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I want to thank our forever congress Woman Corey Bush.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Corey Bush, we love you.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
We would not be here if not for your leadership,
your brave leadership in the face of so many obstacles
people do not know about, and you carried it because
it's what matters for our people. It is with that
spirit that I offer the benediction. We are gathered here
today on what is effectively the eve of Malcolm X's
one hundredth birthday. As we make our call for reparations now,
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we do so by also embracing the ancestral power and
mandate embedded in Malcolm X's legacy and less than forty
years of life, he became one of the most well
known advocates for civil rights and racial justice and the
time of great division and need, Malcolm X's legacy is
pregnant with insight and pathways toward truth, unity and repair
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amids this many calls to action, and Malcolm X wants
to clear quote this same generation of whites also must
recognize that's incurred by the former generations of whites to
your and my forefather's infote to be sure x was
an early reparations proponent, in many of the folks grappling
with the idea of reparations today turned to his legacy
and life or inspiration and reparations absence.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Systemic racism, and systemic.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Inequality have become so entrenched in the premise of the
United States of America that even the combination of executive orders,
military orders, and constitutional amendments have proven an inadequate adversary.
Yet when the word and debates about reparations come up now,
it is undoubtedly not about the fact of systemic sub
human bondage or lynching. Instead, it invariably becomes a debate
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about money. Questions about who should be paid, why they
should be paid, how much should they be paid, round out.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
The usual debate. But what if those are the wrong
questions centered around a false premise.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Bubbling just beneath the surface of the reparation's debate is
a real, though and unspoken fear and worry, a worry
that drudging up the past threatens the three thinly braided
fabrics woven to hold all the quilt panels called the
United States of America together. Many of the fears tend
to em anda from presuming pathologies and dysfunctions believed in
fed about black people.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
How will they spend the money? What will they buy?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Even when coming from an innocent perspective, these questions treat
money as one dimensional rather than the multifaceted object it is.
Speaker 22 (15:29):
Money is time, money is currency, money is wealth, money
is access, money is energy, money is memory, money is history,
money is repairing, money is recovery.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Money is respect. Shout out to Marepa Franklin. Money is dignity,
Money is truth, money is healing, money is restoration, money
is power. Money, money is presence.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
We us are present now. Those of us alive now, from.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
All walks of life, have earned the rights to live
in a nation where reparations for slavery are commonplace and
happening now. Reparations because America has a poverty, property reparations
because America has a criminal justice problem. Reparations because the
wealth and achievement gaps are detrimental and preventable. Reparations because
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George Floyd, Brehanna Taylor, and Tony McDade should be alive.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Reparations because Tulsa's Black wall streets should not only still
be standard, it should be.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
A thriving you can and blueprint for joy and wealth, possibilities,
reparations because the black community should be thriving, not merely
surviving reparations, because our very nation's soul desperately needs a
healing ever more, as.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Malcolm Mexis still be experienced in nineteen sixty four quote,
if you.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull
it out six inches.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
There's no progress.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress.
The progress is healing the wound that the blow names headpot.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
It is this heal, this repair, that we must turn
to in order to progress to a more perfect union.
Through politics, education, law, finances, social contracts, space and spirituality,
we can develop an inclusive, holistic reparations process.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
To do this, we need elected officials across.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
The gamut that we are seeing blueprinting here by these
beautiful black women leaders to help develop an inclusive idea
of how it can lift up people.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
From all white walks of life and join with us
in our community to lift up our voices.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Together, we must remember that repair and healing are always
a net benefit to any society, and Malcolm X's legacy
is a foundation upon which we can be guided by our.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Commentary and achieved dignity for all Now the universal law
all that you are, pale, you heal, All that you heal,
heals you. The only lasting truth is love. God is Love.
God blessed the nerd to thank you all.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So much for our love.
Speaker 23 (18:18):
Thank you all.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
This about if our professional leaders for you.
Speaker 24 (18:20):
In Yeah, these leaders at ABC News with Republicans being
in leadership this go around, which is a different from
the last session that the bills were introduced, how has
that changed your strategy going forward with introducing the bills
and also trying to get support.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I don't think.
Speaker 20 (18:43):
I don't think that the opposition of this bill is
one party and leadership or another. As you see have
been fighting in and out of majorities and and out
of minorities and out of administrations. So our strategy to
that end remains the same because the opposition to our
operations as the institution itself fighting back and it's why
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it's so important that we move it from all angles.
Uh So, whether or not as Donald Trump or whoever
comes after him in office, and we would love for
us to not have to wait for who comes after
him and in office, our strategy is going to continue
to educate, is going to uh, We're going to continue
to organize. We're going to continue to whether it be
locality by locality, district by districts, continue to build up
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the army of folks who we need to speak truth,
the power and really demands with us that which we
are o and.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
What is due to us.
Speaker 23 (19:37):
Yea, you know was mentioned, I believe in New York
as well as as far as some of the reparation
discussions have been brought up Astarn bringing up commissions studies,
both of them started.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
To camp down as for now, but some of the.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
New questions that had been on up has been exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
What does your resolution really aim for?
Speaker 10 (20:05):
Is it that Black Americans of a certain economic level
are they being target Is it everyone?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It doesn't.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Basically, it doesn't matter as to what economic level.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
It's pretty much all black Americans. What about those individuals
of any race that have a lineage going back to
slave America, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 20 (20:27):
So to be very clear, whether or not a black America,
a black American and a black descendant of American cattle
slavery were able to break into the middle class. Uh,
they are still and they were able to do that
despite the harms, despite the past and justices done to them.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
So they are not excluded from the reparation and the
remedies they're in.
Speaker 20 (20:47):
When we think about who traces their lineage back, that
is again a debate that is used to try to
salance the rest of this movement. It's a distraction tactic.
Speaker 25 (20:57):
Because what we want to do is is instead of
focus on again what the system did, who did it,
and what the impact of it was, we'd rather get
bront down and well, should they make twenty five.
Speaker 20 (21:09):
Dollars an hour or should they be paid the lower
a living ways right? Should they have been educated or
if they're educated without this college, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
They're black.
Speaker 20 (21:18):
If they are black and their descendants of slaves, then
they were directly in the lineage of harm. If they
are descending of jim p Gimper policies in this country,
they are the direct descentives and current living recipients of
that harm.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
If they are living today, then.
Speaker 20 (21:35):
We are still homed by inequtable funding schemes of public schools.
We're still homes by being black and brown or poor
and living narrow to environmental hazards all over this country.
If you are black in this country right now, you
are still less likely to be able to acquire a loan.
The interest rates are still higher for black folks who
are attempting to buy homes or go to school. We
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are still discriminative because of our here, because of names.
When we go to get jobs, even as executive orders
have been eroded that would I'm protected against those things.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
So that's what we want to focus on. And that's
precisely with this resolution.
Speaker 26 (22:09):
Does UH.
Speaker 20 (22:10):
This resolution also directly demands passage of HR forty because
we recognize that a concert we are attempting to holistically
address the homes.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
That have been done about betteral government action in this country.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
You have work.
Speaker 27 (22:36):
I just want to add one thing that that fire
that you just received was was was all that all
that was needed for this, But I want to add
one thing about how this is always thrown at Black Americans.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
To figure this out.
Speaker 27 (22:50):
The US government has a moral and legal obligation to
repair the harm. It's about what the perpetrator did and
not who it was committed upon, or it's not so
it's our value, you know, are we being value?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Are we being?
Speaker 27 (23:05):
Is the US government acknowledging the harm, and so it
should not be the person that committed the harm. You
know that they get off as long as the person
that received the harm, as long as that.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Wound looks like a deal. Oh now I get away
for I don't have to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
No, you get it.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
And the other thing is this.
Speaker 27 (23:23):
Republicans and I'm going to say Republicans because generally that's
where it comes from.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
But they love to call law and order. They love
to say that. You know, it's it's the rule of
law and and and if you get it, and you've
got to own up to the climb, and you've got
to be punished and all of these things. Well, we
know what the US did.
Speaker 28 (23:41):
Let's read this, Read this bill, Read this up resolution.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
It tells you what the government did.
Speaker 27 (23:46):
And what the government has not done to repair the
harm to black folks in this country. And so because
of that, we're not demanding it because people may not
have enough money in their bank accounts. We're demanding it
because of the ree reason why we are in the
state we're in, and we.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Don't want our legacy. We don't want our.
Speaker 27 (24:04):
Children's children to have to walk through that very same
thing when this country has the money to spend the
money to give, Because if we can give billions of
dollars so war profiteers, we can give billions of dollars
to drop bombs on babies and to anohilate whole, the
whole family legacies, if we have the money to do that,
if we have the money to give all across the
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world to harm other people, this country needs to fix what.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
It broke many years ago.
Speaker 13 (24:53):
Now I associate myself and I do just want to
say that, just to make that point that everyone Democrat
Republican has been a perpetrator or complicit in the policy
harm and neglect done to black people. It has never
been an indiscriminate part. It has been a precise and
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intentional harm. And so that is exactly why we need
to be race conscious and race specific in the work
and the reparative work of restitution and redress.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
So this is not about Democratic Republican. This is not black, white,
brown Asian.
Speaker 13 (25:31):
This is about right and wrong, good and evil, and
are you a person of conscience? But the last thing
I will say to the Democratic To my Democratic colleagues
is that while we see that there are those that
move as if the work of liberation is either on
trend or off, and people that said they were a
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part of a so called racial reckoning or nowhere to
be found in this moment that the headlines have faded,
and so too has their commit to do this work.
