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Popularity of Reparations for Slavery Growing
NewsMax.com Wires
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2001
CHICAGO (UPI) � The sign in front of Christ Apostolic Church reads: "Black
Reparations Now."
The church is in Woodlawn, a neighborhood on the South Side where you don't want to
be after the sun sets. Woodlawn is littered by vacant lots and pockets of poverty,
crime, unemployment and despair decades after the hopeful optimism of the '60s civil
rights era faded into broken dreams in this part of town.
"It's starting here," said Dr. Leon Finney, national co-chair of the National
Reparations Convention, which met Feb. 1-4 at the McCormick Place Exposition Center.
The veteran community organizer and other leaders want to see the reparations issue
become more mainstream.
"This movement is a worldwide movement. It is not a new movement. This is an old
movement. It is as old as slavery," Finney said.
Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman, organizer of the weekend convention, said
reparations for slavery is the movement of the millennium.
Tillman, who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., sponsored City Council hearings
last year that led Chicago in May to pass a resolution supporting reparations for the
descendants of black slaves. Mayor Richard M. Dal
ey gave the issue his support.
"It's not becoming a movement. It is a movement," Tillman told United Press
International. "It is all over this country and the shocking thing about it is it is
not just a black movement. She said white students at the Un
iversity of Illinois-Chicago were doing research for reparations groups.
"It's a movement that's much greater. It's going to surprise some folks. � We have
representation from all over this country."
Saturday morning's opening convention session was broadcast live on WVON-AM, a
black-oriented talk radio station.
LeGrand Cleggh, city attorney for Compton, Calif., said he and Chicago attorney Lewis
Meyers were doing legal research on every aspect of reparations.
"Large numbers of white men impregnated black women during slavery and abandoned their
children. Now that's child support," said Cleggh, "whole generations who were never
cared for." Compton last year passed a reparations
resolution patterned after Chicago's.
About 80 organizers from around the nation met in closed session Sunday to develop
plans to mobilize black communities and to forge a common reparations agenda.
Advocates, notably NCOBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in
America, the National Black United Front and the Republic of New Afrika, want
trillions of dollars for the hundreds of years of free labor the
ir ancestors provided and degradation they suffered. Some favor a lump-sum, while
others say reparations are about more than money and should be part of initiatives to
improve education, economic development, employment a
nd housing.
"Reparations have got to mean we take responsibility for ourselves," Finney said.
Tillman did not discuss what form reparations should take or put a dollar figure on
the cost.
"We have every region represented here," Tillman said. "We think we will be able to
present to this government, to this country, a plan for reparations.
"There several schools of thought out here. There are people like [historian] Dr.
Lerone Bennett who think we should have a Marshall Plan � and there others who think
maybe we need money, others who think land, others say
education, others who say 'give us a ticket out of here.' So there's all kind of
thought. When you deal with a Marshall Plan you almost deal with all those things
people are talking about."
Gen. George Marshall became U.S. secretary of state and in 1947 put together an
economic plan to rebuild a Europe devastated by World War II. The United States sent
about $13 billion in development aid, food and machinery
to Europe before the plan ended in 1952.
Tillman said the free labor of blacks had built America.
"Had it not been for slaves, had it not been for my ancestors, people would not be
coming to America," she said. "Black labor, white wealth."
She said the conference also discussed the whole psychological effect of slavery �
"post-traumatic slavery syndrome" � affecting both blacks and whites.
"We can move this issue of reparations to the forefront," said Rep. Bobby Rush,
D-Ill., a former Black Panther leader and now a Baptist minister and U.S. congressman.
"The reparations movement is a campaign for African-Am
ericans that emerged 100 years ago when the newly freed slaves cried out for
restitution for centuries of stolen labor, cultural degradation and dehumanization."
Rush said there are precedents for reparations, citing Germany's restitution to Jewish
victims of the Nazi Holocaust and to slave laborers, and Australia's land grants to
indigenous aborigines in 1976. In 1988, Japanese-A
mericans received $25,000 apiece and an apology from the U.S. government for their
internment during World War II.
"So this isn't anything new. This is past historical precedent," he said.
Rush said reparations debates must move beyond academia and the halls of Congress,
where Rep. John Conyers for years has sponsored a measure seeking national reparations
hearings.
"This reparations movement has to move into our churches, to our barber shops, to our
beauty shops. This reparations movement has to move into the agendas of everyday
ordinary people," Rush said.
NCOBRA spokeswoman Erline Aripo said activists were preparing a class-action lawsuit
for reparations against the federal government that would address the racial
discrimination that persists today. Possible litigation wil
l be discussed at the group's 12th Annual Reparations Convention June 22-24 at
Southern University in Baton Rouge, La.
A poll on the About.com Web site shows only 13 percent of 5,778 people who responded
support reparations for slavery while 86 percent did not and 1 percent were
undecided.
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