Dr. Conrad Worrill, Chair
National Black United Front
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Book cover - "Should
America Pay? Slavery
and the Raging Debate
on Reparations"
Posted on 03/14/2005 3:16:28 AM PST by freepatriot32
Dr. Conrad Worrill, Chair
National Black United Front
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Book cover - "Should
America Pay? Slavery
and the Raging Debate
on Reparations"
Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) - The Atlanta Chapter of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) will host a gathering of the foremost activists, advocates and authorities on the demand for reparations in America. Beginning Thursday, March 17th with "Reparations 101: Reparations - A Healing Process", sponsored by the NDABA Movement in conjunction with Clark Atlanta University Student Organizations, and culminating Saturday evening, March 19th with a keynote address "Reparations: Our Case and Our Demand", to be delivered by The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the fifth ndaba (a South African Zulu word for "the great sitting down") will take place on the campus of Clark Atlanta University.
The NDABA Movement was founded by Dr. Conrad Worrill, Chair of the National Black United Front, in response to what he observed to be a plateauing of impact in advancing the cause of reparations to the next level. "I wrote to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on May 31, 2003 requesting he use the tremendous impact of his leadership to assist us in a defining moment in history in the Reparations Movement in America," said Dr. Worrill. Since joining together with Dr. Worrill, Dr. Raymond Winbush (Director of the Institute for Urban Studies, Morgan State University and author of the critically acclaimed book, "Should America Pay"), Baba Hannibal Afrik (NCOBRA National Co-Chair), Mawuli Mel Davis, Esq. (NCOBRA Atlanta Co-Chair) and other national and international reparations advocates, activists and authorities, Minister Farrakhan has helped to re-energize, coalesce and crystallize the strategic efforts of national and international reparations organizations under the rubric of the NDABA Movement.
NDABA V will advance the goal of expanding activists' ability to organize at the grassroots level by inviting the participation of civil rights organizations. "Probably the foremost modern grassroots organizing effort is that of the civil rights movement," said Attorney Mawuli Davis. "And Atlanta has a storied history of civil rights leadership, activism and success. Our culture teaches us to honor our ancestors and a part of that homage is to emulate their determination, purposefulness and their sacrifice to heal and restore our people. By embracing the organizing strategies and successes of the civil rights movement, we envision a significant broadening and strengthening of the grassroots base in the reparations movement," Davis asserted.
The NDABA Movement has crafted a two-pronged strategy to advance: the first is the establishment of Working Groups in critical areas of the Reparations Movement - Organizational Collaboration, Legislation, Criminal In-Justice, Education, Black Spiritual Faith Community, Ayare-Sa (Internal Healing), Legal Strategies, Youth and Student, and Research and Scholarship. "We want the working groups to prepare a reparations platform and curricula...to organize at the grassroots level," declared Dr. Worrill. The second prong is the petition drive for one million signatures to be presented to the United States Congress demanding Congressional support of the payment of reparations to descendants of The Black Holocaust of Enslavement.
Previous ndabas have convened in Chicago, Jackson, MS, Houston and Baltimore and not only have included representation from the Nation of Islam, NCOBRA, and NBUF, but also The New Black Panther Party, Republic of New Afrika, Global African Congress, the Lost Found Nation of Islam, the National Conference of Black Lawyers and other leaders in the reparations movement.
Thursday, March 17th @ 7:00PM NDABA V: Reparations 101: Reparations-A Healing Process Room 102 Carl Ware Building-Clark Atlanta University 223 James P. Brawley Drive, SW-Atlanta, Georgia
Friday, March 18th @ 7:00PM NDABA V Reception hosted by Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks 2nd Floor, Thomas Cole Science & Research Center 223 James P. Brawley Drive, SW-Atlanta, Georgia
Saturday, March 19th @ 9:00AM NDABA V Workshop Groups University Gymnasium (Vivian Henderson Center) 605 Fair Street, SW-Atlanta, Georgia
Saturday, March 19th @ 7:00PM (Doors open @ 5:30pm) NDABA V Public Rally - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Reparations: Our Case and Our Demand University Gymnasium (Vivian Henderson Center) 605 Fair Street, SW-Atlanta, Georgia
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America is a mass-based coalition organized for the sole purpose of obtaining reparations for African descendants in the United States. It was organized in late 1987 and early 1988, to broaden the base of support for the long-standing reparations movement.
Organizational founders of N'COBRA include the New Afrikan Peoples Organization, the National Conference of Black Lawyers and the Republic of New Afrika. It has individual members and organizational affiliates, including the National Association of Black Social Workers, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, National Black United Front, Black Reparations Commission, and the International Peoples' Democratic Uhuru Movement. N'COBRA has chapters throughout the U.S. and in Ghana and London. N'COBRA's mission is to win full Reparations for Black African Descendants residing in the United States and its territories for the genocidal war against Africans that created the Transatlantic Slave "Trade," Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow and Chattel Slavery's continuing vestiges (the Maafa).
PRESS CONTACTS: Vivianne Hardy Townes, FFC RVT International, LLC ms.vht@intelligencia.com (404) 433-3253
Mawuli Mel Davis, Esq. Mawuli Davis & Associates, LLC mdavis@mawulidavis.com (404) 244-2004
Reparations = never gonna happen.
Do any of these people --freed by America-- even care?
Do any of these people --freed by America-- even care?
Curious, aren't these the same groups that insist they are the direct descendents of Egyptian rulers? And if so, they owe the Jews reparations and a few centuries of interest(By their own thinking). So, I vote the Jews get together and sue these idiots for a few Trillion/Quadrillion?
actually, we should send these clowns a check....they keep the issue alive, then someone asks a Dem elected official what they think of it..(Elijah Cummings,anyone?) and it gives the GOP a few more seats..
Have you heard of the "Exodus lawsuit" wherein the Egyptians are using the Torah as their "evidence" to sue Jews for property they took when they left Egypt?
http://www.archaeologyanswers.com/exodus_lawsuit.html
Another shakedown ... "I need about three fiddy"
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"I'll settle for $2.00 and some envelopes!"
FReep Sign:
The United States of America Constitution,
14th Amendment, don't blame me for your ignorance.
The question of reparations came up in the 1890's. At that time the members of the G.A.R - Grand Army of the Republic. told the former slaves that they had gotten all they would from them. The G.A.R. was talking to actual former slaves.
I have run the numbers. Starting with April 1861 and going to April 1865, the Union Army lost 77 combat dead a day, every day. The Union states were 20 million people at the time. If the same ratio of soliders died in Viet Nam, the Wall would have about 1 million 50 thousand names on it.
America has paid its debt in the blood of those brave men.
Case closed.
There, done. what was so hard about that?
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