A leading reparations activist says there is merit in pursuing a variety of legal strategies that might convince U.S. courts that Black people deserve damages for past treatment in the United States. However, Kamm Howard, of the legislative commission of NCOBRA, the national Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, doesn’t believe there is anything “novel” about the proposal by Dr. Jahi Issa and Reggie Mabry, that reparations activists recognize that slavery was legal in the U.S., and adjust their legal strategy, according. “Slavery was never legal under international norms,” said Howard. “Only a small number of nations in Europe colluded together and created some rules among themselves on how to engage in these international crimes. Those were rules amongst criminals.”
If Black people were choosing sides in the primary based on ideology and issues, Biden would have little appeal and Sanders would win, hands down.
The lightweight senator hopes voters will let her party off the hook for its failures if the word Russia is repeated often enough.
Harris loves apartheid Israel and throwing Black people in prison, which makes her a perfect Black corporate Democrat.
In their hysteria to scapegoat Russia and Julian Assange for all that’s wrong with the US, the corporate press and politicos have made themselves look ridiculous.
We need to stick to a radical, principled, intersectional, anti-imperialist political orientation that trusts in the power of the people to make history.
