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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

2020 Presidential Candidates Are Bleaching Conyers' Legacy By Promulgating Reparations Propaganda For The Purposes Of Stealin'

It seems the 2020 Presidential Candidates are severely deficient in the substance and purpose of H.R. 40, A Bill to study the reparations of slavery.

H.R. 40 had nothing to do with doling out a check based upon the color of one's skin.

This is nothing but another #coloredrevolution psyoptic for forced migration and trafficking tiny humans.

H.R. 40 was about a study, asking for $8 million to examine the residuals of the peculiar institution in the laws and administration of the United States.

But, of course, these people are going to continue bleaching history in transmogrifying history by making this about getting more money for funding their political campaigns and shopping.

You would think at least one of the candidates would actually read the original language of H.R. 40, but, as they have not, I have provided the Bill, for castigation purposes, only.

Yes, that is correct, the new movement to rewrite history includes rewriting H.R. 40 for more stealin' and the charge is being led by Sheila Jackson Lee, Her Flatulent Boviness and the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

 I smell Soros #coloredrevolution propaganda funding...........

Perhaps, one of the 2020 Presidential Candidates will take the time to read the Bill, below, since no one wants to #sayhisname.

In order to talk about the residuals of the peculiar institution, slavery, one must discuss the law behind it, which just so happens to be child welfare, or rather christianity.

Then, we have yet to have anyone present the operationalization in the tools of measurement for the determination criteria of being classified, legally, as being black.

Here is a more in depth background to the substance and purpose of the study of the residuals of the peculiar institution:




This is about Whitewater.

This is about the Detroit Land Bank Authority because they propped up Anita Belle to silence her on election fraud in Detroit.

I pray that she sings like a queen.

This is about election interference.

This is the work of "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

 May the heavens fall.
#perkinscoiesucks

The Tale Of Reparations Propaganda: How They Are Attempting To Wipe Out Conyers Legacy

Presidential race revives Conyers’ push for reparations
John Conyers, Jr. wearing new glasses and
Mikey Duggen has lost more hair
Washington — U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. introduced a bill in every Congress for nearly 30 years to study the institution of slavery and to recommend appropriate reparations.

The bill had a hearing in 2007 and never moved out of committee. 

But reparations has become a recurrent topic in the Democratic presidential primary campaign. At least a dozen high-profile candidates have said they would support the successor to Conyers’ bill and sign it if elected president.

Most candidates have not directly called for reparations, and only one, spiritual book author Marianne Williamson, has discussed hard numbers: $200 billion to $500 billion to be disbursed over 20 years, overseen by a council of black leaders.

“Anything less than $100 billion would be an insult,” she said in an interview.

Julian Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio and former housing secretary, has endorsed reparations to resolve the country's "original sin" of slavery.

"It is interesting to me that under our Constitution and otherwise, that we compensate people if we take their property. Shouldn't we compensate people if they were property, sanctioned by the state?" he said on MSNBC's "Hardball."

"I believe that’s a conversation worth having, and I see that as right and wrong." 

Proponents of reparations say racial disparities persist due to systemic racial discrimination for which the country needs to atone.

Brenda Lawrence
Critics say reparations would be too costly and doubt a causal link between slavery or segregation and the persistence of racial inequality today.

Rep. Brenda Lawrence of Southfield, a co-sponsor of H.R. 40, said the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow segregation cannot be separated from racial disparities in wealth, education, housing and criminal justice today.

"We need to have the conversation, and for anyone who is alive and breathing to know that the impact of slavery and racism on shaping present-day conditions in our community is real. It would be such an amazing breakthrough for this country in race relations," said Lawrence, the only African American in Michigan's congressional delegation.

"I am significantly encouraged that people who are running for the United States presidency have the courage and compassion to actually talk about this."

Not everyone views the candidates as sincere, including Anita Belle, a Detroiter and reparations activist who last month launched her own presidential campaign.

