Black American Descendant of Contrabands 💯
https://t.co/nCgMcHm9CT 🔥
https://t.co/qJqfbT6fM4
https://t.co/NotCVmrROr… 💰
Aug 18, 2022 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
The DELUSION of Garvey's pipe dream ⛴️🚢🛳.. THREAD
The feasibility of relocating 10+ Million Black Americans, in 1920, across the Atlantic Ocean to some undisclosed & NEVER secured land / country in Africa is so bizarre it's likely the BIGGEST grift in our Black 🇺🇸 history 🤔
"proposed Black Star fleet, Yarmouth was not a vessel to set a sailor’s heart aflame…Her boiler crowns were in need of repair & her hull was practically worn out. She could not have been worth more than $25k when, Black Star Line acquired her for $165k"
An Historical Timeline of Reparations Payments Made From 1783 through 2021 by the United States Government, States, Cities, Religious Institutions, Universities, Corporations, and Communities
"Slaveowners felt entitled to and often received compensation from local, colonial and state legislatures, especially in times of crisis — when enslaved women and men ran away, participated in rebellions or were executed for crimes"
aas.princeton.edu/news/when-slav…
"it was only in 2015 that, according to the Treasury, British taxpayers finished ‘paying off’ the debt which the British government incurred in order to compensate British slave owners in 1835"
