The Big Payback!

Description

I need my check!”. What are reparations? How do we achieve this? What transformations will be required for reparations to be actualized? Who will receive it? How much is too much? In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies explores these questions around reparations. African Americans across the US and Caribbean have always demanded and fought for repair, remembrance, and reconciliation of centuries of chattel slavery. First, we must learn the historical context. Callie Guy House, a pioneer of reparations post-Emancipation, built an organization of almost 300,000 formerly enslaved people to lobby for pensions and provide mutual aid to its members. This organization laid the foundation for the current reparations movement in the US. Many other cultures in and outside of the United States have received reparations and reconciliation, why not African Americans? Brittany and Dee Dee advance this conversation with a contemporary view, and a call to action that we all work towards and demand reparations for the sake of our development as human beings. Investing in stock won't do it. The “Power of the Black dollar” and financial literacy won't do it. It’s going to require as many interventions as possible from as many people as possible. Reparations or revolution?

Question for our listeners

What will need to come first- Revolution or Reparations?

Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 3

Black Visions: The Roots of African-American Contemporary Ideologies by Michael C. Dawson

From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by Wlliam A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Miller

Callie D. Guy House (ca. 1861-1928)

Vaughan’s “Freedman Pension Bill”, 1891

National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association

HR40 Primer

The Case For Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America(N’COBRA)

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy Leary