“Some of the people now expressing interest in reparations — it felt a little insincere, like they were just trying to get out the black vote,” said Belle, a co-chair of the Detroit chapter of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America and president of the Reparations Labor Union.
Anita Belle,
Reparations Candidate for President

"It's too important issue, not just for the black community but for the nation to just have it be treated like it's a political carrot. That’s part of why I wanted to run for office, so we can have a comprehensive approach to reparations.”

Calling for commission

Conyers started introducing what's known as H.R. 40 in 1989, choosing the bill number to symbolize the "40 acres and a mule" promised to slaves by Union Army Gen. William T. Sherman in 1865.

Conyers last reintroduced the legislation on the first day of the new Congress in 2017.

"I'm not giving up," he said during a briefing, according to NBC News. "Slavery is a blemish on this nation's history and until it is formally addressed, our country's story will remain marked by this blight."

Conyers resigned from Congress amid misconduct charges later that year. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, took up lead sponsorship of the bill, which has 52 co-sponsors but remains in committee.

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, another presidential hopeful, recently introduced a version in the Republican-controlled Senate, which is unlikely to take it up.
Economist Darrick Hamilton
Executive Director of the Kirwan
Institute for the Study of
Race and Ethnicity at
Ohio State, which
does not exist

Conyers "is no longer in Congress, but I hope his contributions are held up and the man is properly attributed for being steadfast in bringing this up every term and keeping it on the forefront," said economist and reparations advocate Darrick Hamilton at Ohio State University.

"He should be credited for those acts of justice. Whether it was politically viable or even risked political cost, he was steadfast in his claim toward justice."

The components of a reparations program would include acknowledgement of centuries of slavery and discrimination, redress through a form of compensation and closure, Hamilton said.


FUN FACT! THE KIRWAN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RACE & ETHNICITY AT OHIO STATE DOES NOT EXIST, IS NOT REGISTERED ANYWHERE AND ITS WEBSITES HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN, EXCEPT FOR THIS PAGE:
http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/weeklyforum/

Trafficking Tiny Humans Propaganda

The first step is H.R. 40, he added, by which a congressional commission would authenticate the history and come to a formal consensus on what reparations should look like. They could take the form of checks from the federal government or the transfer of stock or land or other assets.

Hamilton views reparations as critical to addressing the wealth gap between black and white Americans.

"If we do H.R. 40 in a really systematic way, we better understand how we got to this moment of inequality, and it dissipates the ability to bastardize the poor and black and brown people as being undeserving, because of their efforts," Hamilton said.

Conservatives have argued that reparations aren't viable in part because there are no slaves to pay reparations to today.

Civil rights attorney Roger Clegg has said that limiting a social program to one race would be unconstitutional, saying the Supreme Court has ruled that claims of societal discrimination to be insufficiently compelling to justify racial classifications.

"We are told that these apologies will help bring closure, help enable us to move on. Nonsense," Clegg, president and general counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, testified in 2007 during a hearing that Conyers convened on H.R. 40.

"The idea is to reopen wounds, to keep grievance alive, to keep white people on the hook. An obsession with past wrongs, to the extent that present opportunity and future promise are ignored or slighted, is a bad thing."

Candidates on reparations

Barack Obama opposed reparations during his 2008 campaign for president, as did Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in 2016, the latter calling them "very divisive" and unlikely to pass Congress. 
Now, Sanders seems more open to the idea, endorsing H.R. 40 last month.

"We’re going to do everything we can to put resources into distressed communities and improve lives for those people who have been hurt by the legacy of slavery,” he said at a CNN town hall in February.

But asked directly about reparations, Sanders said, "It depends on what that word means." 
"What does that mean? I'm not sure anyone's very clear," he said.

Sanders was perhaps referring to how some of his opponents have framed "reparations" to encompass broader policies that would help black communities. '

Booker has proposed a universal "baby bonds" program that would gift every child a savings account with federal contributions that would be greater for children in poverty in an effort to address the racial wealth gap.

