#or reparations for Black Americans

[thundergrace]

We do not want this. This is not a decision being made on behalf of the American people. Literally, no one wants this, and we're being forced to pay for it. Our tax dollars funding genocide. I feel sick. I don't think any amount of protests on any scale will change anything because clearly, this is a nefarious and corrupt government decision, likely fueled by greed. It wasn't made with American citizens in mind, so I'm not sure how we can stop it.

[alwaysbewoke]

[odinsblog]

Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865) were military orders issued during the American Civil War, on January 16, 1865, by General William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi of the United States Army. They provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres (160,000 ha) of land along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than 40 acres (16 ha), on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 formerly enslaved families and other black people then living in the area.

The orders were issued following Sherman's March to the Sea. They were intended to address the immediate problem of dealing with the tens of thousands of black refugees who had joined Sherman's march in search of protection and sustenance, and “to assure the harmony of action in the area of operations.” Critics allege that his intention was for the order to be a temporary measure to address an immediate problem, and not to grant permanent ownership of the land to the freedmen, although most of the recipients assumed otherwise. General Sherman issued his orders four days after meeting with twenty local black ministers and lay leaders and with U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in Savannah, Georgia. Brig. Gen. Rufus Saxton, an abolitionist from Massachusetts who had previously organized the recruitment of black soldiers for the Union Army, was put in charge of implementing the orders. Freedmen were settled in Georgia, particularly along the Savannah River, in the Ogeechee district of Chatham County, and on islands off of the coast of Savannah.

In the end, the orders had little concrete effect because President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation that returned the lands to southern owners who took a loyalty oath. Johnson granted amnesty to most former Confederates and allowed the rebel states to elect new governments. These governments, which often included ex-Confederate officials, soon enacted black codes, measures designed to control and repress the recently freed slave population. General Saxton and his staff at the Charleston SC Freedmen Bureau's office refused to carry out President Johnson's wishes and denied all applications to have lands returned. In the end, Johnson and his allies removed General Saxton and his staff, but not before Congress was able to provide legislation to assist some families in keeping their lands.

Although mules are not mentioned in the orders, they were a main source for the expression “forty acres and a mule.” A historical marker commemorating the order was erected by the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah, near the corner of Harris and Bull streets, in Madison Square. (source)

👉🏿 40 Acres & A Lie (podcast)

[ausetkmt]

Credit to purchase Black Slaves - yes the Jews Gave Credit

Jacob Cohen was a founder for the Hebrew Orphan Society, who didn't realize he was selling Black Jews - OR DID HE?

We think he didn't care, because they made him and his family rich forever.

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

“- Indians have been waiting for Kalki for 3,700 years.

- Buddhists have been waiting for Maitreya for 2,600 years.

- The Jews have been waiting for the Messiah for 2500 years.

- Christians have been waiting for Jesus for 2000 years.

- Sunnah waits for Prophet Issa 1400 years.

- Muslims have been waiting for a messiah from the line of Muhammad for 1300 years.

- Shiites have been waiting for Mandi for 1080 years.

- Drussians are waiting for Hamza ibn Ali for 1000 years.

Most religions adopt the idea of a “savior” and state that the world will remain filled with evil until this savior comes and fills it with goodness and righteousness.

Maybe our problem on this planet is that people expect someone else to come solve their problems instead of doing it themselves! ”

Riccardo Dablah

[todaysdocument]

Henrietta Wood had been kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1853. After the Civil War, she sued her kidnapper for $20k to cover lost wages. 

On April 17, 1878, a jury awarded Wood $2,500. This is still the largest amount awarded by a U.S. Court as reparations for slavery. 

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States

Series: Civil Case Files

File Unit: Henrietta Wood vs. Zeb Ward

Transcription: 

No 1431

Henrietta Wood

V

Zeb Ward

Verdict

We, the Jury in the above entitled cause, do find for the plaintiff and assess her damages in the premise at Two thousand five hundred dollars $2,500.

D D Conover, Foreman.

[vaedae]

This is Emmett Till. He was 14 years old. Born on July 25, 1941, died on August 28, 1955. Well, died or murdered? Or abducted, tortured, and lynched?

Emmett Till was a young boy visiting family for the summer in Money, Mississippi; coming from Chicago, Illinois. He had gone to the local Bryant Grocery store and purchased two cents worth of bubble gum, on his way out, he supposedly made the mistake that cost him his life. Some people say that Emmett had whistled at Carolyn Bryant, other people say he catcalled or grabbed her.

Some people say it was days after making her claim, other people say it was the same night, either way, Carolyn's husband Roy and his half-brother JW Milam went to Till's great uncle's house and abducted Emmett. The two men took him to the bank of Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. They then proceeded to beat him to death. Gouged out his eyes, knocked out his teeth, beat him on his hips and back, cut up his face and genitals, shot him in the head, tied a 75-pound cotton gin fan around his neck with barbed wire, and dumped him into the water.

Emmett was only 14 years old. He hadn't made it to high school, hadn't made it to adulthood, hadn't been able to marry, hadn't been able to have children. No child should ever have to endure the torture Emmett did. No child should be murdered over something so small. Something that may not even be true.

No single person deserves any of the treatment that Emmett Till received.

[thechanelmuse]

Hughes "Uncle Redd" Van Ellis (1921-2023) ❤️🕊

Mr. Hughes was a WWll combat veteran and one of the last three survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, in which jealous European-American mobs went into the thriving, economic, 35-block area of the Greenwood district created by Black Americans (survivors and descendants of American chattel slavery) in Tulsa, Oklahoma known as “Black Wall Street,” and looted, burned & bombed it to the ground and murdered Black Americans through government sanction.

