40 acres and a 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 of 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. 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. as estimates 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 and white wealth, even in america today. in 2019, the median white household was worth 188,200. the median black household held $24,100 in of 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 household 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 and 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 reparations in america. thanks so much for being with us, do you think the black americans should get reparations, and if so why? so i certainly believe that blacks in this. country should

get reparations and it's primary because of you know two reasons, one uh, there's never been justice and fairness, in any large measure, for african americans, people of african sinness countries, you know we came here uh 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 industrial age, the tremendous amount of of crimes 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, then that was followed by another 80 plus years of terroristic apartide uh by white supremist organizations in this country that removed

there's been no fair, there was no fairness, it was an apart system back by the terror of 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 passed, and then in the 70s we had a symbols 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. is 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 long hall secondly reparations that do because 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 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 disproportionately 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 resource allocation toward education and and other aspects of our community, first you

must cease 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 we still existing an enslavement, but it was not called enslavement, so we need to stop these bad policies that exist today and make sure that we put in structures that 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 the crime, 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 address and redress with targeted

resources. the third component is compensation, when restitution doesn't alleviate a situation, the compensation is an obligatory uh form of reparations under international norms and certainly 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. uh, 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 international law to readress a situation in its entirety. the third, the fourth component of four reparations is satisfaction, how do you return to dignity back to the people whose dignity was eroded as result of the crimes you committed against them, sometimes in the policy. 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, people in america have the worst health profile uh among any people uh health profile is similar to those in quote and third world countries uh in certain areas the highest race of... cancer cancer, highest rate of heart attack, highest rates of uh inf mortality, maternal mortality is i stated, highest rates of uh breast cancers among women, the highest rates of statistical cancer or prostate cancer among men, mean the health profile is is is is terrible and we know now through transgeneration epigenetic inheritance that the health profile is a result of 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 textile industry, and look at that, 2.25 billion pounds of content in 1859, and you the cotton actually built new york city as a commercial and financial center, and if you look at the whole worth after the outbreak 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... 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.

kalunji 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 ftp 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, jamaacha. um, what's your perspective in general regarding reparations? no, when i think of.... reparations, most people think reparations is money, that's not

what we're talking about, our first older of operation is our political prisoners, because like any other civilized nation, whenever there is war or there's any type of uh, you know fighting or or what have you, any type of disagreements, the first thing before anything can go down is they want their captives back. 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 is. necessary, you know, we're not just talking about some cash, because we know that uh, the us dollar doesn't mean anything, and we know that if they gave us reparations with cash, then they'll just raise the... prices up, they hype the prices up, you know, so 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, you know, so we don't want anything that they can take away, what we'd really like, 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 return 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 capitalist system and you should grow and you know everything is going to be all right, but it's not the case, they let a few uh quote on quote 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 know 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 uh, you know, their success has equal. failure, someone has to be at the bottom and someone has to be the top, and in the capitalist system, the folks at the bottom will always get stepped on in order to uh benefit those at the top, the oppressers, 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. of this country um they treated us like like like objects. you know, even when you talk about folks like george washington, these are, 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, these are folks, 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 counted 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, it 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, you know 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 capitalism and enslavement are siamese twins. we're just about out of time, mr. chonka, but do you have any final thoughts? i would like to say that uh, people of the world, uh, oppressed people, quote on quote third world people, we have to resist imperialism at every turn, we have to uh, you know, like it says in islam, we have to uh, change things. with our hands and if we can't change it with our hands, we have to speak out against it, and if we don't speak out against it, then we at least have to hate it in our hearts, we have to remember remember 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 naturals

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 enslaving, 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 like... 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 right

here next week as we dig into another hidden file. i'm marsia hashimic. goodbye for now. oslo accords were supposed to bring prosperity to palestinians, however in gross. violations of the accord, israel permanently enforced these west bank divisions. palestinians have not reap the economic benefits of area sea. well, of course are is

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