Please see the attached letter addressed to the Detroit Reparations Taskforce 11/14/2023 #ReparationsNow #DetroitReparationsTaskforce #TheDetroitGrassRootsCoalition

🎙️“There's a group called the Detroit Grassroots Coalition..had a virtual meeting with city council president and her office..kind of tense meeting honestly, coming to her directly, voicing frustrations about the lack of process, pushing her to get more involved” #ReparationsNow

Black Americans fought in every war and still no reparations……..

White people are so accustomed to profiting off the exploitation of Black labor that they see fairness as oppression

America became exceedingly wealthy from slave labor

Expanding eligibility to include the broader diaspora risks erasing that specificity. Reparations are not a diversity program.They are a legal & moral debt owed to a particular people.We must not let our history be used to fund repair for those who were not harmed in the same way

America is morally bankrupt. it’s only chance at redemption is creating justice for the American Descendants of Slavery.

“To be eligible for reparations, the task force says a person must be a descendant of an African enslaved in the US or in the diaspora, at least 21 years old, and a current resident of Detroit for at least 20 years” tag24.com/politics/repar…

Never stop talking about slavery

BREAKING 📣 The Detroit Grassroots Coalition condemns Detroit Reparations Task Force's final report as engineered erasure of Black Americans in Detroit and our demand for lineage-based eligibility. The coalition calls for accountability and partnership with Mayor-elect Mayor Mary Sheffield.

TONIGHT: District 6 Community Meeting 📣 Detroiters show up and join us to demand a meeting to address the Reparations Task Force report. Lineage-based reparations deserve public accountability, not engineered erasure. 📍 Patton Rec Center, 7PM 🖥 detroitmi.gov/Online-CC-Meet…

Detroit Reparations Task Force has uploaded its Recommendations Report to the city’s website. This is not the final step it’s the beginning of the next phase. A public session has been promised. We’re watching closely! The fight for lineage-based reparations presses on! detroitmi.gov/sites/detroitm…

DRTF Report of Recommendations Detroitmi.gov/Reparations Reparations Recommendations Report | City of Detroit

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“We are trying to figure out how we’re going to organize on the ground in order to apply pressure to this new administration. We don’t want to throw (Sheffield) into the lion’s den, but we’re trying to figure out how to encourage her to be a little bit stronger on this topic.”

Follow the money 👀

The elders know our true history. Bless her soul. 🙏🏽

Calling ICE “slave catchers” is a grotesque false equivalence. My ancestors were owned and hunted for existing, with no choice and no consent. Illegal immigrants chose to enter or remain outside the law. Stop exploiting the history of US chattel slavery to make sloppy arguments.

#Detroit Special screening of Black and Jewish America by Henry Louis Gates Jr, followed by a Detroit-focused panel discussion. eventbrite.com/e/black-and-je…