Baby Bonds? This is code for corporate parental rights by finding, yet, another way to steal more money from the Children's Trust Funds.  This is nothing but another form of trafficking tiny humans, more readily recognized as, selling chattel.  Corey! You cannot sell babies.  Stop selling children! WTF Dude!!!!!!!!!

Foster Care Bonds: Making Child Slavery, Sexy Again


A campaign spokesman told NPR that baby bonds can be interpreted as a form of reparations because more money would go to low-income children who are disproportionately black.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, was asked about reparations and spoke about her plan to give families making $100,000 or less a tax credit — a proposal that would aid 60% of black families in poverty, she told the website theGrio.

"When you take into account that they're not starting at the same place, they're not starting on equal footing, it will directly benefit black children, black families, black homeowners — because the disparities are so significant,” Harris said.

Williamson said race-conscious policies aren't enough because they leave open the question of "whose fault it is."

"The reason I feel that reparations are so important is because reparations carries an inherent mea culpa," she said.

"There's an emotional, psychological and spiritual force to reparations that is not there with race-based policies, and it sure as heck isn't there with one more lame conversation about 'how we really need to talk about this,' or 'we really need to study this.' The facts are clear. You do it, or you don't do it."

Williamson, who "knew and learned from" Conyers during eight years she lived in the Detroit area, is credited with launching the reparations conversation in the Democratic primary in January.

 Liar.

She talks about reparations at every campaign stop, and the topic gets applause even from all-white audiences in Iowa, South Carolina and California, she said. 

She tells campaign audiences about how Germany has paid over $89 billion in reparations to Jewish victims of Nazi crimes, and how the U.S. government paid reparations to Japanese Americans interned during World War II.













Williamson said reparations won't mean slavery never happened or that suddenly  "everything will be fixed."

"Obviously, this is a multi-dimensional issue and must be dealt with in multidimensional ways, a lot of which has to do with our own attitudinal healing in terms of privilege and so forth," she said. 

"But I believe that reparations would be a serious disrupter — a serious healing that would be a great gift to our children and our children's children," she added.

Change in tone 

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who represents a majority African-American district in Detroit and Wayne County, attributes the shift in tone on reparations to grassroots activists and coalitions raising African American justice issues such as education and police accountability.

"All those things I think are so interconnected to why you all of a sudden see people elevating the issue of reparations," said Tlaib, who succeeded Conyers in Congress and has co-sponsored H.R. 40.

"This is important atonement for a great wrong in our country that we have really yet to reconcile."

Hamilton also credits the new attention to reparations to the influence of social movements such as Black Lives Matter, as well as a growing public understanding of the concentration of wealth and political power at the top.

"Also, having someone like Donald Trump, who has been divisive in his political approach, both in rhetoric and in many ways actions, has not afforded America the ability to euphemize our racial divisions," Hamilton said.

He stressed the significance of race being discussed in a more serious way by presidential candidates and their embrace of H.R. 40.

"Whether particular legislators are getting it right or wrong, I think the really good news is we’re at a point where we can be explicit about race so as to even keep reparations as part of the national conversation," he said.

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Friday, June 28, 2019

JUDICIARY: H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative Justice - Happy Residuals Of The Peculiar Institution Month - Celebrating The Day After Juneteenth - Not All Slaves Were "Black & Brown"

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Not all slaves were "black & brown" based upon the
"One-drop Rule of property ownership."
The following are links to better educate the public and our public office holders in the history of stealin':
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

Witnesses

Panel 1: 
The Honorable Cory Booker 
United States Senator
Panel 2: 
Mr. Ta-Nehisi Coates 
Distinguished Writer in Residence, Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University
Mr. Danny Glover 
Actor and Activist
Ms. Katrina Browne 
Documentarian, Traces of the Trade
Mr. Coleman Hughes 
Writer, Quilette
Mr. Burgess Owens 
Speaker and Writer
Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton 
Episcopal Bishop of Maryland
Dr. Julianne Malveaux 
Economist and Political Commentator
Mr. Eric Miller 
Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University

Documents

116th Congress



Not all slaves looked like this, you know.