To Democrats, I want to say, it is not enough
for us to simply say we ain't them.
Speaker 27 (26:11):
This is an opportunity and a moment to affirm exactly
who we are as people are conscience.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
And you know, there's a lot of conflicting analysis and
punditry about why we find ourselves in the moment we
are in now and why Donald Trump it has a
second occupancy in the White House. I believe that people
have sent a message that what they want our leaders
that are freely so unapologetic advancing policies that go as
far and as deep as the whole.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
So we need to do this with reparations.
Speaker 29 (26:49):
I am so grateful to my sister Corey Bush for
introducing reparations now resolution and again people matter, their hazard
like shrugging and everything, she didn't care. She kept moving
and so inspired by the fact that kind of someone,
Summer Lee is taking on the torch and carrying this
very important legislation.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Thank you both for your incredible leadership on this.
Speaker 29 (27:10):
Of course, I stand here before you as a congresswoman
for the most beautiful, blackest city in the country, the
city of Detroit. To say that reparations are not reparations
is not a radical idea. We've been talking about it forever.
We've been seeing it from.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
The rooftops, talking to urban farmers to everyone.
Speaker 29 (27:30):
From saying if you're not going to we're going to
find ways and pathways to try to again heal.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
The harm and the hurt of many of my family
members and my community and the detraders.
Speaker 29 (27:41):
Know that it is a debt that our nation owes
in a true acknowledgement of the pain and the trauma
and the harm afflicted on generations of many of our
black neighbors. Reparations are not a necessary step towards true
equity and our country and a more just future. There
is an opportunity for Congress to confront our nation's racist
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history of slavery and white supremacy.
Speaker 13 (28:05):
We must provide the descendants of enslaved black families operations
that they were promised.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
That's the thing that everything he's forgetting utaw early on.
Speaker 29 (28:15):
They were promised this, and they deserve to create a
pathway towards healing and justice.
Speaker 30 (28:20):
The path.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Towards justice has never been easy.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
We know that.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
It's like this institution we all know wasn't built for us.
But we have to on the outside move them.
Speaker 29 (28:32):
It's just like we always have to on every single
thing parting our children, our communities, our health, and so
much more.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
But we must remember it is never in vain.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
We Congress must act.
Speaker 29 (28:42):
To confront these uncomfortable truths and right the wrongs of
our country's history. Our country, as you know, has been
built by many of our black families and communities for centuries.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Many have endured the.
Speaker 29 (28:57):
Brutality of slavery, the violence of voice pharmacy, the deed
humanization of Jim Crow, which is still inadverable, still very
evident in auto insurance and housing insurance. And no, it's so,
it's everywhere in housing and everything.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
No, it's true. I see it every day in my community.
Speaker 29 (29:19):
And the systemic racism that has left lasting impact on
lives of our neighbors.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
The fact that Black mothers are still not believed and
they say they're in pain in the hospital. Has so
much against systems that have been placed there that are
killing many of our black neighbors.
Speaker 29 (29:33):
The FED, our government has played a central role. You
heard it from many of my sisters here, and I
am simply I'm not simply talking about depths of the
past here, but the social and economic policies that built
middle class in twentieth century, like social security, but our
housing policy is often excluded at the time Black families
and communities are called, and again we saw it, it
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was more difficult to access quality education is still is
again built on the systemic racism that we continue to
see in policy. By providing reparations for many of my families,
we can begin to address the racial wealth.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Gap in the decades of decades.
Speaker 29 (30:11):
Of disinvestment in communities like mine and dismantled the racist
systems that have held back many of our neighbors and
resulted in so much stuff. We know that true healing
cannot occur without acknowledging that pain and reparations is necessary.
I'm proud to be from a community that understands that
the community mothers that helped raise me, continue to always
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remind me again, you know we don't wait.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
We always talk about that they will never understand. It's
almost like I remember when community mothers like, oh, he
don't get it. Let's keep going.
Speaker 29 (30:45):
But I would like to share a quote I like
to always bring a little bit of my district in
from a resident, Lauren Hood. She's a friend in the
City of Detroit's former reparations task Force chair. She said, quote,
for it to be holistic reparation, it needs to be
an acknowledgment of the harm, some form of redress, and
insurance that it won't happen again. And again, what we
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heard today is just with the stroke of a pen,
we are seeing the current administration dismantled even the small
little trinkets of crumbs of protection they provided our families.
And again, we need to make sure that it's not
only reparations, but that it leads to more real, true
policy change that again.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Protects our families. But again, thank you to my sisters.
It's always so wonderful to be with all of you
truth tellers.
Speaker 29 (31:36):
And again it's wonderful to be at home in this
Congress that just really is just chips at your soul,
but thank.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
You, but thank you for restoring me today.
Speaker 16 (31:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
With respect to Tom.
Speaker 16 (31:56):
I want to.
Speaker 20 (31:57):
Introduce some of our advocates, of our advocates in our polalition,
one of the leaders of this movement.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
That's work. I want to bring Gudriess Heath.
Speaker 20 (32:06):
As reparations try to Sheoose, the founder of why we
can't wait reparations coalitions and without further.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Really made it.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Good afternoon.
Speaker 31 (32:23):
I stand here today rounded in the unyielding spirit of
our ancestors, those who resisted unsurvivable conditions with dignity, who
built this nation stone by stone, and whose blood still
nourishes the soil beneath.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
This very capital.
Speaker 31 (32:44):
I honor them and I call on their strength in
this moment as we continue to push forward on our
fight for holistic heal I want to lift up and
thank our Congresswoman Summerly.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
For her bold and then wavering leadership.
Speaker 31 (33:00):
You continue to lead on labor rights, disability rights, community
development and infrastructure, on environmental justice, housing, education, voting rights.
Speaker 28 (33:14):
Corporate accountability, right, all the.
Speaker 31 (33:18):
Black things, all of our things, all of the people's things.
But I also thank you for understanding that this is
a moment we cannot pass on to restore our collective identity, dignity,
and to advanced repair. Thank you to my sister, former
and forever Congresswoman Corey Bush for your vision, for your
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steadfastnt for standing with and for movement.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Always appreciate you.
Speaker 31 (33:48):
And to condress Woman Nayana Pressley for standing unapologetically always
on the side of justice, on the side of memory,
and on the side of repair. Thank you. You all
are carrying the torch lit generations ago by people like
Belinda Sutton, Cali House, Pueen Mother Moore, and the countless
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unnamed freedom writers whose dreams of liberation still echo through
our demands.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Today.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
We are gathered not.
Speaker 31 (34:22):
Just in remembrance, but in resistance at a time when
forty four states have introduced legislation to ban the teaching
of anti black racism's role.
Speaker 28 (34:35):
In shaping this nation, At a time when black voters
are being.
Speaker 31 (34:39):
Disenfranchised, black property is still being stolen, black people are
being disappeared in displaced, and black people are being overpoliced, overworked, underpaid,
and overincarcerated.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
At a time when white supremacist ideology.
Speaker 31 (34:57):
Is not just tolerated, but per rated in the highest
halls of power.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
It is now that we must say clearly and without apology.
Speaker 31 (35:08):
Reparations are not a luxury or a charity. Reparations are illegal,
and we're all necessity. We are demanding justice here today
and for all our days.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
We are not asking to be included in an economy
on our backs.
Speaker 31 (35:27):
We are building and demanding repair for the extraction and
exploitation that has been the default.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Setting of this nation.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Let us be clear.
Speaker 32 (35:38):
Government routinely issues reparations at the federal level, and this
country has paid reparations to Japanese American families for force incarceration.
Speaker 31 (35:51):
And removing I appreciate law for standing with us today,
to white slave owners for their loss of property, to
hall Across survivors abroad, to veterans exposed to Agent Orange.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
To nine to eleven victims and their families.
Speaker 31 (36:10):
So why is it controversial to repair what has been
stolen from Black people?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Why is it so hard to recognize our.
Speaker 31 (36:18):
Full humanity to compensate in all necessary forms for centuries
of stolen labor land in life?
Speaker 27 (36:27):
To those who ask why now, we say, because we
are still being disappeared. Because from Tulsa to Tyree Nichols,
the legacy of racial violence continues to evolve, because, as
this Reparation's Now resolution declares, the exploitation of black people
has been the primary economic engine of this country and
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it must end. Reparations are how we begin to dismantle
racial factalism. They are how we move from punishment to possibility.
They are how we finish the unfinished project of a
just democracy.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
So those to those in power, you can't ban black
history and expect to bury our demand for justice inequity.
You can't erase us. We are still here. We ain't
going anywhere.
Speaker 16 (37:21):
We demand reparations, and we demand them.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
If you reach of the other and next stup. I
want to bring my sister in the.
Speaker 31 (37:37):
Movement, an og a fierce lifelong advocate for reparations, Mia Awatoki, into.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Solidarity.
Speaker 18 (37:50):
During World War Two, one hundred twenty thousand Americans of
Japanese Japanese of American ancestry no Americans of Japanese ancestry
were imprisoned in US concentration camps with no due process.
My mother was incarcerated in mansonar My dad was a
staff sergeant in the heroic one hundred and four to
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forty second Battalion, the Japanese American segregated unit that fought
for the US while their families were imprisoned in barbed
wire armguard concentration camps. Our families were torn apart, jobs, health, property, dignity,
and lives were lost. Reparations is more than a check.
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I hear people say they gave reparations to Japanese Americans.
