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40 acres and mule, that's right, 40 acres and mule after 246 years of slavery, that is what african-americans who had been enslaved, were promised by the us government, well that was back in 1865, and although that was no real compensation for two and a half centuries of slavery, even that promise was not kept towards black americans. it became symbolic of all the other promises. laws, programs that were supposed to bring about more economic parity with whites for black americans, but never took place. hello, and welcome to hidden files. i'm marsia hashimi. today we're going to take you a journey that started centuries ago on the african continent, and yet still has proportional consequences on millions of african americans today. estimate. vary from 6 trillion to 60

trillion dollars, the value of those uh 40 acres and a mule today, well the wealth never paid to the former slaves nor their descendants, the generational wealth that was never passed down, that opportunity, like so many others that was never provided to blacks, while endless opportunities, grants, raises, stipens, etc. were given to white americans, the results show a staggering difference between black and white wealth even in america today. in 2019, the median white household was worth 188,200. the median of black household held $24,100 in wealth. white households had 7.8 times more wealth than blacks. in 2020, whites made up 60% of the us population, but held 84% of the total household wealth. black households who

constituted 13.4% of the us population held 4% of the total household wealth. white households inherit over 5.3 times more than black households, and white households are 2.8 times more likely than black households to inheritt any wealth. well we're going to dig into this issue further with our first guest cam howard. cam howard is a reparations expert. who has been fighting for decades to get reparations for black americans. he has addressed the united nations and has traveled the world presenting the case for reparations for african americans. he is an administrator for encobra, the national coalition of blacks for reperations in america. thanks so much for being with us, do you think the black americans should get reparations, and if so why? i certainly believe that blacks in this country. should get reparations and it's

primary because of two reasons, one uh, there's never been justice and fairness, in any large measure, for african americans, people of africans in this countries, you know we came here as stolen kidnapps uh, people from the continent of africa to uh slave in the cotton fields and tobacco fields and rice fields uh in america and then later in uh some of the factories uh, during the industrial age, um, the tremendous amount of of crimes were committed against us during the period of enslavement, but then after the period of enslavement we had a brief period called reconstruction in this country where there was some simplence of fairness and justice justice uh then that was followed by uh another 80 plus years of terroristic apartite uh by white supremist organizations in this country that removed again all

notions of fairness and justice, in the areas of education, and areas of economics and area of labor, employment, etc., there was criminal punishment, criminal justice. there's been no fair, there was no fairness, uh, it was apartied system back by the terror the state, and then after the gymcro period, a party period in this country in 1965 and their 60s, as a result of the civil rights movement, we had a small window of of fairness and justice with the civil rights act, the fair housing act and the voting rights act that was um passed, and then in the 70s we had a... of fairness with affirmative action, but all those things were have been stripped down, taking away the the teeth of what should have been given to us, in the area of fairness and justice, and and they've been watered down, also we look at

the police violence in our communities, it's still a continuation of the non-fair and non-just treatment that we receive in this country, so no, only a brief very brief period, in this country of african-americans ever received the type of fair and just treatment that that immigrants and people who are you know other americans or people just come to america they receive uh just by being on uh uh within these boundaries but african americans as a whole we have not shared uh any type of governmental fairness and justice uh for the longghall secondly reparations are due because of the... tremendous injury that we still suffer from today as a result of these hundreds of years, centuries of mistreatment in this country, when you look at uh every area of people of activity in this country, blacks on the bottom of every good list, on the top of very bad list,

whether it's education, whether it's housing, whether it's criminal punishment, whether it's wealth, whether it's you know health, maternal mortality, infra mortality, all these things you see a stark difference between uh black lived experience and white lived experiences in this country. well, what type of reparations are you proposing? we look at reparations in the forms of from the international law standpoint of gross crimes committed by a state against civilian population where it tends to lay out what is known as full reparation, there's five basic components. first component is sessation and guarantees of non-repetition. first you must stop the bad acts, you must eliminate the public policy that proportionally negatively affect people of africa in this country. that's first and foremost, the criminal justice laws, the housing laws, the economic laws that exist, the uh disproportionate uh uh resource allocation toward education and and other aspects of our community, first you