Slavery reparations could carry a $17 trillion price tag

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.

‘Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40’

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.’”
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.”

Paying reparations

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.


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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Another Spokestoken, Another Privatization Scheme, Another Attempt To Highjack Conyers' Legacy Of Reparations

You must understand, I do not hail from the 1950's era of social politeness, so I will say whatever I want because I am an original source and I do not appreciate when people and institutions are mean to my Sweetie, whether it be intentional or not.

I get extremely exasperated with all these so-called political spokestokens jumping up to be the new poster child for reparations, because I see this particular movement as another complex, financial fraud scheme of privatization; the activity of political carrion.

You would think someone would, in the least, properly reference the work of John Conyers, Jr., H.R. 40 Reparations Study Bill, but, alas, Bart probably never read it, which means someone recruited him to be the fraud scheme's spokestoken.

It seems the internet power that be attempted to scrub his legacy from the internet, opening the door to highjack the narrative to promulgate more privatization schemes on the local levels, like the Detroit Land Bank Authority.

Since Bart could not even execute a basic keyword internet search, or even hit me up, as demonstrated by his lack of reference to Conyers' original videos, speeches, white papers, I have so presciently preserved, it seems that certain powers "bleachbitted" federal records from the National Archives.

Bart did not even mention the work of the U.S. House Judiciary Chairman Emeritus on the exogenous issue variables that have led to the perpetual promulgation of H.R. 40.

I have decided to provide Bart with the opportunity to click the link, below, to learn more about the history of H.R. 40 Reparations Study and John Conyers, Jr.


Because Bart failed to even mention the Congressional Black Caucus, where John Conyers, Jr. was the Dean, I thought it only proper that I would assist in the education of Bart.


I truly hope the FBI will take possession of the Congressional Black Caucus servers, soon, but something tells me we already have everything. (snikcer).

 I wonder if Bart ever spoke with Sheila Jackson Lee?

He really should interview Sheila and ask about the CBC servers, or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to just suggest a few subjects, you know.

H.R. 40 is a study, not a check.  That is why my stealin' spidey senses started to tingle.

Besides, the peculiar institution of slavery was just renamed as child welfare.

Hey, Bart, Google me, or, you could just ask him because he is waiting in the wings.

You know what he says, about reparations, right Bart?

"Jobs, Justice, Peace", says Conyers.

Bart Everson: Toward a local platform for reparations

Bart Everson
The anniversary of the New Orleans Massacre of 1866 is coming up later this month, on July 30th. We should not forget this event, essentially a race riot, in which 238 people were killed, the vast majority of whom were Black war veterans who had fought for the Union — but the war had ended a year earlier.

The massacre was a crucial factor which led to the passage of the Reconstruction Acts. For a brief moment, a century and a half ago, it seemed as if our nation was poised to begin the long and difficult process of healing from the wounds which slavery inflicted on the body politic. Instead, that process was sabotaged and repressed in relatively short order. Call it the Deconstruction of Reconstruction.

Is there a city in the United States where we know this better? The legacy of slavery looms large here, though official acknowledgements of this history are scanty. The Crescent City was also home to one of the largest populations of free people of color. It stands to reason that people in New Orleans should be at the forefront of the newly re-invigorated movement toward making reparations for slavery.

And so we are.

On July 9th, there was a meeting on the prospect of a local platform for such reparations. It was sponsored by the Green Party of New Orleans. (Note: I serve as chair of this group.) All our meetings at the Mid-City Library are free and open to the public.

Local artist, activist and entrepreneur Anika Ofori drew on her experience working with the Green Party of the United States to give an informal presentation which informed and framed our discussion.

Anika began with a brief historical overview, outlining the establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction Acts, as well as the sabotage of Reconstruction through acts of violence.
Current efforts on to establish reparations for slavery stem from the middle of the 20th century, picking up momentum in the 1990s, slowed temporarily by the political shifts after the terrorist attacks of 2001.

