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Date Posted: 20:08:55 12/30/02 Mon
Author: Chocolate Lamummble
Subject: Whur is my Fo Bits??

December 29, 2002

'Reparations Sunday' tied to Kwanzaa

Mississippi group hosting program tonight in Jackson
By Jimmie E. Gates
jgates@clarionledger.com

Discussions of reparations for descendants of black slaves will merge today with the celebration of the African-American holiday Kwanzaa.

The Mississippi Reparations Committee is scheduled to have a program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today at the Medgar Evers Community Center at 3159 Edwards Ave. in Jackson.

The event is billed as "Reparations Sunday."

The program is part of the seven days of the annual community Kwanzaa celebration that began Thursday and ends New Year's Day.

Descendants of black slaves deserve to be compensated for crimes committed against their ancestors, reparation advocates across the country say.

But others, such as conservative columnist Charley Reese, have called the idea of reparations for descendants of black slaves ludicrous.

Baba Hannibal Afrik, state coordinator of Millions for Reparation, said reparations are due because of U.S. government-sponsored enslavement of African men, women and children that resulted in forced labor without compensation for nearly 300 years.

"It is also a form of economic justice for the century of racial discrimination, Jim Crow laws and vestiges of slavery that continues even today," Afrik said.

Afrik has said reparations could come in the form of free college scholarships for children, free housing, free medical care, vocational training and land.

A group of prominent black lawyers, including Johnnie Cochran, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree and, locally, Dennis Sweet III, have met to discuss the idea of filing a lawsuit seeking reparations for black citizens.

The proposed lawsuit is still under discussion.

Afrik, a member of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations Now, said Japanese Americans interred during World War II received $20,000 each, and Native Americans received reparations through treaties, land and resources. Jews also received reparations, he said.

The Mississippi Reparations Committee is slated to conduct Town Hall meetings across the state in 2003 on the issue of reparations.

For more information about today's reparations/Kwanzaa program, call (601) 957-2969 or (601) 535-7551.

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