must sease those policies and then put in place structures that ensure that those policies don't show up again, like when enslavement ended, enslavement resurface for another 45 years in the form of... uh convict leasing in the form of share cropping, in the form of that pionege where you know that we still exist in enslavement, but it was not called enslavement, so we need to stop these bad policies that exist today and make sure that we put instructions that don't uh resurface, the second component of four reparations is restitution, how do you return the people back to where they would have been at these crimes not committed, so we talking centuries so there's going to be multiple generations of repair that's necessary in the areas of education, in the areas of economic development and wealth building, and employment and these type of areas and land acquisition and housing, all these areas have to be addressed and redress with targeted

resources. the third component is compensation, when restitution doesn't alleviate a situation, the compensation is an obligatory form of reparations under international norms and we know that uh, in order for us to uh, have some type of parity and wealth in this country, there's going to have to be some type of direct compensation, we don't know what that be and how much it would be, but certainly we are fighting for that, because it is again obligatory on an international law to readress a situation in entirety. the third, the fourth component of four reparations is satisfaction, how do you return to dignity back to a people's dignity was eroded as result of the crimes you committed against them, sometimes an apologies. is is will will do that, other times you know museums, markers, uh, removing a statuary, creating monuments, new monuments, curriculum overhaul, truth and reconciliation commissions, those type of things lend to uh dignity, return or

satisfaction, and then the fifth component is rehabilitation for the mind, heart and spirit damage to the people as a result of the crimes, uh, black people, america has the worst health profile uh among any people uh health profile is similar to uh those in quote third world countries uh in certain areas the highest race of count cancer, highest rate of heart attack, highest rates of uh inf mortality, maternal mortality is i stated, highest rates of breast cancers among women, the highest rates of statistical cancer or prostate cancer among men, mean the health profile is is is terrible, we know now through transgeneration epigenetic inheritance that the health pro is a result the historical trauma we've experienced as a people in this country, thank you so much for. being with us uh right here on hidden files, mr. cam howard. well, we're going to

take a look at few instances that have taken a place over the years and and why african-americans are demanding reparations. slavery launched modern capitalism and actually turned the united states into the wealthiest country in the world, looking at this cotton production. i mean, by the 1830s, 77% of us cotton was used for the british. style industry, and look at that, 2.25 billion pounds of content in 1859, and you know the cotton actually built new york city as the commercial and financial center, and if you look at the whole worth after the outbreak of of the civil war, and the values of slaves, $3 billion dollars, 48% of total wealth in the south in 1860s, so very valuable commodity. "the emancipation though, of african-americans did not bring about any

type of economic freedom, there were continual policies to make sure that they never got their rights, starting off of course with not getting the 40 acres in a mule, however the slave owners in the south, they actually got compensation after the civil war, $300 per slave loss are freeed, and throughout the time, the safety nets for other americans was never in place for african americans, not the loans, not the access to affordable housing, in good neighborhoods, there was red lining to prevent them, and even when they could take off a little and be successful in some type of business as we see like black wall street, then there were efforts to totally eliminate and annihilate any type of success that they had. i mean, this is just very, very small example of some of the... reasons why african-americans are demanding reparations.

kalanji jamanga, currently serves as co-chair the urban survival and preparedness institute and is co-founder of black power media. he has fought on multiple fronts tackling issues from local and national police brutality cases to international human rights violations. under colunji's direction, as founder and national coordinator of the. tp movement, programs such as international feed the people and the national coalition to combat police terrorism have matured and developed. he has shared his experiences in the best selling book, how to build a people's army, and the documentary, organizing is the new cool. thank you so much for being with us right here on hidden files, mr. colonji, jamachanka, um, what's your perspective in general regarding reparations? when i think of.

