By Jeanne Mirer (Click here to view the entire issue) In 1977, I had to fly to a city in the Midwest. The cab driver who picked me up at the airport got chatty and asked me where I was from. When I said "Detroit," he asked, "which suburb?" I said, "I live in the city." He then said to me, "How do you stand it? There are so many niggers there." Obviously, because I was … [Read more...] about “H.R. 40: If Not Now, When?” by Jeanne Mirer (November-December 1994 P&R Issue)
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“Let Us Not Accept Either Victimology or Blaming-the-Victimology” by Wilson Riles, Jr. (September-October 1994 P&R Issue)
By Wilson Riles, Jr. (Click here to view the entire issue) As has happened so often in the past, when it comes to real money and assets folks get squeamish. It’s no longer about doing the right thing, it’s about how you can’t be serious. H.R. 40 does not ask for money. It asks for an acknowledgment of the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery … [Read more...] about “Let Us Not Accept Either Victimology or Blaming-the-Victimology” by Wilson Riles, Jr. (September-October 1994 P&R Issue)
“Atonement and Self-Determination” by Kalonji Olusegun (September-October 1994 P&R Issue)
By Kalonji Olusegun (Click here to view the entire issue) Both Chester Hartman's interview with Richard America and Howard Winant's "A Friendly Dissent" lack the essence of the demand for reparations as seen by the grassroots Africans, 88% of whom, during a recent survey circulated by NCOBRA, indicated they believed that the United States should pay lack people reparations … [Read more...] about “Atonement and Self-Determination” by Kalonji Olusegun (September-October 1994 P&R Issue)
“Atonement and Self-Determination” by Kalonji Olusegun (September-October 1995 P&R Issue)
By Kalonji Olusegun (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Both Chester Hartman's interview with Richard America and Howard Winant's AFriendly Dissent@ lack the essence of the demand for reparations as seen by the grassroot Africans, 88% of whom, during a recent survey circulated by N'COBRA, indicated they believed that the United States should pay Black people … [Read more...] about “Atonement and Self-Determination” by Kalonji Olusegun (September-October 1995 P&R Issue)
