#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

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In 1898 African-Americans were a majority of Wilmington, NC’s population. The entire city was operated by colored people. Most owned homes and businesses in the city. Some houses were oceanfront. The city was independently Black owned, having their own banks, newspapers and government. On November 10, 1898, white insurgents overthrew the elected government and forced black leaders out of the city. They massacred families, burned down their homes and businesses. It is considered the only successful coup, a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government, in American history. African Americans who survived never regained their land nor their power. All their financial assets were stolen illegally by the racists

[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.

[alwaysinbetweeninsaneandinsecure]

This Black, trans family has had a really, really difficult few years. From being forced to flee their previous home state due to fear for their safety & well-being as trans people to becoming unhoused in that process to now living somewhere that members of the family cannot get basics things done because of inaccessiblity.

This is a fundraiser to help them pay for a stairlift to make sure everyone can get food, water, and laundry done inside the house.

Please consider what you're able to give, be it money to the fundraiser or your time/energy in reblogging this (you can even consider keeping a copy in your drafts and reblogging regularly to get more eyes on it--that's what I'm doing!) or, as they asked for in the most recent update, any other creative ways you might be able to think of to spread the word and get this family the safety, accessbility, and comfort they deserve <3

[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

[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

[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.