The following agenda is informed by (click each one to read)
Understanding the Illusion of Democracy, Especially in the United States
The United States Birth Certificate and the Spiritual Damage of Slavery
The Banking System: A Case Study of the Criminal Application Of Fictitious Corporate Law
Siphiwe Baleka vs. The United States Corporation
It is important to state at the outset that this AGENDA FOR BLACK AMERICA’S RESTORATION AND SELF DETERMINATION accepts the conclusions made by William Darity Jr., Darrick Hamilton, Mark Paul, Alan Aja, Anne Price, Antonio Moore, and Caterina Chiopris in their Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity/Insight Center for Community Economic Development April 2018 report, What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap, to wit, that no agenda or contract can be based on the following ten myths:
Myth 1: Greater educational attainment or more work effort on the part of blacks will close the racial wealth gap
Myth 2: The racial homeownership gap is the “driver” of the racial wealth gap
Myth 3: Buying and banking black will close the racial wealth gap
Myth 4: Black people saving more will close the racial wealth gap
Myth 5: Greater financial literacy will close the racial wealth gap
Myth 6: Entrepreneurship will close the racial wealth gap
Myth 7: Emulating successful minorities will close the racial wealth gap
Myth 8: Improved “soft skills” and “personal responsibility” will close the racial wealth gap
Myth 9: The growing numbers of black celebrities prove the racial wealth gap is closing
Myth 10: Black family disorganization is a cause of the racial wealth gap
Finally, the overall aim of this AGENDA FOR BLACK AMERICA’S RESTORATION AND SELF DETERMINATION is the complete REHUMANIZATION of the descendants of people that were taken from the African continent and were subjected to the following process of dehumanization:
a. Captivity – African Americans were captured and removed from their natural lives of freedom in both Africa and America.
b. Dehumanization – Captured African Americans, were subjected to domination, manipulation, subjugation, exploitation, cruelty, violence, psychological trauma, and other evil treatment by free whites who obtained a manufacturing license from the American States to take human beings as manufacturing inputs to produce human chattel property..
c. Subhuman Service – Dehumanized African Americans lived a life of subhuman servitude to free whites for generations, sacrificing their human identity and nature for the will and desires of their owners.
ALL ITEMS IN THIS AGENDA FOR BLACK AMERICA’S RESTORATION AND SELF DETERMINATION ARE AIMED AT REVERSE ENGINEERING THIS DEHUMANIZATION PROCESS FOR THE NEXT 400 YEARS.
THE TOTAL COST OF THE AGENDA FOR BLACK AMERICA'S RESTORATION AND SELF DETERMINATION FROM 2020 TO 2045:
The total cost for AGENDA ITEM 1 REMEDY: LINEAGE RESTORATION WORKERS PROJECT is
$1.1 trillion
The total cost for AGENDA ITEM 2 REMEDY: GRAND LINEAGE RESTORATION COUNCIL is
$450 million
The total cost for AGENDA ITEM 3 REMEDY: NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA is
$1.125 billion
The total cost of AGENDA ITEM 4 REMEDY: TRIBAL AUTONOMY is
$45 million
The total cost of AGENDA ITEM 5 REMEDY: REPATRIATION is
$5 trillion
The total cost of AGENDA ITEM 6 REMEDY: REPARATIONS TO REDUCE THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP is
$18.8 trillion
GRAND TOTAL:
$25 trillion
Agenda Item 1: Restore Ancestral Lineage
Identity locates an individual as a part of a family, a community, a region, a culture, and a historical period. On the African continent prior to the criminal Trans-Atlantic Trafficking of people with African Lineage and Heritage (CTATOPWALAH), identity was formed by the knowledge and preservation of one’s maternal lineage, transmitted from mother to daughter and paternal lineage, transmitted from father to son. Depending on each family’s village tradition, identity, and all that it included – language, culture, spirituality, land, and one’s place in the world and universe (history), was determined either by maternal or paternal lineage. Health and well-being, therefore, required the preservation of one’s lineage. If you did not preserve your lineage, you lost your location or place in the world.
