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Reparations for Slavery

Ten Fundamental Principles of Reparations

By Reparations

1. Validation of Our Humanity, 2. Completion of the Emancipation Process, 3. Compensation Must Be Proportionate to the Crime, 4. Reparations Must Produce the Just Society, 5. Africans Must Exercise Autonomy Throughout the Process, 6. We Must Repair Ourselves, 7. Self-repair Will Generate Mass Support for Reparations, 8. Reparations Must Be a Broad Movement, 9. The Mass of Our People Must Be Intimately Involved, 10. Network and Establish a New International Legal Structure

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Freed Slaves Civil War

A Lesson on Slavery for White America

By Editors' Choice

By Paul Street — Look at the following series of tweets from the president of the United States, reflecting Thursday on the tearing down of Confederate statues in the U.S. South: Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson—who’s next, Washington, Jefferson?…

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