Anika recounted the work of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) and National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) including their preliminary 10-Point Plan which is modeled after a similar plan endorsed by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It’s a holistic program that would finally set our nation on the road to healing. A wealth of detailed information can be found via the Reparations Resources Center, maintained by the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, at https://ibw21.org/reparations-resource-center/

House Resolution 40, officially titled the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act,” was introduced to Congress in January of 2017 by John Conyers, Jr. He introduced the bill repeatedly over almost three decades. Since he resigned in December, the future of the bill is unclear.

The Bill is a political distraction to launch more privatization schemes.  I speak as an original source

Nevertheless, the Green Party of the United States has endorsed the idea of reparations, both in general principle as part of the Green Party platform, as well as more specifically endorsing H.R. 40.
We concluded our meeting with a discussion of how we might promote the reparations issue locally, here in New Orleans, which after all was once the preeminent hub of the slave trade on this continent.
Our conversation brought to light a series of questions. For example: How do we incorporate support for reparations in our local platform, currently under development? We anticipate some points from the NAARC ten-point plan will be included in other parts of our platform. Do we highlight these connections or address reparations separately? How do we advocate for reparations to a greater public that might not be educated on the issue and resistant to it? Are there particular policies and demands in the call for reparations that our chapter is in the best position to pursue locally?

The discussion of reparations also raised questions about the priorities and identity of the Green Party. Despite the official support for reparations in the Green Party platform, there were concerns that the Green Party as a whole isn’t racially inclusive and sufficiently aware of race issues. There were also concerns that prioritizing reparations and racial justice might alienate members of the party who are most interested in economic and/or climate matters. Others at the meeting suggested that the pursuit of economic, racial, and climate justice were not mutually exclusive and had to be pursued simultaneously because they are all related and interconnected.

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Thursday, July 16, 2020

North Carolina Approves Corporate Reparations Through Gerrymandering Public Private Partnerships - But Will There Be FARA Registrations?

Finding The Red Card: The Performance Of Three-Card Monte | Jack ...
"See, it is a spade.'
Presenting paperwork as an U.S. black owned
 nonprofit while the foreign corporate mother
intently watches over her human chattel.
Black Lives Matter, because it is how
you maximize revenues.
Yes, you heard me, correctly.

North Carolina has approved reparations.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=reparations

Yippers.

Reparations for foreign corporations, that is!

Well, by golly, I must say, this particular slavific mission is the darnedest human asset forfeiture models I have seen yet.

Nope, I did not see this one coming.

Actually, I probably did because Saskia Thompson, of the Detroit Land Bank Authority, is form North Carolina and probably assisted in the construction of the test pilot model to see if it will fly in Detroit, with the endorsement of all our favorite afrocentristic drum beaters like the NAACP, NAN, and, let me not fail to mention the Congressional Black Caucus and all their financial stakeholders on their servers, to cover up what the did to my Sweetie.

No one wants to say his name.

So, money is going to be doled out to an authority, oh, let us just transpose this working model to Detroit for sake of a few jollies, and say the Detroit Land Bank Authority, who will not just assign a predictive modeling qualitative variable assignment label of one of the four humors, but theses pseudo-scientific determinations will be done, under the powers of a Public Private Partnership through an non-profit, the authority set up all by themselves, like those fake ass LLCs used to file quiet titles and take out fake mortgages.

Slavery was never abolished, just ask North Carolina.

Children are attached to the land as chattel, where, when they grow up, that land is still reconveyance powers of adverse possession.

So, if a foreign entity financially contributes to this 40 acre and a mule concept, must they register under FARA or will they have legally seized the land of the savages, filed a land patent, and leveraged it through a UCC lien as collateral in some other foreign state national treasury?

I find it absolutely fascinating that not one individual has whispered the name of my Sweetie.

I bet they are going to erect a statute to him in support of reparations, in a futile attempt to cover up all the gerrymandering activities to take over the United States, one city, one state at a time, because it all started in Detroit.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=gerrymandering

I wonder how these nonprofits are going to be designated as "black"?

