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	African American Culture - Reparations for African American Slavery
		The offering of reparations is an acknowledgment of responsibility, and an attempt to correct the wrongs of the past, as well as an attempt to repair the damage of the wrongs of the past.
		Reparations are provided as an acknowledgment of responsibility for wrongdoing, and a partial effort to repair the damage resulting from the wrongdoing.
		The theory concerning reparations is the effects of slavery are still with us today, and a significant factor in the problems African Americans face in many aspects of their lives.
	www.straightblack.com /culture/African-American-Articles/African-American-Slavery-Reparations.html (2520 words)

	Reparations for slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reparations for slavery is a proposal in the U.S. for the federal government to pay reparation, in various forms, to slave descendants for the transatlantic slave trade.
		In December of 2005, a boycott was called by a coalition of reparations groups under the sponsorship of the Restitution Study Group.
		It has been argued that reparations for slavery cannot be justified on the basis that slave descendants are subjectively worse off as a result of slavery, because it has been suggested that they are better off than they would have been in Africa if the slave trade had never happened.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reparations_for_slavery (1673 words)

	Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slavery is the social and legal designation of specific persons as property, for the purpose of providing labor and services for the owner without the right of the slave to refuse, or gain compensation.
		The legal designation of slavery is rare, as most societies consider slavery to be illegal, and persons held as in such condition are considered by authorities to be victims of unlawful imprisonment.
		Slavery can be traced to the earliest records, such as the Code of Hammurabi, which refers to slavery as an already established institution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slavery (5719 words)

	Reparations for Slavery? It's an Old Idea
		According to Horowitz, the idea of reparations is "a fringe proposition favored by the political extreme," which bases its demands for restitution on "racist ideas that are inconsistent with America's democratic principles and institutions." His arguments have been widely circulated and, except on college campuses and among reparations activists, relatively well received.
		Reparations for slavery is one of a handful of issues at the heart of America's contemporary racial divide.
		Whites must stop viewing reparations as a notion from the lunatic fringe and set aside their deep-seated individualism and perceived economic self-interest, which prevents them from discussing slavery's continuing effect and the possible link between reparations and shared American ideals.
	www.hnn.us /articles/6393.html (1171 words)

	MPR: The Case for Slavery Reparations
		Within the next year, lawsuits seeking reparations for descendants of slaves are expected be filed against the government and other institutions that benefited from slavery.
		In 1994, the Florida Legislature approved $7 million in reparations for victims and descendents of victims of a 1923 attack, in which eight fls were killed in Rosewood, Florida by a white mob.
		Reparations proponents say ignorance, apathy and denial, have prevented an apology and will be an obstacle to reparations.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/200011/13_williamsb_reparations (1870 words)

	Hank Roth - Reparations for Slavery
		Part of the legacy of slavery, is the destruction of whole cultures and languages of Indians and Blacks and poor descendents of indentured servants and share croppers.
		Yes, I am for reparations, but reparations which would extend to all the oppressed and exploited to be paid in full by all the exploitors and the oppressors.
		Slavery was accorded a special accomodation in our Constitution wherein slaves were calculated as 3/5s for the purpose of apportionment and representation and it was further accomodated with the Slave Act which for 20 years thereafter by law required that run-away slaves be returned to their masters.
	www.pnews.org /art/2art/REParations.shtml (2292 words)

	Paying reparations for slavery: Merits expose historical implications of race in the United States
		WASHINGTON, DC -- While reparations for slavery in America remains a remote dream of activists to be settled by politics, it is an interesting topic to examine in order to shed light on how racial differences emerged and persist in America.
		The reparations debate has recently resurfaced--stemming from the precedents of reparations to Japanese Americans for internment during World War II and for Holocaust victims for lost bank accounts.
		Most approaches for computing the amount of reparations are based on the assumption that they are payment for back wages for slave labor.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-08/asa-prf080902.php (780 words)

	Reparations for Slavery? - The World and I Magazine
		The debate over an apology for slavery, needless to say, does not involve anyone who argues that slavery was, in any way, a worthy or defensible institution.
		Professor Thomas Sowell calls an apology for slavery "mindless mush." He writes: "First of all, slavery is not something like stepping on someone's toe accidentally, where you can say excuse me." If the people who actually enslaved their fellow human beings were alive today, hanging would be too good for them.
		In the 1950s and '60s, the reparations movement was manifested as the Republic of New Africa and led by the likes of Audley "Queen Mother" Moore and the former fugitive Robert Wil1iams.
	www.worldandi.com /public/2000/april/repcon.html (1651 words)

	General Synod XXIII Resolutions: Call for study on reparations for slavery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was noted that awareness and discussion of this issue occurs almost exclusively among African American clergy and those churches they serve, but it is also a justice issue long overdue for the serious attention of Christian citizens motivated by faith and tradition.
		Whereas the principle that reparation is the appropriate remedy whenever a government unjustly abrogates the rights of a domestic group or foreign people whose rights such government is obligated to protect or uphold has been internationally recognized including:
		Be it further resolved that the Twenty-third General Synod calls upon its General Minister and President, John Thomas, and other United Church of Christ leaders to be in dialogue with leaders of other Christian denominations, other faith groups, and leaders and activists in the secular community to raise this issue at every opportunity.
	www.ucc.org /synod/resolutions/res20.htm (591 words)