In the same way that CTATOPWALAH caused severe and devastating economic damage, it also created severe and devastating LINEAGE DAMAGE. By using violence and terrorism, people of European lineage and heritage in America prevented the victims of CTATOPWALAH from speaking their native language, using their native names, and returning to their families living in their ancestral homelands. Consequently, the descendants of the victims of CTATOPWALAH no longer retained knowledge of their lineage identities resulting in an IDENTITY CRISIS. New identities such as Guinea-man, slave, negro, colored, mulatto, nigger, black, African American, New Afrikan and #ADOS replaced the lineage identities.
The strong existential yearning to reconnect with one’s family, community, region, culture and natural place in the word inspired noble attempts to reclaim one’s lineage identity and resulted in the appropriation of fictitious or place-holder identities such as African (a European construct and designation), Christian, Muslim, Jew, Moor, Hebrew Israelite, Kemetian, New Afrikan, Rastafarian, Pan African, Aboriginal, Native American, Blood, Crip, Black P Stone Ranger, Black Gangster Disciple, Nation of 5% and so many others. These man-made identities can and do change. However, lineage is unchangeable – the descent from fathers to sons and mothers to daughters, is permanent. Thus, who you are, your identity, will always be determined by lineage. At the most fundamental level, you are your ancestral lineage.
Our most ancient ancestors admonished, “Man, know thyself.” One’s greatest duty on earth was to honor one’s ancestors. Not knowing who you are and who your ancestors are was considered the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. Because health and well-being are dependent on the preservation of one’s lineage, the attempts to appropriate identities that are not based on one’s actual ancestors have failed to repair the LINEAGE DAMAGE.
THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF THE VICTIMS OF THE CRIMINAL TRANS-ATLANTIC TRAFFICKING OF PEOPLE WITH AFRICAN LINEAGE AND HERITAGE REMAINS ONE OF IDENTITY CRISIS.
The identity crisis is now the main internal obstacle preventing the repair and advancement of the descendants of CTATOPWALAH.
AGENDA ITEM 1 REMEDY: LINEAGE RESTORATION WORKERS PROJECT
The priority for this AGENDA FOR BLACK AMERICA’S RESTORATION AND SELF DETERMINATION is to identify the ancestral lineage of every person claiming to be the descendant of the victims of CTATOPWALAH while training and developing a professional class of genealogy researchers from among the victims of CTATOPWALAH and deploying them as part of a modern day government Workers Project that will go throughout the United States and determine the genetic ancestry lineage and family history of every person claiming to be the descendants of the victims of CTATOPWALAH.
To accomplish this, each adult person claiming to be a victim of CTATOPWALAH takes both a maternal and paternal DNA test from African Ancestry. Each test costs $299. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count Data Center, the non-Hispanic Black alone adult population is 31,140,331. Thus, the cost of this testing is $18,7 billion. This cost, however, can be reduced considering that one paternal test is sufficient for all related males in a family group, and one maternal test is sufficient for all related females in a family group. If each test can identify the lineage ancestry of ten people, then the minimum cost is only $1.87 billion.
Further, every college and university must establish a special program for training this class of genealogy researchers and all students entering the program should be granted free tuition and a living stipend for four years of study. According to Educationdata.org, during the 2019-2020 academic year the average yearly price of tuition, fees, room, and board was $30,500 but can vary widely. For a 4-year degree, the average cost is approximately $122,000. According to the PNPI Factsheet on African-American Students, from 2010 to 2018 African American enrollment was 2.1 million. Thus, the total cost for training the professional cost of genealogy researchers is estimated at $256.2 billion for an 8 year time-span.
Guaranteed employment (through the government program) is provided for the program graduates for the next fifteen years so that every descendant of the victims of CTATOPWALAH can have their ancestral lineage identity restored by 2040. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the average salary for college graduates is about $50,000. With 2.1 million graduates employed for 15 years in the Lineage Restoration Project, the total cost is $840 billion (without considering inflation and pay raises).
The total cost for AGENDA ITEM 1 REMEDY: LINEAGE RESTORATION WORKERS PROJECT is
$1.1 trillion
Agenda Item 2: Grand Lineage Restoration Council
Knowledge of one’s ancestral lineage is the foundation for answering all of the questions and solving all of the problems that people of African lineage and heritage face today. It reconnects the victims of CTATOPWALAH on both sides of the Atlantic. It identifies the natural organizing units needed for a United Front against the common enemy of those Europeans who today, still use a refined system of white supremacy.
