CS 120: Diasporic Divisions feat. Yvette Carnell (@breakingbrown) (09/29/2018)
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Political and Media Negroes talking about inconsequential bullshyt
Crying about Russia and "saving the Democracy". Everything but Reparations.
WATCH LIVE: 2019 Hutchins Forum 'Divided We Stand: Can We Overcome?'
Crying about Russia and "saving the Democracy". Everything but Reparations.
WATCH LIVE: 2019 Hutchins Forum 'Divided We Stand: Can We Overcome?'
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getting blitzed.
MW got to the 130,000 unique donors goal. Now she just has to hit 2% in 4 of the certified polls
Antonio Moore gave us a call to action. Lets all contact our congressman email/phone. And push NOHR40# on Twitter.
No HR40 with out 500B to a trillion dollar commitment at the outset,experts on reparations and racial wealth Dr. Sandy Darity,Antonio Moore and Yvette Carnell, and specific focus on ADOS not merely all blacks which includes blacks that don't descend from US Slavery and African/Carribean immigrants and their descendents who migrated voluntarily.
No HR40 with out 500B to a trillion dollar commitment at the outset,experts on reparations and racial wealth Dr. Sandy Darity,Antonio Moore and Yvette Carnell, and specific focus on ADOS not merely all blacks which includes blacks that don't descend from US Slavery and African/Carribean immigrants and their descendents who migrated voluntarily.
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USA Today has a few articles about slavery today.
Aaron Burr's lawyer owned my family. It has been a long, tragic journey from slavery.
DeWayne Wickham , Opinion contributorPublished 3:15 a.m. ET Aug. 22, 2019
My grandfather and father thought military service was a path out of the underclass. After centuries of bondage and oppression, it was a false hope.
I don’t know how long it was after August 1619, when the first enslaved Africans were brought ashore to Virginia, that my ancestors ended up in America. But I know my family’s journey from slavery to freedom was an arduous one.
While the United States didn’t end slavery until 1865, the importation of African men, women and children into this country for use as chattel was banned in 1807. That was the same year that John Wickham, the most prominent attorney in Virginia, joined the team of lawyers that represented Aaron Burr in his treason trial.
Somehow, my ancestors — who most likely came from a stretch of West Africa that includes Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Congo, according to a DNA search — became the property of the Wickham family. My great-grandfather, John Cassius Wickham, was born in 1847.
A Civil War battle and a family name
My great-grandfather was still enslaved when the Civil War broke out in 1861. The head of the white Wickham clan at that time was Williams Carter Wickham, who quickly rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate Army. In 1864, Gen. Wickham fought in the war’s biggest cavalry engagement, not far from Hickory Hill, his 3,300 acre plantation.
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400 years after American slavery began, make racial equality a reality
Aaron Burr's lawyer owned my family. It has been a long, tragic journey from slavery.
DeWayne Wickham , Opinion contributorPublished 3:15 a.m. ET Aug. 22, 2019
My grandfather and father thought military service was a path out of the underclass. After centuries of bondage and oppression, it was a false hope.
I don’t know how long it was after August 1619, when the first enslaved Africans were brought ashore to Virginia, that my ancestors ended up in America. But I know my family’s journey from slavery to freedom was an arduous one.
While the United States didn’t end slavery until 1865, the importation of African men, women and children into this country for use as chattel was banned in 1807. That was the same year that John Wickham, the most prominent attorney in Virginia, joined the team of lawyers that represented Aaron Burr in his treason trial.
Somehow, my ancestors — who most likely came from a stretch of West Africa that includes Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Congo, according to a DNA search — became the property of the Wickham family. My great-grandfather, John Cassius Wickham, was born in 1847.
A Civil War battle and a family name
My great-grandfather was still enslaved when the Civil War broke out in 1861. The head of the white Wickham clan at that time was Williams Carter Wickham, who quickly rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate Army. In 1864, Gen. Wickham fought in the war’s biggest cavalry engagement, not far from Hickory Hill, his 3,300 acre plantation.
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400 years after American slavery began, make racial equality a reality
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Hundreds of thousands of Africans were enslaved in America. Wanda Tucker believes her relatives were the first
Deborah Barfield Berry and Kelley Benham French, USA TODAYUpdated 1 hour ago
LUANDA, Angola – Wanda Tucker stepped off the plane to a sky so gray it blended into the tarmac.
She inhaled, balanced her new bag with the straw handle, then step-by-step-by-step made her way down the metal stairs.
It had been 40 hours since she left Virginia. Her 61 years had caught up. Something about flying over that wide, dark water, watching the low tin roofs rise to meet her, had brought home the reality of what she had come here to do.
