Reparations on Fire describes history-in-the-making. ***.
Whether it heals or consumes depends on how America responds to its long overdue debt, and possibly portends the future of democracy, both domestic and global.
The spirit of Reparations is sweeping the country like fire.
It can symbolize the eternal flame of hope, or signify ruin and demise.
Fire illuminates, purifies and brings warmth, but can also cause pain, damage and destruction.
Reparations on Fire proves that we are now beyond rhetoric and well into action mode.
The quest for Reparations is equal parts edgy, exciting, transformational, confrontational, messy and confusing.
Rep John Conyers and, later, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee in the Congress of the United States -- a fight that, as this book comes out, is still being waged as Reparations activists ask President Biden to sign an executive order immediately bringing a federal Reparations commission to study and develop Reparations proposals into existence.
It outlines how unsung Black Power activists such as Queen Mother Moore and Imari Obadele set the foundations for Reparations to be championed by U.
S.
It describes how Reparations went from being discussed in the radical margins of the Civil Rights Movement to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Reparations on Fire brings additional value to the Reparations Movement as it goes about the necessary task of concretizing its goals and objectives and envisioning a future where Black freedom and joy can flourish.
It is part historical analysis, part revolutionary manifesto, and part political red-alert.
It combines a historical survey and commentary on the Reparations Movement in America while addressing how pioneering Reparations legislation is being born and debated in city council chambers and statehouses nationwide.
Reparations on Fire describes history-in-the-making