	Congressman John Conyers, Jr. Major Issues - Reparations Page
		It is a fact that slavery flourished in the United States and constituted an immoral and inhumane deprivation of African slaves' lives, liberty and cultural heritage.
		But reparation is a national and a global issue, which should be addressed in America and in the world.
		Though there is historical cognition for reparations and it is a term that is fairly well known in the international body politic, the question of reparations for African Americans remains unresolved.
	www.house.gov /conyers/news_reparations.htm (1153 words)

	Slavery, reparations for: Debatabase - Debate Topics and Debate Motions
		Slavery is the use or the threat of violence to make another do work without compensation, and usually involves the ownership of one person by another.
		However, this article covers the USA debate on compensation for historic slavery, as it is the one that is held and discussed most frequently, and because the level of support for reparations is high enough there for it to be a possibility.
		Slavery was the state-sanctioned and enforced objectification and abuse of a part of humanity based on the colour of their skin â“ thatâs unique in US history.
	www.idebate.org /debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=496 (2456 words)

	All Things Deep - Articles - The Call For Reparations Reaches A New Level
		The struggle for slavery reparations entered a new phase on March 26, when attorney Deadria Farmer-Paellmann filed a lawsuit against Aetna, CSX and FleetBoston, corporations she accuses of profiting from the slave trade.
		Stating that the companies were "unjustly enriched" in numerous ways by slavery, "an immoral and inhumane deprivation of Africans' life, liberty, African citizenship rights, cultural heritage and the fruits of their own labor," this is likely the first of several legal actions intended to achieve compensation for the descendants of slaves.
		They are quick to list a number of reasons as to why reparations should not be considered, ranging from the aforementioned sense that too much time has passed to the difficulty of proving that someone was a descendant of a slave to fears that they will stimulate racial conflict.
	www.allthingsdeep.com /articles/reparations_lawsuit.htm (718 words)

	Would Reparations for Slavery Be Just? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Given the tendentious connection with slavery in the named companies, almost every American corporation is a target of opportunity for such lawsuits.
		Jackson, of course, would play the better part of justice by demanding reparations from the descendants of African slave traders, who were the first link in the chain that became American slavery.
		Reparations, like affirmative action quotas and racial set-asides, only exacerbate racial issues and detract from a genuine understanding of equal opportunity.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/5/9/114850.shtml (848 words)

	Reparations for Slavery
		Reparations advocates, however, want today's fls to be compensated for the suffering of our ancestors.
		Incidentally, President Clinton apologizing for slavery in Africa, of all places, is stupid - apologizing to descendants of slave traders for slavery in America.
		Had there not been slavery, and today's fls were born in Africa instead of the U.S., we'd be living in the same poverty that today's Africans live in and under the same brutal regimes.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/wew/articles/00/reparations.html (485 words)

	Reparations for Slavery Essays and Articles at eNotes
		Slavery was permitted by law in the southern United States from the era of British colonial rule in the seventeenth century until the surrender of the Confederate secessionists following the Civil War (1861– 65).
		Reparations are the means by which governments and corporations make restitution—typically in cash payments—to individuals who have suffered wrongful harm as a result of negligent laws and actions.
		Many reparations activists address the ostensible unfairness of such a sizable transfer of wealth by arguing that the historical injustice of slavery cannot be viewed separately from the current plight of African Americans, who are still affected by the legacy of slavery and the decades of institutionalized racism that followed the Civil War.
	www.enotes.com /reparations-slavery-article (2590 words)

	Hank Roth - Reparations for Slavery
		Part of the legacy of slavery, is the destruction of whole cultures and languages of Indians and Blacks and poor descendents of indentured servants and share croppers.
		Yes, I am for reparations, but reparations which would extend to all the oppressed and exploited to be paid in full by all the exploitors and the oppressors.
		Slavery was accorded a special accomodation in our Constitution wherein slaves were calculated as 3/5s for the purpose of apportionment and representation and it was further accomodated with the Slave Act which for 20 years thereafter by law required that run-away slaves be returned to their masters.
	pnews.org /art/2art/REParations.shtml (2292 words)

	Reparations for Slavery, African-Americans, Blacks, slaves
		Reparations for the slavery is not a new idea.
		Reparations would be too expensive, depriving the country of the opportunity to fix the Social Security and Medicare systems and meet other budget needs that benefit all Americans.
		While it is unclear whether those advocating reparations for slavery ever will be successful, it is likely the debate will go on.
	www.crf-usa.org /brown50th/reparation_reading.htm (1429 words)