The United States government did not give us anything. We
fought for reparations after our bill was finally introduced, it
took another ten years to pass. Then we had to
fight for appropriations and then help them locate the survivors.
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And through it all, the Congressional Black Caucus shared by
Mrvyn Diamley, our friend and mentor, supported Japanese American reparations
every step of the way. Many are now ancestors, but
I'd like to call out their names. Mervyn Diameley, Ron Dellams,
John Conyers, Julian Dixon, John Lewis, Nicki Leland, Harold Washington,
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and our own Secretary Norm Minetta, Bob Matsui, and Senators
Spark Matsunaga.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
And Dan Enore.
Speaker 18 (39:33):
In honor of those congressional ancestors, we look to the
Congressional Black Caucus today to again lead us in the
campaign for reparations, and not just the powerful sisters that
are here with us, but the one of Caucus. There
is a history of Japanese American Black solidarity. NICKI Progressives
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and NCR has roots in the movement of the sixties
and seventies. We were inspired by malcol Coms and Fred
Hampton and Martin Luther King marched in solidarity with a
Black Panthers Republic of New Africa brown Berets. NCRR campaign
for Reprecations was rooted in the principles of building solidarity
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and grassroots organizing.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Those principles continue.
Speaker 18 (40:21):
To guide our fight of justice and reparations for Black Americans,
and today we are honored to stand with you in
support of the Reparations Now Resolution.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
I read this revolution. It is an education of deep
education and a call to action.
Speaker 18 (40:43):
As we face daily blatant attacks on democracy, increased racism,
and divisiveness, it's more important than ever that we stand
together and strengthen our solidarity to fight fascism and win
reparations is about human rights, affirming our history and atoning
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for past harms, restoring generational wealth, and confronting white supremacy.
Reparations is more than a check. It's a call to action, justice,
solidarity and reparations.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
Thank you, nice up, is Chelsea's wise, executive director of
Marijuana Justice. All right, thank you, and good afternoon.
Speaker 26 (41:34):
My name is Chelsea Higgs, wives of Marijuana Justice, and
I have traveled right up the road.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
From Virginia to be here with you today.
Speaker 26 (41:41):
Virginia is known as the shores with a ship's docket
in sixteen nineteen for.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Those twenty or so odd negroes at Point Comfort.
Speaker 26 (41:48):
I'm here today to share Virginia's role and responsibilities applied
not just Virginia residents, but how Virginia acted as an
accomplice to influence this country to further it's harms nationwide.
Would we be the same country if Virginia had not
passed the law in sixteen seventy proclaiming all newly arrived
Africans be enslaved for life. Would we be the same
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country if Virginia had not stripped all three blacks and
Natives of their voting rights in seventeen twenty three? What
about the state outlawing er racial sex for three hundred
and thirty seven years, allowing for deadly.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Enforcement of the majority of black men.
Speaker 28 (42:24):
Virginia may have started these practices, but the federal government.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Continues the harm by refusing our repair.
Speaker 26 (42:30):
The resolution reads recognizing that the United States has a
moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the crime
of enslavement of Africans.
Speaker 33 (42:39):
And it's lasting harmed on the lives of millions of
black people in the United States. While I'm here today
as a descendant of enslaved Africans to share what lasting
harm looks like, and feels like and has in Richmond, Virginia.
This includes grave robbing of our loved ones for the
medical dissection and experimentation by the local hospital that still
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stands and thrives today, being.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
Displayed from homes, and losing property value due to.
Speaker 27 (43:06):
The Highway of isix I ninety five and sixty four,
ripping through black neighborhoods like Jackson Ward, the Little Harlem of.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
The South, and Navy Hill.
Speaker 26 (43:15):
Being a descendant of Virginia means that after the Voting
Rights Act, we watched our city annexed part of the
county in order to purposely dilute the black majority votes.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Speaking of the black majority.
Speaker 26 (43:27):
Gingrification has caused black population and our city to decrease rapidly,
no longer the chocolate city we were before and after emancipation.
The Controlled Substances Act has allowed Virginia to arrest over
twenty thousand people a year up until twenty twenty, feeding
this monster of mass incarceration, mostly black people, filling the
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port dockets four times the rate as white folks. And
after fifty years of the drug war, black residents in
Richmond overdose at the highest rate in our state, with
little public health reces versus of survival, and much less
acknowledging of our humanity. So today I stand in solidarity
in this line with our ancestors, with our architects of
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the movements, and the spirit of those who have yet
to come, to say thank you to Congresswoman Lee, to
say thank you to all of the women women of
color that are standing up here from Congress.
Speaker 28 (44:20):
There's not lost, India's the women up here leaving this movement.
Speaker 26 (44:23):
Here, and really to say that we are here together
and that we cannot wait. This will be reparations when
and reparations forever. Up next, I'd like to introduce the
onely only The founder and executive director of First Repair
is Robin Russimmons.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Good afternoon, after. My name is Robin MU. Simmonds.
Speaker 27 (44:51):
I am the founder and executive director of First Repair.
I am a former city councilwoman from Evanston, Illinois. I
am proud to be here today with each of you
into of Reparations now resolution by the fierce and unshakable
Congresswoman Summer Lead and all the members that are in.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
Support of this resolution.
Speaker 27 (45:09):
Your leadership of this resolution and the package of restorative
reparative bills including HR forty, during this hostile time where
our human rights and civil rights are being signed away
and our democracy is rapidly spiraling downwards, speaks a value.
Speaker 4 (45:27):
Thank you here.
Speaker 27 (45:28):
You stand for us, for this nation, for it is
only through our repair that this nation will achieve liberty
and justice for all. And a heartfelt acknowledgement to our
brilliant sister Duca Heath and all of the convenors yes
of the Why we Can't Wait Coalition and all other
coalitions and individuals that have been leading in this fight.
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The case for reparations is clear, it is undeniable, and
it is well established. I'm here to reinforce what is possible.
Reparations in our is a human right. Equity is good policy,
but insufficient redress and reparations is not just a check.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
As we just heard, there are few of us gathered.
Speaker 28 (46:10):
Here now relative of the hundreds that are here this
week in in d C.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
In support of reparations.
Speaker 27 (46:18):
We have been in this fight for centuries, and today,
cities and states, inspired by the vision of some of
our past and present congress people, are proving that reparations
are attainable, and they are transformative for communities, righteous and
just enough to support and enforce redress for unlawful acts.
Speaker 28 (46:38):
And the crimes against the humanity that do not have statute.
Speaker 27 (46:44):
We have been leading by example, establishing flexible models for redress,
educating our communities, changing hearts and minds, healing and reconciling communities,
and restoring wealth that's been stripped away from local policy
and practices. Localities are holding our else accountable to what
we expect of our congressional leadership. In twenty nineteen, Evanston,
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Illinois pass attack funded local reparations legislations, and since there
have been over one hundred localities that.
Speaker 4 (47:12):
Have done the same. Appropriate for the harm in their communities.
Speaker 26 (47:17):
Yes to that.
Speaker 27 (47:18):
Last week it was Decatur, Georgia. Last month it was
Santa Monica, California. Last year it was the state of
New York. And we are so thrilled to see the
legislative progress happening for the harms and the crimes against
the people of Tosa under the leadership of Tosa's first
black mayor, Mayor Nichols, including leadership from the Beyond Apology Coalitionion.
Speaker 4 (47:43):
Of Justice, the Greenwood.
Speaker 27 (47:45):
So we are encouraged by the momentum in localities nationwide,
but we are certain then even when, not if, but
when we reached one hundred localities for reparations, we will
not achieve what.
Speaker 28 (47:58):
Our collective morset is, that is federal comprehensive.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
And full repair.
Speaker 28 (48:05):
That will take it after Congress rightfully.
Speaker 27 (48:08):
So, if you need to understand the case for reparations nationally,
read the sixteen nineteen project by Nicole Hannah Jones.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
If you want to learn all the.
Speaker 27 (48:17):
Ways the United States government is paying reparations today to
other communities yet denying us continually, then you need to
read the Normalizing Reparations Report by Professor Cornell Brooks at
Harvard Kennedy School and Professor Linda Miles. If you want
to learn how reparations can uplist of all, read the
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Case for Reparations by the Metropolitan Planning Council.
Speaker 28 (48:41):
If you want to see how harm is done to
us and how it.
Speaker 27 (48:44):
Lives within our genes, there's a report The Harm Is
in Our Genes by ENCOBRA commissioned.
Speaker 28 (48:49):
By Cam Howard.
Speaker 27 (48:50):
If you need to see what a robust reparation study
looks like, read the California State Reparations Task for It
Is Harm Report. And if you would like to see
the sentiment of a diverse community implementing reparations, you can
read the key finding Study of Evanson Reparations by Northwestern
Professor Altillery. And lastly, if you want to be the nation,
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if we want to be the nation we claim to
be and reach our highest potential as a thriving, healthy democracy,
support this passing of Resolution Reparations now.
Speaker 28 (49:24):
And all the supporting policies, including HR forty.
Speaker 27 (49:27):
Within the resolution, reparations are possible, Reparations are due.
Speaker 4 (49:31):
Reparations now lew coat for your own cower Back Names project.
All right, good afternoon everyone. My name is Kyle Baby
I'm the co founder and co CEO of the Black
Veterans Project.
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I'm a former Marine Infantry captain, a Naval Academy graduate,
and an Afghanistan War veteran. For over two hundred years,
Black veterans have answered our nation's call with valor and distinction,
and as.
