No Mo' Funding Our Oppression

Today there are more and more calls for Reparations. Recently, I saw a clip from the Dr. Phil show, where he was talking with Professor William A. Darity, Jr, PhD and Dr. Phil stated that giving reparations to any group would be a disaster. The show however was specifically focused on reparation for Black Americans. According to the US Department of State, Germany has given $86.8 billion to Holocaust survivors and their heirs. Does Dr. Phil think this is a disaster? On the National Archives website you read this, " The Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established in 1988 and was charged with administering a ten-year program to provide a tax-free restitution payment of $20,000 to eligible individuals of Japanese ancestry for the fundamental injustices of the evacuation, relocation, and internment during World War II." Disaster, Dr Phil? According to History Channel's website the US government awarded "$1.3 billion to Indian Tribes and Bands". However, with alleged mismanagement and with much of the money being held in trust the article states the each individual only received about $1,000. Clearly, much more should be done for indigenous people here in North America. However, when will Black Americans receive what's due to us? Some will say never, but I suspect some of the same people would have said never when it came to an end to slavery and American Apartheid aka Jim Crow. Is there a dollar amount that could compensate for hundreds of years of forced unpaid labor, raping of men and women, stealing of land and property, lynching by the thousands, redlining, being cut out of ability to participate in GI bill and homeownership for the most part for many years and unrestricted police/deputized citizen violence? If any group has a claim, it is black Americans. So when I heard a sister, Kimberly who is an activist in New York speaking at City Council meeting saying, "We will no longer fund our oppression", I thought of all the ways wealth has been extracted from the black community over hundreds of years, in an unbroken chain of violence. She spoke of a unit in New York and their extreme violence against protesters, but is it any different to the Scorpion unit in Memphis, supposedly recently disbanded or the Red Dog units in Atlanta. Violence and theft from black communities have been a theme here in America. How do we move towards economic withdrawal strategies Dr. King talked about in his sermon at Mason Temple April 3, 1968? As he stated we have to redistribute the pain. We won't get reparations because America comes to some epiphany that yes, we have done them wrong all these years. It will only come when the pressure national and internationally is sufficient that there is no other choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-GMBqfHGJ0