Thread by @PDeniseLong

#Reparations are owed & have been withheld. Generally, repair is a multigenerational plan that includes relaunch of national Freedmen’s Bureau AND state level Office of Freedmen Affairs for the purpose of … 1/23

•Directing Implementation
•Monitoring Impacts
•Process & Quality Improvements across levels of gov’t
•Coordinate SMEs

Concerning the exclusive economic set asides for Freedmen (descendants of slaves’) businesses, community investm’t & develop’t funds, reduction of…

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disparities in school impacts, Freedmen experience in health & human services, broad health disparities, reducing Freedmen fetal & maternal deaths, return of stolen lands/property, shrinking carceral devastation, closing the wealth gap, consulting about …
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maintaining corrective/reparatory gains, guiding impact studies before regulatory & legal action, changes to Freedmen communities, building/zoning, & all things about targeted/exclusive course correcting of historical AND present day mistreatment, divestment, neg impact.
4/23

The national Freedmen’s Bureau & state Office of Affairs would coordinate w/ & support capacity of gov’t agencies to distribute equity to Freedmen in their functions & reparatory actions.

The Bureau & Offices will exist in perpetuity w/ leveled funding for 250 yrs…
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based on losses, funding increases added each year for lack of faithful delivery by the gov’t or extra projected costs of harm/extent of corrections needed, etc.

The benefit of the national Bureau & state Offices incl:
•Efficiency
•Effectiveness
•Timely Results…

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Efficiency means to deliver results with limited waste. The national Bureau & state Offices would be efficient bcuz they would focus exclusively on driving outcomes for American Freedmen/descendants of slaves.

No others.

All funds and actions would be targeted toward…
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improved outcomes & corrective impact for descendants of slaves (American Freedmen).

The operational goal of Freedmen’s Bureau & Offices is to correct the harms & legacy of slavery inc Jim Crow, harmful policy & costs of discriminatory actions. The moral goal is Closure.

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Today, Freedmen benefit least from civil rights, Negro affirmative action, & our citizenship amendments (13-15th). White women & non Freedmen “minorities” get most affirmative action hiring & business contracts. Since the 1800’s, waves of immigration have…
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taken advantage of the civil war amendments (13-15th) which were about FREEDMEN’s legal status change from slave to citizen.

It was NOT for anchor babies, not open borders, not visa giveaways to rich foreigners, not resourced foreign professionals/connected students.
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Effectiveness means to deliver stated actions/expected results. The national Bureau & state Offices would be effective in achieving deliverables bcuz they would be vested w/ operational autonomy, guaranteed formulaic funding tied to …
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calculated losses from harms, standards of only #Freedmen leadership & staffing w/ civil/criminal consequences for mission creep & sabotage, mandates of cooperation from other government agencies, semiannual reports on interagency cooperation & achievement of deliverables.
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Timely results require efficiency, effectiveness & power. Timeliness is an outcome and a measure of how well barriers are managed & supports are provided in an ever changing political landscape.
13/23

The perpetual life & stable 400 yr funding level protect from population change that diminishes Freedmen population % & political representation.

Freedmen are a specific group of ppl whose families were U.S. slaves (fully emancipated in 1865 or self-emancipated before).
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The federal government owes reparations to Freedmen bcuz:
1. The federal gov’t operated outside the law w/ the intent of harming Freedmen
2. The federal gov’t allowed state actors, businesses, and citizens to harm Freedmen w/o consistent, deterring consequences.
15/23

The federal government sabotaged Reconstruction that was designed to serve as reparation—Allowed freed slaves to die by the 1980’s but continued to harm their families

White Supremacy, Terrorism, & the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States
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direct.mit.edu/isec/article/4…

READ: From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William “Sandy” Darity & A. Kirsten Mullen
17/23

uncpress.org/book/978146965…

READ: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
(Redlining & steering of buyers/borrowers continue today, though both are discriminatory & illegal)
18/23

epi.org/publication/th…

READ: Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-Year History of Immigration Surges Employer Bias, and Depression of Black Wealth by Roy Beck
19/23

backofthehiringline.com

Freed slaves seeded the industrial revolution, were worth more than all of the industrial complex, and were excluded from participating in the job market via riots/lynchings by New Wave European immigrants and bitter former enslavers.
20/23
vox.com/identities/201…

Expedited closure of the lineage (descendant of slaves) wealth gap ($841K) caused by the legacy of exclusion costs $20T & grows each yr. The $6.2Q total losses of stolen wages & lost freedom due to ancestors will fund Freedmen’s Bureau over 250 yrs.
21/23
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Reparations for immoral legal acts of the past & current illegal actions have been ongoing & paid in full for many others. Nobody fussed, rioted, threatened civil war🤦🏼‍♂️, nor saw increases in personal taxes.
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Repair for the now 40 million Freedmen, in measure with what was promised, the harm caused, & contributions we’ve made to our nation, has been slandered and sabotaged.
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guides.library.umass.edu/reparations