Speaker 4 (50:01):
I'm sure many of you know, we fought for our
country that too often denied us the rights that were
given to others.
Speaker 8 (50:07):
When we returned home from these.
Speaker 11 (50:08):
Battles, we faced the Second War, one that still lasts,
a war for equity, a war for safety in the
case of today, the war for wealth that.
Speaker 4 (50:17):
We earned through blood, sweat and sacrifice.
Speaker 11 (50:22):
Black Veterans Project has collected the data going all the
way back to World War Two. We know that black
military families have been denied approximately one hundred billion dollars
in benefits to Black military families.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
That's the total estimate, But for each veteran there is
a specific story.
Speaker 34 (50:39):
For veterans like Conley Monk, he returned to Connecticut from Vietnam,
and many veterans like him were denied via home loans
for four decades or longer, not because they hadn't earned them,
because the.
Speaker 11 (50:50):
System to attain those benefits had been rigged against them.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
Our research shows that black veterans are twice as likely
to live in poverty to one third.
Speaker 11 (51:01):
Excuse me, make up to one third of the veteran's
homeless population, and face forty four percent higher unemployment rates
in the white counterparts. These missing veteran benefits, no doubt
play a part in that this isn't just about benefits
and equal rights.
Speaker 4 (51:15):
This is about legacy.
Speaker 11 (51:16):
This is about erasing the history of our community, something
that we are all well attuned to as we've witnessed
the attacks on our rights to exist and have our
story told today. Removing our history while denying us access
to the same benefits, has created an entire generation that
were denied, and that was not by accident. It wasn't
accidental when our ancestors were enslaved. It wasn't accidental when
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it took an entire civil war to liberate millions.
Speaker 4 (51:41):
It wasn't accidental when our.
Speaker 11 (51:43):
Communities were burned to the ground for daring to be
independent and prosperous.
Speaker 4 (51:48):
And it isn't accidental today that we continue to deal
with this.
Speaker 11 (51:53):
All these things were designed to obscure the truth of
how our nation built prosperity on the backs of black
people and defended that prosperity with the service of black veterans.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
That's why this resolution represents a demand for truth.
Speaker 11 (52:07):
It's an opportunity to finally document, acknowledge, and address the
full scope of our collective American legacy.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
For black veterans.
Speaker 11 (52:15):
Specifically, it means finally recognizing that racial wealthcap isn't about
individual choice, it's about will for structure.
Speaker 4 (52:22):
More important, I truly.
Speaker 11 (52:24):
Believe this nation needs reparations because we can never heal
an illness that we refuse to diagnose. Today, we stand
not just as advocates, but as descendants, the children and
the loved ones of the dispossess Our ancestors serve with honor,
face discrimination, with dignity, and passed down stories of service
that we're ignored. We carry their legacy and we demand
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that their sacrifices be fully recognized, and we demand Reparationists.
Speaker 5 (52:54):
Doctor Marcus Anthony KNT, authoratical Reparations over the soul of
the nation, a board member of ANBA.
Speaker 4 (53:00):
Thank you so much, doctor giants.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
You can always redirect money into better situations. I remember
I interviewed one of the guys who the War Dogs
movie was based off, and I you know, you hear things.
We don't always register things. I remember I asked them,
you know what the budget is for defense in the US.
He said eight hundred billion dollars a year, eight hundred
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billions of me.
Speaker 1 (53:29):
I thought it was two hundred and fifty. It used
to be that.
Speaker 3 (53:32):
It's been raising up over the years, probably about five
ten years ago it was that. Well, right, if you
talk about the Pentagon alone, they spent billions.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
Yet eight hundred billion. Well, in total, eight hundred billion dollars. Yes,
that's per just that's per year, yeah, per year, per year,
eight hundred billion. Yeah, that's the entire Pentagon budget. Yeah, yeah,
I had no idea. Yeah, it's eight hundred billion dollars
in a year on weapons.
Speaker 5 (54:01):
Yeah, it's about ten times more than like the next
five biggest countries combined.
Speaker 1 (54:06):
Yes, something like that.
Speaker 5 (54:08):
So eight hundred billion dollars. That mean in thirteen years
if we applied the same amount to reparations.
Speaker 1 (54:19):
Wait, I'm long, I'm long.
Speaker 3 (54:21):
Twenty twenty five, eight hundred and ninety two point six
billion dollars go.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
All those nine hundred almost nine hundred billion.
Speaker 5 (54:30):
Economists have concluded on several economists that can have concluded
that black reparations would amount to between thirteen and seventeen
trillion dollars.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
Trillion dollars.
Speaker 5 (54:42):
Yes, we're spending you just said one trillion a year
on defense. Yeah, just give us half of that. Just
gives this throw us half ane hundred billion years, five
hundred billion per year, and we're stretching out to twenty
five years.
Speaker 3 (54:58):
I mean, listen, I remember, you know, this was when
I was you know, I was going viral for these comments.
I remember at the time, this was before the pandemic.
I said, I don't think that cash payments for black
preparations are going to work because of the amount of
money you would probably bankrupt the country. I suggested, for example,
like you know, free college education.
Speaker 8 (55:18):
And so forth.
Speaker 3 (55:19):
And people got all me and it was like, oh,
that's not fair, word about Jewish people. Your people got
reparations from Germany and so forth. And then the pandemic
happened and I saw the amount of money that the
US gave out and I said, you know something, I
was wrong.
Speaker 1 (55:30):
I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
I think.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
The US got it.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
If the US wanted to pay black people back for
slavery cash is actually approp so I had to apologize.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
I remember me and deal like you. We talked about
that in one of my.
Speaker 5 (55:42):
Shows and also Live Always, and I've been a member
of In fact, I helped write the Reparations legislation as
a student assistant to Congressman Son Conyers when he drafted it.
And I've always, as part of the reparations movement, advocated
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for suing corporations that have survived, corporations that profited from
slavery and have survived, and there are many who.
Speaker 1 (56:17):
Participated in the slave trade.
Speaker 5 (56:19):
We know that Wall Street financed much of the slave trade,
so in that sense they can pay without bankrupting their individuals.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
Yeah, yeah, I mean there's actually, let me see, there's
a list of corporations like this about to pull it up.
Speaker 3 (56:38):
The ones that we know about Lehman Brothers, ETNA, JP
Morgan yep, the New York Life Insurance yep. And then
Rothschild and Son's Bank in London, Norfolk Southern. That's the
train right USA today, Fleet Boston's CSX, Canadian National Railway,
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Brown Brothers, Harriman, Brooks Brothers, Barclays, the Barclays.
Speaker 1 (57:05):
Center, over in Brooklyn. Yeah, and just give it to
black people. They could own that, right, that's cool, not.
Speaker 5 (57:10):
To say everybody you mentioned over the course of years,
they've made kids and trilogans.
Speaker 35 (57:18):
Yeah, yeah, I agree, man, I agree. So now do
you think it will happen in our lifetime? Yes, well,
we didn't think we'd have a black president in our lifetime.
Speaker 8 (57:30):
This is true.
Speaker 5 (57:30):
So I'll never and you don't know unless you try,
and so let's get keep trying and see what happens.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
Yeah.
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And I mean you've seen small instances of this at
certain universities and so far, I think Harvard did something
about that, and a couple other universities.
Speaker 5 (57:48):
And we got local municipalities who have passed reparations ordinances
that also provide assistance.
Speaker 1 (58:00):
Pursuing to that ordinance.
Speaker 5 (58:01):
I think there's a guaranteed income in Chicago, I believe
it is, or it was for a short time fifteen
hundred per person for a certain population as part of
the reparations bill.
Speaker 1 (58:13):
And then you have states that can do the same.
Speaker 5 (58:16):
But major cities run by African American political officials have
certainly most of them passed ordinances supporting Congressional legislation for reparations.
And that's why it's so important that we participate in
the system that has the resources.
Speaker 1 (58:38):
You know, I get it.
Speaker 5 (58:40):
They don't respect us, they don't want us, they don't this,
they reject us. Why are you trying to fight your
main way into the white man's world? Why you want
to be somewhere wasn't nobody want? No, I don't want
to do any of that. I want what's mine, period,
That's what I want. Great great grandmama, I want great
great grandmama would have given me that.
Speaker 1 (59:00):
Y'all got it, Give me my shit. That's how I
look at it. Is not about anything other than justice.
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I agree.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (59:10):
Like I said, I've said certain things that I had to,
you know, rely back on, you know, But ultimately I'm
okay with getting more information and changing my stands.
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Yeah, that's okay. We're all wrong a certain time done.
Speaker 3 (59:24):
So, Yeah, we all have opinions, and you get more information,
and I think you're better off absorbing the new information
as opposed to just being stubborn and saying, well I
said it before, So I just got to understand on
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Divide in Some Americans reparations.
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It has been over one hundred and fifty years since
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I want to thank our forever congress Woman Corey Bush.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Corey Bush, we love you.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
We would not be here if not for your leadership,
your brave leadership in the face of so many obstacles
people do not know about, and you carried it because
it's what matters for our people. It is with that
spirit that I offer the benediction. We are gathered here
today on what is effectively the eve of Malcolm X's
one hundredth birthday. As we make our call for reparations now,
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we do so by also embracing the ancestral power and
mandate embedded in Malcolm X's legacy and less than forty
years of life, he became one of the most well
known advocates for civil rights and racial justice and the
time of great division and need, Malcolm X's legacy is
pregnant with insight and pathways toward truth, unity and repair
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amids this many calls to action, and Malcolm X wants
to clear quote this same generation of whites also must
recognize that's incurred by the former generations of whites to
your and my forefather's infote to be sure x was
an early reparations proponent, in many of the folks grappling
with the idea of reparations today turned to his legacy
and life or inspiration and reparations absence.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Systemic racism, and systemic.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Inequality have become so entrenched in the premise of the
United States of America that even the combination of executive orders,
military orders, and constitutional amendments have proven an inadequate adversary.