The natural ordering and organizing of humanity is observable. Trillions of cells and several biological systems are organized and united into what is called an individual human being. That human being is part of a family, which is the product of previous family members or ancestors. This is permanent and unchangeable. Thus, the natural order of humanity is ancestors, family, individual. People of different families with common ancestors form a community. Communities form the highest unit of human organization which are nations.
Nations are the biggest unit which can organize the behavior and resources of a people through what is called government. Since there is no single planetary government, then the highest level of human organization at this time is a nation. Natural nations existed prior to CTATOPWALAH and were based on ancestral lineage and not on arbitrary designated territorial boundaries indicated by cartography.
The lessons of history teach that the natural nations of people with African lineage and heritage MUST FORM A UNITED FRONT to defeat the systems of white supremacy, colonialism, neocolonialism and any forms of exploitation and injustice committed against people of African lineage and heritage. The stronger the natural nations of people with African lineage and heritage, the stronger the UNITED FRONT.
Until now differences in class, religion, culture, economics, geography, politics, education, music, fashion, language, skin tone, hair, noses, and even sports, were used to divide and conquer people with African lineage and heritage. It has observed that people who share lineage ancestry have the firmest foundation for uniting on both sides of the Atlantic. When such unification happens for each group or nation of shared ancestry, communication and shared resources increase that group or nation’s strength, as the saying goes, “Strength in Unity”
A UNITED FRONT of all people of African lineage and history so organized by ancestry and strengthened, can be achieved PROVIDED that the necessity of such a UNITED FRONT is well understood. Only in this way will the division and disunity between people of African lineage and heritage on both sides of the Atlantic be overcome and the dream of the previous generation’s Pan African ideal achieved.
AGENDA ITEM 2 REMEDY: GRAND LINEAGE RESTORATION COUNCIL
Each lineage ancestry group forms a centralized History & Genealogy Society in America (HAGSIA) 501c3 organization. For example, the Balanta B’urassa History & Genealogy Society in America. Each HAGSIA will then form Lineage Restoration Regional Councils organized by their associated countries. For example, the Balanta, Fulani, Mandinga, Papel, Manjaco, Beafada, Mancanha, Bijago, Felupe, and Mansoaca descendants would each form their own HAGSIA. These ten HAGSIAs would then form the Lineage Restoration Council for Guinea Bissau. Likewise, descendants from ancestral lineages from Sierra Leone would form the Lineage Restoration Council for Sierra Leone, descendants from ancestral lineages from Cameroon would form the Lineage Restoration Council for Cameroon, etc. All Lineage Restoration Councils for each country would form the Grand Lineage Restoration Council. In this way Black Americans would have one single umbrella organization/united front that is functional on both sides of the Atlantic in the United States and on the African Continent. This would also provide the organizational basis for representation as members of the African Union 6th Region. Organizing in this way respects the proverb “each under their own vine and fig tree” and restores the connection to the territories prior to the captivity phase of dehumanization.
The total cost for AGENDA ITEM 2 REMEDY: GRAND LINEAGE RESTORATION COUNCIL is
$450 million
to cover operating expenses up to 2040
Agenda Item 3: National Heritage Area
The dehumanization process required captivity in a controlled environment. In order to reverse the damage, rehumanization must also take place in an opposite controlled environment. Thus, each HAGSIA will need territory for its membership.
AGENDA ITEM 3 REMEDY: NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA
When the work of the LINEAGE RESTORATION WORKERS PROJECT is complete, each HAGSIA will then apply for designation as a National Heritage Area . National Heritage Area (NHA) designation follows a legislative process: completion of a feasibility study, introduction of a bill in Congress, the bill passing in Congress and becoming a law authorizing the creation of the National Heritage Area. When the process is complete, the NHA is authorized to receive, through public-private partnerships up to $1 million annually over a set period of time to support historic preservation, natural resource conservation, recreation, heritage tourism, and educational projects. There are currently 55 NHA’s, only one of them designated for African Americans (Gullah Geechee).
