@LeaderMcConnell in 2019, “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea.”
In the United States, reparations to SLAVE OWNERS were paid at height of the Civil War.
On April 16, 1862, Lincoln signed “Act for Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor within the District of Columbia” into law.
It gave former slave owners $300 per enslaved person set free
It incentive former enslaved to leave U.S. for $100.
Haitian Independence Debt saddled Haiti with reparation payments to former slave owners in France
In 1825, King Charles X decreed that he would recognize independence For 150 million francs
More than 10 years of the Haitian government’s entire revenue.
The payments ran for a total of 122 years from 1825 to 1947
The money going to > 7,900 former slave owners and their descendants in France
By the time the payments ended none of the originally enslaved or enslavers were still alive.
The British government paid reparations of 15 million to slave owners when it abolished slavery in 1833
It represented almost half of the U.K. governent’s annual expenditure
The U.K. serviced those loans for 182 years from 1833 to 2015.
Similar examples of reparations going to individual SLAVE OWNERS can be found in the records of countries including
Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden, as well as Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil. #BlackHistoryMonth
Republicans in Tennessee have introduced a bill to change the name of a street in downtown Nashville
from “John Lewis Way” to “President Donald Trump Boulevard.”
This would be between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd and James Robertson Pkwy.
#HappyBlackHistoryMonth
@ClemsonUniv “Affirmative Action Bake Sale” was hosted on Wednesday, Feb. 1, by Clemson’s chapter of @TPUSA
Students in the club were “selling” cookies with prices determined by the buyer’s race. #HappyBlackHistoryMonth
@thesherylralph will sing the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at #SuperBowl
@rihanna headlines then “allegedly” drops 9th album
@Saweetie headlines 1st Meteverse SuperBowl concert
+New teaser for ‘The Little Mermaid’ will premiere. #BlackHistoryMonth
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