I cannot believe they still think they are owed something. If that is the case, they should be going after their African brothers who sold them in the first place.
Reparations: Justice for a Crime Against Humanity...
Enslavement, declared by the United Nations and other international bodies is classified as a "crime against humanity". As such, international law recognizes that nations who commit such crimes, e.g., Nazi Germany, Serbia are obliged to pay reparations for the victims of these atrocities.
In the United States, crimes against humanity were commited against indigenous people, e.g., Choctaws, Lakota, Cherokee and Japanese-Americans (their forcible internment during World War II) and reparations in a variety of forms were given to them, not as a "hand-out" but as a compensatory measure for violence against these groups.
The longest unpaid debt that Europe and the United States have is the result of nearly 500 years of the capture, removal, forced labor, extraction of natural resources from Africa, colonization and discrimination towards Africans and their descendants throughout the world. Studies indicate that the combined total of this crime against humanity amounts to nearly $800 trillion...
Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations provides the history, facts and figures about the reparations for African people both in the United States as well as around the world. Myths abound concerning what exactly reparations are and scholars in the book set the record straight regarding a long recognized method of securing justice for groups whose lives, families and economies were disrupted by nations committing crimes against them.
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SHOULD AMERICA PAY?
Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations
Edited by Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D.
For decades, African Americans have watched as other ethnic groups received financial compensation for government-sanctioned crimes. Slowly but steadily, social activists, academics, and legal scholars have joined together to demand similar justice for the descendants of the systematic, brutal crime of slavery. Yet, advocates for reparations have many different opinions when it comes down to who should pay—and how the money could best serve to heal the wounds of the past.
SHOULD AMERICA PAY?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations (Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers; January 21, 2003; $24.95) explores the reparations issue in-depth and from a variety of distinguished perspectives. A leading scholar of race relations, Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D., has collected more than twenty essays on every aspect of the subject. The result is a comprehensive collection rich in facts and insights into where the movement has been, where it is now, and where it will be in the future.
Organized around key topics, essays thoroughly cover the history, the law, the grassroots organizing, and controversies surrounding reparations. Voices include:
· Congressman John Conyers, Jr., considered by many to be the “Rosa Parks of Reparation” on why this is a matter of justice, not charity
· Deadria Farmer-Paellmann on the unsung ex-slave pension movement
· Kevin Outterson, a tax law specialist, gives hard numbers on the cost of slavery
· Shelby Steele tackles the hot-button subject of victimization
· Christopher Hitchens takes on the loudest opponent of compensating slavery’s descendants to explain why this debt is not easily canceled
The book also features full transcripts of important documents, including the First Congressional Reparations Bill of 1867 and the Dakar Declaration of 2001. Encouraging further dialogue on a subject of national impact and global implications, SHOULD AMERICA PAY? is an indispensable and empowering sourcebook.
About the Editor
Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D., is the director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University. He has taught at Oakwood College, Alabama A&M, Vanderbilt University, and Fisk University. He is the recipient of numerous grants, including one from the Kellogg Foundation to establish a “National Dialogue on Race,” and is on the editorial board of The Journal of Black Studies. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Reparations: Justice for a Crime Against Humanity...
Enslavement, declared by the United Nations and other international bodies is classified as a "crime against humanity". As such, international law recognizes that nations who commit such crimes, e.g., Nazi Germany, Serbia are obliged to pay reparations for the victims of these atrocities.
In the United States, crimes against humanity were commited against indigenous people, e.g., Choctaws, Lakota, Cherokee and Japanese-Americans (their forcible internment during World War II) and reparations in a variety of forms were given to them, not as a "hand-out" but as a compensatory measure for violence against these groups.
The longest unpaid debt that Europe and the United States have is the result of nearly 500 years of the capture, removal, forced labor, extraction of natural resources from Africa, colonization and discrimination towards Africans and their descendants throughout the world. Studies indicate that the combined total of this crime against humanity amounts to nearly $800 trillion...
Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations provides the history, facts and figures about the reparations for African people both in the United States as well as around the world. Myths abound concerning what exactly reparations are and scholars in the book set the record straight regarding a long recognized method of securing justice for groups whose lives, families and economies were disrupted by nations committing crimes against them.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SHOULD AMERICA PAY?
Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations
Edited by Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D.
For decades, African Americans have watched as other ethnic groups received financial compensation for government-sanctioned crimes. Slowly but steadily, social activists, academics, and legal scholars have joined together to demand similar justice for the descendants of the systematic, brutal crime of slavery. Yet, advocates for reparations have many different opinions when it comes down to who should pay—and how the money could best serve to heal the wounds of the past.
SHOULD AMERICA PAY?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations (Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers; January 21, 2003; $24.95) explores the reparations issue in-depth and from a variety of distinguished perspectives. A leading scholar of race relations, Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D., has collected more than twenty essays on every aspect of the subject. The result is a comprehensive collection rich in facts and insights into where the movement has been, where it is now, and where it will be in the future.
Organized around key topics, essays thoroughly cover the history, the law, the grassroots organizing, and controversies surrounding reparations. Voices include:
· Congressman John Conyers, Jr., considered by many to be the “Rosa Parks of Reparation” on why this is a matter of justice, not charity
· Deadria Farmer-Paellmann on the unsung ex-slave pension movement
· Kevin Outterson, a tax law specialist, gives hard numbers on the cost of slavery
· Shelby Steele tackles the hot-button subject of victimization
· Christopher Hitchens takes on the loudest opponent of compensating slavery’s descendants to explain why this debt is not easily canceled
The book also features full transcripts of important documents, including the First Congressional Reparations Bill of 1867 and the Dakar Declaration of 2001. Encouraging further dialogue on a subject of national impact and global implications, SHOULD AMERICA PAY? is an indispensable and empowering sourcebook.
About the Editor
Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D., is the director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University. He has taught at Oakwood College, Alabama A&M, Vanderbilt University, and Fisk University. He is the recipient of numerous grants, including one from the Kellogg Foundation to establish a “National Dialogue on Race,” and is on the editorial board of The Journal of Black Studies. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.


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