If no territory in the actual heritage corridor area of any HAGSIA/NHA designation is available for actual occupation by all members of the HAGSIA, land outside the heritage corridor within the United States must be made available for settlement by HAGSIA members.
Through the NHA’s the “40 acres and a mule” that were promised to the emancipated slaves by General Sherman’s Special Field Order 15 that was revoked by President Johnson, can finally be obtained.
This is necessary because the dehumanization process required captivity in a controlled environment. In order to reverse the damage, rehumanization must also take place in an opposite controlled environment. Thus, each HAGSIA will need territory for its membership.
According to Historian Gwendolyn Mido Hall’s book Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas, 45 distinct ethnic groups were brought to the Americas. Thus, there will be at least 45 NHA designations.
At $1 million a year for the next 25 years, the total cost for AGENDA ITEM 3 REMEDY: NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA is
$1.125 billion
Population map of Black America
Agenda Item 4: Tribal Autonomy
According to the U.S. Department of the Interior Indian Affairs,
“Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution vests Congress, and by extension the Executive and Judicial branches of our government, with the authority to engage in relations with the tribes, thereby firmly placing tribes within the constitutional fabric of our nation. When the governmental authority of tribes was first challenged in the 1830's, U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall articulated the fundamental principle that has guided the evolution of federal Indian law to the present: That tribes possess a nationhood status and retain inherent powers of self-government.
In the United States there are three types of reserved federal lands: military, public, and Indian. A federal Indian reservation is an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States, executive order, or federal statute or administrative action as permanent tribal homelands, and where the federal government holds title to the land in trust on behalf of the tribe.
The federal Indian trust responsibility is a legal obligation under which the United States “has charged itself with moral obligations of the highest responsibility and trust” toward Indian tribes (Seminole Nation v. United States, 1942). This obligation was first discussed by Chief Justice John Marshall in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831). Over the years, the trust doctrine has been at the center of numerous other Supreme Court cases, thus making it one of the most important principles in federal Indian law.
The federal Indian trust responsibility is also a legally enforceable fiduciary obligation on the part of the United States to protect tribal treaty rights, lands, assets, and resources, as well as a duty to carry out the mandates of federal law with respect to American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages. In several cases discussing the trust responsibility, the Supreme Court has used language suggesting that it entails legal duties, moral obligations, and the fulfillment of understandings and expectations that have arisen over the entire course of the relationship between the United States and the federally recognized tribes.
The relationship between federally recognized tribes and the United States is one between sovereigns, i.e., between a government and a government. This “government-to-government” principle, which is grounded in the United States Constitution, has helped to shape the long history of relations between the federal government and these tribal nations. Because the Constitution vested the Legislative Branch with plenary power over Indian Affairs, states have no authority over tribal governments unless expressly authorized by Congress. While federally recognized tribes generally are not subordinate to states, they can have a government-to-government relationship with these other sovereigns, as well.
Furthermore, federally recognized tribes possess both the right and the authority to regulate activities on their lands independently from state government control. They can enact and enforce stricter or more lenient laws and regulations than those of the surrounding or neighboring state(s) wherein they are located. Yet, tribes frequently collaborate and cooperate with states through compacts or other agreements on matters of mutual concern such as environmental protection and law enforcement.”
There are 566 federally recognized American Indian and Alaskan Native Tribes and more than 100 State recognized tribes across the U.S. As of July 1, 2007, there were 4.5 million (1.5% of total US population). The total number of enrolled members of the federally recognized tribes was 1,978,099. The Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians is a federally recognized Cahuilla band of Native Americans based in Coachella, California with a population of eleven. The largest is the Navajo Nation with a population of 169, 321.
There are approximately 326 Indian land areas in the U.S. administered as federal Indian reservations (i.e., reservations, pueblos, rancherias, missions, villages, communities, etc.). The collective geographical area of all reservations is 56,200,000 acres (22,700,000 ha; 87,800 sq mi; 227,000 km2), approximately the size of Idaho. While most reservations are small compared to U.S. states, there are 12 Indian reservations larger than the state of Rhode Island. The largest reservation, the Navajo Nation Reservation, is similar in size to West Virginia with 16 million-acres located in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. The smallest is a 1.32-acre parcel in California where the Pit River Tribe’s cemetery is located. Many of the smaller reservations are less than 1,000 acres.