	Reparations for Slavery, Main Page.
		When author David Horowitz tried to run an ad in college papers titled "10 Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea -- and Racist Too" many colleges refused the ad; others had all their newspapers stolen from stands.
		Slavery reparations are not similarly targeted toward the immediate victims.
		It often descends into an ugly struggle for public resources, recognition, recrimination, and moral status among people who have already suffered enough and who should be the last to view injustice as a zero-sum game.
	www.adversity.net /reparations/reparations_for_reverse_discrimination.htm (1634 words)

	Coyote Blog: Reparations for Slavery
		Groups like the NAACP are actively pursuing claims for compensation from both corporations and governments for slavery in the United States 140 or more years ago (that's 7+ generations in the past).
		Jul 13, 2005 9:28:58 PM Not to mention that, since Africa is the only place on Earth where slavery is still openly practiced, and the folks who enslaved their ancestors were just as fl and just as African as the victims were, it should be pretty easy to make a defensive case.
		Jul 14, 2005 2:50:34 PM I'd like reparations for having been subjected to public schools, for the slavery of paying into social security, and for the fact that I wasn't elected Pope.
	www.coyoteblog.com /coyote_blog/2005/07/reparations_for.html (2793 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Church of Reparations by Mark D. Tooley
		At least the Episcopal proposal seems to focus on church reparations to the descendants of slaves. Other mainline denominations have endorsed government reparations for slavery.
		But the website admits that a 2003 poll of Presbyterians revealed that 85 percent of church members and 68 percent of pastors oppose federal government reparations for the descendants of slaves. Seven percent supported reparations for descendants of African slaves, while 4 percent supported reparations for the other victim groups.
		Slavery was endemic to every culture at some point.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22208 (672 words)

	IRC: Resources on Reparations to slave descendents (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The goal of The National Commission For Reparations is to start a new chapter in American life through healing brought about by an equitable accounting of the true debt owed to the descendants of those who paid with their sweat and lives.
		The Reparations Campaign, for Black people in the United States, emerged more than one hundred years ago as the U.S. Federal Government was trying to survive the ravages of warfare among it's citizen.
		The issue of reparations for African people throughout the world has become a widely discussed topic that is manifesting itself into a variety of action plans and strategies.
	www.asu.edu /provost/intergroup/resources/reparations.html (951 words)

	Reparations for Slavery: Strategies and Tactics
		said it's a question of tactics and strategy because the target of the reparations movement is not everyday white workers, but the government, along with corporations and banks that profited from slavery and the slave trade.
		He maintains that opponents of the reparations movement are seeking to offset any unity around reparations by creating a contradiction between working-class people.
		The central issue of reparations is not whether reparations are justly due to fls or justly owed by whites.
	www.cofcc.org /foundation/reparations.htm (2526 words)

	Reparations and Slavery « The Proletarian
		Reparations were paid to Japanese Americans as partial compensation for their mistreatment during WWII, but equally important and of lasting significance to all of us was the disbursement of public monies to help set the record straight, helping create a few educational films.
		reparations for “descendants” of slaves is a horrible idea to begin with, but if whites ever agree to it, the reparations must be used to create jobs, build schools and erect police departments in fl neighborhoods.
		slavery was bad, of course, but there’s no use to keep debating over it to the point that fls can’t think about anything else.
	ecarson.wordpress.com /2007/12/22/reparations-and-slavery (1984 words)

	Ex-Black Panther Sues Bush, Pope, Elizabeth II over Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brown added that "Slavery was and is an illegal criminal enterprise," a point that is clearly not true; slavery is certainly immoral, wrong, horrific and heinous - but it was, unfortunately, legal in the South at the time.
		Slavery and the War of Northern Aggression ended over 100 years before I was born, and I'll be damned if I give 1 penny to these leeches.
		A condition of any reparations payment should be that anyone accepting such payment must agree to repatriate to the African country of their choice, or of their origin, if known.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1053976/posts (2671 words)

	Slavery Apology Equals Image, Not Reparations
		Reparations for slavery is a movement that suggests that government apologize to slave descendants for their hardships, and that America owes a debt for enslavement and segregation of African-Americans.
		The first wave, was a broad coalition of white and fl activists seeking to use reparations to not only complete the emancipation of slaves but also to engage in compensatory justice by tying the award of property to freed slaves to the disenfranchisement of the former slave owners.
		This case sought acknowledgment of the injustices of slavery and Jim Crow oppression, in addition to an official apology from the U.S. government.
	www.speakinoutnews.info /050207_Slaverynotreparations.html (882 words)

	Millions for Reparations \| Home
		We're convinced that this is the year to push as broadly as humanly possible the demand for reparations.
		Malcolm X on reparations: "If you are the son of a man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your father's estate, you have to pay off the debts that your father incurred before he died.
		Join us for a program on reparations with an update on the reparations law suit by Roger Wareham and presentations on proposed laws forcing corporations which want to do business with NYC to disclose their ties to slavery by Bill Perkins and Charles Barron.
	www.millionsforreparations.com (1589 words)

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