Tag: reparations
Kamala Harris Says Russian Bots (New Black Media) Are Coming After...
AFRICANGLOBE - Kamala Harris said she blames Russian bots for helping stir up the frenzy that Donald Trump, then a candidate for president, helped set off over Colin Kaepernick taking a knee during the national anthem at National Football League games. Now, she said, the bots are coming after her. “We already know we are” being targeted, the presidential candidate said Friday on the New York radio show “The Breakfast Club.”
2019 Is A Very Significant Year For ADOS Black Americans
AFRICANGLOBE - In 2017, the United States Congress passed the 400 years of African-American History Commission Act which is charged with developing activities throughout the country to commemorate the arrival of Africans in the English colonies in 1619, an event widely regarded as the commencement of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in North America.
Joe Biden Orchestrated One Of The Worst Things That Ever Happened...
AFRICANGLOBE - As Joe Biden continues to defend his 1994 Crime Bill, a video has resurfaced of Rep Bobby Rush calling it the worst thing to happen to the Black community in 50 years. The 1994 Crime Bill, which was drafted by Biden, has been a shadow on his campaign since he announced he was running for president last month. While former President Bill Clinton, who signed the bill into law when he was president, has walked back on his support in recent years, Biden has not wavered.
Forget HR40 Only Reparations Can Shrink The Racial Wealth Gap
AFRICANGLOBE - The racial wealth gap is the result of decades, even centuries of systematic economic barriers to Black America's economic progress . Starting with slavery to the Jim Crow era to today’s mass incarceration, U.S. policy has held back Black Americans and denied them an equal opportunity for centuries. The factors contributing to the racial wealth gap are multitude and their interplay is complex and differs from community to community, from time period to time period. It is virtually impossible to identify one single leading cause for the massive racial wealth gap.
Racist Joe Biden Defends 1994 Crime Bill That Mass Incarcerated Black...
AFRICANGLOBE - Former vice president Joe Biden wrapped up his first campaign swing in New Hampshire on Tuesday with a defense of his 1994 crime bill, which has since then been criticized for leading to mass incarceration, particularly of Black Americans.
Getting Desperate: 2020 Democrats Vow To Sign Bill STUDYING Reparations
AFRICANGLOBE - One by one, the candidates answered yes -- some not for the first time. In this 2020 primary, the issue of reparations, which for decades existed only on the fringes of mainstream political debate, has emerged as a litmus test for Democrats vying for a shot at unseating President Donald Trump next year.
The United States Should And Must Pay Reparations To Black Americans
AFRICANGLOBE - The United States owes Black-Americans over $100 trillion in reparations, based on 222,505,049 hours of forced labor between 1619 and 1865, with a compounded interest of 6%. After the WW2, until now, Germany is sentenced to pay reparations even to grandchildren of the victims of the Jewish Holocaust. But when it comes to Black Americans broken analogues are made.
ADOS Family Sue Harvard For Profiting From Enslaved Ancestors
AFRICANGLOBE - In recent years, Harvard leaders have publicly acknowledged the school's role in fostering slavery. In addition to the 2017 conference on slavery, the school held a faculty committee a year earlier to help launch a scholarship and research on Harvard's history with slavery. Former University President Drew Faust in a 2016 speech said Harvard was "directly complicit" in America's system of racial bondage until it was abolished in Massachusetts in 1783. She said Harvard remained "indirectly involved through extensive financial and other ties" to slavery in the South.
Bernie Sanders Jewish People Enslaved Black Americans Too: Now Cut The...
AFRICANGLOBE - The book "The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews" revealed that Jews and Christians, were responsible for the enslavement of Black people in America. This documentary leaves no doubt of the Jewish involvement and control over the Atlantic Slave trade.
The New Face Of Anti-Blackness Is Jewish
AFRICANGLOBE - When Jews, like Bernie Sanders, who openly endorse reparations for their white ethnicity, refuse reparations for AADOS, it begs numerous questions, like. Why is reparation for Jews more important than reparations for African American Descendants of Slaves, so much so that reparations to Israel cannot even be questioned in the United States? Is it perhaps because Jews are in themselves whites or Caucasians? It is perhaps because as a result of this Jewish whiteness, a Black ethnicity’s equal humanity cannot be granted in the same way and manner that the humanity of Jews have been so granted in the broadest sense of reparations?
Top Democrat James Clyburn Does Not Support Reparations For Black People
AFRICANGLOBE - House Majority Whip James Clyburn said that he takes issue with using reparations to lessen racial inequality, as some 2020 candidates have come out in favor of the idea. Clyburn, the highest ranking African-American congressman, told reporters he thinks "pure reparations would be impossible to implement.” He also said he was opposed to "opportunity zones" for Black people.
Why Are Democratic Candidates Trying To Deny Black People Their Reparations?
AFRICANGLOBE - Slavery stripped Black Americans of the financial fruits of their labor and more for most of the country’s history. Jim Crow replaced chains of metal with ones forged of terror, most famously through lynchings, but also land theft. The contemporary form of bigotry’s financial toll is redlining, by which financial institutions withhold loans from Black neighborhoods.
Stop Letting Politicians Use You As Props – The Gantt Report
AFRICANGLOBE - Kathleen Cleaver and Assata Shakur and other conscious Black women were not mistreated, exploited and victimized because they were Democrats or Republicans, African American women are used as political props because they are BLACK!
Elizabeth Warren Wants Reparations, But Only For Five Dollar Indians Like...
AFRICANGLOBE - Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Friday evening that Native Americans should be “part of the conversation” on reparations, showing a willingness to expand the debate over whether minority groups that have faced discrimination should be financially compensated by the federal government.
France Dismisses Compensation For Slavery
AFRICANGLOBE - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls issued an appeal on Sunday for Africans to get over the legacy of slavery, dismissing claims for financial compensation while acknowledging the “horror” of the slave trade. Valls rejected the idea of compensation, instead advocating for strengthened trade relations between Africa and Europe.
What Reparations In America Could Look Like
AFRICANGLOBE - If the United States did decide to have some sort of program of reparations focused on righting the wrongs of the past, what might that program look like? Ta-Nehisi Coates made the case that America owes reparations to its Black community. But he purposely left out the details of what a reparations program might look like. We will now make a proposal, for your consideration.
