“Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved.” – Bryan Stevenson
Slavery and its vestiges harm our entire nation. Reparations are key to our healing and our democracy. We invite you to gather with others in this spirit for our Nat’l Monthly Virtual House Meetings. You’ll learn and get updates about our “reparations in action” approach, the broader reparations movement, and how you can make a difference. Each month we “Deep Dive” into a particular reparations topic, resource or skill of importance. See below for details and to register.
We’re thrilled that Lotte Lieb Dula, Co-Founder of Reparations4Slavery (R4S), is joining us for Deep Dives into the many aspects of the racial wealth gap. In each session, you’ll watch a video from Lotte’s new 15-module series, “Uncovering History, Walking the Path of Repair.” The videos give the historical overview and present-day reality of racialized wealth inequality. You’ll learn about tools to further research the conditions in your own family and community.
“Repair requires that we investigate how wealth, land, and opportunity were accumulated through stolen labor and enforced exclusion. The legacies of slavery and Jim Crow persist — present in every policy, neighborhood, and net worth disparity. Transformation begins when we confront how these structures live within us, our families, and the places we call home”. – Reparations4Slavery.com
Black voter suppression is not only a political injustice—it is an economic strategy that shapes the racial wealth gap across generations.
Our modern-day carceral mentality can be traced back to the “Slave Patrols”, militia-style groups and police departments that were empowered to target, control and deny access to equal rights to African American communities.
It’s a phrase commonly expressed by people of color to white people committed to an antiracist journey: “Don’t talk to us about it…Go get your cousins!” We are seeking to do just that, as all of us white “cousins” have a unique but important role to play in reckoning with our collective past, and creating a repaired future for the collective liberation of us all. In this workshop, we will explore:
1. What are reparations?
2. No, what are reparations really? (including tangible examples where they’re already working!)
3. What does it mean to be a Reparationist?
4. What is the role of a white Reparationist, specifically, and what tools do you need to be successful?
This event is open to all who are willing to hold that reparations may be a viable path forward for the racial healing of our country (reparations-curious to reparations-activated), and want to discuss the role(s) that white people should play on that path.
We welcome all who are reparations-curious, ready, or activated!
Continuing and expanding this work together – with love, care, and resilience – is critical at this time. Please invite 2-3 others to register along with you.