AGENDA ITEM 4 REMEDY: TRIBAL AUTONOMY
Because it is necessary to provide a controlled environment conducive for the rehumanization process, it is not enough to designate NHA. Each NHA territory must have autonomy surpassing that of the federally recognized American Indian and Alaskan Native Tribes to insure the well-being and security of the people needing rehumanization without the prospect of interference of the United States. Thus, the United States must conclude treatises recognizing the sovereignty of each HAGSIA/NHA peoples.
The reason each NHA territory must have autonomy surpassing that of the federally recognized American Indian and Alaskan Native Tribes is due to the current administration and condition of their 326 land areas/reservations. According to Native American Aid,
“About 22% of our country’s 5.2 million Native Americans live on tribal lands (2010 U.S. Census). Living conditions on the reservations have been cited as "comparable to Third World," (May 5 2004, Gallup Independent).
Typically, Tribal and Federal governments are the largest employers on the reservations. Many households are overcrowded and earn only social security, disability or veteran's income. The scarcity of jobs and lack of economic opportunity mean that, depending on the reservation, four to eight out of ten adults on reservations are unemployed. Among American Indians who are employed, many are earning below poverty wages (2005 BIA American Indian Population & Labor Force Report).
The overall percentage of American Indians living below the federal poverty line is 28.2% (2008, American Indians Census Facts). The disparity for American Indians living below poverty on the reservations is even greater, reaching 38% to 63% in our service area (2006, National Center for Education Statistics, and other sources).
Often, heads of household are forced to leave the reservation to seek work, and grandparents take on the role of raising their grandchildren. In order to survive, extended families pool their meager resources as a way to meet basic needs. The relative poverty still experienced by these blended families is best understood as the gap between the overall need and the need that goes unmet.
Housing
There is a housing crisis in Indian country. Despite the Indian Housing Authority's (IHAs) recent efforts, the need for adequate housing on reservations remains acute. One legislator deplored the fact that “there are 90,000 homeless or underhoused Indian families, and that 30% of Indian housing is overcrowded and less than 50% of it is connected to a public sewer.” (March 8, 2004, Indian Country Today).
In addition, many American Indians are living in substandard housing. About 40% of on-reservation housing is considered inadequate (2003, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights). The waiting list for tribal housing is long; the wait is often three years or more, and overcrowding is inevitable. Most families will not turn away family members or anyone who needs a place to stay. It is not uncommon for 3 or more generations to live in a two-bedroom home with inadequate plumbing, kitchen facilities, cooling, and heating.
Further increasing the concerns with reservation housing is the noticeable absence of utilities. While most Americans take running water, telephones, and electricity for granted, many reservation families live without these amenities. On a seriously stretched budget, utilities are viewed as luxuries compared to food and transportation. Overcrowding, substandard dwellings, and lack of utilities all increase the potential for health risk, especially in rural and remote areas where there is a lack of accessible healthcare.
Health
"The average life expectancy for Native Americans has improved yet still trails that of other Americans by almost 5 years” (2010, HHS Indian Health Disparities Fact Sheet). About 55% of American Indians rely on the Indian Health Service for medical care (2006, Indian Health Facts). Yet, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act only meets about 60% of their health needs (2003, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights).
Due to underfunding, Indian Health Service facilities are crisis-driven and leave a wide gap in adequate and preventative health care for many Native Americans on the reservations. Pharmacies and doctor's offices outside of hospitals are completely non-existent in some communities.
The pressures to shift from a traditional way of life toward a Western lifestyle has dramatically impacted the health and welfare of the Native peoples and created a terrible epidemic of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, tuberculosis, and cancer. The statistics are alarming.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American Indians (2003, Center for Disease Control).
Due to the link between heart disease, diabetes, poverty, and quality of nutrition and health care, 36% of Natives with heart disease will die before age 65 compared to 15% of Caucasians (2001, HHS Office of Minority Health).
