Re: In N.J.?s largest city, a Juneteenth march for reparations for slavery

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 20:29:19 -0400, jdyöung
<[email protected]> wrote:

>About 75 people marked the Juneteenth holiday Monday by joining with the 
>People’s Organization for Progress on the steps of the Essex County 
>Courthouse and marching downtown to renew their demand for reparations 
>for slavery.
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>“They sold us,” Larry Hamm, the organizer of the demonstration in New 
>Jersey’s largest city, shouted.
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>“They owe us!” the crowd shouted back. “Reparations now!”
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>The demonstration was billed as the annual Juneteenth March, and it was 
>called to draw attention to proposals the state Legislature (A938) and 
>Congress (HR40) that would study reparations for slavery at a state and 
>federal level, respectively.
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>“The condition that Black people endure today are directly related to 
>the impact of enslavement,” said Hamm, chair of the People’s 
>Organization for Progress. “You can’t understand what is going in the 
>United States without understanding slavery. The fundamental paradigm of 
>racial inequality was set during the period of enslavement, and really 
>hasn’t been broken.”
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>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-n-j-s-largest-city-a-juneteenth-march-for-reparations-for-slavery/ar-AA1cL72E?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=4683a82190b148fcfeb3bd6ec627e2e4&ei=13
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>I am in full support of reparations. Any black American who wishes will, 
>upon renouncing their American citizenship, receive a one way airline 
>ticket to the African nation of their choice, plus twenty thousand 
>dollars in traveling expenses.

Careful Eric before you get accused of having a coon fetish