The plane hissed. The faces around her were brown like hers, but their words were a scramble of sound.
She boarded the shuttle bus and plopped on a seat, nervously tapping her knee with her left hand. At first she brushed away the tears, then ignored them. It was hard to breathe.
Wanda and her family believed they were descended from the first Africans brought to the English colonies 400 years ago this month. They hadn’t proved it, but they didn’t doubt it. Now here she was, in the place those ancestors had called home: dusty, mysterious Angola.
She would walk the roads they walked by the rivers they fished under the stars that guided them. She would confront, as courageously as she could, the reality of what happened to them and those left behind.
Wanda believed her ancestors had called her here. But sometimes she found it hard to listen, and she didn’t hear them now.
She had come so far and felt so alone. She said aloud, “Could somebody give me a hug?”
1619
Wanda would tell everyone she met in Angola she was descended from the first Africans brought to the English colonies. The story was a family treasure, handed down from generation to generation. It’s a story that Wanda and others had worked to bolster over the years despite a vacuum of evidence, as records for African Americans from that period barely exist. Their names were lost to burned churches, unmarked graves and to a government that didn’t count them as human.
Like any family heirloom, the rough edges have been worn smooth by the passing years, so the story in Wanda's family invokes a deep sense of pride whether it is provable or not.
What’s known is that in 1619, two Angolans named Anthony and Isabella, along with 20 or so others, staggered off a ship into Point Comfort in what is now Hampton, Virginia. They’d been taken from the Ndongo kingdom in the interior of Angola and marched to the coast. They'd endured months packed in the bottom of a ship named the San Juan Bautista. When raiders attacked in the Gulf of Mexico, the captives were rerouted to Virginia aboard the White Lion, changing the course of a nation.
Anthony and Isabella probably weren’t their real names. Their Angolan names were likely snubbed out by whichever Catholic priest baptized them for the journey.
The reason they are remembered and other Africans are not is the anomaly that someone bothered to record their names at all. A 1625 census noted that they belonged to the household of Capt. William Tucker and that they had a child named William. Wanda and her family believe they are descended from William, the first named African born in what would become America. An American forefather most history ignores.
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Deborah Barfield Berry and Kelley Benham French, USA TODAYUpdated 1 hour ago
LUANDA, Angola – Wanda Tucker stepped off the plane to a sky so gray it blended into the tarmac.
She inhaled, balanced her new bag with the straw handle, then step-by-step-by-step made her way down the metal stairs.
It had been 40 hours since she left Virginia. Her 61 years had caught up. Something about flying over that wide, dark water, watching the low tin roofs rise to meet her, had brought home the reality of what she had come here to do.
The plane hissed. The faces around her were brown like hers, but their words were a scramble of sound.
She boarded the shuttle bus and plopped on a seat, nervously tapping her knee with her left hand. At first she brushed away the tears, then ignored them. It was hard to breathe.
Wanda and her family believed they were descended from the first Africans brought to the English colonies 400 years ago this month. They hadn’t proved it, but they didn’t doubt it. Now here she was, in the place those ancestors had called home: dusty, mysterious Angola.
She would walk the roads they walked by the rivers they fished under the stars that guided them. She would confront, as courageously as she could, the reality of what happened to them and those left behind.
Wanda believed her ancestors had called her here. But sometimes she found it hard to listen, and she didn’t hear them now.
She had come so far and felt so alone. She said aloud, “Could somebody give me a hug?”
1619
Wanda would tell everyone she met in Angola she was descended from the first Africans brought to the English colonies. The story was a family treasure, handed down from generation to generation. It’s a story that Wanda and others had worked to bolster over the years despite a vacuum of evidence, as records for African Americans from that period barely exist. Their names were lost to burned churches, unmarked graves and to a government that didn’t count them as human.
Like any family heirloom, the rough edges have been worn smooth by the passing years, so the story in Wanda's family invokes a deep sense of pride whether it is provable or not.
What’s known is that in 1619, two Angolans named Anthony and Isabella, along with 20 or so others, staggered off a ship into Point Comfort in what is now Hampton, Virginia. They’d been taken from the Ndongo kingdom in the interior of Angola and marched to the coast. They'd endured months packed in the bottom of a ship named the San Juan Bautista. When raiders attacked in the Gulf of Mexico, the captives were rerouted to Virginia aboard the White Lion, changing the course of a nation.
Anthony and Isabella probably weren’t their real names. Their Angolan names were likely snubbed out by whichever Catholic priest baptized them for the journey.
The reason they are remembered and other Africans are not is the anomaly that someone bothered to record their names at all. A 1625 census noted that they belonged to the household of Capt. William Tucker and that they had a child named William. Wanda and her family believe they are descended from William, the first named African born in what would become America. An American forefather most history ignores.