Yet when the word and debates about reparations come up now,
it is undoubtedly not about the fact of systemic sub
human bondage or lynching. Instead, it invariably becomes a debate
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about money. Questions about who should be paid, why they
should be paid, how much should they be paid, round out.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
The usual debate. But what if those are the wrong
questions centered around a false premise.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Bubbling just beneath the surface of the reparation's debate is
a real, though and unspoken fear and worry, a worry
that drudging up the past threatens the three thinly braided
fabrics woven to hold all the quilt panels called the
United States of America together. Many of the fears tend
to em anda from presuming pathologies and dysfunctions believed in
fed about black people.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
How will they spend the money? What will they buy?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Even when coming from an innocent perspective, these questions treat
money as one dimensional rather than the multifaceted object it is.
Speaker 22 (15:29):
Money is time, money is currency, money is wealth, money
is access, money is energy, money is memory, money is history,
money is repairing, money is recovery.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Money is respect. Shout out to Marepa Franklin. Money is dignity,
Money is truth, money is healing, money is restoration, money
is power. Money, money is presence.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
We us are present now. Those of us alive now, from.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
All walks of life, have earned the rights to live
in a nation where reparations for slavery are commonplace and
happening now. Reparations because America has a poverty, property reparations
because America has a criminal justice problem. Reparations because the
wealth and achievement gaps are detrimental and preventable. Reparations because
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George Floyd, Brehanna Taylor, and Tony McDade should be alive.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Reparations because Tulsa's Black wall streets should not only still
be standard, it should be.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
A thriving you can and blueprint for joy and wealth, possibilities,
reparations because the black community should be thriving, not merely
surviving reparations, because our very nation's soul desperately needs a
healing ever more, as.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Malcolm Mexis still be experienced in nineteen sixty four quote,
if you.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull
it out six inches.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
There's no progress.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress.
The progress is healing the wound that the blow names headpot.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
It is this heal, this repair, that we must turn
to in order to progress to a more perfect union.
Through politics, education, law, finances, social contracts, space and spirituality,
we can develop an inclusive, holistic reparations process.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
To do this, we need elected officials across.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
The gamut that we are seeing blueprinting here by these
beautiful black women leaders to help develop an inclusive idea
of how it can lift up people.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
From all white walks of life and join with us
in our community to lift up our voices.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Together, we must remember that repair and healing are always
a net benefit to any society, and Malcolm X's legacy
is a foundation upon which we can be guided by our.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Commentary and achieved dignity for all Now the universal law
all that you are, pale, you heal, All that you heal,
heals you. The only lasting truth is love. God is Love.
God blessed the nerd to thank you all.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So much for our love.
Speaker 23 (18:18):
Thank you all.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
This about if our professional leaders for you.
Speaker 24 (18:20):
In Yeah, these leaders at ABC News with Republicans being
in leadership this go around, which is a different from
the last session that the bills were introduced, how has
that changed your strategy going forward with introducing the bills
and also trying to get support.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I don't think.
Speaker 20 (18:43):
I don't think that the opposition of this bill is
one party and leadership or another. As you see have
been fighting in and out of majorities and and out
of minorities and out of administrations. So our strategy to
that end remains the same because the opposition to our
operations as the institution itself fighting back and it's why
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it's so important that we move it from all angles.
Uh So, whether or not as Donald Trump or whoever
comes after him in office, and we would love for
us to not have to wait for who comes after
him and in office, our strategy is going to continue
to educate, is going to uh, We're going to continue
to organize. We're going to continue to whether it be
locality by locality, district by districts, continue to build up
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the army of folks who we need to speak truth,
the power and really demands with us that which we
are o and.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
What is due to us.
Speaker 23 (19:37):
Yea, you know was mentioned, I believe in New York
as well as as far as some of the reparation
discussions have been brought up Astarn bringing up commissions studies,
both of them started.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
To camp down as for now, but some of the.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
New questions that had been on up has been exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
What does your resolution really aim for?
Speaker 10 (20:05):
Is it that Black Americans of a certain economic level
are they being target Is it everyone?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It doesn't.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Basically, it doesn't matter as to what economic level.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
It's pretty much all black Americans. What about those individuals
of any race that have a lineage going back to
slave America, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 20 (20:27):
So to be very clear, whether or not a black America,
a black American and a black descendant of American cattle
slavery were able to break into the middle class. Uh,
they are still and they were able to do that
despite the harms, despite the past and justices done to them.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
So they are not excluded from the reparation and the
remedies they're in.
Speaker 20 (20:47):
When we think about who traces their lineage back, that
is again a debate that is used to try to
salance the rest of this movement. It's a distraction tactic.
Speaker 25 (20:57):
Because what we want to do is is instead of
focus on again what the system did, who did it,
and what the impact of it was, we'd rather get
bront down and well, should they make twenty five.
Speaker 20 (21:09):
Dollars an hour or should they be paid the lower
a living ways right? Should they have been educated or
if they're educated without this college, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
They're black.
Speaker 20 (21:18):
If they are black and their descendants of slaves, then
they were directly in the lineage of harm. If they
are descending of jim p Gimper policies in this country,
they are the direct descentives and current living recipients of
that harm.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
If they are living today, then.
Speaker 20 (21:35):
We are still homed by inequtable funding schemes of public schools.
We're still homes by being black and brown or poor
and living narrow to environmental hazards all over this country.
If you are black in this country right now, you
are still less likely to be able to acquire a loan.
The interest rates are still higher for black folks who
are attempting to buy homes or go to school. We
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are still discriminative because of our here, because of names.
When we go to get jobs, even as executive orders
have been eroded that would I'm protected against those things.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
So that's what we want to focus on. And that's
precisely with this resolution.
Speaker 26 (22:09):
Does UH.
Speaker 20 (22:10):
This resolution also directly demands passage of HR forty because
we recognize that a concert we are attempting to holistically
address the homes.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
That have been done about betteral government action in this country.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
You have work.
Speaker 27 (22:36):
I just want to add one thing that that fire
that you just received was was was all that all
that was needed for this, But I want to add
one thing about how this is always thrown at Black Americans.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
To figure this out.
Speaker 27 (22:50):
The US government has a moral and legal obligation to
repair the harm. It's about what the perpetrator did and
not who it was committed upon, or it's not so
it's our value, you know, are we being value?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Are we being?
Speaker 27 (23:05):
Is the US government acknowledging the harm, and so it
should not be the person that committed the harm. You
know that they get off as long as the person
that received the harm, as long as that.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Wound looks like a deal. Oh now I get away
for I don't have to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
No, you get it.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
And the other thing is this.
Speaker 27 (23:23):
Republicans and I'm going to say Republicans because generally that's
where it comes from.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
But they love to call law and order. They love
to say that. You know, it's it's the rule of
law and and and if you get it, and you've
got to own up to the climb, and you've got
to be punished and all of these things. Well, we
know what the US did.
Speaker 28 (23:41):
Let's read this, Read this bill, Read this up resolution.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
It tells you what the government did.
Speaker 27 (23:46):
And what the government has not done to repair the
harm to black folks in this country. And so because
of that, we're not demanding it because people may not
have enough money in their bank accounts. We're demanding it
because of the ree reason why we are in the
state we're in, and we.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Don't want our legacy. We don't want our.
Speaker 27 (24:04):
Children's children to have to walk through that very same
thing when this country has the money to spend the
money to give, Because if we can give billions of
dollars so war profiteers, we can give billions of dollars
to drop bombs on babies and to anohilate whole, the
whole family legacies, if we have the money to do that,
if we have the money to give all across the
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world to harm other people, this country needs to fix what.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
It broke many years ago.
Speaker 13 (24:53):
Now I associate myself and I do just want to
say that, just to make that point that everyone Democrat
Republican has been a perpetrator or complicit in the policy
harm and neglect done to black people. It has never
been an indiscriminate part. It has been a precise and
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intentional harm. And so that is exactly why we need
to be race conscious and race specific in the work
and the reparative work of restitution and redress.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
So this is not about Democratic Republican. This is not black, white,
brown Asian.
Speaker 13 (25:31):
This is about right and wrong, good and evil, and
are you a person of conscience? But the last thing
I will say to the Democratic To my Democratic colleagues
is that while we see that there are those that
move as if the work of liberation is either on
trend or off, and people that said they were a
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part of a so called racial reckoning or nowhere to
be found in this moment that the headlines have faded,
and so too has their commit to do this work.
To Democrats, I want to say, it is not enough
for us to simply say we ain't them.
Speaker 27 (26:11):
This is an opportunity and a moment to affirm exactly
who we are as people are conscience.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
And you know, there's a lot of conflicting analysis and
punditry about why we find ourselves in the moment we
are in now and why Donald Trump it has a
second occupancy in the White House. I believe that people
have sent a message that what they want our leaders
that are freely so unapologetic advancing policies that go as
far and as deep as the whole.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
So we need to do this with reparations.
