Some of the money is in reparations which have STILL not been paid to
the families of  former slaves.  

 

Reparations  (small though they are) have been paid to some of the
interned Japanese.  Some effort (not really very much effort) has been
expended to return artworks and other property stolen by the Nazi.
Bayer, VW and some Swiss banks have been pestered about returning money,
paying off insurance  policies, paying wages to WW II slave laborers.
Korea and China have sought reparations from the Japanese for torture
and for sex slavery.  American Indians have, at least, been given tiny
bits of land and some competitive advantages.  

 

What is it that makes it so, so difficult for the US to pay reparations
to the families of former slaves?  

 

Why do we imprison so many Black men?  Why are their sentences harsher
and  longer?

 

Last week I watched "Banished" on PBS.  It was the story of two Black
families trying to get the land they lost to ethnic cleansing back.
They weren't successful.

 

Why was the US doing ethnic cleansing of Blacks at the turn of the 20th
Century?

 

Why have there been so many lynchings, murders and rapes of Blacks?   

 

Why is it for more than 400 years, the US has brutalized Black men,
women and children at nearly every turn?

 

 

 

Michael Tate

 

 

 

From: povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Andrea Wilder
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 3:40 PM
To: The Poverty, Race,Women and Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 1662] Re: Comments about oppression

 

OK, so racism is an ideology based on the spurious concept of race, that
attaches negative attributes to those defined by "race." Under these
negative attributes is greed--those on the other side gain financially
through the ideology of racism. --I have to put money in here, it is my
practice to ask, when a contentious issue rises its head, "Where is the
money in this problem?" OK, then why do we not enclose this spurious
concept in quotation marks to designate it as spurious? 

 

Andrea 

 

On Feb 22, 2008, at 6:05 PM, margery freeman wrote: 

	 

	In the work I do with The People's Institute, Andrea, we define
race historically.  We say that race is a specious (looking true but
actually false) classification of human beings created by Europeans and
white Americans in the 16th-18th centuries, that uses the notion of
"white" as the model of humanity, in order to establish and maintain
power.  Racism is the ideology, or belief system, based on race. 

	This isn't the way race is used in every day speech, but it does
help us understand how we've all been played. 

	Margery 

	 

	Andrea Wilder <andreawilder at comcast.net> wrote: 

		OK, many have tossed the word RACE around. Everyone
abhors RACISM. 

		Now--can we please define RACE? Please? Otherwise, I do
feel that 

		this conversation will dissolve like fog under the sun,
snow under road 

		salt, or whatever metaphor is appropriate. 

		 

		Andrea 

		 

		On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Dr. Kathleen P. King wrote:


		 

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		> Wonderful articulation fo the complexity of these
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