“There can be no healing without justice. No justice without truth. No truth without repair. And no repair without reparations.”
This is not a slogan. It’s a sequence. A law of moral gravity. Without justice, there is no healing. Without truth, there can be no justice. And truth, when told in full, reveals damage that demands repair. Anything short of that is delusion.
Black people in America have never stopped bleeding—from chattel slavery to convict leasing, from Jim Crow to mass incarceration, from redlining to stolen labor and cultural appropriation. Every other group harmed by the U.S. government has received reparations or public repair. But not us. Why? Because our suffering was foundational. Because repairing us would unravel the lie that this country was ever just.
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing helps us see why: white fear of genetic erasure makes real justice feel like a threat to their survival. Shahid Bolsen shows us how willful ignorance is weaponized to maintain this imbalance. So the question is no longer will they give us justice?
The question is: how do we build it ourselves?
The BIT model answers that call.
We cannot wait for repair from those who profit from our brokenness. We must become the repairers of the breach. We must turn the truth of our oppression into the blueprint for our restoration.
Ownership is our reparations. Infrastructure is our justice. And healing will be what we build together.
Reclaiming What Was Ours All Along
Before slavery, before colonization, before the disruption of African life—there was communalism. We come from societies where no one hoarded wealth while others starved, where property was shared, and where the strength of the group was the measure of success. That African communal ethic wasn’t just a way of life—it was a survival technology. It kept people fed, protected, and connected. It still exists, but in fragments, buried under centuries of trauma and forced assimilation.
Marcus Garvey understood the power of a unified Black people. His call for separation was never about running—it was about rebuilding, about owning what we create. But we are not in Garvey’s time. We have invested centuries of blood, intellect, and cultural wealth into this land. Our ancestors built this country brick by brick and idea by idea. Abandoning it would be dishonoring their sacrifice. So instead, we reclaim—not with hope that white America will love us, but with clarity that they fear us. As Dr. Frances Cress Welsing taught, that fear is existential: the fear of genetic erasure. As Shahid Bolsen revealed, their ignorance is not passive—it is chosen, curated, and enforced to protect a system that thrives on our dispossession.
But here's the truth: They can only dominate what we don't control.
The BIT (Black Infrastructure Trust) is not just a financial mechanism. It's a return to our roots—community care, collective action, and shared survival—modernized. It’s communalism with a budget. A village with a bank account. A movement rooted not in protest alone but in provision. We are not begging. We are not waiting. We are building.
Because ownership is protection.
Ownership is freedom.
Ownership is how we remember who we are.
