This is happening nearly 80 years later.
I tried kickin it to
@T'krm but I never heard back. Reparations has been a discussion in mainstream spaces for all of 2-3 weeks. Most of these positions have been held for the same time or less, and everything is being demanded/expected in 2020.
Y'all know how it usually goes when one population has demands that another won't relent to right???
What positions? Honestly, who cares!?
The point is it doesn't matter how long they have been "mainstream" -- the point is we have always known what is owed. And who owes.
The issue is our leadership that we trusted to go after reparations were scared and were not interested in fighting for them. Not interested in fighting for the conversation to go "mainstream" due to them knowing if they do -- they will lose their jobs.
So, honestly outsiders like regular people like Yvette and Tone - would have to be the loudest voices -- cause our supposed organizations are not ran by us -- and the people appointed to run them are not allow to push for reparations. If they even tried - they would have been dropped.
I advise you to stop looking to blame or throw shade at the organizers of ADOS or even the reparations movement -- and READ.
Please read and UNDERSTAND the claim -- the extremely overdue claim/debt to be paid:
A great starting point....
- Medical Apartheid
- The Warmth of Other Suns
- Slavery By Another Name
- The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
- River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
- Empire of Cotton: A Global History Empire of Cotton: A Global History
- One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928
- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
- They Were Her Property: White Women As Slave Owners in the American South
- Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice