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🧵The California Reparations Task Force meets this Friday and Saturday in San Diego!
Agenda: oag.ca.gov/system/files/m…
Join virtually on oag.ca.gov/ab3121 or via @EtmMedia’s Youtube for a live chat option!
Public comment (9:10am-10:10am):
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•Code: 3968101
Agenda: oag.ca.gov/system/files/m…
Join virtually on oag.ca.gov/ab3121 or via @EtmMedia’s Youtube for a live chat option!
Public comment (9:10am-10:10am):
•844-291-5495
•Code: 3968101
Missed the December 2022 hearing in Oakland? Review the meeting minutes here: oag.ca.gov/system/files/m…
#AB3121 #CRTF #ReparationsNow #Reparations
#AB3121 #CRTF #ReparationsNow #Reparations
What’s on the agenda for Jan 2023? Well, for one: Tax Law Considerations!
The task force has invited three tax law experts to provide expert testimony on the intersection between reparations and tax.
Timely considering this latest article from @business: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The task force has invited three tax law experts to provide expert testimony on the intersection between reparations and tax.
Timely considering this latest article from @business: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Hampton, VA. Slab-town: After the Civil War, African Americans lived in large, segregated refugee camps like Slabtown because there was nowhere else for them to go. Hospitals, dispensaries, and military camps were unable to serve the masses of enslaved people…” #ReparationsNow
“Escaped and abandoned formerly enslaved people settled near or within the Union Army’s military camps and battle lines. The camps did not have adequate sanitation, nutrition, or medical care. One out of every four African Americans who lived in the camps died.(1864) #Reparations
Since we are celebrating a new sculpture in Boston which some suggest means the city left its racist past behind in the '70s, let me tell you about when the whites of Boston came together to thwart the will of Roxbury in the '80s. #thread
As a young undergraduate going to my Nonno's alma mater, Suffolk University, I quickly identified the most deeply and broadly knowledgeable professor in the political science department: Mudavanha Patterson. We hit it off, and he let me hang out after classes, and we talked about
politics from the local to the global. He was a former Black Panther and a Pan-Africanist (and, I would argue, an Afro-pessimist). He got me involved in what would become known as the Mandela project. Put simply, Roxbury wanted out of Boston, and in Massachusetts, there was a way
My 3x great grand parents, Victor Theophile Haydel (1835-1924) and Marie Celeste Becnel (1840-1885) were both born enslaved on the @WhitPlantation. The couple who would become the ancestors of the African American Haydel family. #DESCENDANTChallenge @Participant @HGMedia
“Victor was the son of an enslaved woman (Anna), who was herself a mulatto. Victor was fathered by Antoine Haydel, the brother of Marie Azelie Haydel. Celeste was a daughter of Francoise, the enslaved cook of Marie, and was fathered by Florestan Becnel, Marie’s brother-in-law.”
“It is known that each of these men was married, and that refusing to engage in sexual relations with a white man was not an option available to either of these women.”
#DESCENDANTChallenge
Honored to descend from such survivors: whitneyplantation.org/history/the-bi…
#DESCENDANTChallenge
Honored to descend from such survivors: whitneyplantation.org/history/the-bi…
The Rise of the Lost Cause Myth (across U.S. + California):
“After Reconstruction ended, white southerners created the myth of the Confederate “Lost Cause” in order to downplay the horrors of enslavement and terrorize African Americans.”
#Reparations #ReparationsNow
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“After Reconstruction ended, white southerners created the myth of the Confederate “Lost Cause” in order to downplay the horrors of enslavement and terrorize African Americans.”
#Reparations #ReparationsNow
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“Southerners who opposed Black civil rights falsely argued that the Civil War had little to do with enslavement.
The Lost Cause myth claims that the Confederacy had fought a heroic war to save the southern way of life from being destroyed by the North.”
#ReparationsNow
The Lost Cause myth claims that the Confederacy had fought a heroic war to save the southern way of life from being destroyed by the North.”
#ReparationsNow
“This untruthful history also claims that the Confederacy lost the Civil War only because the more populated, industrialized North overpowered white southerners, not because enslavement or the Confederate cause was wrong.”
#Reparations #ReparationsNow
#Reparations #ReparationsNow
🧵 “Rose Cannon’s (@Reparationist_1) family moved to Evanston in 1919, when her father and his family arrived from Tennessee and settled in the 5th Ward.” #reparations #ReparationsNow
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“As her family prospered, in the early 1960s, when Cannon was in high school, they moved into their dream home, a brand new house in the historically White 2nd Ward neighborhood.” #reparations #ReparationsNow
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“They were unable to secure a conventional mortgage and resorted to a contract for deed, she said, referring to a predatory financial agreement commonly required for Black people in the 1960s.”
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Today is the 212th anniversary of the 1811 German Coast Uprising, the largest slave revolt in American history!
My ancestors were enslaved on the @WhitPlantation (formerly German-enslaver owned Habitation Haydel).
Learn more: @1811KidOry and @ClintSmithIII! ✊🏾
#ReparationsNow
My ancestors were enslaved on the @WhitPlantation (formerly German-enslaver owned Habitation Haydel).
Learn more: @1811KidOry and @ClintSmithIII! ✊🏾
#ReparationsNow
The California Reparations Task Force’s historic interim report references a book on Habitation Haydel:
Ibrahima Seck, ‘Boule fait Gombo: A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (@WhitPlantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860’.
Learn more (Ch.2): oag.ca.gov/ab3121/reports
Ibrahima Seck, ‘Boule fait Gombo: A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (@WhitPlantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860’.
Learn more (Ch.2): oag.ca.gov/ab3121/reports
Did You Know?: “Enslavers who forced enslaved people to labor in agricultural production exploited not only their physical strength, but also their intellect, innovation, and skill.”
Growing rice and indigo for instance, required skilled labor and specialized knowledge! 🧠
Growing rice and indigo for instance, required skilled labor and specialized knowledge! 🧠
“After the end of the Civil War and the outlawing of enslavement, the United States went through a process known as Reconstruction, a period of rebuilding and reuniting the country. Abraham Lincoln had begun this process during the Civil War.”
Learn more: oag.ca.gov/ab3121/reports
Learn more: oag.ca.gov/ab3121/reports
“But Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 put Reconstruction in the hands of his vice-president, Andrew Johnson, and Republicans in Congress.
Johnson wanted to keep white people in charge of the South and opposed giving equal political rights to African Americans.” #Reparations
Johnson wanted to keep white people in charge of the South and opposed giving equal political rights to African Americans.” #Reparations
Former enslavers refused to acknowledge African Americans’ new freedom. In every ex-Confederate state, white southerners passed laws called “Black Codes.” Black Codes included vagrancy laws that allowed police to arrest any Black person without an employer and force them to work.
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Watch the end of the year recap on the first-in-the-nation California Reparations Task Force with @TheRevAl @PoliticsNation on @MSNBC!
#CRTF #AB3121 #ReparationsNow
Watch the end of the year recap on the first-in-the-nation California Reparations Task Force with @TheRevAl @PoliticsNation on @MSNBC!
#CRTF #AB3121 #ReparationsNow
California has undertaken the nation’s most sweeping effort yet to explore some concrete restitution to Black citizens to address the enduring economic effects of slavery and racism. #CRTF #ReparationsNow
nytimes.com/2022/12/01/bus… via @nytimes @kurtisalee
A THREAD 🧵:
nytimes.com/2022/12/01/bus… via @nytimes @kurtisalee
A THREAD 🧵:
1. “A nine-member Reparations Task Force has spent months traveling across California to learn about the generational effects of racist policies and actions.”
#AB3121 #CRTF #ReparationsNow
#AB3121 #CRTF #ReparationsNow
2. “The group, formed by legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020, is scheduled to release a report to lawmakers in Sacramento to next year outlining recommendations for state-level reparations.”
#AB3121 #CRTF #ReparationsNow
#AB3121 #CRTF #ReparationsNow
❌No BLACK AMERICAN ever enslaved you, though. ❌ We have VOLUMES of historical receipts to prove it, thanks to #Farrakhan. FOLLOW @DillardVicki #ReparationsNow 📸 clip from @dijoni
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.@JosepBorrellF
#GaslightingTheJungle
1/ Borrell's Garden perpetrated unspeakable atrocities on Africans & other indigenous populations: genocide, slavery, colonialism, nuclear bombs, agent orange! And now they want the world to accept them as paragons of decency!
Shameless.
#GaslightingTheJungle
1/ Borrell's Garden perpetrated unspeakable atrocities on Africans & other indigenous populations: genocide, slavery, colonialism, nuclear bombs, agent orange! And now they want the world to accept them as paragons of decency!
Shameless.
2/ The Garden People took a Congolese Pygmy by the name Ota Benga and kept him in a Bronx Zoo Monkey House. He committed suicide in 1916.
3/ In 1958, as part of Expo 58, Belgium put 598 people – including 273 men, 128 women and 197 children, a total of 183 families – brought over from Africa on display. The spectators "threw money or bananas over the closure of bamboo,” one journalist wrote at the time.
The Saxon Palace was one of the most distinctive buildings in prewar #Warsaw. It was destroyed by Germans in #WWII.