American Indians are 177% more likely to die from diabetes (2011, Indian Health Disparities).
500% are more likely to die from tuberculosis (2011, Indian Health Disparities).
82% are more likely to die from suicide (2011, Indian Health Disparities).
Cancer rates and disparities related to cancer treatment are higher than for other Americans (2005, Native People for Cancer Control).
Infant death rates are 60% higher than for Caucasians (2001, HHS Office of Minority Health).
The facts presented are important realities about the living conditions faced by many Native Americans in this country — facts that every non-Native American needs to know.”
SUCH CONDITIONS WILL NOT ACHIEVE THE REHUMANIZATION GOALS. What is required is that each of the 45 HAGSIA/NHA achieve a quality of life comparable to the top 10 countries on the United Nations UN Human Development Index.. To achieve this, a fundamental condition of any treaty with HAGSIA/NHA must be that
land must not be held in trust by the United States government.
All land must be held by HAGSIA/NHA members.
The total cost of AGENDA ITEM 4 REMEDY: TRIBAL AUTONOMY is
$45 million
for the process of negotiating, drafting, and signing the treaties.
Agenda Item 5: Repatriation
On September 3, 2001 a total of 18,810 delegates from 170 countries, 16 heads of state, 58 foreign ministers, 44 ministers, 7,000 non-governmental representatives, and 1,300 journalists attending the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR) declared that
"slavery, and the slave trade, including the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, were appalling tragedies in the history of humanity not only because of their abhorrent barbarism but also in terms of their magnitude, organized nature [and] especially their negation of the essence of the victims . . . [and] that slavery and the slave trade are a crime against humanity..."
On July 8, 2003, President George W. Bush, while visiting Senegal, stated
"[Slavery] is one of the greatest crimes in history . . . . many of the issues that still trouble America have their roots in slavery".
Finally, on June 18, 2009, the 111th Congress passed S. Con. Res. 26, stating,
Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the sense of the Congress is the following:
(1) APOLOGY FOR THE ENSLAVEMENT AND SEGREGATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS.—The Congress—
(A) acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws;
(B) apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws; and
(C) expresses its recommitment to the principle that all people are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and calls on all people of the United States to work toward eliminating racial prejudices, injustices, and discrimination from our society.
(2) DISCLAIMER.—Nothing in this resolution—
(A) authorizes or supports any claim against the United States; or
(B) serves as a settlement of any claim against the United States.”
ALL THE CRIMES THAT WERE COMMITTED AGAINST THE VICTIMS OF THE CRIMINAL TRANS-ATLANTIC TRAFFICKING OF PEOPLE WITH AFRICAN LINEAGE AND HERITAGE ORIGINATED FROM THE INITIAL CRIME COMMITTED AGAINST AN INDIVIDUAL, HIS FAMILY AND HIS COMMUNITY IN HIS HOMELAND ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE CRIMINAL TRAFFICKING OF THESE PEOPLE THEREFORE REQUIRES THE VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION OF THEIR DISPLACED DESCENDANTS BACK TO THEIR ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS.
AGENDA ITEM 5 REMEDY: REPATRIATION
Each HAGSIA member must be given the resources to return to their ancestral homeland and additional resources must be allocated so that each ancestral homeland also has a quality of life comparable to the top ten countries on the UN Human Development Index. The communities who suffered the crime of kidnapping and war lost family members which contributed to the underdevelopment of those communities. In order for the rehumanization to be completed, controlled environments suitable for the rehumanization process must be created. The current impoverished and underdeveloped status of the majority of these communities on the African continent must raised to the level of the top ten countries on the UN Human Development Index.
Ransom and Such (1990) calculated that the profits of the slave system from 1806 to 1860 compounded to 1983 came to $3.4 billion. The present value of that sum compounded to the present at an annual interest rate of 5 percent is $9.12 billion.
Larry Neal (1990) derived an estimate of $1.4 trillion based on the gap between the wage an enslaved African would have received had he or she been a free laborer and what was spent on slave maintenance by slave-owners between 1620 and 1840. Again, compounding the interest to the present at 5 percent interest yields a total close to $4 trillion by the end of 2004.
