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... Yes, of course Could Reparations Help Close the American Racial Divide? The racial divide continues to plague America. It is well worth spending a large amount of funds—if it can finally be healed Specific suggestions for reparations tend to involve large sums of money being allocated to...

... In the Spirit of Sankofa, (March 25th, 2008 - first year) International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade The United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 62/122 on December 17, 2007...

... :facepalm: Tucker Carlson: Host laughs with guest after he suggests black people ‘need to move on’ from slavery https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-fox-news-host-145504129.html Chelsea Ritschel The Independent

The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved cargo from the West Coast of Africa. The arrival of the ship was reported by colonist John Rolfe who wrote...

I ran across this book on the internet, read some snippets and found it very interesting. The entire book isn't at the link but what I found there is still good reading. Thought you might also find it interesting...

"You cannot blame the people who bought you and not blame the people that sold you." Do you agree or disagree with the video? Or, maybe it doesn't matter to you. What do you think about this information?

... Well said Condoleezza ... You go gurl:bellydance: In the Spirit of Sankofa, Condoleezza Rice says America was born with a birth defect: slavery Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice compared slavery to a birth defect on Sunday. "We forget in the United States how long it has taken...

:whistling:Congress rejects Obama, when he blocks white people from getting reparations from the Saudis, yet he wouldn't even be able to get the words slave reparations out of his mouth...........:em3700: https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-rejects-obama-veto-saudi-sept-11-bill-163532773.html...

In the Spirit of the Cement Jungle, These facts about prisons will scare you President Obama spoke out against mass incarceration recently, but it’s hard to fathom that even a voice as loud as the president’s can keep people away from the greatest source of profitable labor since slavery...

In the Spirit of Justice or Else, Ta-Nehisi Coates: “For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm” On Monday night, the Atlantic published Ta-Nehisi Coates's "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration." The article, the longest the magazine has run in a decade, limns...

In the Spirit of Sankofa, Racism Literally Costs America $2 Trillion...Ready to Stop Payment? ... A more complete accounting of the toll taken by race-based chauvinism has arrived in the form of a W.K. Kellogg Foundation study that shows fallout from racism slashing the country's wealth...