A 🧵:
#PolishHistory #Poland #ReparationsForPoland #BeLikePoland #unredeemed #ReparationsNow #PałacSaski
A 🧵:
#PolishHistory #Poland #ReparationsForPoland #BeLikePoland #unredeemed #ReparationsNow #PałacSaski
The Palace, erected as a result of the expansion of the 17th-century palace of Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (a leading poet of the Polish Baroque), was rebuilt many times in the following centuries. During the Second Polish Republic, it was the seat of the General Staff of the 🇵🇱 Army.
After the destruction of the Palace by 🇩🇪, the only trace of it that remained was a fragment of the 3 central arcades with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier–a symbolic grave commemorating the nameless soldiers who died in the defense of 🇵🇱”
#PolishHistory #WW2 #ReparationsForPoland
#PolishHistory #WW2 #ReparationsForPoland
The adoption of the Act of 23 Sept 1922 on the construction of Gdynia port by 🇵🇱 Parliament is considered the formal beginning of the port of Gdynia. The works on its establishment, however, commenced much earlier... 🧵
#PolishHistory #History #WW2 #Poland #OTD
#PolishHistory #History #WW2 #Poland #OTD
The favourable int'l situation, the signing of the Treaty of Versailles & the restoration of 🇵🇱 access to the sea constituted an incentive for the 🇵🇱 gov to take action. The needs of the 🇵🇱 trade were to be secured by the Free City of Gdańsk, located within the customs area of 🇵🇱
In 1920 there was a conflict regarding the blocking of shipment of arms to 🇵🇱 during war w/🇷🇺, calling 🇵🇱 warships at port. The need to build the own sea port became apparent. In 1920, Kazimierz Porębski appointed Mr Wenda, the engineer to choose the place to build a future port.
🇵🇱 #Poland's @KancelariaSejmu passes historic resolution to seek #reparations for #WWII losses caused by #Germany.
#unREDEEMed #WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #ReparationsNow #ReparacjedlaPolski @PolandMFA #ReparationsForPoland #history
#unREDEEMed #WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #ReparationsNow #ReparacjedlaPolski @PolandMFA #ReparationsForPoland #history
64% of #Polish people say #Germany should pay reparations for the damage it caused to #Poland during #WWII according to a new Social Changes opinion poll (source: @wPolityce_pl, Sept 4)
#WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #ReparacjedlaPolski #ReparationsForPoland #Statistics
#WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #ReparacjedlaPolski #ReparationsForPoland #Statistics
The death toll in #WWII was enormous with millions of lives lost.
There was 1️⃣ country that suffered disproportionately, it was #Poland 🇵🇱
Chart: WW2 casualties as % of each country's population
#unREDEEMed #ReparationsNow #ReparationsForPoland #ReparacjedlaPolski #Infographic
There was 1️⃣ country that suffered disproportionately, it was #Poland 🇵🇱
Chart: WW2 casualties as % of each country's population
#unREDEEMed #ReparationsNow #ReparationsForPoland #ReparacjedlaPolski #Infographic
🇵🇱 #Poland submitted 7️⃣ restitution applications to #Russia 🇷🇺. The applications are for the return of cultural goods and works of art stolen by the Red Army during #WWII.
#ReparationsForPoland @PiotrGlinski #RepublicNow #UNREDEEMED @KimOosterlinck #art #PolishHistory #stolenart
#ReparationsForPoland @PiotrGlinski #RepublicNow #UNREDEEMED @KimOosterlinck #art #PolishHistory #stolenart
Of all the countries #Poland suffered the greatest #WWII losses, also in the terms of art & culture. Contemporary experts estimated the museal losses alone to >𝟓𝟎%. To this day, in many🇵🇱 museums there are empty frames, a symbol of🇵🇱 war losses #unredeemed #ReparationsForPoland
@PiotrGlinski pointed that "from the beginning, 🇩🇪 carried out a planned&systematic robbery of public, private&church collections".
"However, it was not only the 🇩🇪 who robbed 🇵🇱 cultural goods. On Sept 17, 1939 the Red Army together with "art experts" entered 🇵🇱 territory"
"However, it was not only the 🇩🇪 who robbed 🇵🇱 cultural goods. On Sept 17, 1939 the Red Army together with "art experts" entered 🇵🇱 territory"
#OTD in 1939 🇩🇪 Germans shot 43 civilians on the market square in Rawa Mazowiecka, #Poland.
#PolishHistory #unREDEEMed #WW2 #history #ReparationsNow #ReparacjedlaPolski #twitteristorians #WW2photography
#PolishHistory #unREDEEMed #WW2 #history #ReparationsNow #ReparacjedlaPolski #twitteristorians #WW2photography
During the first days of WWII, Rawa was heavily bombed, and its population was severely affected. The Germans entered the town on Sept. 8, 1939, at which time males were gathered in the market square, where the Germans indulged in a sadistic game.
