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deeznutz93 said:
Darrick Hamilton is a problem. N'cobra will try to use him and he is WILLINGLY going to water down reparations in order to compromise.

The black political and intellectual class are the worst people in our community. They want to be palatable and you can't be in the room speaking about reparations and be palatable.

We as a group lack self-awareness
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We’d end up not getting anything with him. He’d settle for loan forgiveness.

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I must say Darity has been getting to Darrick Hamilton though. Booker said he’d want Darity to run the show. I just don’t like how Sheila Jackson Lee has so much say. She wouldn’t get any. And who’s to say she won’t try to have others get reparations also.
 
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Danny Glover, Ta-Nehisi Coates to testify at House slavery reparations hearing

Danny Glover, Ta-Nehisi Coates to testify at House slavery reparations hearing
By Associated Press


WASHINGTON — The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify before a House panel.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is scheduled to hold the hearing next Wednesday, its stated purpose "to examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice." The date of the hearing, June 19, coincides with Juneteenth, a cultural holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved black people in America.

Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the longtime sponsor of House Resolution 40, first proposed the measure calling for a study of reparations in 1989. Conyers reintroduced the bill every session until his resignation in 2017.

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Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, the resolution's new sponsor, introduced it earlier this year and pushed for next week's hearing. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in February that she supports a reparations study, a topic that hasn't been the subject of a House hearing since 2007.

Reparations had been a fringe issue and occasional punchline until Coates' 2014 essay in The Atlantic, "The Case for Reparations," thrust the topic back into the national discourse. Glover, an activist as well as the star of the "Lethal Weapon" movies and the classics "The Color Purple" and "A Rage in Harlem," has spoken in favor of the issue for years.

In an interview with Coates as he prepared to leave office, President Barack Obama questioned the implementation of reparations but not the concept. And in a conversation Coates had earlier this year with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., the popular progressive endorsed reparations.

 
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When Malcolm X tried Pan Africanism and failed due to lack of cooperation from Africans

MALCOLM X SEEKS U.N. NEGRO DEBATE; He Asks African States to Cite U.S. Over Rights

The State Department and the Justice Department have begun to take an interest in Malcolm X's campaign to convince African states to raise the question of persecution of American Negroes at the United Nations.

The Black Nationalist leader started his campaign July 17 in Cairo, where the 33 heads of independent African states held their second meeting since the Organization of African Unity was founded in Addis Ababa 14 months ago.

Before leaving for Cairo, Malcolm told friends in New York that it was his intention to add a new dimension to the civil rights struggle in the United States. This, he said, could be achieved by “internationalizing” the Negro question at the United Nations in the manner that South African apartheid was transferred into an international problem.

Malcolm's eight‐page memorandum to the heads of state at the Cairo conference requesting their support became available here only recently. After studying it, officials said that if Malcolm succeeded in convincing just one African Government to bring up the charge at the United Nations, the United States Government would be faced with a touchy problem.

The United States officials here believe, would find itself in the same category as South Africa, Hungary and other countries whose domestic politics have become debating issues at the United Nations. The issue, officials say, would be of service to critics of the United States, Communist and non‐Communist, and contribute to the undermining of the position the United States has asserted, for itself as the leader of West in the advocacy of human rights.


“Some African leaders at this conference,” he said in his memorandum, “have implied that they have enough problems here on the mother continent without adding the Afro‐American problem.

“With all due respect to your esteemed positions, I must remind all of you that the good shepherd will leave 99 sheep at home to go to the aid of the one who is lost and has fallen into the hands of the imperialist wolf.

“We, in America, are your long lost brothers and sisters, and I am here to remind you that our problems are your problems.” The memorandum continued:


 
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@ 1:42:29 this guy tells YC that NCOBRA has a clause where they want to decide how the $ is dispersed and to what exactly? They want control of trillions? They can deny anyone who’s ADOS $?

Always figured a bureau being set up was the better option. It’s interesting too while YC, Darity, and Tone prefers no one gets paid any $ and only be provided stipends for travel. N’Cobra wants to be paid a salary.
 
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HarlemHottie said:
:mindblown: WHY, tho??? Cuz Danny Glover played Mister? Cuz Ta- Nehisi wrote an article (entirely based on someone else's work, no disrespect)?

What the hell are these people doing? Why are they in charge??? :damn:
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Correct me if I'm wrong but Glover has been on that black freedom train for a minute. I know he's just an actor, but he's been for the cause. He's not a johnny-come-lately. I remember hearing about him trying to make a 1804 movie and Hollywood saying "nope" to that.

Ta-Nehisi got that article from someone else? Who? :wtf:

But yes, I agree. Scholars should be having that conversation with Congress, not celebrities. But in today's news, you need a celebrity to get anything going unfortunately.
 
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For Da Bag said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but Glover has been on that black freedom train for a minute. I know he's just an actor, but he's been for the cause. He's not a johnny-come-lately. I remember hearing about him trying to make a 1804 movie and Hollywood saying "nope" to that.

Ta-Nehisi got that article from someone else? Who? :wtf:

But yes, I agree. Scholars should be having that conversation with Congress, not celebrities. But in today's news, you need a celebrity to get anything going unfortunately.
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That's the thing what does Haiti have to do with reparations for American Descendents Of Slavery
 
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HarlemHottie said:
:mindblown: WHY, tho??? Cuz Danny Glover played Mister? Cuz Ta- Nehisi wrote an article (entirely based on someone else's work, no disrespect)?

What the hell are these people doing? Why are they in charge??? :damn:
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ADOS needs a council or something to Gate keep these kinda things.
 
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