[Peace] 6:30pm Wed, June 18: Juneteenth @ Douglass Center - film "Banished", and discussion of reparations

[Stuart Levy via Peace]

[from Sundiata Cha-Jua]

Wednesday, June 18, 2014
6:30-9:00 P.M.
Douglass Center Annex
512 Grove Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820


In commemoration of Juneteenth, The North End Men’s Breakfast Club and 
Sister.Net are sponsoring a film viewing and discussion. *Imani Bazell* 
will moderate a viewing of the documentary /Banished/ by director Marco 
Williams and a discussion afterwards by *Aaron Ammons*, *Sundiata Keita 
Cha-Jua*, *Amira Davis*, and *Lou Turner*.

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The question of reparations for African Americans is rapidly returning 
to the forefront of discussions concerning the condition and future of 
African Americans. One bit of evidence of this is the impact of 
Ta-Nahisi Coates recent article, “The Case for Reparations” in the 
Atlantic (May 21, 2014). Indeed, reparations have moved to the top of 
African descendant people’s the agenda. CARICOM, the union of Caribbean 
nations has issued a “Ten Point Action Plan” for reparatory justice -
http://ibw21.org/commentary/caricom-reparations-ten-point- 
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In association with the CARICOM initiative, the Journal of African 
American History and The Black Scholar have launched a call for African 
Americans to formulate their own 10-Point Action Plan.

In commemoration of Juneteenth, The North End Men’s Breakfast Club and 
Sister.Net are sponsoring a film viewing and discussion. Imani Bazell 
will moderate a viewing of the documentary Banished by director Marco 
Williams and a discussion by Aaron Ammons, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Amira 
Davis, and Lou Turner.

Banished recovers the forgotten history of racial cleansing in America 
when thousands of African Americans were driven from their homes and 
communities by violent, racist mobs. The segment of Banished discussed 
at the Juneteenth Commemoration explores the racial history of Forsyth 
County, Georgia, now a prosperous suburban sprawl north of Atlanta. In 
1912, African Americans were violently driven out; today there is still 
a saying among black folk: “Don’t let the sun go down on you in Forsyth 
County.”

In 1987 a bi-racial Martin Luther King Celebration tour was met by angry 
mobs, led by seven white supremacist groups and a melee ensued. In 
response, the governor set up a commission to investigate the incident 
and to respond to African Americans’ call for the return of the stolen 
land. Banished raises this larger question: will the United States ever 
make meaningful reparations for the human rights violations suffered, 
then and now, against its African American citizens? Can reconciliation 
between the races be possible without them?

For more information contact Imani Bazell, thinkandfeel at gmail.com or 
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, schajua at gmail.com.


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For more on African American Reparations see:

Joe Fagin, “A Legal and Moral Basis for Reparations,” Time May 28, 2014, 
http://time.com/132034/a-legal-and-moral-basis-for-reparations/

Alfred L. Brophy, Reparations Pro and Con (Oxford University Press, 
2008). Raymond A. Winbush (ed.), Should America Pay? Slavery and The 
Raging Debate on

Reparations (Amistad Press, 2003).

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, “Slavery, Racist Violence, American Apartheid: 
The Case for Reparations,” New Politics, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 2001): 
60-76.


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