My Case for Reparations for the formerly enslaved descendants
1. Pub. L. 100–383, title I, August 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 904, 50a U.S.C.
2. Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14 Stat. 27 (1866).
3. U.S. Senate. (2022). Landmark Legislation: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. https://www.senate.gov/artandh....istory/history/commo
4. U.S. Constitution
Amendment XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
5. https://usafacts.org/articles/....the-1860-census-coun
As of 15MAR25, expanding out from the D.C. Emancipation Reparations Act of paying $300 to slavers. Baselining $300 (adjusted for inflation to date) multiplied by four million equates to $23,386,840,000. When seen in comparison to the annual U.S. Defense budget government spending (13.3%) equalling $820 billion (fy2023). The advent of DNA tracing and the 1870 U.S. Census documentation. Establishing a familial irrevocable trust, allowing the families decide how to spend/divvy up.
Why hasn't local, state, or federal leadership or grassroot activists taken this for action?
Next, why not civil lawsuits against "Some of the largest insurance firms in the US - New York Life, AIG and Aetna - sold policies that insured slave owners would be compensated if the slaves they owned were injured or killed."
Why aren't we as a collective purchasing stock in those companies to receive dividend checks as a form of Reparations?
