Are reparations to African people fanciful speculation?

For decades, politicians at almost every level of government have told us that when it comes to investing in the American working class, it is simply too expensive.

But when our imperialist war machine requests a bloated, profoundly wasteful budget of $715 billion per year to continue their genocidal campaigns against oppressed people in our country and around the world, there is unlimited funding.

When a global pandemic hurts the stock prices of multibillion-dollar corporations that exploit the working poor and millionaires and billionaires begin to feel their pocket books shrink by one feather’s-width, there is $4 trillion in corporate bailouts and unscrupulous slush funds for the ultra-wealthy.

And when Wall Street speculators cause a housing market crash through predatory subprime lending that leads to over 3.7 million foreclosures and the collapse of financial institutions that profited from this high-risk lending, there is over $8 trillion in bailouts, with the vast majority going to massive corporations rather than the general public.

But when the American working class loses $3.7 trillion due to the worst pandemic in over 100 years, when 30-40 million Americans face eviction within the next six months, and when unemployment benefits dry up, roughly 80% of relief still goes to mega-corporations.

And so it goes with reparations; there is never enough money for reparations to African people, people who suffer every day from the bloody, soul-crushing legacy of Western imperialism, slavery, and colonialism, but there is never too much money we can funnel into the pockets of the oppressive ruling elite.

But if we can give our murderous military $715 billion with which to oppress African people and other marginalized groups around the world, then we can invest $715 billion into the Black community. If we can extend nearly $3 trillion dollars in COVID-19 relief to the top 1%, then we can do the same for People of Color in the form of reparations. And if we can bail out corrupt corporations to the tune of $8 trillion dollars from a crisis they created, then we can invest that money into the Black working class and the struggle for racial justice instead.

The case for reparations is not fanciful speculation; it is an entirely achievable social, economic, and political reality. For if we can conjure into existence trillions of dollars to aid the most privileged among us, then we can redistribute trillions of dollars into the hands of the most disadvantaged in our White supremacist society.

Please join us as we fight for reparations to African people. Join us as we fight to wrest power from the ruling elite and put it back into the hands of the people. Join us as we fight to bring about a political revolution defined not by the trajectory we once thought inevitable, but by the trajectory we once thought impossible.