Say the word: Reparations in New Jersey was released this month.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka had a simple answer for why he narrated a new video explaining the need for reparations for African Americans.
“This is a historical stain on America’s legacy for a long period of time,” said Baraka, whose father, Amari Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was a prominent poet and leader of social justice campaigns starting in the late 1950s until his death in 2014. “Some of the issues that have been long standing in New Jersey. Some of this stuff can be remedied by just having a discussion about policies to address some of the things that have happened.
“We’ve done a lot of public education events and one of the things we realized was that folks simply did not know about the history of slavery in New Jersey or the history of Jim Crow in New Jersey, or about ongoing institutional racism in New Jersey,” said Jean-Pierre Brutus, senior counsel for the economic justice program for the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and his 'little one' join Lawrence Hamm, founding chairman of The People’s Organization for Progress, at the annual Juneteenth March and Rally for Reparations at the Lincoln Memorial in Newark on June 19.“If we admit that harm was done, don’t we have to repair the harm that has already taken place?” Baraka said. “If we were in a court of law and you admit that you did harm to someone then there must be a redress of grievance.
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