Excerpt from the article “The Sweet Sixteen”

By Arthur Ward, FreedmenAbsolute.com

Family: This is the point at which the establishment of our reparational due

has to transition from cosplayers, politics, and emotionality to cold historic

empiricism – riding on objectively conclusive calculations finalizing with a

substantive end.

Evanston, IL and no other “local reparations” scheme has, can, or will

accomplish this.

Housing is an understandable target for local atonement regarding

municipally committed circumscriptions, deprivations, and direct harms of

various kinds. But – in a reparations environment – every entity targeted for

eventual recompense being extracted, that extraction must come to a

comprehensive conclusion. Mere housing assistance, something that should

only be done in an “equity” environment should NEVER in any way be

intentionally mislabeled as “reparations” and mercilessly “sold” as such to an

unjustified, uninformed, and very hungry constituency.

Any organization that lays this trick bag on the public will in time be

perceived as dirty cajolers and open swindlers. You must know what you are

looking at, Family. Politicians that accept the flatteries of those corrupt

organizations and implement their fraudulent suggestions could be perceived

as either full idiots or willfully corrupt themselves. Once that targeted

electorate figures things out? Oops!!!

Back to a comprehensive conclusion. One cause can generate a multiplicity

of effects. Those effects land where they land. And far reach where they

eventually reach. There. And in the case of Black exclusion, diminution, and

traumatization – comprehensive conclusions born of exhaustive examinations

are the only correct ends. With direct cash payments. Understand? Ends that

run far deeper and wider than nearly symbolic acts of local atonement. Far

deeper than the mere dragging of a defendant into a courtroom to

institutionally adjudicate a tort or injury claim.

Far more than questionably fair hearing and ambiguously just recompense.

And quoting the quote from above: “Finally, NAARC is extensively engaged

in providing assistance to and certifying municipal, local, and state

reparations initiatives utilizing the milestone Evanston Reparations Initiative,

which was certified by NAARC, as a flexible replicable model.” OK?

“Flexible?” “Replicable?” A “certification?” Attached to what authority? A

“model?” What? Where else is this working? The Evanston reparations sh*t

scheme is something that even legislatures whose members possess the

lowest straight-to-hell moralities and commit the highest prosecutable levels

of corruption – should be too embarrassed to replicate.

Point Blank.

As far as handling Reparations at ANY level; I would trust Rachel Dolezal to

provide better expertise than Kamm Howard. I would have a higher

confidence of trust with Bernie Madoff than Robin Rue Simmons. That’s

what we’re dealing with.

“The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) is

comprised of leading African American activists, scholars, professionals, and

experts in the fields of law, economics, politics, health, education, politics,

health, education, religion, labor, and community development.”

See that quote? The way that the scheme in Evanston is falling apart – it

doesn’t seem like all of the experts cited in the quote are providing any real

expertise or sound advice. For example: One major thing that was not

covered or dealt with was the tax liability impact on cash payments. The

State of Illinois has an income tax. That means the potential tax liability on a

$25K payment can be up to 40% between state and federal. Where were

those “experts” in the fields of “law, economics, and politics?” Where was

the “pre-reparations” groundwork that should have been done at the state and

federal levels to get legislation passed to make these kinds of payments tax

exempt? Insurance and other-generated settlements or indebtedness erasures

are tax exempt. They couldn’t get “local reparations” exempt as well?

A “no brainer” – if you are a “reparations expert” it would seem to me.

Shouldn’t all reparational transactions be smooth, seamless, and

unencumbered?

Bottom-up “local reparations” schemes edge American Reparations (which is

potentially the most serious and consequential atonement project in world

history) into “unserious” territory. Folks like Kamm Howard (Reparations

United) have came up with stupid-sounding terms like “reparations triage.”

What? – We have Pan African caballists dreaming up unneeded and

interposing non-profit structures like “trust authorities” and “stakeholder

authorities.” When everyone else that has been reparated by the federal

government so far receives their money directly from the United States

Treasury with no intermediaries touching it? We shouldn’t get the same

non-paternalistic treatment? Can’t grown people handle their own money?

Check out this quote from a quote on page 5 of Kamm Howard’s horribly

written book: “Laying the Foundation For Local Reparations” (ISBN

9798657538717):

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