In These Times

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• • 21 Jul 05
  • 12:54 pm

  Thank you, Salim, for another very insightful essay. To be sure, belated, hypocritical apologies and long delayed, diluted justice are no substitute for Reparations. For more than a decade courageous Black scholars and activists (including AFRE's Silis Muhammad and NCOBRA's Dorothy Lewis) have been diligently working inside the United Nations to establish Human Rights and secure Reparations for all slave descendants in the Western Hemisphere, who continue to suffer from long-term Euro-American imposed ethnocide and forced assimilation. We must remember that the same Caucasian Republicans and Caucasian Democrats who are fiercely opposed to Reparations for Afrodescendants have always fully endorsed massive …

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• • 05 Jun 05
  • 7:46 am

  From its inception the USA government has been a racist oligarchy, never a true democracy. As the iron-clad grip of the arrogant ruling class tightens over the political economy, more citizens are being forced to realize why the top elite can run circles around the middle class and the underclass while simultaneously violating both the U.S. Consitution and international law. As America falls politically, economically and spiritually, the top one percent (which owns 46% of all private wealth) intensifies its exploitation of the classes beneath it, especially the long-suffering slave descendants upon whom the government has long imposed ethnocide and forced …

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