To: Democratic Politicians/Candidates
Re: REPARATIONS



To all current Democratic politicians and Candidates for U.S. President, this is an open letter to you all to ask once again respectively to open the discussion of "reparations" for all the damage slavery has visited upon the Black/African American. First let me be clear about how this damage occurred. Our ancestors were content living all around Africa when suddenly the nubile men and young boys were abducted and brought to America to work without pay or any explanations as to what was happening to them. The women of child bearing age were also abducted as they represented an seemingly endless supply of new forced, free labor in the future. Our ancestors were beaten, and raped because to their captors they were not human. It seems easy to forget about all the "People of Color" in this country until an election cycle. That is when we are courted ferociously. Well it's that time again and the conversation about reparations has once again stalled. Right now, I am most enraged about what happened during "Reconstruction" after the Civil War. Black/African Americans had adapted to life in America and were thriving. Then the "movie" "Birth of a Nation" was filmed and even screened in the White House. Caucasians believed that Black/African Americans were the kinds of savages featured in the movie. All of the progress, all of the forward momentum, all of the self sustenance was wiped out. Here we are today still being treated poorly and if for no other reason, we should receive reparations for all the free labor taken from our ancestors. However, there is a very compelling reason for us to receive annuities and or compensation. A newly freed slave known only as “Belinda” presented a petition to the Mass. legislature on Feb 14 1783 asking for an annual pension to be paid to her and her daughter “Prine” out of the proceeds of the plantation estate where she was enslaved. “Belinda” was awarded an annuity (reparations)....”. Finally if we do not have this conversation to completion, that will be evidence that this country would rather see Black/African Americans simply suffer and perish. If you are a Congress Person or Senator, you have the power to push this conversation forward and again, respectfully, we are asking you to do just that.





Regards,

African America