Speaker 29 (26:49):
I am so grateful to my sister Corey Bush for
introducing reparations now resolution and again people matter, their hazard
like shrugging and everything, she didn't care. She kept moving
and so inspired by the fact that kind of someone,
Summer Lee is taking on the torch and carrying this
very important legislation.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Thank you both for your incredible leadership on this.
Speaker 29 (27:10):
Of course, I stand here before you as a congresswoman
for the most beautiful, blackest city in the country, the
city of Detroit. To say that reparations are not reparations
is not a radical idea. We've been talking about it forever.
We've been seeing it from.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
The rooftops, talking to urban farmers to everyone.
Speaker 29 (27:30):
From saying if you're not going to we're going to
find ways and pathways to try to again heal.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
The harm and the hurt of many of my family
members and my community and the detraders.
Speaker 29 (27:41):
Know that it is a debt that our nation owes
in a true acknowledgement of the pain and the trauma
and the harm afflicted on generations of many of our
black neighbors. Reparations are not a necessary step towards true
equity and our country and a more just future. There
is an opportunity for Congress to confront our nation's racist
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history of slavery and white supremacy.
Speaker 13 (28:05):
We must provide the descendants of enslaved black families operations
that they were promised.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
That's the thing that everything he's forgetting utaw early on.
Speaker 29 (28:15):
They were promised this, and they deserve to create a
pathway towards healing and justice.
Speaker 30 (28:20):
The path.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Towards justice has never been easy.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
We know that.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
It's like this institution we all know wasn't built for us.
But we have to on the outside move them.
Speaker 29 (28:32):
It's just like we always have to on every single
thing parting our children, our communities, our health, and so
much more.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
But we must remember it is never in vain.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
We Congress must act.
Speaker 29 (28:42):
To confront these uncomfortable truths and right the wrongs of
our country's history. Our country, as you know, has been
built by many of our black families and communities for centuries.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Many have endured the.
Speaker 29 (28:57):
Brutality of slavery, the violence of voice pharmacy, the deed
humanization of Jim Crow, which is still inadverable, still very
evident in auto insurance and housing insurance. And no, it's so,
it's everywhere in housing and everything.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
No, it's true. I see it every day in my community.
Speaker 29 (29:19):
And the systemic racism that has left lasting impact on
lives of our neighbors.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
The fact that Black mothers are still not believed and
they say they're in pain in the hospital. Has so
much against systems that have been placed there that are
killing many of our black neighbors.
Speaker 29 (29:33):
The FED, our government has played a central role. You
heard it from many of my sisters here, and I
am simply I'm not simply talking about depths of the
past here, but the social and economic policies that built
middle class in twentieth century, like social security, but our
housing policy is often excluded at the time Black families
and communities are called, and again we saw it, it
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was more difficult to access quality education is still is
again built on the systemic racism that we continue to
see in policy. By providing reparations for many of my families,
we can begin to address the racial wealth.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Gap in the decades of decades.
Speaker 29 (30:11):
Of disinvestment in communities like mine and dismantled the racist
systems that have held back many of our neighbors and
resulted in so much stuff. We know that true healing
cannot occur without acknowledging that pain and reparations is necessary.
I'm proud to be from a community that understands that
the community mothers that helped raise me, continue to always
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remind me again, you know we don't wait.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
We always talk about that they will never understand. It's
almost like I remember when community mothers like, oh, he
don't get it. Let's keep going.
Speaker 29 (30:45):
But I would like to share a quote I like
to always bring a little bit of my district in
from a resident, Lauren Hood. She's a friend in the
City of Detroit's former reparations task Force chair. She said, quote,
for it to be holistic reparation, it needs to be
an acknowledgment of the harm, some form of redress, and
insurance that it won't happen again. And again, what we
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heard today is just with the stroke of a pen,
we are seeing the current administration dismantled even the small
little trinkets of crumbs of protection they provided our families.
And again, we need to make sure that it's not
only reparations, but that it leads to more real, true
policy change that again.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Protects our families. But again, thank you to my sisters.
It's always so wonderful to be with all of you
truth tellers.
Speaker 29 (31:36):
And again it's wonderful to be at home in this
Congress that just really is just chips at your soul,
but thank.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
You, but thank you for restoring me today.
Speaker 16 (31:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
With respect to Tom.
Speaker 16 (31:56):
I want to.
Speaker 20 (31:57):
Introduce some of our advocates, of our advocates in our polalition,
one of the leaders of this movement.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
That's work. I want to bring Gudriess Heath.
Speaker 20 (32:06):
As reparations try to Sheoose, the founder of why we
can't wait reparations coalitions and without further.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Really made it.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Good afternoon.
Speaker 31 (32:23):
I stand here today rounded in the unyielding spirit of
our ancestors, those who resisted unsurvivable conditions with dignity, who
built this nation stone by stone, and whose blood still
nourishes the soil beneath.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
This very capital.
Speaker 31 (32:44):
I honor them and I call on their strength in
this moment as we continue to push forward on our
fight for holistic heal I want to lift up and
thank our Congresswoman Summerly.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
For her bold and then wavering leadership.
Speaker 31 (33:00):
You continue to lead on labor rights, disability rights, community
development and infrastructure, on environmental justice, housing, education, voting rights.
Speaker 28 (33:14):
Corporate accountability, right, all the.
Speaker 31 (33:18):
Black things, all of our things, all of the people's things.
But I also thank you for understanding that this is
a moment we cannot pass on to restore our collective identity, dignity,
and to advanced repair. Thank you to my sister, former
and forever Congresswoman Corey Bush for your vision, for your
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steadfastnt for standing with and for movement.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Always appreciate you.
Speaker 31 (33:48):
And to condress Woman Nayana Pressley for standing unapologetically always
on the side of justice, on the side of memory,
and on the side of repair. Thank you. You all
are carrying the torch lit generations ago by people like
Belinda Sutton, Cali House, Pueen Mother Moore, and the countless
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unnamed freedom writers whose dreams of liberation still echo through
our demands.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Today.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
We are gathered not.
Speaker 31 (34:22):
Just in remembrance, but in resistance at a time when
forty four states have introduced legislation to ban the teaching
of anti black racism's role.
Speaker 28 (34:35):
In shaping this nation, At a time when black voters
are being.
Speaker 31 (34:39):
Disenfranchised, black property is still being stolen, black people are
being disappeared in displaced, and black people are being overpoliced, overworked, underpaid,
and overincarcerated.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
At a time when white supremacist ideology.
Speaker 31 (34:57):
Is not just tolerated, but per rated in the highest
halls of power.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
It is now that we must say clearly and without apology.
Speaker 31 (35:08):
Reparations are not a luxury or a charity. Reparations are illegal,
and we're all necessity. We are demanding justice here today
and for all our days.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
We are not asking to be included in an economy
on our backs.
Speaker 31 (35:27):
We are building and demanding repair for the extraction and
exploitation that has been the default.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Setting of this nation.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Let us be clear.
Speaker 32 (35:38):
Government routinely issues reparations at the federal level, and this
country has paid reparations to Japanese American families for force incarceration.
Speaker 31 (35:51):
And removing I appreciate law for standing with us today,
to white slave owners for their loss of property, to
hall Across survivors abroad, to veterans exposed to Agent Orange.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
To nine to eleven victims and their families.
Speaker 31 (36:10):
So why is it controversial to repair what has been
stolen from Black people?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Why is it so hard to recognize our.
Speaker 31 (36:18):
Full humanity to compensate in all necessary forms for centuries
of stolen labor land in life?
Speaker 27 (36:27):
To those who ask why now, we say, because we
are still being disappeared. Because from Tulsa to Tyree Nichols,
the legacy of racial violence continues to evolve, because, as
this Reparation's Now resolution declares, the exploitation of black people
has been the primary economic engine of this country and
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it must end. Reparations are how we begin to dismantle
racial factalism. They are how we move from punishment to possibility.
They are how we finish the unfinished project of a
just democracy.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
So those to those in power, you can't ban black
history and expect to bury our demand for justice inequity.
You can't erase us. We are still here. We ain't
going anywhere.
Speaker 16 (37:21):
We demand reparations, and we demand them.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
If you reach of the other and next stup. I
want to bring my sister in the.
Speaker 31 (37:37):
Movement, an og a fierce lifelong advocate for reparations, Mia Awatoki, into.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Solidarity.
Speaker 18 (37:50):
During World War Two, one hundred twenty thousand Americans of
Japanese Japanese of American ancestry no Americans of Japanese ancestry
were imprisoned in US concentration camps with no due process.
My mother was incarcerated in mansonar My dad was a
staff sergeant in the heroic one hundred and four to
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forty second Battalion, the Japanese American segregated unit that fought
for the US while their families were imprisoned in barbed
wire armguard concentration camps. Our families were torn apart, jobs, health, property, dignity,
and lives were lost. Reparations is more than a check.
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I hear people say they gave reparations to Japanese Americans.
The United States government did not give us anything. We
fought for reparations after our bill was finally introduced, it
took another ten years to pass. Then we had to
fight for appropriations and then help them locate the survivors.
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And through it all, the Congressional Black Caucus shared by
Mrvyn Diamley, our friend and mentor, supported Japanese American reparations
every step of the way. Many are now ancestors, but
I'd like to call out their names. Mervyn Diameley, Ron Dellams,
John Conyers, Julian Dixon, John Lewis, Nicki Leland, Harold Washington,
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and our own Secretary Norm Minetta, Bob Matsui, and Senators
Spark Matsunaga.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
And Dan Enore.
