Building a Culture of Repair: Juneteenth National Forum on Reparations

Sunday, June 19, 2022 - Juneteenth National Forum on Reparations "Building a Culture of Reparations". A National discussion on reparations as we move to advance legislation for a national reparations plan for Black America. Convened by the Global Circle of Reparations and Healing and hosted by Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith, Senior Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church.
SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Atty. Nkechi Taifa, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Kamm Howard, Dr. Joy DeGruy, Dr. Ron Daniels, Dr. John. D. Lloyd and more.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
Community Healing Network, Global Black, Institute of the Black World 21st Century, National African American Reparations Commission, National Black Cultural Information Trust, NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, Reparations Education Project, Reparations United, Safe Black Spaces, SpiritHouse NC, Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund, The Global Circle of Reparations and Healing.
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About The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC)
Convened by the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (ibw21.org), NAARC is a group of distinguished professionals from across the country with outstanding accomplishments in the fields of law, medicine, journalism, academia, history, civil rights and social justice advocacy.
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How does a channel with 16 thousand subscribers only get 32 views, especially on a subject like this? Trauma is not the only mental condition we need to address among us. Insanity - doing the same things, in the same ways, over and over and expecting different results, seems our condition, since the days of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. How bad off the majority of us are, needs to be accurately gauged. The question must be asked - is our overall problem really the result of a small minority of us, having a disproportionate negative impact, on us as a group?
The issue of Black wealth has been central in the discussion of reparations. Who is talking about the impact of crime on the value of Black owned homes, which represents the majority of the source of Black wealth? Daniels talked about gentrification in D.C. and that this issue around the country, should be a part of reparations. How can we expect to heal ourselves via western psychology, if we can't first be honest with ourselves? During the time of, or close to, the reign of Mayor Marion Barry, who is said to have created numerous Black millionaires, and who is seen by many as one of, if not the greatest Black Mayor, violent crime in D.C., was very bad in D.C. The late Dr. Francis Crest Welshing ask the people of D.C., to consider asking the National Guard be brought in to help end the violence. It was so bad many children were getting killed on playgrounds, in parks, and on their block. She asked that they come up with a plan of their own, with a timetable attached, by which time it must prove effective, if asking the Guard to help, was unacceptable. I never heard of any plan from the people. Gentrification sometime later obviously began.
Why did not the people of D.C., who needed the most from a Black Mayor, benefit from his policies, and all these millionaires, people from D.C., to this day, praise Barry for creating? Whose fault was it, that many Black people were displaced from D.C.? Was it a lack of healing? Black leadership, (or should we say self appointed spokespersons or spokespersons, by default, for lack of a governance structure) - seems poised to lead us from, what they call a prison industrial complex, to a mental health one. These same people on one hand speak against the western mindset and ask us to return to an African one, while they call each other Queens and Kings, which are symbolic of the subjugation we constantly wail against. The contradiction exhibited by this spokespersons are no different than those among the masses of us. They don't even acknowledge the blatant contradiction that proclaiming our lives matter, while we ignore the blatant turning away from the old stance we took on the high rate of fratricide we engage in.
Hip-Hop expressed the idea that our lives mattered, in the 80's with songs like 'We're Headed For Self Destruction', and a campaign against violence, yet many a part of H-H back then, now say to this problem "it is not a thing". They say something that equates to excusing it, with an argument, that says the factor of proximity in violence, is their major concern, and so it is no concern to them, because all crime has a factor of proximity. They might as well side with the Black conservative apologist Thomas Sowell, and reject reparations claims, because, he sees all historic slavery as equal.
What kind of leadership do we have, when this obvious contradiction and reversal of stance, is ignored by intellectuals and activist? We have gone from saying we were conscious and keeping things real, to now being woke, but this and other stuff happening with us, makes it all a joke, that on us. What a joke to call this a national forum. All this is no different than the gas lighting that is fake-news and Trumpism from the Right.
It hurts to have to be so blunt and seemingly harsh, but this must be said, if for no other reason than the issue of reparation, which there is no proof that the majority of Black people care any more about it, than voting. A national address by a body representative, of all the fractions that exist among us, must be made to us as a group. It has to be determined, if it is realistic to continue to think and act on certain levels, as though we are a functional group. For the most part we are dysfunctional. In that state, it is insane to speak as if reparations will impact us as a group, in the manner that is being said by those leading and speaking to this issue.
All this talk of trauma, but its long existence, has not stopped the majority of us from getting to were we are now. It is not as debilitating as, it is made out to be. To the degree it exist, what is the prescription - certainly not drugs? So what does that leave, other than what in essence, would be group therapy, if we are talking about us rising and falling as a group? Therapy requires an admittance that one has a problem, and they must be honest in dealing with it, and committed to healing themselves. Can we say as a people, we have met these basic requirements? Who and how many are actually witnessing all these forums on our issues?

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BA is a slur/negative term, not conveying any African identity. Pick a Bantu name, e.g., Maboma ('many villages' < KiSwahili). American = white settler colonist = no power for the African.