#california reparations

Eve ry time I post something about reparations, there’s always some incoming news. Ancestors are on board, chile . 

Congrats, California!!     

This is so pivotal for the AB3121 California Task Force Reparations Proposal for Black Americans. Data disaggregation been needed to be in every state. They’re finally listening.

“Black or African American” was purposely done…for obvious reasons, causing people to file under a racial ethnic group they aren’t nor identify as. Can’t get specific things done if others are identifying as you. We’re invisible on paper because of this. We’ll finally see who is who in Cali for starters. 

Now we need a new ethnic group to follow.

I’ve been thinking Native Black American/Negro. “Native” because there are people who don’t descend from U.S. chattel slavery but still self-identify as such as well as their real ethnic group. That’s harmful for us. And we gotta dust off and bring Negro back . (Go sit your ass down, Obama.) It connects to the language used on our ancestors paperwork throughout centuries in this country, which is a seamless connecter for our reparations.

You ever realized race stopped being listed on US birth certificates, death certificates, driver’s license and other things since 1970 (I believe) other than your “select a choice” doctors forms and the US census? Although that began to be taken away in plain sight, we were simply called Black. “Say it loud.” You know the rest took place in 1960s but the label dates back rather than that. 

Then insert Jesse undermining Jackson changing our ethnicity in 1988, which was technically just Black even tho others prob wouldn’t understand why we use it as an ethnic group and race, on his own behalf to African American, which I explained is an immigrant identifier and a Pan African identifier (everyone of African descent): Insert the convo around Chalize and Elon Musk’s ass here . 

In the United States, your race was determined by your mother’s race. 

What was our classified identifier before the 1850s: Tribal names/Slave/Free Colored/Gens de couleur libres (in Louisiana and Missouri…? (don’t take my word fully on Missouri but I believe so))

“Black” dates back to the 1850 US Census for those who weren’t filed as Mulatto then the collective reclassification of American Indians/Black/Mulatto (mix between two or three: Black,American Indian,White) as Negro (then the Dawes Rolls kicks off with the $5 Indians aka them “settlers”, kicking out brown (actual color brown)/dark brown Indians for what would be called “Native American” for the Five CivilizedTribes)thenColoredthen back to Black later “Say it loud.” thenAfro-American on the 1970s US Census then African American in the 1990 US Census then Black/African American then “Black or African American”  in 2020 to present-day. All these damn names, chile. 

That’s why Black American comes into play. It’s more understandable for others. Adding Native in the front will create a clear distinction if it pans out this way. 

TMZ Discusses Lineage-Based Reparations for Black Americans in California with AB3121 Task Force Chair Kamilah Moore

The ancestors been watching & waiting for this for us – their children, their descendants of U.S. chattel slavery. By states starting with Cali is one thing, but a federal rollout needs to be in close proximity. Y’all not getting off that easy. Everyone flooded here because of the dollar our ancestors bodies generated through forced labor and priced as stock to create this country’s wealth and “bootstraps” people have been pulled up from. The Dream off of the backs of the enslaved Americans. 

In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said he was going down to Washington to get his check. Then they killed him.

Locking our Freedmen’s bank during the brief Reconstruction era. (Fuck you, Kamala. Get away from the damn bank.) Jim Crow. Burning and bombing our businesses. Redlining. White terrorism. Income disparity. The highest mortgages to us. The long list of our inventions out of enslavement denied the right to be patented by our ancestors. Just taken. Where the fuck is the straps for the boots people be talking about?

We’ve had 15 million acres of land stolen and left with damn near 1 million. (I can’t wait until y’all uncover the paperwork of y’all heirs property and/or the land your people were ran off from before heading west or north during the Great Migration for what they thought was “safety,” and now somebody or a corporation is occupying your said land . Chile, getcho shit.) 

What does reparations look like for Black Americans? We don’t want no programs. No grants. No scholarships. No bullshit. Just cut the check like it’s been done for every other ethnic groups in this country or who’ve oddly received redress from this country at the hands of another country  without a problem, mumble or pushback. 

“How much,” especially annually per person, is only the business of those instructed to analyze the correct value amount for centuries deep repair & rebuilding and those whose accounts it will go into based on lineage. Stop pocket watching.

Also we need to be reclassified, but this time on our own terms and by which we agree to for fucking once. It’s time. African-American is an immigrant ethnicity, which Black Americans who are tied to this land have never been. I don’t understand why that’s so confusing for some, but I understand why Kamilah is using it: we don’t currently have another federally recognized name except for Black and we know how that goes. I’m convinced Jesse coon Jackson gave us that reclassification (African-American) on his own accord in the 1970s so we could appear to be untied to this land by ethnic name and eventually be invisible by Africans who rightfully identify with African-American or those who racially identify as Black but have a differing ethnicity. 

Obama abolished Negro in law on his own accord, which is the given name on our people’s paperwork, kicked off in full during the reclassification of American Indians to Negro before the $5 Indian Dawes Rolls, which is a whole ‘nother rabbit hole story. The copper colored folks. (The Church of Latter Day Saints needs to release all those kept records. We know who’s been lying. Just show it.) 

Jesse, Obama and everyone else knew what we were always heading to: Reparations. People who are not racially Black feeling a way is no surprise when their dream is to see us as a permanent underclass that they can latch onto to fight their battles, reap from or head into poverty, which has been projected to be zero by 2053 unless redress. Not happening.

But people who are racially Black feeling a way ain’t a damn shock either. That’s what they were positioned to do whether those who run for office or those who’ve been appointed as public figures, no matter African, Caribbean or (Pan-African - “it should be for everyone Black” or coon ass - “reparations is stupid and divisive” like Ben Carson) Black American.

Have a fucking seat. Shit . 

The lies just to undermine us or latch on. Cut the fucking cord. Damn lol. In the past, we’ve included others and even muled for them to our own detriment without reciprocation. It’s lineage-based not race-based. I just can’t fathom how anyone can immigrate to a country headed by incoming white people and the descendants of colonizers who took the position of the long list of colonizers, experience race-based harm because they share our skin color, then continue to stay here at their own will in hopes to receive redress when they hear long-awaited “reparations” that were paused for people who share their skin color is on the way. Like…It ain’t clicking. Bitch, I could never. It’s beyond disrespectful and thievery again. Like shit..

Black Americans can literally trace our lineage under 30 minutes to the 1870 census, unless there were certain cases like adoption, for one example. That’s why there’s going to be genealogists aboard to help those who need assistance in looking through the United States’ heavily detailed and kept records dating back to the 1500s. It’s easy. On one line alone, I’m in the damn mid-1400s going into Europe . Black to Colored to Negro to Mulatto to former American Indian birth names and tribes to Europe, per this paperwork. You do the math.

Like I’ve said before, the U.S. keeps a receipt on everything and everyone who’s voluntarily immigrated here, they’ve assigned as enslavers or they’re purchased for forced labor. We know.