonial past and in fighting racism today.
The Underground Railroad was also the ratline for Traite des Blanches, an ancient form of chattel law going back to the Greeks, but that is another tale.
The Mann Act was called the answer to stop White Slavery, the trafficking of those females of the fairer persuasion, the most desired and the lowest valued under chattel law because the practice was anciently normalized in society, as a measure for purveyors of little girls, and the little boys, of the darker persuasion from the Southern U.S. Boarder most particularly, to be registered, for business tax purposes, you know.
U.S. Department of Commerce and its
Census history of U.S. chattel databases
A product of the Mann Act was the Birth Registration System started, but that is an entirely another tale of chattel databases and the Social Security Trust Fund.
But long before the Mann Act, there was even a thing called the "Irish Nellie Laws" of Virginia.
I wrote upon it and I do not feel like pulling the legal citations right now.
As the story goes, the practice in the founding of this great christian nation in the 1500s was to drop English and Irish girls who were spirited away as a napping kid from the foundling homes and workhouse orphanages through a procurement process by the governor as chattel, into, how shall we say this...breeding pens, little communities during the height of the Pan African Slave Trade, to make cute lil babies that were all the latest rage amongst the procurers and privateers.
The "purveyor"of this girl named Irish Nellie did not want her baby to be sold because she loved her so much, let her keep her baby and passed the laws in Virginia.
Those cute little babies they call "Redbones" meaning they are not fully cooked all the way, that is by way of skin tone being of the fairer persuassion, many of the tiny humans made during those Pan African Trading Trips, were registered, accordingly, on a ship's manifest as one-half, mullato, one-quarter, quarte' une (quadroon) and one-eighth (octroon) , where, those girls and boys who were of one-eighth African decent fetched the highest prices and were in high demand as a status symbol for the Octroon Balls, but that goes into another tale of chattel law, called Plaçage, by which the Mann Act was designed to regulate.
The point is that the trafficking of tiny humans comes in all shapes and forms, now, all over the world, and the model started in Detroit.
The Underground Railroad ended up in Detroit, a border city, where these kids are still being procured, but this time, the system is called child welfare, particularly Foster Care and Adoption, where the chattel is the children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth), because the Legally Kidnapped have no civil rights, but the multi-billion dollar foreign corporations do.
So, when you create a narrative that focuses on targeted, geographic populations, like children being separated from their parents at the Southern U.S. Border by excluding anything remotely referencing Foster Care and Adoption, I tend to think there is some dark propaganda going on because the trafficking of tiny humans is quite the sophisticated, complex financial fraud scheme raping the U.S. Treasury, the Children's Trust Fund, but hey, what do I know?
And that is why no one wants to seriously talk about the tiny humans who are being trafficked over our borders, because children have no civil rights and it is a multi-trillion dollar, international industry that funds and launders through political campaigns.
See, if the Committee, or anyone else, for that matter, speaks upon these aforementioned legal doctrines, codified, in law and policies of the land, universally embraced in maritme laws, standing fast holding up the heavens in divine law, then, well...that would just strip away their grant of the right to bear the arms of being "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).
Until someone admits that chattel law hoodwinked when it comes to the residuals of the peculiar institution, the only thing that shall be done to address what build this great nation is more stealin'.
Once again, I regret that I must share this hearing of more bleachbitting the history of my Sweetie.
Her Flatulent Boviness (HFB), Sheila Jackson Lee is co-optimizing her reparations fraud scheme, once again, by bastardizing the legacy of the Judiciary Committee, of justice, itself.
Since they ran out of TARP money and did not get caught, HFB & Co. is championing transposing the U.S. German Marshall Fund for their reparations stealin', the children, the land and the votes.
Think of all that biometric data that would be collected by private, foreign corporations to administer the "One-Drop Rule" to see who qualifies for the reparations Social Impact Bond programs through Public Private Partnerships.
I wonder if they are going to establish citizenship based upon DNA.
You can do that, you know.
Oh, the possibilities.
Happy Residuals of the Peculiar Institution Month - Celebrating the day after Juneteenth
A new bill would calculate potential costs of reparations — and by Yahoo Finance estimates, these could reach as high as $17.1 trillion.
Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held the first hearing in a decade on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The bill was first introduced in 1989 by former Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Conyers reintroduced the bill each year until his retirement in 2017 — and each year, the bill languished in Congress.
The bill’s focus was not to pass reparations, but to research the impact slavery had on black Americans and develop proposals for redress.