James Marketti (1990) utilized a concept of income diverted from enslaved Africans during the course of slavery in the United States to arrive at a figure of $2.1 trillion by 1983.The present value after compounding the interest is $6 trillion. If you use the "40 acres and a mule" from General Sherman's Special Orders No. 15 for a family of four, then, a conservative estimate of the price of land in 1865 is $10 per acre. A conservative estimate of the total number of ex-slaves at the time of emancipation is 4 million which would yield 40 million acres of land valued at $400 million should have been distributed to the ex-slaves in 1865. The present value of that sum of money compounded from 1865 at 6% would amount to $1.3 trillion. If there are approximately 30 million descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States today, the estimate based on 40 acres yields an allocation of slightly more than $400,000 per recipient.
Chachere and Udinskly (1990) estimate that the gains to whites from labor market discrimination during the period 1929-1969 to be $1.6 trillion.
By the year 2000, Joe R. Feagin in his paper Documenting the Costs of Slavery, Segregation and Contemporary Discrimination concluded that
‘Clearly, the sum total of the worth of all the black labor stolen by whites through the means of slavery, segregation, and contemporary discrimination...taking into account lost interest over time and putting it in today's dollars, is perhaps in the range of $5 to $24 trillion.’
In late 2000, a new project called the Reparations Assessment Group began making preparations for lawsuits. The dollar sums mentioned were staggering. Harper’s magazine estimated that it could require $97 trillion to pay for the hours of uncompensated work done during the slavery era, which would require extracting, on average, about $300,000 from every American of non-slave descent.”
Using the figures above, each adult desiring to repatriate to their ancestral homeland must be given $400,000 and an additional $5 trillion must be given to the Grand Lineage Restoration Council for distribution to its each Country’s Council.
The total cost of AGENDA ITEM 5 REMEDY: REPATRIATION is
$5 trillion + $400,000
for each adult repatriate
Agenda Item 6: Reparations to Reduce the Racial Wealth Gap.
The Introduction to What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap states,
“The racial wealth gap is large and shows no signs of closing. Recent data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (2014) shows that black households hold less than seven cents on the dollar compared to white households. The white household living near the poverty line typically has about $18,000 in wealth, while black households in similar economic straits typically have a median wealth near zero. This means, in turn, that many black families have a negative net worth. (Hamilton et al. 2015).
At the other end of America’s economic spectrum, black households constitute less than 2 percent of those in the top one percent of the nation’s wealth distribution; white households constitute more than 96 percent of the wealthiest Americans. Moreover, even among the nation’s wealthiest households, extreme differences persist on the basis of race:
The 99th percentile black family is worth a mere $1,574,000 while the 99th percentile white family is worth over 12 million dollars. This means over 870,000 white families have a net worth above 12 million dollars, while, out of the 20 million black families in America, fewer than 380,000 are even worth a single million dollars. By comparison, over 13 million of the total 85 million white families are millionaires or better (Moore and Bruenig 2017).
Blacks, while constituting just under thirteen percent of the nation’s population, collectively own less than three percent of the nation’s total wealth (Moore 2015).
Patently, wealth is far more unequally distributed than income. While income primarily is earned in the labor market, wealth is built primarily by the transfer of resources across generations, locking-in the deep divides we observe across racial groups (Shapiro 2004, Gittleman and Wolff 2004, Hamilton and Darity 2010).
In this report, we address ten commonly held myths about the racial wealth gap in the United States. We contend that a number of ideas frequently touted as “solutions” will not make headway in reducing black-white wealth disparities. These conventional ideas include greater educational attainment, harder work, better financial decisions, and other changes in habits and practices on the part of blacks. While these steps are not necessarily undesirable, they are wholly inadequate to bridge the racial chasm in wealth.
These myths support a point of view that identifies dysfunctional black behaviors as the basic cause of persistent racial inequality, including the black-white wealth disparity, in the United States. We systematically demonstrate here that a narrative that places the onus of the racial wealth gap on black defectiveness is false in all of its permutations.
We challenge the conventional set of claims that are made about the racial wealth gap in the United States. We contend that the cause of the gap must be found in the structural characteristics of the American economy, heavily infused at every point with both an inheritance of racism and the ongoing authority of white supremacy.
