Justin Nitsuj
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Great. Another diasposa war thread 
See why African Americans do not want stolen African treasures to be returned back to Africa
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not really most people here agree it's nonsense.Great. Another diasposa war thread
Seeking Justice for Slavery's Sins
A class-action suit pursuing reparations from companies began with a woman's personal quest to understand history.www.latimes.com
NEW YORK —
Forty acres and a mule. We were supposed to get 40 acres and a mule. It always sounded like a myth to Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, a kind of urban legend black people told one another. Like when her grandfather would occasionally complain about some sort of government injustice and invariably end his grumbling by saying " ... and they still owe us our 40 acres and a mule.”
Yet Farmer-Paellmann eventually learned that what her grandfather was talking about wasn’t folklore. He was referring to an 1865 field order issued by Civil War Gen. William T. Sherman, which granted freed slaves a piece of land and the means to work it--a promise that was broken and has come to symbolize a debt owed to the descendants of slaves by an indifferent government.
The lawsuit singles out FleetBoston Financial Corp., Aetna Inc. and CSX Corp., alleging that they or their predecessor companies profited from slave labor. The lawsuit seeks to link these companies--involved in banking, insurance and transportation--in a conspiracy to deprive Africans of their human rights through enslavement.
“The perpetrators of the crimes committed against Africans are still here,” says Farmer-Paellmann, who is the lead plaintiff in the suit, and whose research is at the core of its allegations. “They profited from stealing people and labor, torturing and raping women to breed children. Why on earth should they be able to keep profits they made committing those crimes?”
The New York woman’s legal action is the latest example of a grass-roots campaign that dates to the 1890s, when an organization called the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Assn. pushed for legislation granting pensions to ex-slaves.
Farmer-Paellmann is not worried about how the courts will view the legal issues raised in her lawsuit. And she is no wild-eyed radical filing what she knows is a ridiculous claim solely to make a political point.
Showing up for an interview at the trendy W Hotel in Union Square, Farmer-Paellmann, 36, is stylishly dressed, well-spoken and low key. She is a graduate of Boston’s New England School of Law, but has not yet qualified for the bar.
She and her husband, a German national who heads up investor relations for a foreign company, have a 20-month-old daughter.
So she's a bedwench who's pushing for African artifacts to be left in the US?
Oh she's a tool for white supremacy
Breh Obama
First Breh President. Coli Prophet.
Those said black people were brought to Brazil and Trinidad as slaves. The only difference between them and us in the USA is where they dropped us off
Doesn't Business Insider push rightwing agendas? I think they do.
exactly. Who are these people?" The Restitution Study Group (RSG) led by its founder and executive director Deadria Farmer-Paellmann,"
The what and who now?
Black americans don't give a shyt about some statues going back to africa.
ThatTruth777
Superstar
This is the first time I'm hearing this
I doubt she is actually ADOS
Seeking Justice for Slavery's Sins
A class-action suit pursuing reparations from companies began with a woman's personal quest to understand history.
NEW YORK —
Forty acres and a mule. We were supposed to get 40 acres and a mule. It always sounded like a myth to Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, a kind of urban legend black people told one another. Like when her grandfather would occasionally complain about some sort of government injustice and invariably end his grumbling by saying " ... and they still owe us our 40 acres and a mule.”
Yet Farmer-Paellmann eventually learned that what her grandfather was talking about wasn’t folklore. He was referring to an 1865 field order issued by Civil War Gen. William T. Sherman, which granted freed slaves a piece of land and the means to work it--a promise that was broken and has come to symbolize a debt owed to the descendants of slaves by an indifferent government.
The lawsuit singles out FleetBoston Financial Corp., Aetna Inc. and CSX Corp., alleging that they or their predecessor companies profited from slave labor. The lawsuit seeks to link these companies--involved in banking, insurance and transportation--in a conspiracy to deprive Africans of their human rights through enslavement.
“The perpetrators of the crimes committed against Africans are still here,” says Farmer-Paellmann, who is the lead plaintiff in the suit, and whose research is at the core of its allegations. “They profited from stealing people and labor, torturing and raping women to breed children. Why on earth should they be able to keep profits they made committing those crimes?”
The New York woman’s legal action is the latest example of a grass-roots campaign that dates to the 1890s, when an organization called the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Assn. pushed for legislation granting pensions to ex-slaves.
Farmer-Paellmann is not worried about how the courts will view the legal issues raised in her lawsuit. And she is no wild-eyed radical filing what she knows is a ridiculous claim solely to make a political point.
Showing up for an interview at the trendy W Hotel in Union Square, Farmer-Paellmann, 36, is stylishly dressed, well-spoken and low key. She is a graduate of Boston’s New England School of Law, but has not yet qualified for the bar.
She and her husband, a German national who heads up investor relations for a foreign company, have a 20-month-old daughter.
So she's a bedwench who's pushing for African artifacts to be left in the US?
The Dahomey was a Benin tribe. Plenty of people were enslaved from the area of Benin Togo.
Africa right along with America and Europe participated in the slave trade so....
shyt should be sold and $ collected along with reparations from all involved in the slave trade