Speaker 18 (39:33):
In honor of those congressional ancestors, we look to the
Congressional Black Caucus today to again lead us in the
campaign for reparations, and not just the powerful sisters that
are here with us, but the one of Caucus. There
is a history of Japanese American Black solidarity. NICKI Progressives
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and NCR has roots in the movement of the sixties
and seventies. We were inspired by malcol Coms and Fred
Hampton and Martin Luther King marched in solidarity with a
Black Panthers Republic of New Africa brown Berets. NCRR campaign
for Reprecations was rooted in the principles of building solidarity
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and grassroots organizing.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Those principles continue.
Speaker 18 (40:21):
To guide our fight of justice and reparations for Black Americans,
and today we are honored to stand with you in
support of the Reparations Now Resolution.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
I read this revolution. It is an education of deep
education and a call to action.
Speaker 18 (40:43):
As we face daily blatant attacks on democracy, increased racism,
and divisiveness, it's more important than ever that we stand
together and strengthen our solidarity to fight fascism and win
reparations is about human rights, affirming our history and atoning
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for past harms, restoring generational wealth, and confronting white supremacy.
Reparations is more than a check. It's a call to action, justice,
solidarity and reparations.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
Thank you, nice up, is Chelsea's wise, executive director of
Marijuana Justice. All right, thank you, and good afternoon.
Speaker 26 (41:34):
My name is Chelsea Higgs, wives of Marijuana Justice, and
I have traveled right up the road.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
From Virginia to be here with you today.
Speaker 26 (41:41):
Virginia is known as the shores with a ship's docket
in sixteen nineteen for.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Those twenty or so odd negroes at Point Comfort.
Speaker 26 (41:48):
I'm here today to share Virginia's role and responsibilities applied
not just Virginia residents, but how Virginia acted as an
accomplice to influence this country to further it's harms nationwide.
Would we be the same country if Virginia had not
passed the law in sixteen seventy proclaiming all newly arrived
Africans be enslaved for life. Would we be the same
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country if Virginia had not stripped all three blacks and
Natives of their voting rights in seventeen twenty three? What
about the state outlawing er racial sex for three hundred
and thirty seven years, allowing for deadly.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Enforcement of the majority of black men.
Speaker 28 (42:24):
Virginia may have started these practices, but the federal government.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Continues the harm by refusing our repair.
Speaker 26 (42:30):
The resolution reads recognizing that the United States has a
moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the crime
of enslavement of Africans.
Speaker 33 (42:39):
And it's lasting harmed on the lives of millions of
black people in the United States. While I'm here today
as a descendant of enslaved Africans to share what lasting
harm looks like, and feels like and has in Richmond, Virginia.
This includes grave robbing of our loved ones for the
medical dissection and experimentation by the local hospital that still
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stands and thrives today, being.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
Displayed from homes, and losing property value due to.
Speaker 27 (43:06):
The Highway of isix I ninety five and sixty four,
ripping through black neighborhoods like Jackson Ward, the Little Harlem of.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
The South, and Navy Hill.
Speaker 26 (43:15):
Being a descendant of Virginia means that after the Voting
Rights Act, we watched our city annexed part of the
county in order to purposely dilute the black majority votes.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Speaking of the black majority.
Speaker 26 (43:27):
Gingrification has caused black population and our city to decrease rapidly,
no longer the chocolate city we were before and after emancipation.
The Controlled Substances Act has allowed Virginia to arrest over
twenty thousand people a year up until twenty twenty, feeding
this monster of mass incarceration, mostly black people, filling the
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port dockets four times the rate as white folks. And
after fifty years of the drug war, black residents in
Richmond overdose at the highest rate in our state, with
little public health reces versus of survival, and much less
acknowledging of our humanity. So today I stand in solidarity
in this line with our ancestors, with our architects of
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the movements, and the spirit of those who have yet
to come, to say thank you to Congresswoman Lee, to
say thank you to all of the women women of
color that are standing up here from Congress.
Speaker 28 (44:20):
There's not lost, India's the women up here leaving this movement.
Speaker 26 (44:23):
Here, and really to say that we are here together
and that we cannot wait. This will be reparations when
and reparations forever. Up next, I'd like to introduce the
onely only The founder and executive director of First Repair
is Robin Russimmons.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Good afternoon, after. My name is Robin MU. Simmonds.
Speaker 27 (44:51):
I am the founder and executive director of First Repair.
I am a former city councilwoman from Evanston, Illinois. I
am proud to be here today with each of you
into of Reparations now resolution by the fierce and unshakable
Congresswoman Summer Lead and all the members that are in.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
Support of this resolution.
Speaker 27 (45:09):
Your leadership of this resolution and the package of restorative
reparative bills including HR forty, during this hostile time where
our human rights and civil rights are being signed away
and our democracy is rapidly spiraling downwards, speaks a value.
Speaker 4 (45:27):
Thank you here.
Speaker 27 (45:28):
You stand for us, for this nation, for it is
only through our repair that this nation will achieve liberty
and justice for all. And a heartfelt acknowledgement to our
brilliant sister Duca Heath and all of the convenors yes
of the Why we Can't Wait Coalition and all other
coalitions and individuals that have been leading in this fight.
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The case for reparations is clear, it is undeniable, and
it is well established. I'm here to reinforce what is possible.
Reparations in our is a human right. Equity is good policy,
but insufficient redress and reparations is not just a check.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
As we just heard, there are few of us gathered.
Speaker 28 (46:10):
Here now relative of the hundreds that are here this
week in in d C.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
In support of reparations.
Speaker 27 (46:18):
We have been in this fight for centuries, and today,
cities and states, inspired by the vision of some of
our past and present congress people, are proving that reparations
are attainable, and they are transformative for communities, righteous and
just enough to support and enforce redress for unlawful acts.
Speaker 28 (46:38):
And the crimes against the humanity that do not have statute.
Speaker 27 (46:44):
We have been leading by example, establishing flexible models for redress,
educating our communities, changing hearts and minds, healing and reconciling communities,
and restoring wealth that's been stripped away from local policy
and practices. Localities are holding our else accountable to what
we expect of our congressional leadership. In twenty nineteen, Evanston,
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Illinois pass attack funded local reparations legislations, and since there
have been over one hundred localities that.
Speaker 4 (47:12):
Have done the same. Appropriate for the harm in their communities.
Speaker 26 (47:17):
Yes to that.
Speaker 27 (47:18):
Last week it was Decatur, Georgia. Last month it was
Santa Monica, California. Last year it was the state of
New York. And we are so thrilled to see the
legislative progress happening for the harms and the crimes against
the people of Tosa under the leadership of Tosa's first
black mayor, Mayor Nichols, including leadership from the Beyond Apology Coalitionion.
Speaker 4 (47:43):
Of Justice, the Greenwood.
Speaker 27 (47:45):
So we are encouraged by the momentum in localities nationwide,
but we are certain then even when, not if, but
when we reached one hundred localities for reparations, we will
not achieve what.
Speaker 28 (47:58):
Our collective morset is, that is federal comprehensive.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
And full repair.
Speaker 28 (48:05):
That will take it after Congress rightfully.
Speaker 27 (48:08):
So, if you need to understand the case for reparations nationally,
read the sixteen nineteen project by Nicole Hannah Jones.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
If you want to learn all the.
Speaker 27 (48:17):
Ways the United States government is paying reparations today to
other communities yet denying us continually, then you need to
read the Normalizing Reparations Report by Professor Cornell Brooks at
Harvard Kennedy School and Professor Linda Miles. If you want
to learn how reparations can uplist of all, read the
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Case for Reparations by the Metropolitan Planning Council.
Speaker 28 (48:41):
If you want to see how harm is done to
us and how it.
Speaker 27 (48:44):
Lives within our genes, there's a report The Harm Is
in Our Genes by ENCOBRA commissioned.
Speaker 28 (48:49):
By Cam Howard.
Speaker 27 (48:50):
If you need to see what a robust reparation study
looks like, read the California State Reparations Task for It
Is Harm Report. And if you would like to see
the sentiment of a diverse community implementing reparations, you can
read the key finding Study of Evanson Reparations by Northwestern
Professor Altillery. And lastly, if you want to be the nation,
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if we want to be the nation we claim to
be and reach our highest potential as a thriving, healthy democracy,
support this passing of Resolution Reparations now.
Speaker 28 (49:24):
And all the supporting policies, including HR forty.
Speaker 27 (49:27):
Within the resolution, reparations are possible, Reparations are due.
Speaker 4 (49:31):
Reparations now lew coat for your own cower Back Names project.
All right, good afternoon everyone. My name is Kyle Baby
I'm the co founder and co CEO of the Black
Veterans Project.
Speaker 11 (49:49):
I'm a former Marine Infantry captain, a Naval Academy graduate,
and an Afghanistan War veteran. For over two hundred years,
Black veterans have answered our nation's call with valor and distinction,
and as.
Speaker 4 (50:01):
I'm sure many of you know, we fought for our
country that too often denied us the rights that were
given to others.
Speaker 8 (50:07):
When we returned home from these.
Speaker 11 (50:08):
Battles, we faced the Second War, one that still lasts,
a war for equity, a war for safety in the
case of today, the war for wealth that.
Speaker 4 (50:17):
We earned through blood, sweat and sacrifice.
Speaker 11 (50:22):
Black Veterans Project has collected the data going all the
way back to World War Two. We know that black
military families have been denied approximately one hundred billion dollars
in benefits to Black military families.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
That's the total estimate, But for each veteran there is
a specific story.
