THE NDABA Movement National Reparations Petition Campaign: A Petition in Support of Black People's Demand for Reparations from the United States Government and other private and public insti

THE NDABA MOVEMENT
NATIONAL REPARATIONS PETITION CAMPAIGN


A PETITION IN SUPPORT OF BLACK PEOPLES DEMAND
FOR REPARATIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
AND OTHER PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICA

Whereas, we the undersigned people of African ancestry understand that various oppressed peoples have been paid reparations. Indigenous groups such as the Choctaw, Lakota, and Lambuth people have received reparations (and rightly so) for treaty violations that occurred before the emancipation of African Americans. Japanese Americans have received reparations for their inhumane incarceration in internment camps during WWII, as well as the Jews who received reparations after the Nuremberg trials.

Whereas, slavery and the slave trade are recognized by international human rights organizations, e.g., the United Nations, as crimes against humanity and as such there are no statutes of limitations against nations who are to pay for these crimes.

Whereas, we the undersigned understand that the demand for reparations for Black people in America is a demand for justice for years of injustice and inhumane treatment and not a request for a handout. Elected leaders and those seeking public office must recognize the elementary truth that slavery and historical patterns of discrimination, based on race, are the direct cause of continued increases in unemployment, substandard education, higher mortality, higher rates of incarceration, etc. for African Americans. Similarly rooted in slavery is the engrained psychosis of racism among White Americans.

We, above all others in America, have sacrificed the most for this country. It is clear at this hour in history that the major issue for Black people in the upcoming presidential election is restitution for a long standing debt of the United States Government owed to Black people in America since the end of the Civil War.

In 1898, one of the many petitions to Congress in support of slave pension (reparations) legislation stated,

Whereas, It is a precedent established by patriots of this country to relieve its distressed citizens, both on land and sea, and millions of our deceased people, besides those who still survive, worked
as slaves for the development of this country, and Whereas, We believe it is just and right to grant the ex-slaves a pension

It is in this spirit, as descendants of slavery in America, that we sign this petition in support of our just demand for reparations.