White Activist Makes The Case For Reparations

Penny Hess, The Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, makes the case for reparations in 2023. Why is this issue more important than ever in todays times?

Chairman Omali Yeshitela leads the African People's Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement. He has organized for black power for over 50 years, beginning with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee registering black people to vote in the '60s. He has traveled the world building the movement for African unification and liberation, establishing relations of solidarity with anti-colonial struggles. He is the primary target of current U.S. government charges of "sowing discord" at the behest of a foreign government.

Penny Hess is Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee which she has led since its founding in 1976. She has built an international movement for reparations from the white community, working under the leadership and at the behest of the APSP. She is author of the book, "Overturning the Culture of Violence" and another of the Uhuru 3 facing federal charges.

Leonard Goodman is the attorney representing Penny Hess, one of the Uhuru 3. Goodman is a distinguished criminal law attorney based in Chicago who has won high profile and precedent-setting cases including in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Illinois Supreme Court. He is a prolific published columnist covering legal and social justice topics and teaches Federal Criminal Law at DePaul University.

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[wngbjngwwgk]

What kind of coalition can you imagine would be able to accomplish a policy like this?

[pauldamo]

she hasn't dyed her hair blue yet, but she still has ridiculous ideas.

[laurabobovich]

Reparations? Idiotic, arbitrary. This topic is a waste of time

[flutieflambert]

If we’re going to talk about reparations for stolen labor, why aren’t we talking about reparations for all workers? All profits are stolen wages.

[cev]

No. Then give women reparations too: we've been massively held down and enslaved by the patriarchy for centuries, and we **still** do not have official equal rights in the US.
If we don't want to give reparations to every ill-treated minority group (and there are many), then we all need to collectively accept that the past is over, and we need to move forward.

[annarboriter]

Better title: White woman pleads that taxes paid mainly by men ought to be directed towards her favorite AA charity

[blogintonblakley]

We expect individuals to repay. Why should it be different for groups?

[Interlocutor]

If we could dismantle civil rights laws banning freedom of association in return for gibmees it might be worth it but only if it meant a reversal of the past 60 years of forced integration.

[MIKEMIKE-tedt]

I could see a month of free movies starring black actors.

[Jack-xcys]

Trying to pay for reparations with a double A credit rating? Precious indeed.

[chim-choo-ree]

Proper "reparations" can only be made in the form of a globally united working class abolishing capitalism and developing a new society based not around greed and private profit (ultimately the source of the quagmire we're now in in Europe and Asia), but on fulfilling our basic social needs.

Anything less is futile, and probably a trap.

[TheCommuted]

The greatest value of reparations is in its punitive value. If we paid reparations to native Americans and African Americans maybe we wouldn't have dropped 2 million tons of bombs on Laos. Making Laos the most bombed nation on Earth.

[Tch]

Another person who wants to give other peoples money away and feel righteous about it

[Billiepippen]

this is why this is one of the only news outlets I follow

[richardcarrillo]

If reparations pays black native Chinese japanese Mexican Spanish A
cuban Puerto Rican vietnamese Philippine arab Americans white Hawaiian i would agree i Each group was crewed by the system. Include everyone. By just saying Black experience was the worst screwed not fair. Not justice. Makes you a colonizer as you are saying one grup is better than the other.

[citizennope]

I'm all for reparations after we end our slave state of the prison industrial complex. Prison labor is slavery.

[ToeStankin]

Straight up financial compensation is a waste of time. This needs to be done strategically in terms of resources of sorts that will help repair the black community. The compensation needs to come from the institutions directly involved

[jeffreyalanday]

I am an African American who thinks collective injustice should be paid collectively, not privately. Offer free college to the descendants of slaves who can pass the entrance exams.