reparations

Why Reparations? A Personal Story
WILPF member Naima Richmond shares some of her life experiences as an African American woman growing up in Atlanta and now living in Minnesota. She tells her story in poetry and prose accompanied by hand puppets created and operated by the Arts committee of WILPF.
After sharing her story, Naima explores why the legacy of slavery must be repaired, remedied, and redressed, through reparations to ease the pain, the anger, and the frustrations it has left in its wake among the blacks.

Racial friction is a festering sore on the body politic of American society. To promote the healing of this profound wound, a treatment must be found to offer the hope of a permanent cure.

For white America, the term "race" does not refer to ethnic minorities such as the Irish or the Turks, but rather to people of color, of all colors, other than white. Each group of people of color has its own history and its own relationship with the white majority , but only the people of African descent were brought to this country by force, under brutal conditions, enslaved and stripped of their personal identity.

Questions
What does this past history mean for an African American woman living in today's world?

How does it affect her life and personal development?

Why must this legacy of slavery be repaired, remedied, redressed, through reparations to ease the pain, the anger, the frustrations it has left in its wake among the blacks?

How does the legacy of white privilege, power, and superiority affect us all?


		February 1 - 28, 2007

		Women's International League of Peace and Freedom


		Why Reparations? A Personal Story WILPF member Naima Richmond shares some of her life experiences as an African American woman growing up in Atlanta and now living in Minnesota. She tells her story in poetry and prose accompanied by hand puppets created and operated by the Arts committee of WILPF. After sharing her story, Naima explores why the legacy of slavery must be repaired, remedied, and redressed, through reparations to ease the pain, the anger, and the frustrations it has left in its wake among the blacks. Racial friction is a festering sore on the body politic of American society. To promote the healing of this profound wound, a treatment must be found to offer the hope of a permanent cure. For white America, the term "race" does not refer to ethnic minorities such as the Irish or the Turks, but rather to people of color, of all colors, other than white. Each group of people of color has its own history and its own relationship with the white majority , but only the people of African descent were brought to this country by force, under brutal conditions, enslaved and stripped of their personal identity. Questions What does this past history mean for an African American woman living in today's world? How does it affect her life and personal development? Why must this legacy of slavery be repaired, remedied, redressed, through reparations to ease the pain, the anger, the frustrations it has left in its wake among the blacks? How does the legacy of white privilege, power, and superiority affect us all?
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