MLK was a Reparations pusher, whodathunk? I guess he forgot about the 40 acres and a mule thing that enabled former slaves to own and work their own land. 30 years after the Civil War ended Southern Blacks owned millions of acres. So what check is MLK talking about?
40 acres and a mule never materialized
I never got every gift I wanted for Christmas either.
You were never a slave either
Obviously.
Not a single person in this forum has ever been a slave.
Dear
Dogmaphobe
The closest I have come is working two jobs since 2008
to pay by myself over 60,000 dollars I borrowed on my credit
cards and "lent" to multiple nonprofit groups in distressed
neighborhoods (predominantly Black) that were abused and overrun
for politics, because corporate interests wanted their real estate and the nonprofit community programs that were holding the communities together weren't getting paid but were either evicted, denied funding and/or pressured to shut down. To save the nonprofit leaders that were struggling to save their own neighborhoods and programs with SUSTAINABLE PLANS that were being censored by this economic and political oppression to take over their communities, I paid expenses to save cars, homes, centers and pay other bills to keep their nonprofits and programs from going under so they could stay afloat and keep trying to serve and fight to defend their communities on ZERO budgets until all this hostile abuse, including abuse of govt funds to destroy them and their communities, could be resolved later. I understood that as long as these groups survive that are REALLY representing the residents with longterm solutions for community development and planning the RIGHT way, eventually they will receive credit for their work and the taxpayers can one day be reimbursed for the corruption and abuse of public dollars to oppress, censor, abuse and violate the rights of these citizens and communities that were denied equal protections to defend their own interests and plans.
10 years after I made these "loans" which the nonprofits cannot pay back without massive help with fundraising, and over 20 years since I first started volunteering to help them fight against corporate abuse of govt to silence them and destroy the community and plans they have been trying to represent and save, and I'm still trying to pay off the debts myself.
Normally my expenses are where I could work one job and pay my own bills. But I had been working 2 jobs since 2008 and until Harvey hit when I lost my car. I tried to go back to working 2 jobs but have not been able to, so I am struggling to pay these debts on my credit with only one job that can only cover my expenses, not the extra I took on.
So
Dogmaphobe if you consider that
A. the thousands of dollars I am paying for myself is from ABUSES OF GOVT to undermine, evict and censor nonprofit community leaders and groups that had the audacity to stand up to corporate interests that bought out local govt, and fight to expose corruption and abuses of public resources and authority, and to defend equal representation and protection from unlawful oppression and discrimination, in order to save their own neighborhoods using their own resources and plans for sustainable development.
B. My labor is going to pay these debts CAUSED BY GOVT ABUSES
so my income and labor is not going to myself or what I would choose to pay for, but to debts and damages from CONTESTED ABUSES that cost taxpayers millions more.
C. The TERMS by which I AGREED to work to pay these debts and damages was that these GRIEVANCES, ABUSES and COMPLAINTS OF CORRUPTION would later be addressed and RESOLVED so that the money owed to the nonprofit leaders, groups and programs that suffered the debts and damages is PAID BACK by INVESTING in the SUSTAINABLE programs that SHOULD HAVE BEEN FUNDED INSTEAD OF THE DESTRUCTION of these communities and their programs.
Then
Dogmaphobe if the TERMS ARE NOT MET (of the debts and damages I agreed to cover USING MY OWN LABOR) then I would consider that labor to be INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE or slave labor.
I would be forced to work for free, since the money is not going to myself but is covering the costs of debt and damages from govt abuses and corruption that I contested along with the community residents, leaders and organizations in these oppressed districts denied "equal protection of the laws" to have their grievances and solutions to development included and represented in govt policies. Instead they were unlawfully censored by discrimination against "poor black communities" when these groups committed NO crimes or abuses that merited loss of democratic representation, participation and protection of the laws.
Exposing this censorship and discrimination was the purpose of me taking on the costs of debts and damages so I could use that as leverage to COMPEL corrections and RESTORE the original plans and rights to equal representation and protections of the community residents and leaders unlawfully censored by favoring corporate interests that censored and overrode community plans.
So if those terms are not met, so the debts can be paid back CORRECTLY by supporting and restoring the ORIGINAL plans of these communities I was defending, then I argue that is INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE or slave labor.
I did NOT consent to give up my income and labor for over 10 years just to have these same communities continue to be OPPRESSED.
My point in investing my own labor and credit to keep the nonprofit organizations and leaders afloat was to defend their interests that were subverted, denied and discriminated against by govt abuse and corruption.
I argue their equal protections of the laws, equal rights to representation, and equal rights to security and "due process of laws BEFORE being deprived of any such rights" needs to be RESTORED and RESTITUTION assessed and reimbursed,
in order to satisfy the terms by which I borrowed and lent that money.
Over 60,000 to 5 nonprofit groups (including 14,000-16,000 to three nonprofit group leaders due to costs of preventing eviction or displacement after eviction by hostile efforts to remove them as competing interests from districts they were working unpaid to save as relied on by the local community as the main means of protecting them and their interests and 6500 to 9600 to two other nonprofit leaders for unrelated problems from mistakes made by government agencies that incurred preventable expenses that would have cost them their house or business if I hadn't borrowed money to bail them out). If this isn't paid back by fundraising to offset and expose the abuse and corruption that bled resources from these nonprofit groups, then because I didn't agree to work for free either to "enable such abuses to go unchecked" then I argue that is slave labor because I didn't consent unless the original grievances get redressed and the debts and damages are paid back to taxpayers and abuse victims.
