Dispute Arises Over Number of Mortgage Denials to Blacks

Mortgage Banker’s Association facing their own stuff. Maybe.

Chris Hayes talks with The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates about the history of economic plunder and exploitation that are key features of white supremacy in America.

And while Coates mentions the role of the government in reparations – focusing attention on the languishing legislation proposed by Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers, for example – he recognizes, as others who attempted to affect change throughout the history of this country have, that the moral will of all Americans must also be part of the solution.

PBS Conference "Born of Struggle"    October 25, 2013  l  Lee McBride  at Purdue University

OUR COMMON GROUND Voice, Dr. Raymond A. Winbush  l Reparations Conference Keynote Speech: "Should America Pay?"

Raymond A. Winbush is an American-African, scholar/activist in the field of developmental psychology of African boys and reparations for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. 

He is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Warrior Method: A Parents’ Guide to Rearing Healthy Black Boys and Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations and Belinda’s Petition..

http://iur.morgan.edu/RW.htm

Blair L.M. Kelley is an associate professor of history at North Carolina State University and the author of the award-winning book Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson. Follow her on Twitter.

OUR COMMON GROUND Voice, Dr. William "Sandy" Darity discusses Ta-Nehisi Coates’  "The Case for Reparations"

"We’re just recovering from the effects of deluding ourselves into thinking this society has become post-racial as the consequence of a black president. In some respects I think that that has contributed to maintaining a veil over the issues surrounding racial injustice and racial depravation.  Now we finally have the political security to talk about these issues, despite the fact that we have a black president, and so maybe partly there’s relatively propitious timing for the article. We’re coming to the end of the Obama presidency. Now is the time to look beyond the Obama era and try to address what needs to be done."

During the 1960s and 1970s one of the strongest voices for Black liberation and a new just world order was H. Rap Brown of the Black Panther Party and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

He changed his name to Jamil-Al Amin and went to work building his community and reforming the neighborhood.

He is being subjected to the absence of critical medical care.

 “Imam Jamil-Al-Amin is a Political Prisoner who by all International and Human Rights Standards and by all standards of decency and common sense should not be housed and treated in the manner in which he is presently housed and treated,”

In an interview with Bill Moyers, Coates explains why he advocates for a systematic approach to solving the issue of inequity in America and why it is separate from the fight against poverty and other issues on the national agenda.

Watch Coates’ full interview above.