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1619: SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS
The founding family you’ve never heard of: The black Tuckers of Hampton, Virginia
Rick Hampson and Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAYUpdated 6 minutes ago
HAMPTON, Va. – As Walter Jones walks his family’s ancient cemetery, shovel in hand, he wonders about those who rest there.
The gravestones date back as far as the 1800s. Some bear the names of folks Walter knew; some have faded to illegibility; some are in pieces. And, under the brush he’s cleared away and the ground he’s leveled, there are burial sites unmarked by any stone.
The cemetery means so much to Walter because his extended family – the Tuckers of Tidewater, Virginia – believe they are as much an American founding family as any from the Mayflower.
They have a widely recognized but possibly unprovable claim: that they are directly descended from the first identified African American people born on the mainland of English America, an infant baptized “William” around 1624.
It’s been 400 years this August since William’s parents arrived in the Virginia colony. The Tuckers, like many African Americans, struggle to trace their roots. They have no genealogical or DNA evidence linking them to those first Africans, but they have oral history and family lore.
And they have the cemetery, a repository of what unites them and what baffles them.
This graveyard, Walter says, is “the only thing you can actually put your hands on, put your eyes on.’’
He’s thinking of that July day two years ago. He was leveling earth when the blade of his shovel hit something solid.
He looked down. A round, gray object seemed to have emerged from the dirt. He dug under it a little and lifted it up. It looked like a section of a bowl.
He moved more dirt and spotted something else round and gray. He brushed it off and held it against the first object to see if they fit together.
He didn’t realize it at first, but he was holding a human skull.
Researchers would conclude that it belonged to an African American woman who was about 60 when she died – roughly Walter's age. But they couldn’t say when.
That night, the woman was all Walter could think about. She embodied every question, every possibility, about his family’s origins. And he’d held her in his bare hands.
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The founding family you’ve never heard of: The black Tuckers of Hampton, Virginia
Rick Hampson and Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAYUpdated 6 minutes ago
HAMPTON, Va. – As Walter Jones walks his family’s ancient cemetery, shovel in hand, he wonders about those who rest there.
The gravestones date back as far as the 1800s. Some bear the names of folks Walter knew; some have faded to illegibility; some are in pieces. And, under the brush he’s cleared away and the ground he’s leveled, there are burial sites unmarked by any stone.
The cemetery means so much to Walter because his extended family – the Tuckers of Tidewater, Virginia – believe they are as much an American founding family as any from the Mayflower.
They have a widely recognized but possibly unprovable claim: that they are directly descended from the first identified African American people born on the mainland of English America, an infant baptized “William” around 1624.
It’s been 400 years this August since William’s parents arrived in the Virginia colony. The Tuckers, like many African Americans, struggle to trace their roots. They have no genealogical or DNA evidence linking them to those first Africans, but they have oral history and family lore.
And they have the cemetery, a repository of what unites them and what baffles them.
This graveyard, Walter says, is “the only thing you can actually put your hands on, put your eyes on.’’
He’s thinking of that July day two years ago. He was leveling earth when the blade of his shovel hit something solid.
He looked down. A round, gray object seemed to have emerged from the dirt. He dug under it a little and lifted it up. It looked like a section of a bowl.
He moved more dirt and spotted something else round and gray. He brushed it off and held it against the first object to see if they fit together.
He didn’t realize it at first, but he was holding a human skull.
Researchers would conclude that it belonged to an African American woman who was about 60 when she died – roughly Walter's age. But they couldn’t say when.
That night, the woman was all Walter could think about. She embodied every question, every possibility, about his family’s origins. And he’d held her in his bare hands.
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African American leaders have long called for tougher immigration laws
Black leaders such as W.E.B Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington all spoke out against immigration during their time. They saw the effects it had on the African American worker, both in cities and in rural America. Jobs that were held by African Americans were being taken by European and Chinese immigrants, which created an unemployment cataclysm for Black Americans already facing intense racial and economic discrimination at the time.
Black leaders such as W.E.B Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington all spoke out against immigration during their time. They saw the effects it had on the African American worker, both in cities and in rural America. Jobs that were held by African Americans were being taken by European and Chinese immigrants, which created an unemployment cataclysm for Black Americans already facing intense racial and economic discrimination at the time.
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An old article written by Prof Darity and Dania V. Francis. Short but cites examples of the U.S. government making restitution payments to other ethnic groups, outlines which Black Americans would qualify for Reparations, the 5 major things Reparations should include etc.
The Economics of Reparations
(PDF) The Economics of Reparations
The Economics of Reparations
(PDF) The Economics of Reparations