Among other things, many of the dignitaries, mostly aged, were made to run several kilometres in the direction of Tomaszów. In a nearby wood the Germans threatened to kill them.
During #WWII, 🇵🇱 suffered the greatest personal & material losses out of all European countries, in terms of total population and national assets.
#unREDEEMed #WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #ReparationsNow #ReparacjedlaPolski @arekmularczyk @PolandMFA @michalrachon
#unREDEEMed #WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #ReparationsNow #ReparacjedlaPolski @arekmularczyk @PolandMFA @michalrachon
64% of #Polish people say #Germany should pay reparations for the damage it caused to #Poland during #WWII according to a new Social Changes opinion poll (source: @wPolityce_pl, Sept 4)
#WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #ReparacjedlaPolski #ReparationsForPoland #Statistics
#WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #ReparacjedlaPolski #ReparationsForPoland #Statistics
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Chicago cannot provide #Reparations. That is a proper noun. It refers to a federal obligation.
Chicago absolutely can and must provide reparative justice. Ald. Stephanie Coleman is leading an effort to hold corporations accountable for their role historically in the slave trade
Chicago absolutely can and must provide reparative justice. Ald. Stephanie Coleman is leading an effort to hold corporations accountable for their role historically in the slave trade
through her subcommittee in the Health & Human Relations Committee. I believe we need to provide robust funding for that subcommittee and to elevate Ald. Coleman to the chairwomanship of that committee. We need to talk about our economic obligation to the descendants of enslaved
Black American citizens, starting with the systematic displacement of Black residents through a series of massive economic ruptures in the economic infrastructure of South & West Side communities. We require reparative justice for disinvestment
We will not move forward as a nation until we address the centuries-old slaver culture that dominates every aspect of our society. We will not progress until we redress, & that requires understanding. It's a battle on all fronts: emotional, spiritual, economic, social, political,
and on & on. But the good news is that the fulcrum is fundamentally an economic praxis. Fix the way our money behaves, and the old worldview shatters. We have been avoiding this reckoning since 1865 and before, but we are now out of time. Our planet is burning because we cannot
feel for one another, and that is because we have been taught that some people aren't people at all, and that means we're all free to not give a damn about one another or the planet. We built a society where being a brutalizing cop is as natural as being a nurturing doctor--more
HR40 was introduced in 1989. HR40's purpose was simply to create a commission to STUDY and RECOMMEND reparations proposals for Black Americans. This bill has languished for 33 years without ever coming to the floor of the House of Representatives.
Any of the 3 democratic presidents since 1989 office, (@BillClinton, @BarackObama, and @JoeBiden), during that 33 year period could have signed an executive order creating such a commission with the stroke of a pen. NONE of them have done so.
By virtually every economic measurement, Black Americans come in #DEADLAST in terms of wealth, income, healthcare, home-ownership; and first in terms of the incarceration rate and homelessness. We are projected to be wealthless by 2030.
Story time. Here's what you need to know about Black Americans' pursuit of reparations as it stands today.
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Do you know who the rich are?
I spent a lot of time at university resenting my classmates and even friends for not having to work and being able to do afford unpaid internships.
It took ten years for me to learn that they're not even close to being rich.
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#TaxTheRich
I spent a lot of time at university resenting my classmates and even friends for not having to work and being able to do afford unpaid internships.
It took ten years for me to learn that they're not even close to being rich.
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#TaxTheRich
The rich see a £250K a year job as "chickenfeed".
If you don't need it, babes, give it back.
#TaxTheRich
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If you don't need it, babes, give it back.
#TaxTheRich
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The rich don't earn their money, they hide it -- in assets, in companies, and offshore.
They then pass these assets, companies, offshore accounts on to their children.
Spoiler: Follow the money and you'll find it came from enslaving people.
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#TaxTheRich #ReparationsNow
They then pass these assets, companies, offshore accounts on to their children.
Spoiler: Follow the money and you'll find it came from enslaving people.
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#TaxTheRich #ReparationsNow
A very long informational thread about why African and Caribbean immigrants caping on Twitter are the least of Black Americans problems… #ReparationsNow
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“Immigrants from Mexico have recently, for the first time since 1990, represented less than half of the undocumented population…in 2017, about 4.95 million of the 10.5 million undocumented population were from Mexico, 1.9 million from Central America, & 1.45 million from Asia.”
“Overall, this represents a minority of the foreign-born population, which in 2017 numbered 44.5 million—45% of whom are naturalized citizens, and 27% of whom are lawful permanent residents.”