If Colored Person A procreates w/ Colored Person B, producing Offspring X; and, Colored Person C procreates w/ Colored Person D, producing Offspring Y; where Offspring X and Offspring Y births to their own Offspring XY, does the fetus qualify for #reparations? @HouseJudiciary
The subject of reparations has remained a political hot potato, with presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro supporting some form of reparations. But while the Democratic-controlled House is willing to hear the bill, it seems likely that a bill on reparations will die in the Senate where Republicans have a majority. When asked about the hearing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposed the measure, given that “not one of us currently living are responsible” for slavery.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a sponsor of H.R. 40 — named after the 40 acres and a mule promised to freed slaves — responded to McConnell’s comments in a statement to Yahoo Finance.
The case for reparations
Activists have been calling for reparations for years, and in 2016, a UN panel declared that the U.S. owed black Americans reparations because of slavery and its link to injustices today in America.
“In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” the report states.
African-Americans are disproportionately targeted by the criminal justice system, accounting for 33% of the prison population, but only 12% of the adult population in the country. According to Pew Research, this is in comparison to their white counterparts who make up a third of the prison population, but over 60% of the adult population in the U.S.
But there are other disparities between the black community and their counterparts. Unemployment rates for African-Americans are twice as high as that of white workers, while black poverty rates are more than twice as high as that of their white counterparts. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the black poverty rate was 22% in 2016 — the same year, it was 8.8% for white Americans. The national poverty rate, by contrast, was 12.7%.
Wealth inequality between the races has only increased throughout the years. In 2016, according to the Inequality Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, the U.S. median wealth — or the total of all assets — for white families was just under $150,000, compared to the national median wealth of $82,000. In 2016, the median figure for African-Americans stood at roughly $3,500. That’s less than half the median black wealth 35 years ago.
And though Brown v. Board of Education integrated the nation’s schools, today, they are more segregated than ever. According to a recent study by the education research group EdBuild, there is a $23 billion gap in funding between white and non-white school districts of equal size. Roughly, this means that non-white school districts receive $2,226 less on average for each enrolled student than predominately white districts.
William Darity, a public policy professor at Duke University, has researched reparations for decades. With Professor Dania Francis at UMass Amherst, their paper, “The Economics of Reparations,” notes that the United States has paid reparations to wronged communities before, including Japanese families kept in internment camps, and Native-American tribes. But, they write, “almost 250 years of domestic enslavement of African people and their descendants have not elicited a similar response from the U.S. government.”
The cost of reparations
If reparations were to be paid to descendants of slaves, it would be costly. Many researchers have tried to place a dollar figure on the economic cost associated with hundreds of years of free labor, and accumulated wealth Southerners gained from enslaving blacks. Darity and Francis argue that any reparations paid should also be tax-free, given the nearly 100 years that black people paid taxes “while being disenfranchised in the U.S. South, a paradigmatic case of ‘taxation without representation.’”
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In the essay collection “Wealth of Races,” several researchers tried to calculate the cost or “present value of benefits from past injustices.” Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch calculated that cost to be $3.4 billion between 1810 and 1860. In 2019, that would come to roughly $8.5 billion.
Economist Larry Neal tried to tabulate the price tag of unpaid wages to slaves from 1620 to 1840. In 1983 when he calculated the number, he estimated that slaves were owed $1.4 trillion in unpaid wages, or $3.6 trillion today. Economist James Marketti estimated that unpaid wages totaled somewhere between $3 trillion and $5 trillion dollars — again in 1983. Today, when accounting for inflation that number leaps to $7.7 trillion to $12.9 trillion.
But these costs do not include the lingering economic impact of Jim Crow and current discrimination that black people face in the labor market, health care system, or education and criminal justice systems. According to “The Economics of Reparations,” that figure stands at an additional $1.3 trillion to $4.2 trillion today. When totaling Marketti’s estimates along with restitution costs for racial injustice since the end of slavery, reparations could range from $9 to $17.1 trillion.
“Suffice it to say,” Darity and Francis write, “the damages to the collective well-being of black people have been enormous and, correspondingly, so is the appropriate bill.”
But are reparations possible? H.R. 40 aims to determine just that. First, the U.S. government would have to determine who is eligible for reparations, and then figure out how to pay for it.
There have been different reparation proposals made through the years, and historically the U.S. has paid restitution to groups that have suffered injustices at the hands of the government. Reparations proposals have run the gamut from lump-sum payouts to a “trust fund” that could be used to finance black Americans’ pursuit of higher education or home purchases. Other options include reparations modeled after Germany’s postwar restitution plan, which combined both individual payments with financing institutions and resettlement of Jewish people in Israel.
It’s unclear how a sum as potentially as large as $17.1 trillion would be financed. Darity’s research posits that it could be financed through additional taxes, or by issuing bonds. But Darity and Francis make clear that “African-Americans should not bear the tax burden of financing their own reparations payments.”
Though H.R. 40 is seeing the light of the debate floor, the measure is still deeply unpopular. According to a 2016 Marist poll, only 26% of Americans support reparations. More than 80% of white Americans disapprove of restitution to African-Americans, while nearly 60% of black Americans support the proposal.