you know what i mean? so we want our political prisoners back first and foremost and it is my belief that if we are when it the question around reparation should also include uh the continent, the continent of africa, i think that um you know the first thing should be we should be uh, they should be be paying reparations to folks on the continent because they stole not only the land, not only the the the uh minerals and and and and the wealth they stole us. they stole humans, you know, so um, yeah, we we totally believe that reparation should be

paid, but will it be paid, uh, we don't believe this country is capable of uh, of of that type of uh uh, accountability or or or respect for us as a whole. what type of reparations in general do you think uh would be necessary? you know, land is definitely you know is is is is is. that that's a foolish notion that all we want is is is money you know we know that the american dollar has no real value across the globe they place their own value on it so we don't want anything that they can take away what we'd really like like you said is to be

left alone what we really like is to uh folks to say you know what we we want to reach turn these goods, we want to, we want to uh make good with with our people, but we know that under capitalist society, we know that capitalism is violent system, you cannot have capitalism without the pain and suffering of others, they package it well, they make you feel comfortable, make you feel like you know, yes you should be a part of the capital system and you should grow and you, everything is going to be all right, but it's not the case, they let a few... african-americans and few uh so-called uh uh minorities or should we say other oppressed people um give them the illusion of power and you power is about self-determination so if you don't have self-determination and you don't have uh a place of your own and you

don't have your your own uh tongue and your own culture then again you are a displaced person, you are a person that's running around um trying to find themselves and that is how they have us right now, so we're talking about 500 years of this practice, this practice of of of terrorism, so we we must understand that unfortunately in this country in particular when you are, their success has equal your. someone has to be at the bottom and someone has to be the top, and in the capitalist system uh, the folks at the bottom will always get stepped on in order to uh benefit those who uh at the top the oppressers. in your perspective, what are some of the systemic efforts that have taken place in order to prevent african-americans from achieving equality? the whole notion of

equality is a myth, because we were brought here as chat slaves. is sur plus labor, labor, we were brought here as um, you know, as as as and and treated like domesticated animals, you know, so they looked at us as property, they never looked at us as equal, you know, even in on on on paper, they said we were three fifths of human beings, they didn't even consider us human being, matter fact, the quote unquote forfathers of this country, um, they treated us like like like objects. you know, even when you talk about folks like george washington, these are you know most of the uh the the the men who happen to be on the money here, the the dollar bills and and the cash and the coins, these are former slave masters, you know, these are folks who uh, who gave away africans, and and we don't consider ourselves

slaves, we we were enslaved, because we weren't slaves when when when we encount these folks, so we were enslaved africans, so um, you know, so yeah, so the these are folks who literally gave us away, uh, george washington's wife gave africans away for wedding gifts, they gave us away like we were poodles or like we were some type of plants or some type of exotic uh uh horse, you know what i'm saying, like we were camels, we were treated as uh nothing more than uh, like i said domesticated animals like we were, we we were tricks, we performed for these people, we uh we worked for these people, we built for these people, and in turn we were enslaved, we were tortured, and um, to this very day, we are victims of uh a systematic oppression, which again stems from capitalism

and global white supremacy, this is what it's all about, you know, that we are here for a limited time and we have the right to exist, we have the right to love, we have the right to be our natural

selves and no man, woman or child should be able to exploit, dominate or oppress us. very powerful words, thank you so much for being with us right here on hidden files. from 1619 when the first africans were inslaving what would become the united states until the present africans and their descendants in that country have never been considered as equals with their white counterparts, they have been the victims of systemic terrorism as they have built that country and now they are demanding their fair share of it. will they get reparations, will their demands be met? not likely. but we will continue to follow their story, their cases and their demands for justice, and we'll bring you all the latest on that right here at hidden files, and make sure you join me and the team

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