Blacks cannot close the racial wealth gap by changing their individual behavior –i.e. by assuming more “personal responsibility” or acquiring the portfolio management insights associated with “financially literacy” – if the structural sources of racial inequality remain unchanged. There are no actions that black Americans can take unilaterally that will have much of an effect on reducing the racial wealth gap. For the gap to be closed, America must undergo a vast social transformation produced by the adoption of bold national policies, policies that will forge a way forward by addressing, finally, the long-standing consequences of slavery, the Jim Crow years that followed, and ongoing racism and discrimination that exist in our society today.
Our report indicates that closing the racial wealth gap requires an accurate assessment of the causes of the disparity and imaginative action to produce systemic reform and lasting change.
Addressing racial wealth inequality will require a major redistributive effort or another major public policy intervention to build black American wealth.
This could take the form of a direct race-specific initiative like a dramatic reparations program tied to compensation for the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow, and/or an initiative that addresses the perniciousness of wealth inequality for the entire American population, which could disproportionately benefit black Americans due to their exceptionally low levels of wealth. Indeed, the two strategies -- reparations for America’s record of racial injustice or the provision of the equivalent of a substantial trust fund for every wealth poor American— need not be mutually exclusive.”
Whether or not a colorless (white) person or family personally owned slaves, the privileged status in law and in social practice distributed rights and wealth from colored (non-white) people to colorless (white people). Meanwhile, the very society and economic infrastructure of the United States was created from this unjust enrichment. As a result, the Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years To Build The Wealth of a White Family Today.
In contract law, unjust enrichment occurs when one person is enriched at the expense of another in circumstances that the law sees as unjust. Where an individual is unjustly enriched, the law imposes an obligation upon the recipient to make restitution. Liability for an unjust (or unjustified) enrichment arises irrespective of wrongdoing on the part of the recipient. The concept of unjust enrichment can be traced to Roman law and the maxim that "no one should be benefited at another's expense": nemo locupletari potest aliena iactura or nemo locupletari debet cum aliena iactura.
AGENDA ITEM 6 REMEDY: REPARATIONS TO REDUCE THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP
As noted above, Joe R. Feagin stated,
‘Clearly, the sum total of the worth of all the black labor stolen by whites through the means of slavery, segregation, and contemporary discrimination...taking into account lost interest over time and putting it in today's dollars, is perhaps in the range of $5 to $24 trillion.’
Chachere and Udinskly (1990) estimate that the gains to whites from labor market discrimination during the period 1929-1969 to be $1.6 trillion.
Harper’s magazine estimated that it could require $97 trillion to pay for the hours of uncompensated work done during the slavery era, which would require extracting, on average, about $300,000 from every American of non-slave descent.
Finally, James Marketti (1990) calculates the cost of the debt owed to each descendent of the victims of the criminal Trans-Atlantic Trafficking of people with African Lineage and Heritage (CTATOPWALAH) to be $400,000 per recipient. Estimating that there are 47 million eligible African Americans,
the total cost of AGENDA ITEM 6 REMEDY: REPARATIONS TO REDUCE THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP is
$18.8 trillion
Agenda Item 7: Receiving and Restoring the Present Inmate Population
I enthusiastically invite responsible people involved in our Prison Reform organizations to contribute their recommendations to this section.
THE TOTAL COST OF THE AGENDA FOR BLACK AMERICA'S RESTORATION AND SELF DETERMINATION FROM 2020 TO 2045:
The total cost for AGENDA ITEM 1 REMEDY: LINEAGE RESTORATION WORKERS PROJECT is
$1.1 trillion
The total cost for AGENDA ITEM 2 REMEDY: GRAND LINEAGE RESTORATION COUNCIL is
$450 million
The total cost for AGENDA ITEM 3 REMEDY: NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA is
$1.125 billion
The total cost of AGENDA ITEM 4 REMEDY: TRIBAL AUTONOMY is
$45 million
The total cost of AGENDA ITEM 5 REMEDY: REPATRIATION is
$5 trillion
The total cost of AGENDA ITEM 6 REMEDY: REPARATIONS TO REDUCE THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP is