Will the determination process include foreign, corporate parents?

Boy, I will love to see what crafty schemes they will come up with to the doling out of this promotion of homeownership.

I wonder if they will be transposing the Michigan Black Caucus model for homeownership?

#maytheheavensfall

North Carolina City Approves Reparations for Black Residents

The measure passed by the City Council of Asheville, N.C., would provide funding to promote homeownership and business opportunities, but stopped short of stipulating direct payments.

As Americans debate how far the country should go to make amends for slavery and other racial injustices, a conversation reawakened by the killing of George Floyd, a city in North Carolina has taken the first step: It approved reparations for Black residents.

The city, Asheville, N.C., will provide funding to programs geared toward increasing homeownership and business and career opportunities for Black residents as part of a reparations initiative.

The measure was unanimously approved by the Asheville City Council on Tuesday night, but it stopped short of stipulating direct payments, which are usually associated with reparations. City leaders said their goal was to help create generational wealth for Black people, who have been hurt by income, educational and health care disparities.

The city, which is in Western North Carolina and has about 93,000 residents, also apologized for its participation in and sanctioning of slavery, as well as other historical injustices perpetrated against Black people, who make up about 12 percent of the city’s population.

Councilman Keith Young, who is one of two Black members on the Council, was one of the measure’s chief proponents. He said during the group’s meeting that systemic change was long overdue.

“Hundreds of years of Black blood spilled that basically fills the cup that we drink from today,” Mr. Young said.

The momentum for reparations was not limited to Asheville.

In Providence, R.I., the mayor signed an executive order on Wednesday to commence a “truth telling and reparations process,” The Providence Journal reported. In California, a bill creating a task force to develop reparation proposals for African-Americans was passed in the Assembly in June and was being considered by the Senate.

But some said the reparations initiative by city leaders in Asheville did not go far enough. And others panned it outright.

William A. Darity Jr., a professor of public policy at Duke University in Durham, N.C., wrote in an email on Wednesday night that he was “deeply skeptical about local or piecemeal actions to address various forms of racial inequality being labeled ‘reparations.’”

For reparations to be effective, he wrote, they would have to close the pretax racial wealth disparity in the United States, which would cost about $10 to $12 trillion — three to four times more than total state and municipal spending.

“So piecemeal reparations taken singly or collectively at those levels of government cannot meet the debt for American racial injustice,” he wrote.

As part of the resolution passed by the Council, city leaders in Asheville called on the state of North Carolina and the federal government to provide funding for reparations.

Councilwoman Sheneika Smith, who is also Black, said during the Council’s meeting that she had heard from residents who challenged the reparations measure.

“A lot of the feedback that we’ve gotten so far by email is that you know, ‘Why should we pay for what happened during slavery?’” Ms. Smith said. “And my pushback against that is reparations is more than restitution for what happened during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It is a dark evil sin of chattel slavery that is the root of all injustice and inequity that is at work in American life today.”

The developments in Asheville came after nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism, which were catalyzed by Mr. Floyd’s killing in late May. A Minneapolis police officer kept his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes in an episode that was captured on video by bystanders. The officer and three other officers involved were fired and charged in Mr. Floyd’s murder.

Amid the demonstrations, Confederate statues have been toppled by protesters or taken down by local governments, and lawmakers on all levels have introduced police reforms.

There has also been a renewed push by some members of Congress to create a commission to study the impact of slavery and to make recommendations for reparations.

Several times in American history, people have been compensated for historical injustices, from Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II to victims of police brutality in Chicago.

“It’s simply not enough to remove statutes,” Mr. Young said during the Council’s meeting. “Black people in this country are dealing with issues that are systemic in nature.”

Some said that the action by the Asheville City Council could set a precedent.

“I just hope that we will be, just maybe, a little spark that will really get this conversation not only going in Asheville but in North Carolina and across the country,” Councilwoman Gwen Wisler, who is also the city’s vice mayor, said before the group’s vote.

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