Justice for the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors has been intentionally slow-moving for over a century now to insure injustice is given to those who survived it. Even to the point where people try to bury the history or give a revisionist lie of it being a race riot. But just as reparations for US chattel slavery (perpetual ownership passed on through birth as someone's property and form of capital through labor and body), the debt is still owed from the US government.

The stolen generational wealth from forced labor, the stolen wealth from the Freedmen's bank ($93 million today) amongst other things, the stolen land to this day, and the continued remnants of slavery (including, Jim Crow, ethnocide and genocide) that are government sanctioned in our homeland our ancestors built from scratch. The debt will always be owed until it's paid. A debt doesn't die.

Reparations are currently happening at a slow pace across a number of states and municipality levels as of now, but at the same time we have to fight against Pan-African and obstructionist Democrats to ensure it's lineage-based for Black Americans only, direct cash payments to remove any hiccups, and protective policies our ancestors should've always had and we should've inherited.

When you don't have protective policies on the books for the largest ethnic group who descends from America and strip/impede on their potential accumulation of wealth and assets to pass down to their families, what do their descendants inherit?👂🏽

Some survivors and the descendants of Black Wall Street tried to rebuild their district, but when you're stripped of your wealth and "urban renewal" starts intruding I-244 called "Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Expressway" 😒 into your land, you can imagine the results. Mr. Hughes inherited displacement and poverty, passed down poverty to his family, and died in poverty. Mama Viola Fletcher, 109 (who is the sister of Mr. Hughes pictured above) and Mama Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, are the last two survivors and still in the fight. They, too, live in poverty.

The passing of Mr. Hughes and our Black American ancestors will never go in vain as we continue to stand 10 toes down for them and us and see it through.

Rest easy, Uncle Redd (Jan. 11, 1921 - Oct. 9, 2023) ❤️🕊

This was his testimony before Congress in 2021:

[fokikowest]

Think reparations are impossible? The story of Japanese Americans proves otherwise

[tani-b-art]

A blueprint for reparations in the US - William Darity

Social service programs are not reparations.

None of these will meet the task of eliminating the Black/white wealth differential in the US. None of them have the capacity and they are not sufficient.

Educational attainment doesn’t hold much promise at all.

Black heads of households with a college degree have 2/3s of the net worth of white heads of households who never finished high school. You’re not going to eliminate the racial wealth gap simply by giving Black people more and better education. That doesn’t interrupt the inter-generational transmission effects that are associated with moving resources from one generation to the next if you continue to have a community that doesn’t have any resources to transfer to subsequent generations.

EDUCATION IS NOT REPARATIONS!

[reasoningdaily]

https://x.com/ThatsAlpaca1/status/1702224625717961154?t=uFNEu7WzrNo37nOF_UaRYQ&s=09

[creepykuroneko]

Whenever I see asian, brown, and/or black Americans reinforcing, supporting, and upholding racism, colonization, imperialism, colorism, and any other belief system that not only harms them directly but other non-white communities as well and they still want to claim that they themselves are POC and face discrimination I feel bitter disgust towards them.

[ausetkmt]

American Jews Selling Blacks - PROOF

this is actual advertising from Charleston S.C. Newspapers circa 1850 advertising Black Slaves for sale, By Jews

RECOGNIZE THIS HISTORY - DO NOT PRETEND IT DIDN'T HAPPEN

[abstractindividual]

The hatred toward reparations for African Americans.

Salutation to my blog, I want to share my feelings on the reparations movement and the viritol that is being received by many bigoted people. This will be a long post as a disclaimer. This tweets I'll share is not for a "witch hunt," but bringing awareness to an issue not receiving enough media attention with discrimination and racism toward African Americans and reparations.

To start, the word reparation means to make amends for a wrongdoing, usually through compensation.

African Americans were promised reparations (40 acres and a mule) after the horrific treatments of slavery, but the promise was never honored for all. Here is an article from PSB that discusses the topic.

The topic with reparations to me did not gain such animosity until Black Americans began to demand what is owed, and the reason is not only due to slavery. For over 400 years there have been cases of

Lynchings and the many unsolved murders

Stolen land (Tulsa massacre, Forsyth, GA, African American farmers)

Human experimentation (Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington discusses this), The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

Jim Crow Era

Racism and discrimination in the military and medical industry (e.g. Henrietta Lacks and Black women neglected in hospitals)

Redlining

Police brutality

COINTELPRO from the FBI (spying on the civil rights members and Black Panther Party)

Cases like Emmett Till, The Birmingham Church bombing, Tulsa or Rosewood massacre, The 1985 Philadelphia bombing, Frank Embree, James Byrd Jr. leading up to today with Elijah McClain, Sandra Bland, George Floyd, Sinzae Reed. Don't forget The Buffalo shooting in 2022 and the racism case for the Black Colorado ranchers experiencing racism for putting up a BLM flag.

More restlessness came the more injustice happened. The topic of reparations is growing more than ever on social media. Unfortunately that brought the attention to many bigoted people on different platforms, to where I chose to take screenshots as proof:

I took many screenshots, but will only share these examples I have seen on Twitter. There are many protesting reparations on Instagram, YouTube and other platforms as well.

There is constant hostility and aggression toward African Americans, yet I have NEVER seen this for other people who received compensation from America, like the Jews from the Auschwitz Holocaust, the Japanese in internment camps and also billions for other countries.

This nation is known for giving out land and money to other countries and citizens here in America. From free land for Caucasians through The Homestead Act, to the G.I. Bill, to reparations given to other groups.

As a serious question to the reader who reached this far: Why are people against reparations when this country had no trouble giving out money and land to other races? I'm in favor reparations for all who were wronged, and this is no different for my people here or victims of racism and colonialism in Brazil, Africa, Australia, Canada and other continents. The fight for justice will continue, but I want a genuine answer why these people are angry against reparations for African Americans.