Speaker 34 (50:39):
For veterans like Conley Monk, he returned to Connecticut from Vietnam,
and many veterans like him were denied via home loans
for four decades or longer, not because they hadn't earned them,
because the.
Speaker 11 (50:50):
System to attain those benefits had been rigged against them.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
Our research shows that black veterans are twice as likely
to live in poverty to one third.
Speaker 11 (51:01):
Excuse me, make up to one third of the veteran's
homeless population, and face forty four percent higher unemployment rates
in the white counterparts. These missing veteran benefits, no doubt
play a part in that this isn't just about benefits
and equal rights.
Speaker 4 (51:15):
This is about legacy.
Speaker 11 (51:16):
This is about erasing the history of our community, something
that we are all well attuned to as we've witnessed
the attacks on our rights to exist and have our
story told today. Removing our history while denying us access
to the same benefits, has created an entire generation that
were denied, and that was not by accident. It wasn't
accidental when our ancestors were enslaved. It wasn't accidental when
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it took an entire civil war to liberate millions.
Speaker 4 (51:41):
It wasn't accidental when our.
Speaker 11 (51:43):
Communities were burned to the ground for daring to be
independent and prosperous.
Speaker 4 (51:48):
And it isn't accidental today that we continue to deal
with this.
Speaker 11 (51:53):
All these things were designed to obscure the truth of
how our nation built prosperity on the backs of black
people and defended that prosperity with the service of black veterans.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
That's why this resolution represents a demand for truth.
Speaker 11 (52:07):
It's an opportunity to finally document, acknowledge, and address the
full scope of our collective American legacy.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
For black veterans.
Speaker 11 (52:15):
Specifically, it means finally recognizing that racial wealthcap isn't about
individual choice, it's about will for structure.
Speaker 4 (52:22):
More important, I truly.
Speaker 11 (52:24):
Believe this nation needs reparations because we can never heal
an illness that we refuse to diagnose. Today, we stand
not just as advocates, but as descendants, the children and
the loved ones of the dispossess Our ancestors serve with honor,
face discrimination, with dignity, and passed down stories of service
that we're ignored. We carry their legacy and we demand
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that their sacrifices be fully recognized, and we demand Reparationists.
Speaker 5 (52:54):
Doctor Marcus Anthony KNT, authoratical Reparations over the soul of
the nation, a board member of ANBA.
Speaker 4 (53:00):
Thank you so much, doctor giants.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
You can always redirect money into better situations. I remember
I interviewed one of the guys who the War Dogs
movie was based off, and I you know, you hear things.
We don't always register things. I remember I asked them,
you know what the budget is for defense in the US.
He said eight hundred billion dollars a year, eight hundred
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billions of me.
Speaker 1 (53:29):
I thought it was two hundred and fifty. It used
to be that.
Speaker 3 (53:32):
It's been raising up over the years, probably about five
ten years ago it was that. Well, right, if you
talk about the Pentagon alone, they spent billions.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
Yet eight hundred billion. Well, in total, eight hundred billion dollars. Yes,
that's per just that's per year, yeah, per year, per year,
eight hundred billion. Yeah, that's the entire Pentagon budget. Yeah, yeah,
I had no idea. Yeah, it's eight hundred billion dollars
in a year on weapons.
Speaker 5 (54:01):
Yeah, it's about ten times more than like the next
five biggest countries combined.
Speaker 1 (54:06):
Yes, something like that.
Speaker 5 (54:08):
So eight hundred billion dollars. That mean in thirteen years
if we applied the same amount to reparations.
Speaker 1 (54:19):
Wait, I'm long, I'm long.
Speaker 3 (54:21):
Twenty twenty five, eight hundred and ninety two point six
billion dollars go.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
All those nine hundred almost nine hundred billion.
Speaker 5 (54:30):
Economists have concluded on several economists that can have concluded
that black reparations would amount to between thirteen and seventeen
trillion dollars.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
Trillion dollars.
Speaker 5 (54:42):
Yes, we're spending you just said one trillion a year
on defense. Yeah, just give us half of that. Just
gives this throw us half ane hundred billion years, five
hundred billion per year, and we're stretching out to twenty
five years.
Speaker 3 (54:58):
I mean, listen, I remember, you know, this was when
I was you know, I was going viral for these comments.
I remember at the time, this was before the pandemic.
I said, I don't think that cash payments for black
preparations are going to work because of the amount of
money you would probably bankrupt the country. I suggested, for example,
like you know, free college education.
Speaker 8 (55:18):
And so forth.
Speaker 3 (55:19):
And people got all me and it was like, oh,
that's not fair, word about Jewish people. Your people got
reparations from Germany and so forth. And then the pandemic
happened and I saw the amount of money that the
US gave out and I said, you know something, I
was wrong.
Speaker 1 (55:30):
I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
I think.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
The US got it.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
If the US wanted to pay black people back for
slavery cash is actually approp so I had to apologize.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
I remember me and deal like you. We talked about
that in one of my.
Speaker 5 (55:42):
Shows and also Live Always, and I've been a member
of In fact, I helped write the Reparations legislation as
a student assistant to Congressman Son Conyers when he drafted it.
And I've always, as part of the reparations movement, advocated
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for suing corporations that have survived, corporations that profited from
slavery and have survived, and there are many who.
Speaker 1 (56:17):
Participated in the slave trade.
Speaker 5 (56:19):
We know that Wall Street financed much of the slave trade,
so in that sense they can pay without bankrupting their individuals.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
Yeah, yeah, I mean there's actually, let me see, there's
a list of corporations like this about to pull it up.
Speaker 3 (56:38):
The ones that we know about Lehman Brothers, ETNA, JP
Morgan yep, the New York Life Insurance yep. And then
Rothschild and Son's Bank in London, Norfolk Southern. That's the
train right USA today, Fleet Boston's CSX, Canadian National Railway,
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Brown Brothers, Harriman, Brooks Brothers, Barclays, the Barclays.
Speaker 1 (57:05):
Center, over in Brooklyn. Yeah, and just give it to
black people. They could own that, right, that's cool, not.
Speaker 5 (57:10):
To say everybody you mentioned over the course of years,
they've made kids and trilogans.
Speaker 35 (57:18):
Yeah, yeah, I agree, man, I agree. So now do
you think it will happen in our lifetime? Yes, well,
we didn't think we'd have a black president in our lifetime.
Speaker 8 (57:30):
This is true.
Speaker 5 (57:30):
So I'll never and you don't know unless you try,
and so let's get keep trying and see what happens.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (57:39):
And I mean you've seen small instances of this at
certain universities and so far, I think Harvard did something
about that, and a couple other universities.
Speaker 5 (57:48):
And we got local municipalities who have passed reparations ordinances
that also provide assistance.
Speaker 1 (58:00):
Pursuing to that ordinance.
Speaker 5 (58:01):
I think there's a guaranteed income in Chicago, I believe
it is, or it was for a short time fifteen
hundred per person for a certain population as part of
the reparations bill.
Speaker 1 (58:13):
And then you have states that can do the same.
Speaker 5 (58:16):
But major cities run by African American political officials have
certainly most of them passed ordinances supporting Congressional legislation for reparations.
And that's why it's so important that we participate in
the system that has the resources.
Speaker 1 (58:38):
You know, I get it.
Speaker 5 (58:40):
They don't respect us, they don't want us, they don't this,
they reject us. Why are you trying to fight your
main way into the white man's world? Why you want
to be somewhere wasn't nobody want? No, I don't want
to do any of that. I want what's mine, period,
That's what I want. Great great grandmama, I want great
great grandmama would have given me that.
Speaker 1 (59:00):
Y'all got it, Give me my shit. That's how I
look at it. Is not about anything other than justice.
Speaker 16 (59:08):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (59:10):
Like I said, I've said certain things that I had to,
you know, rely back on, you know, But ultimately I'm
okay with getting more information and changing my stands.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
Yeah, that's okay. We're all wrong a certain time done.
Speaker 3 (59:24):
So, Yeah, we all have opinions, and you get more information,
and I think you're better off absorbing the new information
as opposed to just being stubborn and saying, well I
said it before, So I just got to understand on
that and.
Speaker 8 (59:34):
So forth.
Speaker 4 (59:36):
Divide in Some Americans reparations.
Speaker 18 (59:39):
It has been over one hundred and fifty years since
the end of slavery, but inequality still persists among the
black community, and according to my next guest, it would.
Speaker 16 (59:48):
Take more.
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To repair the systemic tap joining us nap enough.
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Welcome and tol Us, Oklahoma.
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This has been a story.
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Greenwood District, better known as Black Wall Street, a thriving.
Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
African American community, once.
Speaker 8 (01:00:08):
Spanning forty square blocks.
Speaker 30 (01:00:10):
Greenwood was created because we were excluded to the massacre
of nineteen twenty one.
Speaker 27 (01:00:15):
Greenwood was burned to the ground and over three hundred
people were murdered.
Speaker 8 (01:00:21):
Hundred and fifty six homes burnt down.
Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
This history is recent enough and there are still free people.
Two looks through it.
Speaker 8 (01:00:28):
The spirits, the Black Wall Streets survived.
Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
And the story of Greenwood is finally being told. My
family was here for the nineteen twenty one race massacon.
Speaker 8 (01:00:37):
Oh, they had a house on Lansing Street. We've been
a leading the pressure. We're just trying to do good.
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We're trying to do good.
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One hundred years later. Is descendants of that community of
building a new legacy.
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